This important volume reviews the history of the telecommunication superhighway pointing out its beginnings in the interactive TV and broadband highway of the wired cities more than two decades ago. It explains the technological uncertainties of the superhighway and many of its futuristic services, and also gives an understandable review of the technological principles behind today's modern telecommunication networks and systems.Recognizing that technology is only one factor in sha...

On September 11, 2001, AT&T's traffic was 40 percent greater than its previous busiest day. Wireless calls were made from the besieged airplanes and buildings, with the human voice having a calming influence. E-mail was used to overcome distance and time zones. And storytelling played an important role both in conveying information and in coping with the disaster. Building on such events and lessons, Crisis Communications features an international cast of top contributors exploring emergen...

The Writers Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It takes a single page from forty contemporary novels and short stories, identifies techniques used by the writers, and presents approachable exercises and prompts that allow anyone to put those techniques to immediate use in their own work. Encompassing everything from micro (how to "write pretty") to macro (how to "move through time space"), and even how to put all together on pa...

Sjätte delen i den älskade serien om kriminalkommissarie Ingrid Bergman vid Sektionen för Grova brott i Göteborg. Ett brutalt överfall på en äldre kvinna på centralstationen väcker stor uppmärksamhet och tvingar polisen att rikta resurser mot gängkriminalitet och våld kopplat till illegal invandring. Samtidigt återvänder Ingrid Bergman till arbetet efter sin föräldraledighet och börjar granska ett gammalt fall där en kvinnas huvud var det enda som hittades. Spåren leder på olika vägar till...

Chuck Noll won four Super Bowls and presided over one of the greatest football dynasties in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the '70s. Later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his achievements as a competitor and a coach are the stuff of legend. But Noll always remained an intensely private and introspective man, never revealing much of himself as a person or as a coach, not even to the players and fans who revered him.Chuck Noll did not need a dramatic public profile ...

Chuck Noll won four Super Bowls and presided over one of the greatest football dynasties in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the '70s. Later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his achievements as a competitor and a coach are the stuff of legend. But Noll always remained an intensely private and introspective man, never revealing much of himself as a person or as a coach, not even to the players and fans who revered him.Chuck Noll did not need a dramatic public profile ...

A vivid account of the Right’s subversive campaign to impose Christian nationalist rule.Time and again, when confronted with serious challenges to their power and privilege, white Christian nationalists seek solace—and satisfaction—in state-supported forms of vigilantism.This was true at the dawn of the American republic, when Northern abolitionists threatened the Southern slavocracy. It was also true in the aftermath of the Civil War, when emancipated Blac...

A concise introduction to the evolution of communication media, past, present, and future, this book is unique in that it treats both mass media_radio, television, and print_and interpersonal media_telephony, computer communication, and new technologies. The first part of The Evolution of Media describes the history and development of media technology. The second and third parts of the book develop a taxonomy for media and compare their technological requirements, applications, and other s...

A collection of the country's most respected historians, philosophers, and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. This collection of never before published essays, originally delivered at the Library of Congress, presents the most original and recent scholarship on a topic that still generates considerable controversy. Anyone interested in colonial history, religion and politics, and the relationship between church and state will benefit by reading ...

Michael Scharang ist unter den heutigen Schriftstellern wohl derjenige, der am konsequentesten die österreichischen Zustände kommentiert und kritisiert. Er weiß seit jeher: »Der Gang der Geschichte wird im Großteil der Welt noch nicht von Vernunft und Aufklärung geleitet, sondern von purer Herrschsucht.« Gilt das auch für Österreich? Scharang legt in seinen polemischen Beiträgen offen, woran es krankt: »Man ist geneigt, ein Loblied auf den Stillstand zu singen, wenn man in Österreich erle...

Von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bis Elfriede Jelinek, von Robert Musil bis Peter Turrini und von Karl Kraus bis Peter Handke: Michael Scharangs beste Essays zu Literatur, Literaturkritik und Politik. Oftmals kritisch, gelegentlich polemisch und zuweilen auch lobpreisend zeigt Scharang sein großes Vermögen, die jeweilige sprachliche Form in Zusammenhang mit dem jeweils vermittelten Inhalt zu stellen. Er macht zur Aufgabe der Literaturkritik, was dem heutigen Feuilleton kaum noch gelingt: die...

Jugendstil und Heinerblut Abgründig kriminelle Kurzgeschichten aus Darmstadt »Ein guter Mord, ein echter Mord, ein schöner Mord, so schön, als man nur verlangen kann, wir haben schon lange so kein gehabt.« (Georg Büchner, Woyzeck) Auch lange nach Büchner ist Darmstadt ein Ort des literarischen Verbrechens. Anlässlich der Criminale 2023, dem größten Branchentreff der deutschsprachigen Krimiautorinnen und -autoren, versammeln sich in dieser Anthologie einundzwanzig renommierte, preisgekrönte...