Introduction -- Don't Give the Public What It Wants; Give the Public What it Needs -- Radio Is Good for You! The Rise of Educational Radio -- Carnegie's Lemon? The Birth of NPR -- Washington Verus The Sticks -- Left, Right, or Always Establishment? The Bias Issue, -- Newt [Gingrich] Cometh --...

This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue's gallery of election-year conservative targets. The...

part Part One. A New Deal or a New Dole?: Artists, Writers, and Federal One -- chapter A New Dealer, A New Deck -- chapter The Federal Writers’ Project -- chapter Art, Music, and Historical Records -- chapter Federal Theatre Project -- chapter Reds Under Beds, or Trodding Boards? -- chapter A...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Decrepit Old Men Asking Only for Th eir Due: Th e Origins of the Veterans Lobby -- chapter 2 Shark-Infested Waters: Th e Scramble for Pensions after the Civil War -- chapter 3 Th e War to End All Wars Does Not End All Wars but Does Give Birth to the Boners and...

Table of Contents Introduction and Overview -- Synthetic Fail -- Everyone Knows It's Windy -- Winds Subside or Wind Subsidies? -- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? -- Whose Backyard? Siting and Fighting over Wind -- Here Comes the Sun -- Epilogue.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Politics Takes the Field -- 3. Parks and Stadiums Until 1960 -- 4. Parks and Stadiums Since 1960 -- 5. If You Build It, Prosperity Will Not Come-What the Studies Say -- About the Author -- Index

Working as a team for the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Southern Maine, Bruce, James, Lindsey, Brooks and Joseph created a forecasting system for a large retail chain. Their base model uses the ARIMA methodology of Box and Jenkins, but the team has extended ARIMA...

Academic productivity and research funding have been hot topics in biomedical research. While publications and their citations are popular indicators of academic productivity, there has been no rigorous way to quantify co-authors’ relative contributions. This has seriously compromised...