Media Messages by Linda Holtzman, ISBN 0765603373
Do average Americans believe that what is portrayed on TV is more "real" that their own experience? This eye-opening book analyzes the kinds of messages about race, class, gender, and sexual orientation that are being conveyed in the entertainment media. The author examines the homogeneous images, characters, and themes that are offered on prime time television and in popular film and music, and their potential impact on the audience. She uses three main techniques -- reconstructing knowledge; personal experience; and entertainment assessment theory -- to illustrate media's view of the world and show how media stereotypes reinforce this view.
Crime is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America by Franklin E. Zimring, ISBN 0195131053
In Crime is Not the Problem, Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins revolutionize the way we think about crime and violence -- by forcing us to distinguish between crime and violence. The authors reveal that compared to other industrialized nations, in most categories of nonviolent crime, American crime rates are comparable -- even lower, in some cases. Only when it comes to lethal violence does the United States outpace other Western nations, with homicide rates many, many times greater. London and New York City have hearty the same number of robberies and burglaries each year, but robbers and burglars kill fifty-four victims in New York for every victim death in London.
Why are the risks so much greater that victims will be killed or maimed in the United States? And what can be done to bring the death rate from American violence down to tolerable levers? The authors show how the impact of television and movie violence on rates of homicide is wildly overrated, but emphasize the paramount...
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Magic Vs. Bird - The 1979 NCAA Championship Game (Full Frame)
The Magic-Bird show is born. Everybody wanted it. Everybody was talking about it. And more people watched it unfold on national television than any college game before or since. On March 26, 1979, in the Special Events Center at the University of Utah, Magic Johnson squared off against Larry Bird for the first time. One year later, they would take their show to the NBA. But on this night the dream showdown between the two best players in the country was on college basketball's grandest stage-the NCAA Championship game. Indiana State, the lesser known school in the Hoosier State, came into the contest riding a 33-game winning streak thanks to the extraordinary skills of Bird. Johnson was just as impressive, and Michigan State had other college standouts alongside him such as the high flying Greg Kesler, hot shooting Terry Donnelly and the powerful Jay Vincent. The great efforts and teamwork of Bird, Bobby Heaton, Carl Nix and the rest of the Sycamores kept them competitive, but in the end...
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ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
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San Diego by Andrea Naversen, ISBN 0898027411
California's gem on the Pacific is captured to perfection in this exciting, all new book on San Diego. Former television news anchor, Andrea Naversen collaborates with brother, photographer Ken, to give readers one of the most enjoyable, informative visits to this top tourist attraction ever. From Rancho Sante Fe to the renowned San Diego Zoo, this is a publication you don't want to miss.
San Diego by Andrea Naversen, ISBN 0898027411
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Book and Sword by Louis Cha, ISBN 0195907272
Louis Cha's martial arts epics have sold millions of copies worldwide. Many of them have appeared on best-sellers' lists in Chinese markets and have been adapted into television series and films. The Book and Sword, Louis Cha's first novel, is about an underworld plot to overthrow the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795). It revives a legend about the great Manchu Emperor, which claims that he was in fact not a Manchu but a Han Chinese as a result of a "baby swap." The novel is panoramic in scope and includes the fantastical elements for which Cha is well-known: secret societies, kungfu masters, a lost desert city guarded by wolf packs, and the mysterious Fragrant Princess.
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New York Dead by Stuart Woods, ISBN 1587881489
It Was Just Luck
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.
Suddenly he is on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman.
No matter where he turns, the case is waiting for him, haunting his nights and turning his days into a living hell. Stone finds himself caught in a perilous web of unspeakable crimes, dangerous friends, and sexual depravity that has throughout it one common thread: Sasha.
"Suspenseful and surprising." Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Hollywood slick and fast-moving.
New York Dead by Stuart Woods, ISBN 1587881489
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Best Of Baretta, The (Full Frame)
Robert Blake stars as unorthodox streetwise cop Tony Baretta in "Baretta", the classic landmark television series that made the actor a household name. In "The Best of Baretta" see how the gritty, edgy crime-drama series began with this special DVD collection, which contains a pilot episode of the acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series ? plus two additional bonus episodes from the series? first explosive season.
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