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The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium
If you crossed the writings of Ken Wilber and the prophecies of Nostradamus, you would probably end up with something close to The Ultimate Time Machine, a unique philosophical perspective on the nature of the past, present, and future. As a remote viewer with a respected record of accuracy and over 30 years of work with the United States government and in the private sector, McMoneagle is one of the most qualified people in the 20th century for predicting what the future may hold. While many readers will initially be attracted to the prophetic aspects of The Ultimate Time Machine, the most rewarding aspect of this book is McMoneagle's perception of time. For most of us, time is a tool for marking the events in our lives--what time is that business meeting? how old is he? when was the first wheel made?--but McMoneagle suggests that the future, and even the past, are not necessarily on the fixed, linear path that we think they are, but actually are connected in a flexible web that we continually influence with the ultimate time machines, ourselves. --Brian Patterson.
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Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)
"Get a life," William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic poachers constructing their own culture from borrowed materials, as an alternative social community defined through its cultural preferences and consumption practices. Written from an insider's perspective and providing vivid examples from fan artifacts, Textual Poachers offers an ethnographic account of the media fan community, its interpretive strategies, its social institutions and cultural practices, and its troubled relationship to the mass media and consumer capitalism.Drawing on the work of Michel de Ceteau, Jenkins shows how fans of Star Trek, Blake's 7, The Professionals, Beauty and the Beast, Starsky and Hutch, Alien Nation, Twin Peaks, and other popular programs exploit these cultural materials as the basis for their stories, songs, videos, and social interactions. Addressing both academics and fans, Jenkins builds a powerful case for the richness of fan culture as a popular response to the mass media and as a challenge to the producers' attempts to regulate textual meanings. Textual Poachers guides readers through difficult questions about popular consumption, genre, gender, sexuality, and interpretation, documenting practices and processes which test and challenge basic assumptions of contemporary media theory..
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The Viewer
For Tristan, the city dump was a treasure trove full of history He would take each sad, broken, and dirty thing apart to see how each could be made to tick, whir, or ring. Then he found the box. It was filled with lenses, a microscope, a monocle, a magnifying glass, and a Viewmaster What Tristan saw through the dark orbs as he clicked the viewer was like nothing he had ever seen before. He clicked more slowly, then crept into bed, trembling... Afraid, Tristan tried to pull the viewer from his eyes, but he could not. He tried to look away, but he could not. Something compelled him to keep looking, to try--against his own wishes--to actually enter this thing, this machine. In the morning when Tristan had not come down, his mom called him. There was no answer. She went to his bedroom, knocked and went in. Tristan's bed was empty, but on his desk was a box, its lid closed, its latch firmly locked. Which was curious... very curious indeed..
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Men's Fraternity: Quest for Authentic Manhood - Viewer Guide
Imagine the transforming power of men coming together within your church to honestly examine their lives and take the courageous steps necessary to embrace authentic biblical manhood. That is the goal of Men's Fraternity, the three-year men's ministry curriculum developed by Robert Lewis. The Quest for Authentic Manhood is the first in this series. Designed to help a man embrace a bolder and more noble concept of manhood, Quest also takes a man inside himself to consider the forces that are shaping or misshaping his personal manhood. In doing so, this 24-session study empowers a man to heal life-hindering wounds while building a more compelling vision of masculinity that will bless both his life and the lives around him. Quest also fosters deep spiritual and emotional growth. This powerful masculine experience strips away the myths of manhood to reveal a man's true identity and pursuits. What's more, it's a proven way to help men find a real connection . . . with each other, with the church, and most importantly, with God. Designed in a fill-in-the-blank format, this workbook allows viewers to be actively involved in following each of the 24 sessions. Also includes questions for small-group discussion..
