Bøger af William J. Brown

During the past five decades, entertainment media have been the most powerful educators and promoters of social change in nearly every society throughout the world. William Brown has studied the influence of mass media on the values, beliefs, and behaviors of media consumers in more than 40 countries during the past 35 years. In this book, you will learn the most powerful media and arts strategy of the 21st century known as the entertainment-education communication strategy. If you are an advanced undergraduate or honors student or a graduate student working on a graduate degree in communication, media studies, theatre, journalism, cinema-television, scriptwriting, or a closely related area of study or degree program in the humanities or social sciences, this book is written for you.

New! Improved! Updated! Shorter and less expensive! -- Yes, William J. Brown's "American Colossus: the Grain Elevator 1843 to 1942" has been republished, and it is even better than before. Originally published in 2009, "American Colossus" is still the only book-length history of the invention, development and widespread adoption of the steam-powered grain elevator, which was invented in Buffalo, New York, in 1843 by Joseph Dart and Robert Dunbar. Over the course of the next 50 years, Buffalo-style grain elevators were built all over the Great Lakes region and, eventually, all over the world. "American Colossus" pays careful attention to the role played by the Erie Canal and to such technical matters as fireproofing measures and materials-handling techniques. The heart and soul of the book are the chapters devoted to the depictions and interpretations of Buffalo's elevators by the local press in the 19th C and such European modern architects as Gropius, Mendelssohn and Le Corbusier in the 20th.

Patterns are popular in software development and used to identify different types of procedures, designs, or codes that work. AntiPatterns are the exact opposite, targeting common errors and issues that can cause a project to fail. This book provides practical guidelines on detecting AntiPatterns and the refactored solutions that correct them.