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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State
University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P.
Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small,
undistinguished state school into an academic and football
powerhouse. From 1931, when Long declared himself the "official
thief" for LSU, to his death in 1935, the school's budget
mushroomed, its physical plant burgeoned, its faculty flourished,
and its enrollment tripled. Along with improving LSU's academic
reputation, Long believed the school's football program and band
were crucial to its success. Taking an intense interest in the
team, Long delivered pregame and halftime pep talks, devised plays,
stalked the sidelines during games, and fired two coaches. He
poured money into a larger, flashier band, supervised the hiring of
two directors, and, with the second one, wrote a new fight song,
"Touchdown for LSU." While he rarely meddled in academic affairs,
Long insisted that no faculty member criticize him publicly. When
students or faculty from "his school" opposed him, retribution was
swift. Long's support for LSU did not come without consequences.
His unrelenting involvement almost cost the university its
accreditation. And after his death, several of his allies-including
his handpicked university president-went to prison in a scandal
that almost destroyed LSU. Rollicking and revealing, Robert Mann's
Kingfish U is the definitive story of Long's embrace of LSU.
A powerful play on Lincoln's tenure in the White House from
inauguration to assignation, the period of his superb greatness.
Backgrounded by the devastating civil war, it presents Mary, Grant,
Seward, Lee, Meade, Stanton, common soldiery and others of the time
by a playwright whose skills should make him of major interest.
In 1964, less than one year into his tenure as publisher of the
Bogalusa Daily News, New Orleans native Lou Major found himself
guiding the newspaper through a turbulent period in the history of
American civil rights. Bogalusa, Louisiana, became a flashpoint for
clashes between African Americans advocating for equal treatment
and white residents who resisted this change, a conflict that
generated an upsurge in activity by the Ku Klux Klan. Local members
of the KKK stepped up acts of terror and intimidation directed
against residents and institutions they perceived as sympathetic to
civil rights efforts. During this turmoil, the Daily News took a
public stand against the Klan and its platform of hatred and white
supremacy. Against the Klan, Major's memoir of those years,
recounts his attempts to balance the good of the community, the
health of the newspaper, and the safety of his family. He provides
an in-depth look at the stance the Daily News took in response to
the city's civil rights struggles, including the many fiery
editorials he penned condemning the KKK's actions and urging
peaceful relations in Bogalusa. Major's richly detailed personal
account offers a ground-level view of the challenges local
journalists faced when covering civil rights campaigns in the Deep
South and of the role played by the press in exposing the nefarious
activities of hate groups such as the Klan.
An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
familiarizes readers with what is considered tested and accepted
and in so doing, gives them a grounding in particle physics in
general. Whenever possible, Dr. Mann takes an historical approach
showing how the model is linked to the physics that most of us have
learned in less challenging areas. Dr. Mann reviews special
relativity and classical mechanics, symmetries, conservation laws,
and particle classification; then working from the tested paradigm
of the model itself, he:
- Describes the Standard Model in terms of its electromagnetic,
strong, and weak components
- Explores the experimental tools and methods of particle
physics
- Introduces Feynman diagrams, wave equations, and gauge
invariance, building up to the theory of Quantum
Electrodynamics
- Describes the theories of the Strong and Electroweak
interactions
- Uncovers frontier areas and explores what might lie beyond our
current concepts of the subatomic world
Those who work through the material will develop a solid command
of the basics of particle physics. The book does require a
knowledge of special relativity, quantum mechanics, and
electromagnetism, but most importantly it requires a hunger to
understand at the most fundamental level: why things exist and how
it is that anything happens. This book will prepare students and
others for further study, but most importantly it will prepare them
to open their minds to the mysteries that lie ahead. Ultimately,
the Large Hadron Collider may prove the model correct, helping so
many realize their greatest dreams or it might poke holes in the
model, leaving us to wonder an even more exciting possibility: that
the answers lie in possibilities so unique that we have not even
dreamt of them.
