Enquiring Minds and Space Aliens
Author: Walter M. Brasch
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 228
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For Enquiring Minds
Author: S. Elizabeth Bird
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780870497292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMillions of people read weekly supermarket tabloids. Yet little serious effort has been made to understand why so many Americans make a valued place for these papers in their lives. Instead, the tabloids are dismissed as the epitome of "trash"--sensational, gossipy, stereotyped, ephemeral. Libraries shun them. As the papers are "trashed" by critics, so by extension are their largely working-class readers, who are viewed as unworthy of consideration. This book, the first full-length analysis of the tabloids within their historical and cultural contexts, examines the interplay among tabloid writer, text, and audience. Drawing on anthropology, communications, folklore, and literary theory, Elizabeth Bird argues that tabloids are successful because they build on and feed existing narrative traditions, much as folklore does. Men and women, to judge from letters and interviews, read the tabloids from different perspectives. And while people buy the papers for various reasons, readers tend to be alienated from some aspects of the dominant culture. The tabloids are popular precisely for the reasons they are despised: formulaic yet titillating, they celebrate excess and ordinariness at the same time. After beckoning readers into a world where life is dangerous and exciting, the tabloids soothe them with assurances that, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. Thus, while readers are active, playful consumers, we cannot assume that the papers offer a real opportunity to resist cultural subordination.
Aliens
Author: George Edgar Slusser
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780809313754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow and when does there come to be an "anthropology of the alien?” This set of essays, written for the eighth J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Fantasy and Science Fiction, is concerned with the significance of that question. "[Anthropology] is the science that must designate the alien if it is to redefine a place for itself in the universe,” according to the Introduction. The idea of the alien is not new. In the Renaissance, Montaigne’s purpose in describing an alien encounter was excorporation--mankind was the "savage” because the artificial devices of nature controlled him. Shakespeare’s version of the alien encounter was incorporation; his character of Caliban is brought to the artificial, political world of man and incorporated into the body politic "The essays in this volume . . . show, in their general orientation, that the tribe of Shakespeare still, in literary studies at least, outnumbers that of Montaigne.” These essays show the interrelation of the excorporating possibilities to the internal soundings of the alien encounter within the human mind and form. This book is divided into three parts: "Searchings: The Quest for the Alien” includes "The Aliens in Our Mind,” by Larry Niven; "Effing the Ineffable,” by Gregory Benford; "Border Patrols,” by Michael Beehler; "Alien Aliens,” by Pascal Ducommun; and "Metamorphoses of the Dragon,” by George E. Slusser. "Sightings: The Aliens among Us” includes "Discriminating among Friends,” by John Huntington; "Sex, Superman, Sociobiology,” by Joseph D. Miller; "Cowboys and Telepaths,” by Eric S. Rabkin; "Robots,” by Noel Perrin; "Aliens in the Supermarket,” by George R. Guffey; and "Aliens 'R’ U.S.,” by Zoe Sofia. "Soundings: Man as the Alien” includes "H. G. Wells’ Familiar Aliens,” by John R. Reed; "Inspiration and Possession,” by Clayton Koelb; "Cybernauts in Cyberspace,” by David Porush; "The Human Alien,” by Leighton Brett Cooke; "From Astarte to Barbie,” by Frank McConnell; and "An Indication of Monsters;” by Colin Greenland.
'Unacceptable'
Author: Walter M. Brasch
Publisher: Spectrum Publishers
Published: 2005-10-24
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1419618393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emergency management response to Hurricane Katrina revealed more than just a failure of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but systemic problems in all levels of government. In 'Unacceptable, ' award-winning journalist Walter M. Brasch explores not only the facts of the disaster, but WHY the federal response was inefficient
Creating Enquiring Minds
Author: Sara Stanley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1472909577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to philosophy for children explains how children can be encouraged to ask the right questions, reason effectively, think for themselves, and begin to understand more about themselves and the world around them.
Pocket PAL: Creating Enquiring Minds
Author: Sara Stanley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-07-19
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1472909593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspiring, intelligent and practical, this user-friendly guide provides a wonderful introduction to using P4C (Philosophy for Children) in primary schools. This extremely accessible book provides an introduction to philosophy for children. It explains how you can encourage children to ask the right questions, reason effectively, think for themselves, and begin to understand more about themselves and the world around them. Inspiring and intelligent, with clearly presented, practice-based examples, it is full of fun and engaging activities that work right across the curriculum.
The Joy of Sax
Author: Walter M. Brasch
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1440109990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Walter Brasch is the most informed, opinionated, witty, and delightful commentator on the media scene today." -Aspen Media Review Like two of his role models, Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton was one of the nation's most dynamic and effective presidents, and like his mentors, he was one of the most vilified. He left office with one of the highest approval ratings for his personal moral conduct. He would affect Americans like few people ever could, and no one could be neutral.
America's Unpatriotic Acts
Author: Walter M. Brasch
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780820476087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWithin six weeks of 9/11, in a nation gripped by fear and hatred, Congress overwhelmingly approved the USA PATRIOT Act, drafted in secret by the Department of Justice. There was almost no debate, and few in Congress were given more than a few hours to read the 342-page document. In America's Unpatriotic Acts, award-winning journalist and university professor Walter M. Brasch looks not just at the effects of the PATRIOT Act upon the nation, but also at the innumerable civil rights violations conducted in the United States, as well as by the United States in foreign countries during the three years following 9/11.
Marginaliens
Author: Philip Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780192719430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnna lives with her family above their cafe in Surrey Street. One day, when she is doodling, something amazing happens - one of her doodles comes to life and steps off the paper. He's a strange, wizened little creature who she calls the Dood. She discovers that he lives in the Margins - astrange netherworld inhabited by the contents of people's imaginations. Her drawing is the gateway from one world to another. Enna and the Dood become friends and each helps the other to work their way through some difficult situations.* Philip Gross is a well-known poet and teenage novelist, and has been garnering excellent reviews for his latest novel, Going for Stone.
Mass Media
Author: James B. Martin
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781590332627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMass media has become an integral part of the human experience. News travels around the world in a split second affecting people in other countries in untold ways. Although being on top of the news may be good, at least for news junkies, mass media also transmits values or the lack thereof, condenses complex events and thoughts to simplified sound bites and often ignores the essence of an event or story. The selective bibliography gathers the books and magazine literature over the previous ten years while providing access through author, title and subject indexes.
