“A lively history” of how TV advertising became a defining force in American culture between 1946 and 1964(Technology and Culture). The two decades following World War II brought television into homes and, of course, television commercials. Those commercials, in turn, created an image of the postwar American Dream that lingers to this day. This book recounts how advertising became a part of everyday lives and national culture during this midcentury period, not only reflecting consumers’ desires but shaping them, and broadcasting a vivid portrait of comfort, abundance, ease, and happy family life and, of course, keeping up with the Joneses. As the author asserts, it’s nearly impossible to understand our culture without contemplating these visual celebrations of conformity and consumption, and this insightful, entertaining volume of social history helps us do just that.

With a career spanning 37 years in television broadcasting including 29 years at the ABC Television Network, Dan Rapak gives us a glimpse of what went on behind the scenes to broadcast major events. The stories range from televising The Super Bowl and The Olympics to the accident at Three Mile Island. Learn about the extraordinary efforts to get The 1989 World Series back on the air after the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck San Francisco. Find out what it took to bring home those unforgettable images of Captain John Testrake sitting in his cockpit being interviewed by ABC News while a terrorist waved a pistol behind the Captain's head following the hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Here is a rare look at what happened behind the cameras and microphones to bring those events and others into our homes. Read about the obstacles that had to be overcome, the hard work, the triumphs and the sometimes zany antics of the professionals who worked to put those broadcasts on the air and bring those stories and images to America and to the world.

This collection of poetry was picked for all to enjoy. The poems are meant to encourage and inspire your soul. I share that, for that is what they have done for me.

Newly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book “[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor”, enlivened by illustrations from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco (Library Journal). Now, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor’s role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor’s relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants’ rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters—one on global developments such as offshoring and a second on the 2016 election and unions’ relationships to Trump—this is an “extraordinarily fine addition to U.S. history [that] could become an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn’s award-winning A People’s History of the United States” (Publishers Weekly). “A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people.” —Noam Chomsky

He Brought You Out is an exciting journey as you hear and feel the Lord so strongly call you out from who the world says you are to your perfect design, true identity, and your overcoming abilities. Decide to walk out of bondage and into a place called freedom. You will be drawn to your own personal unveiling of the heart as you navigate your life through Him. Allow the Lord to draw you to the place you were created for, a place of closeness with a Heavenly Father. We are a chosen generation for such a times as this, marked for His glory to fulfill His purpose and our destiny. Lean in, and hear what the Lord desires to unfold and reveal in your life. It's necessary, it's fulfilling, and it's a race against all odds as we become victorious in all situations at all times. We encounter a God who desires to take us to a higher place where victory is always mine because of His design. Your submission to the mission cultivates the strength of a warrior as freedom reigns, and I realize the same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me! Reach out and touch the supernatural which is more real than the natural. You are and will forever be complete in Him!

Widowed author Daniel Stone hasn't written a single word in two years. Raising his two young daughters alone is a challenge, but he knows the real reason his work has stalled has more to do with his own broken heart. Single fatherhood is tough, and Daniel never intended to be doing this alone. At his best friend's suggestion, Daniel hires live-in nanny, Corbin Bennet, to help with the heavy lifting. Meddlesome, charming, and excellent with children, Corbin is perfect for the job. He's also gorgeous, and stubbornly determined to find his way past Daniel's defenses. Daniel isn't looking for romance. But now that Corbin is in his life, there's no denying the growing attraction between them. Despite Daniel's reservations, Corbin could be exactly what he needs. This story is also included in Family Time Anthology.

What Brought You to England? It is the 1980s. A Filipina, Eve, goes with her husband, Andrew, when he returned to England after working as a British volunteer in the Philippines for four years. Due to limited finances, they have no choice but to live with Andrew's parents, and the situation is not helped when Andrew experiences difficulty in finding a job as a clinical psychologist. The meeting of different backgrounds and cultural expectations causes strain, and there is palpable generational tension. For Eve, opportunities to find work in England prove nonexistent as she finds that her degree in history and career in the National Museum of the Philippines count for nothing. As she reinvents herself, she experiences undercurrents of racism, but she also succeeds in training to be a nurse. Her personality and Filipino upbringing inevitably impacts on how she copes with marriage, parenthood, work, and friendships.