Whether used as a political tactic to discredit news stories and
media outlets, or as a description of false information
manufactured and circulated for profit, the term ""fake news""
holds a particularly caustic sway in twenty-first-century society.
A frequent subject of cable news broadcasts, periodical coverage,
and social media chatter, and a constant talking point for
political pundits, its impact spans from shaping minor differences
in partisanship to influencing elections. In Fake News! Josh Grimm
gathers a range of critical approaches to provide an essential
resource for readers, students, and teachers interested in
understanding this ever-present feature of today's media and
political landscape. The opening section surveys the long history
of fake news, with examples ranging from seventeenth-century
satires of early newspapers to propaganda efforts in Nazi Germany,
and then traces the evolution of the term over time. The following
section explores how exposure to fake news impacts individuals,
with particular emphasis on changes in popular discourse and the
ability to assess sources critically. Essays in this section also
highlight approaches developed by newsrooms and other
organisations, including Facebook and Google, to fight the
widespread dissemination of fake news. The volume pairs original
research with articles from prominent scholarly journals, offering
a wide-ranging and accessible discussion of debates central to the
current post-truth era, covering topics such as social media, the
Onion, InfoWars, media literacy, and the radicalization of white
men. By highlighting key components and practical methods for
examining misinformation in the media, Fake News! presents in-depth
analysis of a topic that remains more timely than ever.
Are we living on borrowed time? From climate change to the Murdoch
empire, from refugees to WikiLeaks -Robert Manne applies his
brilliant mind to the issues and people that shape our world. This
provocative and informative book includes essays on Donald Trump's
links to Russia, Malcolm Turnbull's leadership, the ideas driving
Islamic State, and Jonathan Franzen's views on climate activism. In
the title essay, Manne shares a life-altering personal story that
is frank, moving and unforgettable. Robert Manne is emeritus
professor of politics at La Trobe University. His books include The
Petrov Affair, The Culture of Forgetting, Left, Right, Left, Making
Trouble and The Mind of the Islamic State. He has written three
Quarterly Essays and is a regular contributor to the Monthly and
the Guardian.
In 1964, as the polarizing Civil Rights Act made its way through
the House and Senate, and Congress navigated one of the most
tumultuous eras in American history, a Harris Poll put the
institution's approval rating at 60 percent. Why then, fifty years
later, has the public's approval of Congress eroded to an all-time
low of 10 percent? Working Congress: A Guide for Senators,
Representatives, and Citizens seeks to isolate the reasons for
Congress's staggering decline in public opinion, and to propose
remedies to reverse the grave dysfunction in America's most
important political institution. Aided by the input of retired
members of Congress from both major parties, editor Robert Mann and
his fellow contributors identify paralyzing partisan rancor as
perhaps the most significant reason for the American public's
declining support of its main representative body. The lack of
mutual trust within Congress reflects (and creates) the suspicion
and animosity of the great majority of Americans. Working Congress
argues that members of Congress must find a path to cooperation if
they are to function as the representative institution the Founders
intended. Trenchant chapters by Mickey Edwards, Ross K. Baker,
Frances E. Lee, Brian L. Fife, Susan Herbst, and Mark Kennedy
analyze the problems and challenges facing Congress and suggest
solutions to counteract partisan gridlock. Though these scholars
and former members share a conviction that men and women of good
will can and should work together, they do not assume that their
solutions will herald a bipartisan utopia. Instead, they recognize
that Congress is, and will always be, a work in progress.
In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his
picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. Tim Winton reflects on
the impact of landscape on the Australian character; Helen Garner
remembers her mother with a raw and stirring poignancy; Christos
Tsiolkas wonders how the Left forgot its origins; Tim Flannery
traces the history of the Great Barrier Reef and fears for its
future. With essays traversing madness, liberty under Tony Abbott,
the enslaving of horses and the legacy of Doris Lessing, this sharp
collection offers lucid insight, shrewd understanding and
heartbreaking empathy. 'Some essays in this collection plunged me
into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of
laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their writers'
imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their
excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present
faced without flinching.' Robert Manne
'There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of
WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one.' This essay
reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his
world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly
childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary
cypherpunk underground, all the way through to the creation of
WikiLeaks. Pulling together the threads of his development, Manne
shows how Assange became one of the most influential Australians of
our time.
