Author: Dean Alger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: distort, competition, endanger, democracy, media, mass, giant, corporations, dominate, megamedia
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0847683893
ISBN-13: 9780847683895

Megamedia offers a unique look at the ominous impacts of this control of the mass media, and suggests ways to hold big corporate media responsible for not only increasing diversity but also presenting society with fair and unbiased information.

Authors:Marion R. Just, Ann N. Crigler, Dean E. Alger, Timoth
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: politics, political, economy, series, american, campaign, citizens, candidates, media, presidential, crosstalk
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1996-06-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226420213
ISBN-13: 9780226420219

The most comprehensive portrait of a presidential campaign in more than a decade, Crosstalk focuses on the 1992 U.S. presidential race and looks at how citizens use information in the media to make their voting decisions and how politicians and the media interact to shape that information.Examining political advertisements, news coverage, ad watches, and talk shows in Los Angeles, Boston, Winston-Salem, and Fargo/Moorhead, the authors chart the impact of different information environments on citizens and show how people developed images of candidates over the course of the campaign. Crosstalk

Author: M. Alger
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: second, dictionary, science, polymer
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 1996-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0412608707
ISBN-13: 9780412608704

More than 10,000 entries with expanded encyclopaedic-style definitions make this major reference work invaluable to practitioners, researchers and students working in the area of polymer science and technology. This new edition now includes liquid crystal polymers, new characterisation methods and polymers with special electrical properties

Author: Douglas Alger
Publisher: Cisco Press
Keywords: networking, technology, business, facility, data, center, build
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2005-06-26
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1587051826
ISBN-13: 9781587051821

A comprehensive guide to designing and operating reliable server environments Keep your data center cool, clean, scalable, and secure Learn the five principles of effective data center design Avoid the natural and man-made hazards that can jeopardize a data center site Learn how to lay out key infrastructure objects within the data center for greatest efficiency, from buffer zones to server rows Apply proven installation methods by studying sample illustrations of both overhead and under-floor systems Extract the best practices and design strategies for both in-room and standby e

Authors:Horatio Alger, Jr.,
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: pluck, grant, andy
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2006-07-13
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 142640879X
ISBN-13: 9781426408793

Short excerpt: A telegram! repeated Andy, in vague alarm, for the word suggested something urgent—probably bad news of some kind.

Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: luck, larkin, luke, upward, struggling
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0766194264
ISBN-13: 9780766194267

1886. Alger is often credited with inventing the strive and succeed spirit that inspired boys to work hard and advance themselves to attain the American Dream, and which permeates his writing. Struggling Upward is a novelette that teaches Alger’s recurring theme that honesty and hard work will always pay. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: penguin, classics, upward, struggling, dick, ragged
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1985-01-08
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0140390332
ISBN-13: 9780140390339

The hero of "Ragged Dick" is a veritable "diamond in the rough" - as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appeals to parents, who responded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant ethic. "Struggling Upward, " published nearly thirty years later, followed the same time-tested formulas, and despite critical indifferece it, too, had mass appeal.