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Television is changing almost beyond recognition. In the battle for
consumers, social media sites, smart phones and tablets have become
rivals to traditional linear TV. However, audiences and producers
are also embracing mobile platforms to enhance TV viewing itself.
This book examines the emerging phenomenon of the second screen:
where users are increasingly engaging with content on two screens
concurrently. The practice is transforming television into an
interactive, participatory and social experience. James Blake
examines interactive television from three crucial angles: audience
motivation and agency, advances in TV production and the
monetisation of second screen content. He also tracks its evolution
by bringing together interviews with more than 25 television
industry professionals - across the major UK channels - including
commissioning editors, digital directors, producers and advertising
executives. These reveal the successes and failures of recent
experiments and the innovations in second screen projects. As the
second screen becomes second nature for viewers and producers, the
risks and opportunities for the future of television are slowly
beginning to emerge. Television and the Second Screen will offer
students and scholars of television theory, industry professionals
and anyone with an abiding interest in television and technology,
an accessible and illuminating guide to this important cultural
shift.
How do you design a landscape book suitable for its intended uses?
How can the natural qualities of a landscape be enhanced with new
features and focal points? How can you make pedestrians stay on the
footpath? What kind of plant, path or wall should you put where,
and what sort of contract should you choose for your client's
contractor? This refreshingly down-to-earth introduction to the
vast subject of landscape design and construction answers all these
questions, guiding new students through the many facets of
professional practice and welding together the artistic, legal,
financial, environmental and management issues which can seem so
dauntingly disconnected. Illustrated with original drawings,
photographs, sample plans and facsimiles, including a new colour
plate section, this readable classic has been fully revised and
updated throughout. It opens with a completely new chapter which
explains design and aesthetic principles, explores the history of
our relationship to landscape, and shows how design principles can
be applied to influence reactions to the finished site. The author
then considers different elements of hard landscape and their
relative merits in different situations. The soft landscape section
includes coverage of the effects of mass and form, natural and
abstract planting, and the difficult subject of plant selection. A
step-by-step guide through all the stages of managing a project,
from initial discussions with clients, site inspection, surveying
and quoting, through tendering, contracting, contractual
agreements, development from concept design to final plans and
drawings, as well as maintenance, now includes the current
information on CDM regulations and provides readers with a
plain-speaking reference on client management and contractual
administration. Added to the guide to drawing and lettering is an
extensive section on computer-aided design. A bibliography and list
of useful organization are also included.
In the newest Wolfe-family adventure from James Carlos Blake, Rudy
and Frank Wolfe are engaging in routine miscellaneous business -
some legitimate and some less so - for their family when they
stumble upon a stash of high-quality pornographic films in a raid.
The plot thickens when their Aunt Catalina, the family matriarch
aged 115, recognizes her long-lost sister in one of the young
performers. Catalina tasks the boys with tracking the girl down,
however improbable a connection may be. This proves to be no simple
task. Soon, Rudy and Frank find themselves moving away from world
of porn and towards the upper echelons of the Sinaloa drug cartel,
where the mysterious woman has become a particular favorite of the
head narco. For their aunt, the woman, and themselves, Frank and
Rudy must find a way to get her out without alerting the cartel. A
tropical storm complicates their quest, but their sprawling family
may save them from this obstacle, too. Often outrageous and always
entertaining, the Wolfes are not to be missed.
Television is changing almost beyond recognition. In the battle for
consumers, social media sites, smart phones and tablets have become
rivals to traditional linear TV. However, audiences and producers
are also embracing mobile platforms to enhance TV viewing itself.
This book examines the emerging phenomenon of the second screen:
where users are increasingly engaging with content on two screens
concurrently. The practice is transforming television into an
interactive, participatory and social experience. James Blake
examines interactive television from three crucial angles: audience
motivation and agency, advances in TV production and the
monetisation of second screen content. He also tracks its evolution
by bringing together interviews with more than 25 television
industry professionals - across the major UK channels - including
commissioning editors, digital directors, producers and advertising
executives. These reveal the successes and failures of recent
experiments and the innovations in second screen projects. As the
second screen becomes second nature for viewers and producers, the
risks and opportunities for the future of television are slowly
beginning to emerge. Television and the Second Screen will offer
students and scholars of television theory, industry professionals
and anyone with an abiding interest in television and technology,
an accessible and illuminating guide to this important cultural
shift.
