The first of three volumes that will serve as a comprehensive and inclusive finding tool, this work defines propaganda in an uncertain postmodern information age. Linked to the U.S. Constitution, mass media, and business, the role propaganda plays must be understood in terms of an information-based economy. An extensive chronology of propaganda-related events, plus an A-Z guide defining hundreds of important terms (some ill-defined in context, such as backdoor contact and spin doctor), combine to meet an immediate need for an easy-to-use resource that not only credibly defines the field but stimulates new research.
Americans have had a love-hate relationship with propaganda since before the nation itself existed. The thesis of this work is that propaganda is as American as apple pie. The right to persuade and communicate is enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The technologies and business aspects of mass media that shape culture around the world were perfected in America; hundreds of thousands of people find employment in various persuasion industries. Propaganda is becoming even more essential to maintaining social cohesion in a multiculturally diverse society. The three volumes in this series act as a finding tool that distinctively crossed over artificial barriers to open new approaches to understanding the phenomenon that defines our time. This work clarifies what propaganda is or is not as it knives through the confusion surrounding the imprecise terminology and lack of historical background to often associated with its study.

A Chronology and Glossary of Propaganda in the United States

Nelson, Richard

Business & Money

Greenwood

The poster as we know it dates from the Industrial Revolution, although one form of outdoor advertising has existed for many centuries. Industrialisation meant that producer became separated from consumer while production for mass consumption rapidly increased, so that a development was necessary in the methods employed in bringing to public notice the merits and very existence of many goods. Billsticking began, a business rife with skulduggery, and in the second half of the nineteenth century an enterprising billposter took the step that changed outdoor advertising forever: he rented a site. From there the industry has grown apace, and Outdoor Advertising makes sense of these changes by looking at its practical side, the contractor, the agent, the designer, and the planning side, including site selection, as well as looking at specific campaigns and how their audience have received them. This, then, is a book about outdoor advertising, its design and colourful presentation, its place in the advertising and marketing story. First published in 1953.

Outdoor Advertising (RLE Advertising)

Sykes, Anthony

Reference

Routledge

An authoritative introduction to the culinary heritage of America includes more than five hundred easy-to-follow recipes for both traditional and ethnic dishes

Richard Nelson's American Cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Dutton Adult

Richard Nelson gets high on life--and he's sure that life is about good times, good sex, and good food, in that order! This fascinating new book is the life story of this intrepid adventurer. A practicing doctor of medicine, the author first relates the intensity of medical school, internship, and a year of surgical residency when he was just starting out. As for military service, "Vietnam was going pretty well," says a tongue-in-cheek author, "so I was drafted into the Air Force where I delivered 400 babies and learned to do pelvic surgery." After the war, Dr. Nelson joined a family medical group that represented a new beginning for the author and established a life-goal: "To see what there is to see and do what there is to do!" The author tracks game in Botswana, survives air pollution in China, is justifiably impressed by the ruins of Angkor Wat, takes pictures of penguins in Antarctica, and thinks that running into several barracuda during a dive is "really neat!" There are chapters discussing the "reproductive exercise" and some personal pet peeves on those so-called "established principles," as this former decathlon athlete writes with an appealing flair that brings readers into his exciting world. "Many authors write stories about 'my first parachute jump.' None of mine are entry level; all are true. They demonstrate what individuals can accomplish if they want to." In this exciting book, Richard Nelson certainly backs up his beliefs with action, and now brings it to readers for their ultimate enjoyment.

More of That Same Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Vantage Pr

In the first play, two young writers meet in prison under an unnamed right-wing Latin American regime. Fifteen years later they find themselves on opposite sides of a conference table. "Between East and West" portrays a middle-aged Czech emigre couple struggling to adapt to a new country.

Principia Scriptoriae With Between East and West

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Faber&Faber

Offers a satiric look at a group of American academics visiting London, as each one, from student to the Head of the English Department, finds they have not left their problems at home

Some Americans Abroad

In a weekend lakeside cabin three elderly representatives of the American intellectual left, friends and collegues in the Thirties, try to resolve in the Eighties the personal, sexual and ideological tensions that have come to bedevil their relationships. This plot is described in scenes counterpointed with others which take place in the same cabin 50 years earlier. Richard Nelson is the author of "Principia Scriptoriae" for which he received the "Time Out" Award. He also wrote "Between East and West" and the radio play "Languages Spoken Here" which won a Giles Cooper Award in 1988.

Sensibility and Sense

A riot between the followers of two rival productions of Macbeth, one English and one American, in New York in 1849, is the occasion for a study of national and cultural conflict between a former colony and the mother country

Two Shakespearean Actors

In the process by which a new play migrates from the desk of the person who wrote it to the stage where it comes to life in front of an audience, the relationship between playwright and director is crucial. And yet, through a combination of circumstance and theatre etiquette, there is little public knowledge of what actually goes on in the rehearsal room except when something goes badly wrong and the code of privacy is broken. Writers, as involved observers, often know more of directorial practice than directors themselves, and vice versa. In this book, two practitioners try to resolve this paradox by drawing directly on their own experience, moving from the first meeting through revisions, rehearsals, previews and notices. On the way they investigate the roles played by designers, producers, critics - and actors! - in the staging of a new work in the modern theatre. 
For the interested theatre-goer the result is an illuminating insight into the creative process; for the professional or aspirant, a valuable working guide.

Making Plays: The Writer-Director Relationship in the Theater Today

JONES, DAVID

Humor & Entertainment

On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men. This play persues the premise that Columbus had a clearer sense of destiny than destination, a premise emblematic of the confusion of motives and expectations which inspired him and his companions.

Columbus and the Discovery of Japan

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