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Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Robert E. Bartholomew
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-06 - Publisher: McFarland

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"For a two week period in 1956, residents in the vicinity of Taipei, Taiwan, lived in fear that they would be the next victims of a crazed villain who was prowl
Getting It Wrong
Language: en
Pages: 366
Authors: W. Joseph Campbell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Many of American journalism’s best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths, and they attribute t
The Next War in the Air
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Brett Holman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-17 - Publisher: Routledge

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In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied
The Martians Have Landed!
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Robert E. Bartholomew
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-08 - Publisher: McFarland

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History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to t
Falling Into the Fire
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Christine Montross
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-29 - Publisher: Penguin

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Falling Into the Fire is psychiatrist Christine Montross’s thoughtful investigation of the gripping patient encounters that have challenged and deepened her p