Cheap television > On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman, ISBN 0316330116

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman, ISBN 0316330116

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The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger, demonstrates this is not the case. The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance. In Korea about 50 percent of combat infantry were willing to shoot, and in Vietnam the figure rose to over 90 percent. The bad news is that by conditioning soldiers to overcome their instinctive loathing of killing, we have drastically increased post-combat stress - witness the devastated psychological state of our Vietnam vets as compared with those from earlier wars. And the truly terrible news is that contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques and - according to Grossman's controversial thesis - is responsible for our rising rates of murder and violence, particularly among the young. In the explosive last section of the book, he argues that high-body-count movies, television violence (both news and entertainment), and interactive point-and-shoot video games are dangerously similar to thetraining programs that dehumanize the enemy, desensitize soldiers to the psychological ramifications of killing, and make pulling the trigger an automatic response.

Basics of the Video Production Diary by Des Lyver, ISBN 0240516583

Video production requires a high degree of organization to be a success. Good organization will require a proper diary to be kept of your production. It is the understanding of the paperwork and its organization that will make your production either a success or a failure.
Explained in accessible terms and assuming little prior knowledge of the subject, this book will help you to: plan successful procedures for all stages of a video production; produce paperwork logically to get professional results; understand the basic principles of setting up and running your own business; avoid common (and costly) pitfalls.

If you are a student who wishes to learn about all aspects of planning and documenting a video production, from conceptualization right through to final screening, this book is for you. It is particularly suitable for the City and Guilds Media Techniques Certificate: Television and Video Production Competences.
This book complements the other three titles in the series,...

Basics of the Video Production Diary by Des Lyver, ISBN 0240516583

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Drawn to Television: Prime-Time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy

Since late evening cartoons first aired in 1960, prime-time animated series have had a profound effect on American television and American culture at large. The characters and motifs from such shows as The Flintstones and The Simpsons are among the best-known images in world popular culture; and tellingly, even series that have not done well in prime time--series like The Jetsons, for instance--have yielded similarly iconic images. The advent of cable and several new channels devoted exclusively to animated programming have brought old series back to life in syndication, while also providing new markets for additional, often more experimental animated series. Even on the conventional networks, programs such as The Flintstones and The Simpsons, not to mention Family Guy and King of the Hill, have consistently shown a smartness and a satirical punch that goes well beyond the norm in network programming. Drawn to Televisionf traces the history of prime-time animation from The Flintstones'... Drawn to Television: Prime-Time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy
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Basics of the Video Production Diary by Des Lyver, ISBN 0240516583

Basics of the Video Production Diary by Des Lyver, ISBN 0240516583

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Abel's Outback: Explorations and Misadventures on Six Continents, 1990-2000 by Allen J. Abel, ISBN 077100706X

For many years, as news correspondent, television host, and journalist, Allen Abel has travelled to some of the world's most fascinating, remote, or newsworthy spots to bring back his stories -- often offbeat, moving, perceptive, or humorous, but always wonderfully written.

Now, in Abel's Outback, he has drawn on his writing of the last decade. Here is a sampling of ten years of adventure on all six continents. Whether he is hunting for the wild platypus with an Australian forest ranger, boating up the Amazon with a descendant of Charles Darwin, journeying to catch a glimpse of remote Timbuktu, cringing before the oil-well fires in Kuwait, taking tea with cousins of the Queen Mum, spending Christmas in Hong Kong, reporting on the plight of a Sudanese taxi driver in Inuvik (how do you have sundown prayers in a place where the sun doesn't go down?), or revisiting one of the strangest spots of all -- his native Brooklyn -- Allen Abel is inquisitive, original, observant, and often hilariously...

Abel's Outback: Explorations and Misadventures on Six Continents, 1990-2000 by Allen J. Abel, ISBN 077100706X

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Code Word Kangaroo

Gadgets, girls, and bad guys--Adam Sharp has everything the big boys have and more!
Fifty-seven channels, and there's nothing on--literally! When the world's television satellites are blocked by just one station, the Happy Channel, superspy Adam Sharp, travels to the Australian Outback to investigate. But will the help of IM-8 agent Alice Springs, TV snake-wrangler Wayne Wallaby, and two kangaroos be enough to combat the evil mindwashing of the Happy Channel's puppy dogs, candy, and birthday cake?
In addition to the popular Golden Books" Ghost Horse, Snake Camp, and "Wild Horses, George Edward Stanley is the author of the Third Grade Detectives series for Simon & Schuster. George, a professor at Cameron University, teaches writing and foreign languages, including Albanian, Zulu, and Xhosa. The author lives in Lawton, OK. Code Word Kangaroo
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Landscape with Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas by Howard J. Trienens, ISBN 0810118203

Against this background, the story of one work of art, Landscape with Smokestacks by Degas, has been featured in headlines and on television. As told by the media, the story is straightforward. The landscape, owned by a Jewish banker in the Netherlands, was sent to Paris in 1939. The Nazis occupied France and stole the landscape. The Jewish banker and his wife were killed in the Holocaust. Their heirs searched for the landscape but did not locate it until, a half century later, it was found in the possession of an art collector in Chicago. The heirs sued to recover the work.

But the real story is far more complicated -- and more compelling -- than that told by the media. Had the landscape been sent to Paris for safekeeping or to be sold? Was the work stolen by the Nazis or sold to an art dealer during the war?

During the litigation a mass of documents was produced that shed light on the fate of the landscape. But because the suit was settled before trial, the story under the surface...

Landscape with Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas by Howard J. Trienens, ISBN 0810118203

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I Spy Box Set #2

Robert Culp and Bill Cosby star as international espionage agents Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott on highly dangerous missions in this ever-popular, award winning series. Culp poses as a world-class playboy/tennis player, and Cosby goes undercover as his trainer. Together they travel the worlds, trading quips and fighting high-level crime with cool bravado and extraordinary savoir-faire. Combining humor with action/intrigue, "I Spy" was the first adventure TV series to be shot in exotic international locales, establishing a new standard for television dramas. I Spy Box Set #2
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The Boy Who Did Not Like Television

Zink crafts a wonderful story of a young boy whose one wish is that his parents would turn off the television and turn their attention to him instead. This distresses his parents, but eventually they come to realize that their son is more entertainment than television could ever be. Full color. The Boy Who Did Not Like Television
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