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Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream (Cultural Studies Series)
The Cosby Show needs little introduction to most people familiar with American popular culture It is a show with immense and universal appeal. Even so, most debates about the significance of the program have failed to take into account one of the more important elements of its success—its viewers. Through a major study of the audiences of The Cosby Show, the authors treat two issues of great social and political importance—how television, America’s most widespread cultural form, influences the way we think, and how our society in the post–Civil Rights era thinks about race, our most widespread cultural problem.This book offers a radical challenge to the conventional wisdom concerning racial stereotyping in the United States and demonstrates how apparently progressive programs like The Cosby Show, despite good intentions, actually help to construct “enlightened” forms of racism. The authors argue that, in the post–Civil Rights era, a new structure of racial beliefs, based on subtle contradictions between attitudes toward race and class, has brought in its wake this new form of racial thought that seems on the surface to exhibit a new tolerance. However, professors Jhally and Lewis find that because Americans cannot think clearly about class, they cannot, after all, think clearly about race.This groundbreaking book is rooted in an empirical analysis of the reactions to The Cosby Show of a range of ordinary Americans, both black and white. Professors Jhally and Lewis discussed with the different audiences their attitudes toward the program and more generally their understanding and perceptions of issues of race and social class. Enlightened Racism is a major intervention into the public debate about race and perceptions of race—a debate, in the 1990s, at the heart of American political and public life. This book is indispensable to understanding that debate. .
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Student Viewer's Handbook (Original) to accompany Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish
DESTINOS is an innovative beginning Spanish program based on a a 26-week television series that premiered on PBS in the fall of 1992. The 52 half-hour shows of the series use the powerful appeal of a uniquely Hispanic genre--the telenovela ( soap opera)--to make language and culture come alive. The situation and context of each episode introduce students to the basic structures, language functions and vocabulary groups of Spanish that are presented in most introductory- and intermediate-level Spanish courses. This Student Viewer’s Handbook to accompany Destinos is designed to help instructors and students use Destinos as a supplement in a wide variety of courses, at beginning, intermediate, or advanced levels of instruction. By using the Handbook, instructors and students will enjoy viewing the 52 half-hour episodes of the television series more and get more out of them..
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Leading in a Time of Change: What It Will Take to Lead Tomorrow, Viewer's Workbook
Sit at the table with the visionary leaders setting the agenda for organizational leadership and change! The Drucker Foundation presents you with a conversation between Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge, hosted by Frances Hesselbein. In this dynamic package--which includes a video and companion workbook--these two great minds of modern management share their wisdom on how leaders can prepare themselves and their organizations for the inevitable changes that lie ahead. Watch the video and witness a remarkable discussion between Drucker and Senge as they talk about the importance of all organizations learning to lead change. Using the principles presented in this stimulating video, you can help transform yourself and your organization into a change leader. In addition, the companion workbook will be an invaluable aid in making strategic decisions. It serves as a fundamental resource for planning and implementing changes within your organization. This extraordinary package is an ideal tool for executive retreats, management training, or personal leadership development. .
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Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet
Beyond the Box charts the revolution in television viewing that is currently underway in living rooms across the country From voting practices on American Idol and text-messaging on Degrassi, to online forums for connecting with other Buffy the Vampire fans and "Save-the-Show" write-in campaigns aimed at television execs, the power of the Internet has fundamentally altered television viewing. Americans no longer just watch TV; they participate in, lobby for, respond and relate to favorite shows and characters in an entirely new --indeed, unprecedented -- way. Once the domain of cult TV alone --think "trekkies" and "Xena Warrior Princess" devotees -- tele-participation has now gone mainstream. Sharon Ross probes how the Internet's development has altered how television is made and consumed. She offers a fresh and innovative perspective that focuses on the shift in audience experience and how it has blurred the lines of established boundaries. Featuring discussions of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Lost" and "American Idol", Beyond the Box gives students and couch potatoes alike a better understanding of what it means to watch television in an era of profound technological change..
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Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life Of U.S. Government of Remote Viewer 001
From U.S. News & World Report January 27, 2003: "His name would eventually be revealed as Joseph McMoneagle, but for the purposes of the Army's psychic intelligence unit, he was simply Remote Viewer No. 1." Memoirs of a Psychic Spy is a behind-the-curtain look at the most remarkable exploits in a most astonishing career of military service. Joseph McMoneagle was Remote Viewer 001 in the Army's Stargate Project—a top secret intelligence-gathering initiative launched at the height of the Cold War—and Memoirs of a Psychic Spy recounts his distinguished military career as well as his work with scientists who tested his abilities in the lab. JOSEPH MCMONEAGLE was awarded the Legion of Merit for his military service, and has been featured in Newsweek, Time, and Reader's Digest, as well as on ABC's Nightline and CBS's 48 Hours. He is the author of four books including Remote Viewing Secrets. He lives in Faber, Virginia..
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