Illinois Studies Communication Ser. Sixty Minutes and the News : A Mythology for Middle America by RichardCampbell Hardcover, 279 Pages, Published 2002 by Scholarly Book Services Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01777-3, ISBN: 0-252-01777-3
"History of the popular television show and its influence on American society."
"One of the most recognizable of American artists, and one of America's most innovative printmakers, Jim Dine has created a multidisciplinary oeuvre tied together by his continued use and reinvention of familiar imagery. Hearts, bathrobes, skulls, tools, the Crommelynck gate, Venus de Milo, self-portraits, plants, and flowers--Dine infuses these personal metaphors with new meanings and continually depicts them in novel and diverse contex ..."
"Everything in the Universe has emerged, in some sense, since the Big Bang. But the concept of emergence is problematic and controversial. The Metaphysics of Emergence contends that the contemporary philosophical debates are vitiated by the persistence of the traditional assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities: things. Instead it presents a sustained argument for recognizing generic processes as primary.This radical ..."
"Bedford’s new course space, LaunchPad, combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. Pre-built units are easy to assign or adapt with your own material, such as readings, videos, quizzes, discussion groups, and more. LaunchPad also provides access to a gradebook that provide a clear window on performance for your whole class, for individu ..."
"Breaking the mold of traditional mass communication textbooks, Richard Campbell’s Media & Culture goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. Campbell uses a unique five-stage critical thinking process to help students examine the forces that shape the mass media and become active participants in the media. Media & Culture’s integrated cultural perspective focuses on the recip ..."
Truth and Historicity(1st Edition) by RichardCampbell Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1992 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823927-7, ISBN: 0-19-823927-0
"In this scholarly but non-technical book, Campbell elucidates the concept of truth by tracing its history, from the ancient Greek idea that truth is timeless, unchanging, and free from all relativism, through the seventeenth-century crisis which led to the collapse of that idea, and then on through the emergence of historical consciousness to the existentialist, sociological, and linguistic approaches of our own time. He gives a schola ..."
From Belief to Understanding A Study of Anselm's Proslogion Argument on the Existence of God by RichardCampbell Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1990 by Edwin Mellen Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88946-038-6, ISBN: 0-88946-038-8
"This text provides an analysis of Amselm's "Prosologion" II and III and argues that it presents an extended, three-stage argument, which is not vulnerable to the objections of Gaunilo, Kant and others. The final chapters re-assess the force and relevance of the argument."
"The biggest mathematical mystery in nature--Fibonacci numbers! Named after a famous mathematician, the number pattern is simple: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. . . . Each number in the sequence comes from adding the two numbers before it. What's the mystery? The pattern crops up in the most unexpected places. You'll find it in the disk of a sunflower, the skin of a pineapple, and the spiral of a nautilus shell. No one knows how nature came up wi ..."