Search results for ""Author Robert J. Thompson""
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Clear Hold and Destroy
Book SynopsisIn Robert J. Thompson III’s analysis, the consistent, and consistently unsuccessful, struggle to place Phu Yen under Saigon’s banner makes the province particularly fertile ground for studying how the Americans advanced pacification and why this effort ultimately failed.
£18.86
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Clear Hold and Destroy
Book SynopsisA sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Robert Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is better understood as the foundation of US fighting in Vietnam.
£33.95
John Wiley & Sons Televisions Second Golden Age
Book SynopsisOffers an insider's tour, touching on the network's dizzying decision-making process, and the artists who have revolutionized the medium.Trade ReviewA gracefully written grabber overflowing with affection and canny detail. Fans of ‘quality TV drama series’ will have a field day with Syracuse University professor Thompson’s multidisciplinary examination of ‘the return of the serious, literary, writer-based drama’ over the past 15 years. Allotting full chapters to breakthrough series Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere, Thompson reviews a bit more briefly the histories of 1980s classics Cagney & Lacey, Moonlighting, L.A. Law, thirtysomething, and China Beach and their ‘quirky’ 1990s successors Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, and Picket Fences. ‘The Future of Quality’ chapter describes the networks’ retreat from writer-based drama in the early 1990s and the return to it in series like NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Chicago Hope, and the number one hit, ER. This survey will appeal to several audiences: People readers will relish the gossip; Fortune readers will zero in on the economics of quality versus junk-food television; and readers monitoring media transmogrifications will find Thompson’s analysis of TV’s institutionalization of quality drama fascinating.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface: From "The Golden Age of Television" to "Quality TV" 1. The Golden Ages of Television 2. The Causes of Quality 3. The Quality Factory 4. Hill Street Blues: The Quality Revolution 5. Quality-The Next Generation: St. Elsewhere 6. The Second Golden Age of Television: Cagney & Lacey, Moonlighting, L.A. Law, thirtysomething, and China Beach 7. Quality Goes Quirky: Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, and Picket Fences 8. The Future of Quality Notes Select Book Bibliography Home Video Sources Index of Television Titles Index of Names
£999.99
Lexington Books Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to
Book SynopsisAnti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Post-truth Era: The Challenges for Higher Education argues that emergence of the post-truth world is evidence that anti-intellectualism, long recognized as a characteristic of American culture, has morphed into anti-rationalism as a surging force in American society that threatens our collective commitment to rationality. A post-truth world, however, is not an immutable condition and cannot be accepted as the new norm. The author argues that American higher education take responsibility for combating anti-rationalism by promoting the development of student's personal attributes that constitute a rational mind-set and rationalist identity, such that they hold themselves accountable for commitments to seeking truth and the value of critical thought and reasoned discourse as defining element of their way of being in the world. Scholarship exists across many disciplines regarding anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism in American society and the personal attributes that together constitute a rational mind-set, including an evaluativist personal epistemology, open-mindedness and conscientiousness, and a rationalist identity. The author brings the perspective of a psychologist to the analysis and synthesis of this scholarship and the implications for educational practices that are effective in promoting the development of student's rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Anti-Intellectualism: Contributing Factors and Societal EffectsChapter 1: Introduction: Intellect and the Paradox of American AttitudesChapter 2: Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeChapter 3: Hofstadter Reexamined and the Resurgence of Anti-IntellectualismChapter 4: The Types and Characteristics of Intellectuals and their WorkChapter 5: Standard Critique, Loss of Authority, and the New Public IntellectualPart II: Post-Truth, Rationality, and False BeliefsChapter 6: A Post-truth World and Valuing TruthChapter 7: Rational ThinkingChapter 8: The Formation and Correction of False BeliefsPart III: Personal Attributes Constituting a Rational Mind-SetChapter 9: Personal EpistemologyChapter 10: Personality Traits and Epistemic Dispositions and VirtuesChapter 11: Identity Formation and the Narrative Process of Self-AuthorshipPart IV: The Challenges and Opportunities for Higher EducationChapter 12: Restoring our Shared Commitment to RationalismChapter 13: Promoting the Development of a Rational Mind-Set and a Rationalist Identity
£90.00
