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with foreword by Michael X. Delli Carpini, Annenberg School for
Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA This book critiques
U.S. public policy about communication and offers guidelines to
improve public safety and create strong democratic communities. The
lack of effective emergency communication, basic information about
health care, education, jobs and the economy, and civic life is at
a crisis state, creating problems for the whole community, not just
a vulnerable few. The Communications Crisis in America is not
because of changing markets or new technology, it is the failure of
public policy. The authors include economists, sociologists,
journalists, lawyers and a diverse group of media and communication
scholars, all offering an urgent call to action and difficult, but
achievable steps forward.
The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of
Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to
becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities,
Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar
redevelopment and expansion of urban universities, and the
indispensable part these institutions played in the remaking of
American cities. Yet urban renewal is only one aspect of this
history. Drawing from Philadelphia's extensive archives as well as
the University's own historical records and publications, John L.
Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd examine Penn's rise to eminence amid
the social, moral, and economic forces that transformed major
public and private institutions across the nation. Becoming Penn
recounts the shared history of university politics and urban policy
as the campus grappled with twentieth-century racial tensions,
gender inequality, labor conflicts, and economic retrenchment.
Examining key policies and initiatives of the administrations led
by presidents Gaylord Harnwell, Martin Meyerson, Sheldon Hackney,
and Judith Rodin, Puckett and Lloyd revisit the actors,
organizations, and controversies that shaped campus life in this
turbulent era. Illustrated with archival photographs of the campus
and West Philadelphia neighborhood throughout the late twentieth
century, Becoming Penn provides a sweeping portrait of one
university's growth and impact within the broader social history of
American higher education.
I love quizzes. Don't win very many but I love them nevertheless.
There is something very rewarding in the act of trawling through
the inner recesses of one's mind to find that obscure fact or
dipping into the dusty mental library that houses ancient school
lessons. It is probably genetic. My grandfather, Victor Lloyd,
loved quizzes and crossword puzzles and published many fine quiz
books in the original Pillar Publishing Dublin in the 1930s and
40s. Now that I have created Pillar International Publishing, I
have sought to pay tribute to Granda Lloyd's enterprise with this
small series of books. In this particular book I have brought
together my series of Ready-Made Quizzes, Volumes 1 to 10. The
format of the book is 10 quizzes of 10 rounds of 10 questions, so
that the reader can pick and choose rounds to form the basis of a
quiz organised for your club, school, charity or company. The
questions vary in difficulty from easy to not so easy, but I have
stayed away from questions that are overly obscure to allow for a
greater overall feeling of inclusion, competition and
entertainment. The questions have been set, I hope, without any
bias towards one country's culture. They can, therefore, be enjoyed
anywhere in the quiz world. I hope you enjoy the questions.
I love quizzes. Don't win very many but I love them nevertheless.
There is something very rewarding in the act of trawling through
the inner recesses of one's mind to find that obscure fact or
dipping into the dusty mental library that houses ancient school
lessons. It is probably genetic. My grandfather, Victor Lloyd,
loved quizzes and crossword puzzles and published many fine quiz
books in the original Pillar Publishing Dublin in the 1930s and
40s. Now that I have created Pillar International Publishing, I
have sought to pay tribute to Granda Lloyd's enterprise with this
small series of books. In this particular book I have brought
together some of questions to challenge the cleverest of kids. The
format of the book is 5 quizzes of 10 rounds of 10 questions, so
that the reader can pick and choose rounds to form the basis of a
quiz organised for your club, school, or charity. I have also
included 50 bonus tie-breaker questions. The questions vary in
difficulty from easy to not so easy, but I have stayed away from
questions that are overly difficult to allow for a greater overall
feeling of inclusion, competition and entertainment. The questions
have been set, I hope, without any bias towards one country's
culture. They can, therefore, be enjoyed anywhere in the quiz
world. Enjoy Mark.
A three-level series of grammar reference and practice books for
teenage and young adult learners. Active Grammar Level 3 covers all
the grammar taught at C1-C2 (CEF) level. The book presents grammar
points in meaningful context through engaging and informative
texts, followed by clear explanations. Useful tips highlight common
mistakes that advanced level students usually make. Carefully
graded exercises provide plenty of challenging practice and
encourage students to apply their own ideas creatively to grammar
learning. A large number of contrastive revision exercises in the
book and on the CD-ROM allow students to assess and monitor their
progress. The answer key at the back of the book makes this version
ideal for self-study.
Packed with case histories and profiles of history's most infamous
secret agents, plus a comprehensive glossary, "The Guinness Book of
Espionage" will appeal to armchair spies everywhere. "The Guinness
Book of Espionage" looks at the real world of spies and
spying--military, political, and commercial--and charts the story
of subterfuge throughout history. It contains fascinating details
on: The People: famous spies such as Christopher Marlowe, Mata
Hari, John Walker, and Kim Philby Their Methods: recruiting and
running an agent, and the development of codes and ciphers The
Equipment and Technology: from the early use of radios for
communication through to today's hi-tech electronic surveillance
and photographic techniques, as employed by advanced spy planes and
satellites The Famous Incidents: such as the Zimmermann Telegram,
the Venlo incident--one of the greatest mistakes in British
intelligence history, which wiped out virtually all British agents
on the Continent at the start of the last war; the shooting down of
Francis Gary Pawers's U-2 spyplane in 1960, and the destruction of
the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 over Kamtchatka with the loss of
269 innocent lives in the '80s In England Defeat Shakes the
Foundations of Monarchy Services and Operations: including the KGB,
CIA, MI5, Mossad and Britain's wartime Special Operations Executive
Secrets in the Office: telephone tapping and the ins and outs of
computer hacking
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