This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches.
Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight
that told us what Australia is and could be.
These are the essential statements - from historians, reporters,
novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from Federation
to the present-day, and tell a story of national self-discovery.
There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a 'workingman's
paradise', and the historian who explained why.
The two reporters who realised the true significance of Gallipoli
and conveyed it to the nation.
Russel Ward on the Australian Legend, Robin Boyd on the Australian
Ugliness, Donald Horne on the Lucky Country, W.E.H. Stanner on the
Great Australian Silence and Anne Summers on Manzone Country.
Real Matildas, Cultural Cringers, Future Eaters and Forgotten
People - and much more.
Memorably written and cohesive, this is the essential sourcebook
of the words that made Australia.
Robert Manne is professor of politics at La Trobe University and a
regular writer for the Monthly. His books include Making Trouble:
Essays Against the New Australian Complacency and, as editor, The
Australian Century and W.E.H. Stanner: The Dreaming & Other
Essays.
Chris Feik is editor of Quarterly Essay, associate editor of the
Monthly and publisher at Black Inc.
Miles Franklin
Albert Metin
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
Keith Murdoch
Maybanke Anderson
D.H. Lawrence
W.K. Hancock
P.R. Stephensen
Vance Palmer
Robert Menzies
A.A. Phillips
Manning Clark
Russel Ward
Barry Humphries
Robin Boyd
Donald Horne
W.E.H. Stanner
Humphrey McQueen
Hugh Stretton
Anne Summers
Miriam Dixson
Bernard Smith
Paul Kelly
Geoffrey Blainey
Tim Flannery
David Malouf
Inga Clendinnen
Noel Pearson
Judith Brett
Ghassan Hage
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch's
empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70
per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates
Murdoch's lead political voice here, the Australian newspaper, and
how it shapes debate. Since 2002, under the editorship of Chris
Mitchell, the Australian has come to see itself as judge, jury and
would-be executioner of leaders and policies. Is this a dangerous
case of power without responsibility? In a series of devastating
case studies, Manne examines the paper's campaigns against the Rudd
government and more recently the Greens, its climate change
coverage and its ruthless pursuit of its enemies and critics. Manne
also considers the standards of the paper and its influence more
generally. This brilliant essay is part deep analysis and part
vivid portrait of what happens when a newspaper goes rogue. "The
Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in
the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of
the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it
to try to make and unmake governments." - Robert Manne, Bad News
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
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++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ Pulp And Paper Investigation Hearings: April 25, 1908-Feb. 19,
1909, With Indices], Volume 4, Issues 36-42; Pulp And Paper
Investigation Hearings: April 25, 1908-Feb. 19, 1909, With
Indices]; United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Under
House Resolution 344 United States. Congress. House. Select
Committee Under House Resolution 344, James Robert Mann, United
States. Congress. House Govt. Print. Off., 1909 Paper industry;
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Two verse plays that begin with the inauguration of President
Abraham Lincoln and end with his assassination. LINCOLN is
backgrounded by the entire length of the Civil War; portraits of
Stanton, Lee, Meade, Grant, and other principals; and numbers of
common soldiery. Epic in size, the plays are also noted for their
accuracy and the "trenchant driving rhythms" of the verse.
"You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something
that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke
for them."
- Christopher Fry
..".very possibly a major American play."
- Robert Farley
"I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented...playwrights
in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial
theater...His choice of style is unique; his imagination boundless;
and his dedication intense. And I belive he has a real gift for the
theater."
- Alan Schneider
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
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++++ The Isthmian Canal: Speech In The House Of Representatives,
Tuesday, January 7, 1902 James Robert Mann Nicaragua Canal
(Nicaragua); Panama Canal (Panama)
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