GREEK NEWS."bAt home or at school, these innovative titles make history come alive!/bbrbrRead all About it! Now, with THE GREEK NEWS and THE ROMAN NEWS, life in ancient Greece and Rome is presented in the form of a daily newspaper written at the time. As accessible as your morning paper, THE GREEK NEWS and THE ROMAN NEWS will give young readers the unforgettable sense of actually being a citizen of an ancient nation.  (less)

media for warnings, explanations and insights. The profession – and society – cannot afford lazy, inept, uncommitted journalists. Today’s reporters must learn how to cover public affairs intelligently and thoroughly. First you must learn about the institutions and people who influence the news; understanding how a legislative conference committee functions or how a trial is conducted remain important pre-requisites. But it is not enough merely to know how to report. Journalists must also understand how they see, define and influence the news. Don’t be fooled by the daily dose of fluffy stories about fads, fashions or fetishes. People love to revel in celebrity gossip or fantasize about extreme makeovers. But Donald Trump’s love life or the South Beach Diet don’t satisfy when people worry about a home invasion in their neighborhood or a rezoning proposal to bring a Wal-Mart super center to town or a Department of Education report that their child’s school scored bottom-most in reading achievement. Public Affairs Reporting Now is intended to teach you the best practices and give you the best advice for covering what’s generically known as “public affairs reporting.” It’s a term that’s neither inspiring nor precise, but it’s long been a convenient way of describing the kind of news coverage that keeps people informed as citizens and keeps our institutions, public and private, focused on the public good. *Glossary of terms, sidebars & illustrations *End-of-chapter exercises *Teaches how to deliver high-quality local news professionally  (less)

of podcasting. Other topics include- communication before radio- early radio stations and commercials- ham radio operators- the Golden Age of radio broadcasting- radios in daily life, including shortwave, Citizens Band, satellite, and digital radio  (less)

for many Americans as part of an ever-growing middle class, but also resulted in environmental and social degradation that we continue to deal with at the present time. UXL's Development of the Industrial U.S. Reference Library: Almanac traces the influence of the British Industrial Revolution on America and other nations and discusses such potent forces as advances in transportation and communication, inventions that transformed manufacturing and agriculture, the growth of trade and much more. Biographies includes entries on various notables, including Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, Jane Addams and others. Primary Sources provides excerpts and explications of seminal sources, including legislative acts, accounts of daily life from regular citizens, political cartoons and more. The set includes a separately published comprehensive index.For table of contents, sample pages or other volume specific information see the entry for the Almanac, Biographies or Primary Sources.  (less)

dynamics and unexpected uses of technology can inspire innovation, this book proposes a research model of design for emergence, focusing on emergent phenomena as part of an iterative design process. By providing playful, technology-mediated experiences with minimal structure, unpredictable user behaviors can emerge through exploration, resulting in a richer and more complex, social experience. The research methodology is practice-based; two interactive prototypes were designed, implemented and evaluated in different contexts: an online multiplayer BumperCar game and a wireless, location-based urban game of 'tag', called CitiTag. User studies showed that collaborative, spontaneous play can enhance the sense of social participation in a group activity. Collective and individual behaviors and creative uses of technology emerged from a simply designed application based on symbolic presence, both in the virtual and the physical world. CitiTag experiments showed that virtual elements in a mixed reality game can instigate novel experiences in the context of our everyday physical and social environment, with often unexpected results. The observed emergent behaviors are personal and collective extensions of the virtual experience in the real world. The book concludes with a positive view of ubiquitous and social computing, in which the virtual world becomes a 'first class citizen' rather than a substitute for the real world, creating new situations and engaging experiences in the setting of our daily life that were not possible before.  (less)

II clarifies how to survive no matter what happens. Part III is how to make a difference as a citizen in making effective changes in the political arena in the U.S.A. Part IV is a vivid description of different types of friendships. Part V is about my special memories during my lifetime. Extraordinary Encounters are about a variety of experiences, adventures, issues and human relationships. They include my personal, lifetime memories. We all have the opportunity to have extraordinary experiences in our lives if we reach out to awaken and to learn from our daily encounters with the unknown and forthcoming events that transpire.  (less)

are a mirror of what has gone wrong in America, a reflection of how far we have strayed from personal responsibility and old-fashioned discipline. In Judge Sheindlin's Manhattan courtroom, nothing is too outrageous - including the judge. In her courtroom the operative words are do the right thing - and do it now. A fiercely intelligent, flamboyant, tough-talking mother of five, Sheindlin examines the problem of America's fraying family fabric and says publicly what most citizens feel privately: Juvenile delinquency is out of control and young criminals must not be treated lightly by the court system any longer. Sheindlin knows the system inside and out and reveals its absurdity, politically correct or not. Judy Sheindlin demonstrates how the system permits and even promotes a lack of individual responsibility. She shows how the courts wink at fraud committed by individuals and social service agencies. She describes how the media reinforce misguided feelings of guilt about those who call themselves victims of some amorphous social policy, from drug addicts to welfare recipients and delinquents. Sheindlin then offers solutions - real solutions, not studies or more commission reports - to show our country how to get back on track.  (less)

includes her involvement in areas as wide-ranging as low to high tech tools for assisting individuals in their daily tasks to adapting tools for completion of those tasks. Her research in the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) crosses many disciplines with a wide variety of technology possibilities from which to investigate. In addition, she teaches students how to explore and evaluate computer and other digital resources as they become information literate citizens of the 21st century. Born and raised in San Francisco, CA, Dr. Cyrus currently makes her home on the beautiful, tropical island of Guam.  (less)

Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they expected to respond, emotionally and pragmatically, to the suffering of other people? Under what circumstances? At what risk to themselves?pIn this book, Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral universe of the ancient Athenians: how citizens may have treated one another in times of adversity, when and how they were expected to help. She develops case studies in five spheres of everyday life: home nursing, the ransom of captives, intervention in street crimes, the long-distance transport of sick and wounded soldiers, and slave torture. Her close reading of selected narratives suggests that Athenians embraced high standards for helping behavior-- at least toward relatives, friends, and some fellow citizens. Meanwhile, a subtle discourse of moral obligation strengthened the bonds that held Athenian society together, encouraging individuals to bring their personal behavior into line with the ideals of the city-state.  (less)