Benjamin: 3278 books
Who Owns the Media?
Competition and Concentration in the Mass Media industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2000
This thorough update to Benjamin Compaine's original 1979 benchmark and 1982 revisit of media ownership tackles the question of media ownership, providing a detailed examination of the current state of the media industry. Retaining the wealth of data of the earlier volumes, Compaine and his co-author...
Selling the Serengeti
The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches...
by Bourne Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Captive in Patagonia. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Benjamin Franklin Bourne, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected...
Down on Mahans Creek
A History of an Ozarks Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
In Down on Mahans Creek, Benjamin Rader provides a fascinating look at a neighborhood in the Missouri Ozarks from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He explores the many ways in which Mahans Creek, though remote, was never completely isolated or self-sufficient. The residents were...
by Benjamin Selwyn
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic?
In this hard-hitting analysis...
Drawing Fire
Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Benjamin Pogrund, who spent 26 years as a journalist in South Africa investigating apartheid and who has been living in Israel for the past 15 years, investigates the accusation that Israel is practicing apartheid and the motives of those who make it. His study is founded on a belief in Israel, combined...
Church Street
The Sugar Hill of Jackson, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The 1930s and 1940s saw unprecedented prosperity for the African Americans of Jackson's Church Street. From the first black millionaire in the United States to defenders of civil rights, nearly all of Jackson's black professionals lived on Church Street. It was one of the most popular places to see and...
Front of the House
Restaurant Manners, Misbehaviors & Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In the bestselling tradition of Restaurant Man and Setting the Table, Front of the House is a revealing and wryly humorous behind-the-scenes look at the gracious art of great restaurant service.
Great restaurant service is a gracious art that's been studied, practiced and polished by Jeff Benjamin,...
by Benjamin Rabbi Blech
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
Ever since the earliest times, Jewish scholars have looked to the Hebrew language as a source of holiness and a wellspring of wisdom. Both letters and words, it has always been assumed, they have hidden messages and secrets to be sought after, as if we are opening a shell to extract the fruit. Rabbi...
Rosenzweig's Bible
Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Rosenzweig's Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamin's innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweig's best-known work at the beginning...
My Nine Lives
Uncensored Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The book depicts the life of Benjamin Neiger, a Jewish inventor who was born in Krakow, Poland. As a very young boy he became a witness to the horror of the Holocaust. At an age of 13 he was separated from his parents and spent many months alone in a large Hungarian forest, trying to survive. After...
The Global Rise of Populism
Performance, Political Style, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Once seen as a fringe phenomenon, populism is back. While some politicians and media outlets present it as dangerous to the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, others hail it as the fix for broken democracies. Not surprisingly, questions about populism abound. Does it really threaten democracy? Why the...
Terrible Fate
Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In the modern Greek city of Thessaloniki, the ruins of a vast Jewish cemetery lie buried under the city’s university. Nearby is the site of the childhood home of one of the founders of the modern Turkish state. These are tantalizing reminders of what was once the bustling cosmopolitan city of Salonica,...
Einbahnstraße
Walter Benjamins kritische Fragmente umfassen alltägliche Gegenstände des Lebens, literarische Texte der Zeit, Kinofilme sowie flüchtige Anliegen der Öffentlichkeit
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Diese Sammlung philosophischer Fragmente von Walter Benjamin erschien erstmals 1928. Einbahnstrasse war Walter Benjamins erster Versuch, aus den engen Grenzen der Akademie und den Techniken der Literaturwissenschaft auszubrechen. Benjamins kritische Fragmente umfassen alltägliche Gegenstände des Lebens, literarische Texte der Zeit, Kinofilme sowie flüchtige Anliegen der Öffentlichkeit.