In this brilliant new book, Robert W. McChesney, one of America's leading media scholars and activists, brings both his authoritative analysis and unparalleled historical knowledge to bear on the growing but only fitfully successful field of media criticism and scholarship.

McChesney explains why we are in the midst of a communication revolution that is at the center of twenty-first-century life. Yet this profound juncture is not well understood, in part, because our media criticism and media scholarship have not been up to the task. Why is media not at the center of political debate? Why are students of the media considered second-class scholars?

With a concise history of media studies, McChesney explains the important work of analysts like Noam Chomsky, Marshall McLuhan, and Alexander Meiklejohn, while showing how communication scholarship grew increasingly irrelevant in recent years, even as media became a decisive issue of our times. Now the burgeoning media reform movement, in which McChesney has been a key player, has made it even more clear that the revolution in communication demands a political and intellectual revolution as well.

From stories that will touch your heart to drawing from an understanding of our universal existence, the poetry within this book carries you though a series of emotions, thought provocation and quiet reflection. Junctures is about those pivotal moments in our life when whatever we do, our life will be forever redirected. Whether this is brought about in the current moment, through another's eyes or with quiet reflection, it can be assured that somewhere in your journey of reading this book a moment will hit home and you will know you are not alone. Dianne Ducharme lives in Fort Myers, Florida, where she is working on her next book. http://SBPRA.com/DianneDucharme

Illuminating the dynamics of political change in Latin America during the twentieth century, this ambitious work traces the impact of a "critical juncture": a period of fundamental political reorientation in which countries are set on distinct trajectories of change. Here Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier focus on the response of national states to the newly radicalized working class and organized labor movements that arose earlier in this century in the course of capitalist modernization. They examine the incorporation of the labor movement, showing how national leaders--including Percn in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil--sought to impose a new political and institutional framework on working-class politics. Through a comparative-historical analysis of eight countries, the authors show how different strategies of control and mobilization left distinct legacies in terms of political coalitions, party systems, and modes of political conflict. These outcomes in turn influenced patterns of regime change, including the democratic or authoritarian path each country followed through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. The concluding chapter asks whether Latin America may now be entering a new critical juncture.

OCLC Number: 664588891 Excerpt: ... • For participants from the Persian Gulf region, the question is what sort of global institutions are most capable of inclusive power sharing. They bemoaned the lack of strong regional organizations. • The Indians thought existing international organizations are " grossly inadequate " and worried about an " absence of an internal equilibrium in Asia to ensure stability. " They felt that India is not well positioned to help develop regional institutions for Asia given China's preponderant role in the region. • Russian experts we consulted see the world in 2025 as still one of great powers but with more opportunities for transnational cooperation. The Russians worried about the relative lack of " transpacific security. " The United States, Europe, and Russia also have scope for growing much closer, while China, " with the biggest economy, " will be the main factor in changing the world. • The South Africans assessed that globalization appears to be strengthening regionalization as opposed to creating a single global polity. They worried that the losers from globalization increasingly outnumber the winners. In addition to the shift to a multipolar world, power is also shifting toward nonstate actors, be they agents or spoilers of cooperation. On a positive note, transnational nongovernmental organizations, civil-society groups, churches and faith-based organizations, multinational corporations, other business bodies, and interest groups have been equally, if not more effective than states at reframing issues and mobilizing publics - a trend we expect to continue. However, hostile nonstate actors such as criminal organizations and terrorist networks, all empowered by existing and new technologies, can pose serious security threats and compound systemic risks. Many developing countries - which are likely to play an increasing role at the regional and global level - also suffer from a relative paucity of nonstate actors, that cou...

This volume continues the major work published by the JSNT Supplement Series in the area of Greek linguistics of the New Testament, and explores what the editors believe are crucial phases in the application of linguistics to New Testament Greek. The first half of the volume includes essays on such topics as linguistics and literary criticism, linguistics and historical criticism, and linguistics and rhetoric. The second half includes essays dealing with the relations and uses of individual words, but ranges from oral composition to the value of word frequency in determining authorship. Some of these essays review established models of research; others propose new models and criteria of linguistic analysis.>

Endless violence, terror and destruction have beset Palestine and Israel for over 60 years and brought instability and war to the Middle East. No formula for peace or welfare has worked. America has deeply compromised its moral and political leadership. The author proposes a stunning solution - the union of the Israeli and Palestinian people, including the Palestinian refugees, in the ancient region of Canaan, the biblical "land of milk and honey," simulatenously with the admission of Canaan to the United States of America as the 51st State. Make of the people of Canaan full citizens of the United States, with the right to settle anywhere in the United States and in Canaan. For every objection to Statehood, there springs forth an answer, and the answers add up to a peaceful and prosperous Union. The endless traumas, terrors and threats visited upon the people of the Middle East would diminish exponentially, and the moral stature of the United States would be restored.

The author describes routine analysis of failed products - a fallen bridge vs. fallen Modern Man, represented on the cover by the Statue of Liberty. The difference is our willingness to accept and deal with both the wreckage and the way failure came about, shown in the cover s foreground. A bridge is intended to get us from here to there, as is God s Commandments. The difference is, those two stone tablets are indestructible. Juncture in Time honors the works of many authors whom, throughout the past century, have warned us of the corruption of liberty and other dangers threatening Western civilization. They are my voices crying in the wilderness - none more urgently than G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis predicted that the twenty-first century will be one of two things. Either it will be the best since the thirteenth, or the worst since the twenty-first BC.