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Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes...

This book examines the text of the CW network television series Supernatural, a program based in the horror genre that offers viewers myriad religious-based antagonists, through the portrayals of monsters which its two main characters “hunt” and destroy, as well as storylines based in the Bible....

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The continuing premise for the book is that estimates of the economic values of environmental and natural resource services are essential...

This book presents an innovative control system design process motivated by renewable energy electric grid integration problems. The concepts developed result from the convergence of research and development goals which have important concepts in common: exergy flow, limit cycles, and balance between...

Capturing the reality of the Louisiana Legislature through humor and real life images of the day to day lives of legislators is the gist of The Outhouse Report. The reader will gain insight to the workings of a State Legislature through the eyes of one member, who kept up with the humorous statements...

On a crisp April evening or a sizzling August afternoon, before a handful of friends or a throng of thousands, on a playground sandlot or in one of America's storied minor-league stadiums-whenever and wherever baseball is played in Reading, Pennsylvania, it is played with passion.Baseball in Reading...

Rockhead the Great: I Hate Home, I Hate School is a powerful testimonial that many kids in America can relate to. It tells the story of a young boys early struggle with home and the academic rigors of school. The death of his father, an alcoholic mother, and several learning challenges could not keep...

America’s automobile dealerships have finally gotten it right.Despite the internet leveling the playing field between consumers and salespeople, despite GM and Chrysler closing 3400 dealerships over the last few years, despite Cadillac offering to buy out 400 of their least profitable dealerships,...

Nominated as an outstanding thesis by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico, this thesis seeks to identify the gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor. GRBs are extragalactic explosions that briefly outshine entire galaxies, but the mechanism that can release that much energy...

Millions of Americans—including many experienced politicians—viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White...

From 2007 to 2008 a highly experienced American served as an International Advisor to a small Afghan-led Counter-Narcotics Advisory Team in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province southwestern Afghanistan. Helmand Province was, and still is, the scene of half the world's opium poppy...

George Washington is widely recognized as one of the greatest strategic leaders in our nation’s history. His ability to lead a rag-tag group of militia against the most powerful nation of his time appears to be unexplainable. Through further analysis though, one can begin to see a pattern appear...

真情流露，就有獨特的魅力！ 結合你的專業與個性，展現真實的情感，你的演說最有感染力。 上台演說、報告，向客戶做簡報、在會議上發言、致詞，甚至在臉書上貼文、錄製影片上傳Youtube……這些其實都是公開演說的範疇。實際上，當你有目的地向他人傳達一種思維、觀點或分享經驗時，就是在進行公開演說。 但我們經常擔心自己咬字不夠清楚、準備的投影片沒講完、用詞不夠精準，反而無法在台上暢所欲言。看著隨之而來的沉默、觀眾空洞的表情或是個位數的點閱率……令人忍不住想問：「為什麼準備了這麼多，觀眾還是沒反應？」 好萊塢媒體溝通顧問龐傑斯╳亞洲總裁級企業顧問劉瑄庭發現，演說中愈追求完美，會讓你離觀眾愈遠。 想留住觀眾的注意力，讓他們看見你、聽到你、記住你！ 龐傑斯與劉瑄庭獨創的A.W.E.S.O.M.E.演說溝通原則，幫助你在任何情境都能真誠地表達想說的話，自然動人： Align身心一致：透過溝通三原則，讓你的語言、情感、行動與意志一致，讓觀眾不只用耳朵聽，而是用五感接收到你的主張，留下深刻印象。 Wired建立連結：害怕台下觀眾沒反應、一片沉默？先用...

In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of “revolving door lobbyists”—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving...