Authors:Lynne Gross, Brian Gross, Philippe Perebinossoff,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: development, evaluation, strategy, second, radio, internet, programming
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-03-10
List price: $63.95
ISBN-10: 0240806824
ISBN-13: 9780240806822

Where do program ideas come from? How are concepts developed into saleable productions? Who do you talk to about getting a show produced? How do you schedule shows on the lineup? What do you do if a series is in trouble? The answers to these questions, and many more, can be found in this comprehensive, in-depth look at the roles and responsibilities of the electronic media programmer. Topics include: Network relationships with affiliates, the expanded market of syndication, sources of programming for stations and networks, research and its role in programming decisions, fundamental appeals to

Authors:David Reese, Lynne Gross, Brian Gross,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: techniques, equipment, concepts, sixth, production, worktext, audio
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0240810988
ISBN-13: 9780240810980

Providing insight into the impact media convergence has had on the radio industry, this new edition delivers an excellent introduction to the modern radio production studio, the equipment found in that studio, and the basic techniques needed to accomplish radio production work.New chapters addressing the basics of field recording, production planning, and sound for video are included, as well as a renewed emphasis on not just radio production, but audio production.Featuring a worktext format tailored for both students and teachers, self-study questions, hands-on projects, and a CD with project

Authors:David Reese, Lynne Gross, Brian Gross,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: studio, equipment, fifth, worktext, production, radio
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0240806905
ISBN-13: 9780240806907

Radio Production Worktext, 5ED is designed to provide an introduction ot the modern radio production studio, the equipment found in that studio, and basic techniques to accomplish radio production work. The text also emphasizes digital equipment but also includes information on the older analog equipment still used in radio. The worktext format combines information, Q&As, and projects, providing a complete resource for teaching and learning, either in a formal classroom setting or as a self-study guide for the individual. The companion CD-ROM provides project material and demonstrations

Author: John , M. Gross
Publisher: Amacom
Keywords: maintenance, preventive, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-02-10
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 081447389X
ISBN-13: 9780814473894

"Plant engineers and maintenance managers know from experience: All manufacturing equipment will break down, often at the worst possible moment. To survive in today’s lean-and-mean manufacturing environment, companies must head off these breakdowns with a preventive-maintenance management program that is both systematic and flexible -- and geared toward minimizing downtime and maximizing equipment life. Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance provides readers with an easy-to-follow, economically sensible maintenance and workorder management program. This results-driven guidebook outli

Author: John M. Gross
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: maintenance, preventive, fundamentals
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-08-09
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0814407366
ISBN-13: 9780814407363

Plant engineers and maintenance managers know from experience: All manufacturing equipment will break down, often at the worst possible moment. To survive in today’s lean-and-mean manufacturing environment, companies must head off these breakdowns with a preventive-maintenance management program that is both systematic and flexible -- and geared toward minimizing downtime and maximizing equipment life. Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance provides readers with an easy-to-follow, economically sensible maintenance and workorder management program. This results-driven guideboo

Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: essays, book, oxford
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2008-12-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0199556555
ISBN-13: 9780199556557

The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essa

Author: John Gross
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: legacy, legend, shylock
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1994-01-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0671883860
ISBN-13: 9780671883867

Never has one character of the stage provoked such controversy or achieved such infamy as Shakespeare’s enigmatic Shylock. For four centuries the money lender of "The Merchant of Venice" has been reinvented as both villain and victim, as an object of tragedy and comedy, and has been used as an economic symbol and often as a lightning rod for anti-Semitism. But what was Shakespeare’s attitude toward the character described on the play’s title page in 1600 as "a man of extreme crueltie", and what should be our own? With brilliant historical perspective and insight, theater crit