The Newspaper in Art presents 400 years of art and media history. Extensively researched, thoroughly annotated and fully indexed, the present volume documents the important role newspapers have played in the development of important art movements. Artists use newspapers as incidental props and minor visual modifiers, but the newspaper attains its highest level of significance in artworks in which it is a key symbol or the sole subject. The Newspaper in Art provides insights into the ways readers and artists interact with news, with journalists and with the newspaper itself. It also illustrates the ingenuity of artists in finding new raw material from which to create art.

The Newspaper in Art

Arts & Photography

Apgar, Garry

Higgins, Shaun

Striegel, Colleen

History & Criticism

New Media Ventures, Inc.

Book by Peck, Chris, Higgins, Shaun, Higgins, Shaun O'L.

A Good Life in the Inland Northwest: A Collection of Columns from the Spokesman-Review (Spokesman-Review Book)

Peck, Chris

Higgins, Shaun O'L.

Reference

A VCR, a great movie, a tub of popcorn and a Management Goes to the Movies Study Guide . . . management training doesn't get any better, easier or more fun than this! 
"MOVIES FOR LEADERS: MANAGEMENT LESSONS FROM FOUR ALL-TIME GREAT FILMS" is the first volume in a series of self-study guides aimed at helping managers cope with difficult situations and improve day-to-day performance. This guide uses the movies "Hoosiers," "The Wizard of Oz," "Moby Dick" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" to help managers sharpen their leadership skills, train their staffs to lead, think through key leadership issues and enliven their business presentations. The guide also contains references to online quizzes from moviesforbusiness.com where, after reading the book, readers can take an online examination and earn a Hollywood MBA (Master of Bijou Advice) in Leadership. 
Based on a corporate-training program developed by Shaun O'L. Higgins and Colleen Striegel and used in their companies for more than 15 years, "Movies for Leaders" also features an introductory essay on business as portrayed on screen from the 1930s to the 1990s. 
"Movies for Leaders" presents reel business lessons for real business performance. Among the lessons in its pages: 
* Why "The Wizard of Oz" is one of the greatest leadership training films ever made. * How minor strengths can blind you to a manager's major weaknesses. * Why you can't afford not to train every member of your team. * How to develop a mission statement employees can march to. 
Each chapter is filled with practical lessons on the keys to leadership, including motivational skills, decision making, judgment, planning, competitive strategy, ethics, communication and team building. Each chapter also features helpful sidebars with information about the movie, illustrative examples from actual businesses and elaborations on key concepts.

Movies for Leaders: Management Lessons from Four All-Time Great Films (Management Goes to the Movies)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Spokane's East Sprague Avenue is a long, cluttered and car-choked strip of flickering signs and boxy commercial buildings planted in cracked pavement where you can buy anything, including sex. The nastiest three-mile stretch of Sprague is call the Track. In the late 1990s it was a bountiful hunting ground for one of the nation's most vicious and prolific serial killers, Robert Lee Yates, Jr. He shot 13 people to death. Or maybe 17, or maybe many more. Like Jack the Ripper and the Green River Killer, he preyed upon prostitutes. He returned to the Track again and again, luring desperate heroin- or crack-addicted women into his car. Some of the women who survived these encounters remember him as a "good trick" -- gentle and generous. But other women he used sexually, shot in the head and tossed like trash, though not always in that order. For many years the killer hid behind his mask of the ordinary: husband, father of five, accomplished helicopter pilot and military man, middle-age

Bad Trick: The Hunt for Spokane's Serial Killer

White, Jeanette

Morlin, Bill

Movies For Business: Big-Screen Lessons in Corporate Vision, Entrepreneurship, Logistics and Ethics is the second volume in a series of self-study guides aimed at helping managers cope with difficult situations and improve day-to-day performance. Use this guide to: 
* Sharpen your product-development skills * Train your staff in leadership * Think through key entrepreneurial issues * Enliven your business presentations 
In this guide, you'll learn… 
* That even a seemingly hopeless situation can be managed successfully with creative use of resources (from the movie "Zulu") * How to avoid or survive a public-relations crisis (from the movie "Roger &amp; Me") * Techniques for balancing work and family life (from the movie "One, Two, Three") Key concepts for developing new technologies (from the movie "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell") How to keep your entrepreneurial dream from turning into a nightmare (from the movie "Tucker: The Man and His Dream") 
In other words, you'll learn reel business lessons for real business performance. So grab a VCR or CD-player a great movie, a tub of popcorn and the Movies For Business book and start training. Management training doesn't get any better, easier or more fun than this!

