Media, entertainment, information and communication industries

The story of the development of Taylor and Francis in this text is more than an isolated account of one small company - it throws light on the whole process of scientific communication during the last 200 years.

This is a complete illustrated guide and reference to today's plastic films for packaging.

'Fascinating, funny and tender' ADAM BUXTON'My favourite writer and interviewer' JUDE ROGERS'If Kate Mossman's name is on it, then I want to read it' PETE PAPHIDESFrom Jeff Beck to Ray Davies, Jon Bon Jovi to Kevin Ayers, Kate Mossman has long fostered an interest in male musicians of a certain age.

Modern Artist Development arms you with all the necessary skills and tools you need to be the very best fully formed ARTIST and get noticed by Labels, Investors, Managers, Agents, Publishers & Sponsors.

This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program.

From the bestselling author of To Sir, With Love comes the moving personal memoir of a westernized black man who journeys to Africa in search of his roots and discovers a vibrant and extraordinary society on the verge of monumental changeIn the early 1960s acclaimed British Guianese author E.

First published in 1880, this volume contains a comprehensive and accessible guide to bookbinding.

The author of The Group, the groundbreaking bestseller and 1964 National Book Award finalist that shaped a generation of women, brings reminiscences of her girlhood to this intimate and illuminating memoirHow I Grew is Mary McCarthy’s intensely personal autobiography of her life from age thirteen to twenty-one.

Featuring the latest music business and social media concepts as well as brand-new interviews with a variety of the industry's top movers and shakers, Music 4.

On February 13, 1914, a group of the nation's most distinguished and popular songwriters gathered together in New York City to support the mission of ASCAP, a new organization for publishers and songwriters.

The digital revolution has enabled the creation and distribution of music in ways previously unimagined.

Foreword by Ariel Hyatt.

Many retailers don't have regular sales meetings.

Nashville may be considered the epicenter of country music, but today, this thriving music industry town is home to a diverse array of musicians and musical styles.

In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s.

This creative non-fiction book for the reader is a great introduction to the effects of global capitalism on the dynamic region that is the San Francisco Bay Area.

Percival Phillips was born in 1877.

Now in its 25th year, the Commercial Theater Institute sponsors an annual intensive program in New York for individuals interested in producing or investing in the theatre that attracts people from all over the world.

Culled from 10 years of the Electronic Musician, Remix, and EQ magazines' archives, the articles in Electronic Musician Presents the Recording Secrets Behind 50 Great Albums will enlighten readers about the recording and songwriting techniques that helped create 50 great albums, spanning as far back as 1967 and as recent as 2011, revealing the methodology of numerous talented artists, producers, and engineers.

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive.

Journalists have often put themselves in danger to convey crucial information to the public.

What role did America's newspaper advice columnists play in shaping and forming societal attitudes toward LGBTQ people throughout the 20th century?

For aspiring journalists, the challenges of dyslexia can seem insurmountable, especially in the face of an educational system that is ill-equipped to help.

These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news--indeed to achieve star billing--and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown.

In the 1920s, newspapers and real estate developers colluded in a scheme to sell tiny vacation lots to subscribers.

The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.

Netflix and its competitors like Disney+, Amazon Prime and Hulu have brought unprecedented levels of entertainment to consumers everywhere, providing the richest, most abundant aggregate of motion pictures and cinematic television the world has ever seen.

John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade.

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week.

Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the unfolding Holocaust was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated to North American Poles through the Polish-language press.

This book explores the technological innovations and management practices of evangelical Christian religions.

The debate surrounding "e;fake news"e; versus "e;real"e; news is nothing new.

This work examines both predominately black newspapers in general and four in particular--the Chicago Defender, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City), and the Jackson (Mississippi) Advocate--and their coverage of national events.

Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publications with greater speed.

The son of Jewish immigrants, war correspondent Cecil Brown (1907-1987) was a member of CBS' esteemed Murrow Boys.

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses.

Aren't we all TV critics?

Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influence in American society.

Nine of the 192 Union military hospitals during the Civil War circulated newspapers edited and printed by convalescents.

Analyzing the relationship between medicine and the media from different perspectives, these new essays fill a gap in this emerging field, providing new information on approaches to health communication and important reevaluations of health literacy theories.

For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educators, politicians and authors as the founder of the American abolitionist movement.

In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media.

What will happen to the theater when there are no more critics?

As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"e;an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"e;--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles.

One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R.

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie.

This series of absorbing case studies focuses on the portrayal of Pakistani women in the global media.

William Terry Couch (1901-1988) began his four-decade publishing career building the University of North Carolina Press into one of the nation's leading university presses.

In 1873 Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell first advanced the idea that there might be electromagnetic waves that were similar to light waves, a startling concept to the scientists of his day.