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  • You Got In! Now What?

    100 Insights into Finding Your Best Life in College

    For high school graduates and anyone heading off to college, this book is packed with 100 lessons to help shape your college experience and prepare for what comes afterward. It makes the perfect gift for the new college student.Once you've been admitted to college, the next step is to develop a strategy of how to find your best life there. But for decades, Professor James T. Hamilton has seen ... Leer más

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  • All the News That's Fit to Sell

    How the Market Transforms Information into News

    That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in All the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism--media bias, soft news, ... Leer más

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  • Channeling Violence

    The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming

    "If it bleeds, it leads." The phrase captures television news directors' famed preference for opening newscasts with the most violent stories they can find. And what is true for news is often true for entertainment programming, where violence is used as a product to attract both viewers and sponsors. In this book, James Hamilton presents the first major theoretical and empirical examination of the ... Leer más

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  • Democracy’s Detectives

    The Economics of Investigative Journalism

    Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of GovernmentWinner of the Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationWinner of the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research AwardIn democratic societies, investigative journalism holds government and ... Leer más

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  • Transparency in Politics and the Media

    Accountability and Open Government

    Series series Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
    Increasingly governments around the world are experimenting with initiatives in transparency or 'open government'. These involve a variety of measures including the announcement of more user-friendly government websites, greater access to government data, the extension of freedom of information legislation and broader attempts to involve the public in government decision making. However, the role ... Leer más

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  • You Are What You Choose

    The Habits of Mind That Really Determine How We Make Decisions

    The hidden patterns behind the way we make decisionsSeveral recent books, from Blink to Freakonomics to Predictably Irrational, have examined how people make choices. But none explain why different people have such different styles of decision making—and why those styles seem consistent across many contexts. For instance, why is a gambler always a gambler, whether at work, on the highway, or in a ... Leer más

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    You Got In! Now What?

    100 Insights into Finding Your Best Life in College

    Narrado por Steve Menasche ...

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    4 hora 41 minutos

    Once you've been admitted to college, the next step is to develop a strategy of how to find your best life there. But for decades, Professor James T. Hamilton has seen students struggle with their college journey. Some avoid challenging experiences, follow a path of familiar expectations, and rely on shortcuts. Others aim for perfection, ignore their friends and health, labor over what subjects to ... Leer más

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