First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Entertainment television is a key part of modern mass culture. Despite this, scholars tend to study news and information, both domestically and internationally much more often than entertainment. The elevation of news over entertainment in the study of international media carries through to textbooks, most of which concentrate on journalism or news. This text is unique in shifting the emphasis to entertainment. Since it is one of the first comprehensive books to deal with entertainment mass media worldwide, it meets students where they are (as TV watchers) and takes them to new places, both geographically and intellectually. media study that was previously reserved for global news and takes a truly worldwide approach, encompassing Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, and India - in addition to the more high-profile, heavily researched areas of Europe and East Asia. The book also uses the familiar to illuminate new concepts, such as media effects, uses and gratifications, dimensions of cultural variability and proximity, globalization, and (from the field of business) core competency and windowing. an emphasis on why - from the success of Millionaire - a show that addresses all five of the classic gratifications - to the penchant of Japanese audiences for celebrity game show players; the dynamic movement of a vicarious trip around the world as students move through the 10 country chapters, starting east to England and arriving at the journey's end in Mexico; country-specific chapters that follow the same template to ensure comparability but draw on the individual insights, expertise, and currency of 10 resident authors; case studies that look at two familiar TV experiences--the Olympics and the Millionaire show - in a global and novel students in international or comparative media, cross-cultural communication, or TV studies courses.

Passionate, political, informed and engaging, Bitter Harvest is filled with cautionary facts and statistics that every consumer should know, such as:
* nearly 80% of commercially processed chicken is infected with salmonella
* in ten years, 95% of our groceries may be consumed within 20 minutes of getting them home
* researchers believe that over a third of future cancers will be diet-related - roughly the same now attributable to smoking.
Throughout, Cooper argues persuasively why we must begin to change everything from the way food is shipped to the basic components of our diets and offers a comprehensive analysis of the issue of sustainability. In Bitter Harvest, this knowledgeable chef emerges as a political voice to be reckoned with and her manifesto is a must-read for anyone concerned with health, nutrition and the future of our food.

On August 19, 1991, eight high-ranking Soviet officials took over the government of the USSR and proclaimed themselves its new rulers. Less than seventy-two hours later, their coup had collapsed, but it would change the course of history in a way that no one - certainly not the plotters themselves - could have foreseen. The editor of this volume, who witnessed these momentous events, have assembled firsthand accounts of the attempted coup. They include testimonies from "junta" members and military officers, resistance leaders and ordinary citizens, Muscovites and residents of other locales, Russian and foreign journalists, foreign visitors and returning emigres, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Key documents and photographs complement the individual accounts. The provocative introduction to the volume places the August events in the larger context - from the early days of perestroika and glasnost to the second confrontation at the White House, in October 1993.

This book is a resource for understanding why Lightning continues to be a major health hazard, especially in the developing world, and equips researchers, governments, and public health advocates with the knowledge and techniques needed to reduce lightning casualties worldwide.

Published in cooperation with the Denver Museum of Natural History, this book begins with a contemporary story about a Sioux boy who finds an injured eagle, nurses it back to health, and releases it into the wild only to discover one day that it has been shot and wounded by a careless hunter. The story, artfully illustrated with watercolors, examines the importance of eagles in Sioux culture, both in ancient times and today.

Windows and Words is a collection of seventeen essays that confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian Children's Literature. There are essays that survey a wealth of English language fiction, from the internationally acclaimed work of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the aboriginal adolescent novel, to the increasingly multi-cultural character of children's books. Others examine book illustration, visual literacy, and the creative partnership seen in the picture book and its art design. With contributions by two Governor General's Award winning authors, Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones, and a final commentary by Elizabeth Waterson, the heart of this collection offers a unique perspective on the artistry of writing for children and claims a rightful place for Canadian children's literature as literature.

This book is a resource for understanding why Lightning continues to be a major health hazard, especially in the developing world, and equips researchers, governments, and public health advocates with the knowledge and techniques needed to reduce lightning casualties worldwide.

Tweederick, the mouse faery, was discovered half-frozen in my back garden. He recovered slowly and ever since that night, he has been visiting us to tell us about his daily adventures which are a combination of fact and fiction. This first Tweederick book is the story about his old friend and pirate, Captain Peter Dillon, who is still looking for the Gold mountain with a hidden treasure. He asked Tweederick to join his crew and sail to the other side of the world to find the treasure. There are many things hindering their treasure hunt but most importantly, can Tweederick return home safely by the end of the day?

`A series which is a model of its kind.' EDMUND KING, HISTORY The latest volume in the series concentrates, as always, on the half century before and the century after 1066, with papers which have many interconnections and range across different kinds of history. There is a particular focuson church history, with contributions on an Anglo-Saxon archiepiscopal manual, architecture and liturgy in post-Conquest Lincolnshire, Anglo-Norman cathedral chapters, and twelfth-century views of the tenth-century monastic reform. Other topics considered include social history (the Anglo-Norman family), gender (William of Malmesbury's representation of Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester), and politics (the sheriffs of Northumberland and Cumberland 1170-1185). The volume is completed with articles on Domesday Book and the post-Domesday Evesham Abbey surveys, and a double paper on land tenure and royal patronage. Contributors: STEPHEN BAXTER, JOHN BLAIR, HOWARD CLARKE, TRACEY-ANN COOPER,HUGH DOHERTY, PAUL EVERSON, DAVID STOCKER, KIRSTEN FENTON, VANESSA KING, JOHN MOORE, NICOLA ROBERTSON, DAVID ROFFE

The Mind Surfer is journalist Erica Crompton's memoir, a collection of first-person prose, and journalism that details exactly what psychosis is and how she learned to manage it in her late teens to mid-thirties. This book is aimed at young and old people whose lives have been touched by psychosis: themselves, their loved ones and their caregivers. It's written like a magazine: crammed with first-person features, expert tips, and the prose is short and to the point or 'Literary Journalism'. She hopes this helps engage a younger audience as well as more established patients with psychosis which affects 1 in 20 and is most likely to take a grip in the late teens to early twenties.

This new collection of essays surveys the history of dance in an innovative and wide-ranging fashion. Editors Dils and Albright address the current dearth of comprehensive teaching material in the dance history field through the creation of a multifaceted, non-linear, yet well-structured and comprehensive survey of select moments in the development of both American and World dance. This book is illustrated with over 50 photographs, and would make an ideal text for undergraduate classes in dance ethnography, criticism or appreciation, as well as dance history--particularly those with a cross-cultural, contemporary, or an American focus.
The reader is organized into four thematic sections which allow for varied and individualized course use: Thinking about Dance History: Theories and Practices, World Dance Traditions, America Dancing, and Contemporary Dance: Global Contexts. The editors have structured the readings with the understanding that contemporary theory has thoroughly questioned the discursive construction of history and the resultant canonization of certain dances, texts and points of view. The historical readings are presented in a way that encourages thoughtful analysis and allows the opportunity for critical engagement with the text.

Michelle is seeking to reconnect with her family by traveling across wild territories. Her adventure is interrupted when she's captured by a foreign tribe lead by Tall Walker. Tall Walker is entranced by Michelle's beauty and mystery and hopes to keep her close to him. He'll soon find that her fiery temper may not make that an easy task.

A heart-warming Christmas adventure where 12-year old Paddy sends his best friends on a quest to solve a riddle and find the German Shepherd, an immortal Wizard. They travel to mystical places hidden between the stones of the old Druid Temple before returning to Paddy. There is magic all around them and Paddy makes one last wish before having to say goodbye forever.

Children will be able to identify with this delightful tale of inclusion and empathy. Flesch-Kincaid Readability Level: Grade 3