Product Description: Mexican American Baseball in the Central Coast pays tribute to the teams and players who brought joy and honor to their fans and communities in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. Baseball was played before enthusiastic crowds in Piru, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Ojai, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, Goleta, Santa Maria, Guadalupe, Lompoc, and other communities...read more

Product Description: Raymond Williams's personal sociological critique of television is presented here through reprinting articles written in "The Listener" between 1968 and 1972. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of media studies.

Product Description: First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United States and attacks on the Wilson Labour Government in Britain...read more

Product Description: Escalating energy demand may be the most important issue facing the United States and the world today. There is little disagreement that research and development (R&D) is needed to develop new energy technologies for the future; however, there is less agreement over the specific research agenda to be pursued and how that agenda is funded...read more

Product Description: This book describes the emergence of DIY punk record labels in the early 1980s. Based on interviews with sixty-one labels, including four in Spain and four in Canada, it describes the social background of those who run these labels...read more

Product Description: Sacramento had a great baseball history long before the Rivercats began playing ball in 2000. The Altas, Senators, Gilt Edge (named after a popular beer) and Solons were teams that all contributed great players and stories to Sacramento s baseball legacy...read more

Product Description: Using tape recordings, videos, and the ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams, this work examines the uses of radio for development, the impact on oral culture, and the use of radio by indigenous people in Ecuador and miners in Bolivia...read more

Product Description: Raymond Williams―a Welsh media critic and one of the founding thinkers behind the popular field of cultural studies―believed that the traditional focus of biographies on individuals isolated these people from their communities...read more

Product Description: This book is the first one in English about the famous community radlo stations operated in Bolivia by the miners' trade unions. Since about 1950, there has been a network of more than twenty radios all locally funded and operated...read more

Describes the life of Liam Leatham, a young Catholic boy, and his family as he prepares for a boxing match that he sees as the first step out of violence-plagued Belfast.

Product Description: An architectural history and topographical odyssey around the city of Dublin.

Product Description: The death of Raymond Williams in January 1988 brought to an end the career of a critic whose work on culture and the politics of literature has enjoyed a widespread influence. In this study, Alan O'Connor provides an elucidation of Williams' complex oeuvre...read more

Product Description: The death of Raymond Williams in January 1988 brought to an end the career of a critic whose work on culture and the politics of literature has enjoyed a widespread influence. In this study, Alan O'Connor provides an elucidation of Williams' complex oeuvre...read more

Product Description: Raymond Williams was named "the foremost political thinker of his generation" (The Guardian). O'Connor's sensitive approach provides a rare glimpse not only into the events of Williams' daily life, but also into the continuing development of a personal sociology of culture.