Inspired by Arthur Ashe's bestselling memoir Days of Grace, a
collection of positive, uplifting stories of seemingly small acts
of grace from across the sports world that have helped to bridge
cultural and racial divides. Like many people of color, James Blake
has experienced the effects of racism firsthand--publicly--first at
the U.S. Open, and then in front of his hotel on a busy Manhattan
street, where he was tackled and handcuffed by a police officer in
a case of "mistaken identity." Though rage would have been
justified, Blake faced both incidents with dignity and aplomb. In
Ways of Grace he reflects on his experiences and explores those of
other sports stars and public figures who have not only overcome
adversity, but have used them to unite rather than divide,
including: Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, a Pakistani Muslim and Amir Hadad,
an Israeli Jew, who despite the conflicts of their countries,
paired together in the 2002 Wimbledon men's doubles draw. Muhammad
Ali, who transcended racism with a magnetic personality and a
breathtaking mastery of boxing that was unparalleled. Nelson
Mandela, who spent twenty-seven years in prison for his commitment
to social reform, peace, and equality yet never gave up his battle
to end apartheid--a struggle that led to his eventual freedom and
his nation's transition to black majority rule. Groundbreaking
tennis legend Arthur Ashe, who was a model of courage, elegance,
and poise on the court and off; a gifted player who triumphed in
the all-white world of professional tennis, and became one of his
generation's greatest players. Weaving together these and other
poignant and unforgettable stories, Blake reveals how, through
seemingly small acts of grace, we can confront hatred, bigotry, and
injustice with virtue--and use it to propel ourselves to greater
heights.
On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party
is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The
perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galan, who wants
nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes
that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding party's
ransom at five million US dollars, to be paid in cash within 24
hours. The only captive not related to either the bride or the
groom is the young Jessica Juliet Wolfe, a bridesmaid and close
friend of the bride. Jessie hails from a family of notorious
outlaws that has branches on both sides of the border, and when the
Wolfes learn of Jessie's abduction, they fear that the kidnappers
will kill the captives after receiving the ransom-unless they
rescue Jessie first. Gritty and exhilarating, James Carlos Blake's
The House of Wolfe takes readers on a wild ride from Mexico City's
opulent neighborhoods to its frenetic downtown streets and feral
shantytowns, as El Galan proves how dangerous it is to
underestimate an ambitious criminal, and Jessie's blood kin
desperately try to find her before it's too late.
Longlisted for the 2015 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award Eddie Gato
Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas
gunrunners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by
his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his
own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican
drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a
mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the
property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization. When
they're discovered, the violent upshot forces Eddie and Miranda to
run for their lives, fleeing into the deadly Sonora Desert in hope
of crossing the border to safety. But La Navaja's reach is far and
his lust for revenge insatiable. If La Navaja's men don't kill
Eddie and Miranda, the brutal desert just may. Their only hope:
help from the family that Eddie abandoned. At once a riveting
thriller and an inside look at the blood-drenched Mexican drug
trade, The Rules of Wolfe is another classic crime novel from a
writer Entertainment Weekly calls 'one of the greatest chroniclers
of the mythical American outlaw life.'
Stories of Activism, Adversity, and How Sports Can Bring Us
Together
A master of historical and crime fiction, James Carlos Blake delves
back into the dark realms of the Wolfe family, a clan whose roots
run deep on both sides of the United States-Mexico border, and
whose prevailing interests straddle both sides of the law. Twenty
years ago, college student Axel Prince Wolfe - heir apparent to his
Texas family's esteemed law firm and its 'shade trade' criminal
enterprises - teamed up with his best friend, Billy, and a Mexican
stranger in a high-end robbery that went wrong. Abandoned by his
partners, he was captured and imprisoned, his family disgraced, his
wife absconded, his infant daughter Jessie left an orphan. Two
decades later, with eleven years still to serve, Axel has long
since exhausted his desire for revenge against the partners who
deserted him. All he wants now is to see the woman his daughter has
become, despite her lifelong refusal to acknowledge him. When the
chance comes to escape in the company of Cacho, a young Mexican
inmate with ties to a major cartel, Axel takes it, and a massive
manhunt ensues, taking the pair down the Rio Grande and into a
desert inferno. With his chance to see Jessie now within reach, a
startling discovery re-ignites an old passion and sends Axel
headlong toward reckonings many years in the making.
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