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    An Unconventional Introduction to the Greatest Little Town in America and the Monumental Battle that Made It Famous

    A "witty, entertaining, educational" blend of travel memoir and Civil War history (Scott L. Mingus, Sr, award-winning author of Flames beyond Gettysburg).Gettysburg is a small, charming city nestled in south central Pennsylvania—but its very name evokes passion and angst, enthusiasm and sadness. For about half the year its streets are mainly empty, its businesses quiet, the weather cold and ... Read more

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  • Shaping Citizenship through Talk Radio

    Listening to the 2024 UK Election

    This is a book about how to have an inclusive, reflective and civil national conversation. It asks whether the mass media can contribute to meaningful public debate in the run-up to an election.Talk radio in the United States is said to have contributed to a political atmosphere in which the loudest, crudest and simplest arguments prevail. Is there a different model of public talk that can ... Read more

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  • How Voters Feel

    This book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the gaps between voting and recognition, being counted and feeling counted, having a vote and having a voice and the languor of count taking and the animation of account giving, there emerges a unique insight into how it ... Read more

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  • Halsey At Leyte Gulf: Command Decision And Disunity Of Effort

    In October 1944, US forces executed amphibious landings on the Japanese-occupied island of Leyte in the central Philippines. Japanese naval forces, severely outnumbered by the US Third and Seventh Fleets, attempted to stop the invasion by attacking US amphibious shipping in Leyte Gulf. Due to the divided US area commands in the Pacific theater during World War II, the Third and Seventh Fleet ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Artificial Uteruses

    Implications for Reproduction and Abortion

    Ectogenesis, the gestation of the foetus outside of the human body, will not for much longer be in the realm of science fiction; a number of projects attempting to develop ectogenetic technology are currently under way. This book examines the ethical implications of the development of ectogenesis. Examining the implications for abortion ethics in particular, this book also deals with the ethical ... Read more

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  • The Internet and Democratic Citizenship

    Theory, Practice and Policy

    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Relations between the public and holders of political authority are in a period of transformative flux. On the one side, new expectations and meanings of citizenship are being entertained and occasionally acted upon. On the other, an inexorable impoverishment of mainstream political communication is taking place. This book argues that the Internet has the potential to improve public communications ... Read more

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  • Can The Internet Strengthen Democracy?

    From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. If hundreds of millions of people could be the producers as well as receivers of political messages, could that invigorate democracy? If political elites fail to respond to such energy, where will it leave them?In ... Read more

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  • Capturing the Mood of Democracy

    The British General Election 2019

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about what it means to speak of a political mood. Can the electorate be in a mood? How do they express it? How can moods be captured in a meaningful way? This book attempts to answer those questions by looking at one city during the December 2019 British general election. This is not a book about campaign strategies, target voters, turnouts and poll swings. It is about how people feel ... Read more

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  • Public Communication in Freefall

    Revisiting the work of Jay Blumler

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book addresses key challenges facing global political communication at a time in which transformations in political practice, media ecology and cultural expectations both threaten traditional democratic norms and point to potential new ways of enacting political democracy. Drawing upon the outstanding theoretical insights of Jay Blumler to our understanding of the norms and practices of ... Read more

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  • Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi

    A 12-Week Study

    Series series Knowing the Bible
    The Knowing the Bible series is a resource designed to help Bible readers better understand and apply God's Word. These 12-week studies lead participants through books of the Bible and are made up of four basic components: (1) reflection questions help readers engage the text at a deeper level; (2) "Gospel Glimpses" highlight the gospel of grace throughout the book; (3) "Whole-Bible Connections" ... Read more

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  • Growing Fairly

    How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development

    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    Tested, practical ideas to meet current and future skilling needs of both workers and employersThe labor market in the United States faces seemingly contradictory challenges: Many employers have trouble finding qualified applicants for current and future jobs, while millions of Americans are out of work or are underemployed—their paths to living-wage jobs blocked by systemic barriers or lack of ... Read more

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  • The Media and The Public

    "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse

    Series series Communication in the Public Interest
    The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media, from the press to television to the Internet, have constructed and represented the public.Provides a new synthesis of recent research exploring the relationship between media and their publicsIdentifies ways in which different publics are subverting the gatekeeping of mainstream media in order to find a voice and communicate with ... Read more

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