Movies For Business

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

When future archaeologists dig this volume from the rubble heap of our lost civilization, they will conclude, correctly, that the average American (1997–2004) was a beer-loving, fishing-obsessed owner of pet Sea Monkeys; a man constantly besieged by amorous mountain goats, psychotic robins, the occasional comatose moose and his own evil cell phone. 
Or maybe not. Maybe they will regard this collection of columns the way discriminating readers regard it today: As a psychiatric case study of a disturbed Northwest family and their various obsessions, including, but not limited to, drunken-bird watching, turducken eating, highway construction spotting, password forgetting and secrets-of-the-universe pondering. 
Here are just a few of the issues on the table: 
Middle-aged men and their penchant for beer bellies, Hawaiian shirts and "overbite dancing." 
Women and their penchant for indiscriminate nurturing. 
Cell phones, and how they want to kill us. 
Money, and how it no longer exists in America. 
Marriage, and why it is no longer a sacrilege to marry your best friend. 
Driving, and why it should never be done with relatives. 
Memory-loss, and how it sometimes strikes in the shower. 
The mountains, and the dangers of hiking with Ranger Rick. 
Trout streams, and why we fall down in them. Food, and why "spotted dick" is called "spotted dick." 
Beer, and why it is the ultimate Lenten sacrifice. 
Moose attacks, and how to avoid them. 
Germ warfare, and how to enjoy it. 
Obscene language, and how to kick some donkey. 
Saying "you’re welcome," and why it’s so hard to do. 
Sports injuries, and how to pull both of your groins. 
The war between cats and dogs, and why humans are so often caught in the crossfire. 
The universe, and the difficulty we have in grasping it. 
Children, and the difficulty we have in releasing our grasp.

Mountain Goats Are My Weakness: And Other Tales of Life in the Northwest

Kershner, Jim

New Media Ventures today announced publication of George Flett: Ledger Art, the first portfolio collection of the artist's work - and the first book ever devoted to the work of a Spokane tribal artist. The sumptuously produced volume, 12 x 12 inches in size and housed in a cloth-covered, inlaid slipcover, has been produced in a limited edition of 1,200, of which only 1,100 are being released for public sale. The book is also expected to be available as part of the workshop the artist will conduct June 15-17 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. GEORGE FLETT: Ledger Art features an introductory essay by Spokane writer and educator Scott M. Thompson, an authority on ledger painting. Flett draws upon ledger painting, a major tradition of Native American art, to record the significant aspects of the history, traditions and culture of his Spokane people. In the nineteenth century, Native artists chronicled on buffalo hides the heroic deeds of warriors. As buffalo herds were decimated the forts and towns proliferated, hides became scarce and a new medium emerged: business ledger books. These ledgers, once used by bookkeepers to record business transactions, were obtained in trade or captured in battle and became "canvas" for Plains and Plateau tribal artists. Flett's works - produced on ledger pages, telegrams, maps and other ephemera - depict not only military encounters but also spiritual ones. Collectively his ledger art presents a panorama of Spokane tribal culture and tradition. Flett is uniquely qualified to depict Spokane life, as noted by Cliff SiJohn, elder of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Indians: "The Spokane Indians have a long history of pride, integrity, and courage. They were visionary people. George Flett is one of these Spokane Indians. George grew up in the shadow of his grandmother, uncles, aunts, father and mother. He took part in traditional culture and ceremonies of his tribe. As kids we would look for paper-cardboard from a box or a paper sack for art material and put things he saw in his head on this paper. George is a visionary person of the Spokane Tribe, a Spokane man. He has a true heart through and through, a big spirit. You can actually sit and look at his work and it will speak to you." Francis Cullooyah, an elder of the Kalispel tribe and long-time friend of the artist, has also recognized the faithfulness of Flett's work: "George Flett's paintings reflect the past as well as the present. His way of life is represented in all of his very masterful artwork. The skills he so often utilizes come from years of listening and visiting with past generations of elder relatives and friends. Many of these people are now gone, but his preservation of their individual and family values and traditions which he has so generously been gifted with, come out in all of his art pieces.... The land where he still lives today, where many generations of his family raised their children, is still the location of his studio. That connection to that important part of his life's experiences and spirituality comes out in all of his work. He also is one of the principle reasons that the Prairie Chicken Dance style is in resurgence today as you can see by his depictions of that very style in many of his paintings." The book is bound in boards and slipcased in a cloth-covered box, featuring a debossed area that has been inlaid with a Flett print. The front cover of the book also features an inlaid print. Both book and slipcase are covered in blue cloth selected to match colors in the traditional Plateau Indian plateau. Sky-blue endpapers were also drawn from that palette.

Ledger Art

George Flett

An ideal holiday gift book, Home Planet: A Life in Four Seasons by Cheryl-Anne Millsap, has been timed for release during the winter holiday season. Cheryl-Anne Millsap is a former columnist and editor for The Spokesman-Review and editor of Spokane Metro magazine. The paperback collection features 43 of Millsap's best-loved columns, updated and with an introduction by the author. Millsap's Home Planet newspaper columns have for years touched the hearts of her loyal Inland Northwest readers. Millsap edited this special collection of her best columns, devoted to the four seasons of the year and the myriad seasons of life. Wistful, wise and evocative, Millsap's memoirs and reflections on the seasons and their key holidays invite readers to conjure up their own reflections on life, friends, love and the value of others.

Home Planet: A Life in Four Seasons

Cheryl-Anne Millsap

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