Shoveling Smoke

Shoveling Smoke
Author: William Mazzarella
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2003-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822331452

DIVAn inside look at the creation of several ad campaigns in the major Bombay ad agency and what they say about Indian national identity./div

Shoveling Smoke

Shoveling Smoke
Author: Austin Davis
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452125023

“A Houston lawyer’s attempt to escape the rat race backfires with hilarious results in Davis’s thoroughly enjoyable debut crime novel” (Publishers Weekly). Reveling in outrageous shenanigans and hilariously off-kilter characters, Shoveling Smoke does for East Texas what Carl Hiaasen’s novels do for South Florida. Burned-out corporate lawyer Clay Parker chucks it all and moves from Houston to a tiny firm in a dusty small town, searching for his lost integrity and a simpler life. Instead, he lands in the middle of a bungled fraud case defending the disreputable and downright nasty Bevo Rasmussen, accused of torching the stables housing his over-insured thoroughbreds. Immediately confronted with corrupt officials, crazed survivalists, an incompetent hit man, an emu, and a naked county clerk, along with an assortment of vengeful wives and great barbecue, Clay discovers that nothing about his case—or in East Texas—is what it seems.

Shoveling Smoke

Shoveling Smoke
Author: William Thomas Stephen Mazzarella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2000
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Shoveling Smoke

Shoveling Smoke
Author: William Mazzarella
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2003-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0822385198

A leading Bombay advertising agency justifies as traditionally Indian the highly eroticized images it produces to promote the KamaSutra condom brand. Another agency struggles to reconcile the global ambitions of a cellular-phone service provider with the ambivalently local connotations of the client’s corporate brand. When the dream of the 250 million-strong “Indian middle class” goes sour, Indian advertising and marketing professionals search for new ways to market “the Indian consumer”—now with added cultural difference—to multinational clients. An examination of the complex cultural politics of mass consumerism in a globalized marketplace, Shoveling Smoke is a pathbreaking and detailed ethnography of the contemporary Indian advertising industry. It is also a critical and innovative intervention into current theoretical debates on the intersection of consumerist globalization, aesthetic politics, and visual culture. William Mazzarella traces the rise in India during the 1980s of mass consumption as a self-consciously sensuous challenge to the austerities of state-led developmentalism. He shows how the decisive opening of Indian markets to foreign brands in the 1990s refigured established models of the relationship between the local and the global and, ironically, turned advertising professionals into custodians of cultural integrity.

Consumption and the Globalization Project

Consumption and the Globalization Project
Author: E. Comor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2008-05-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230582990

This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption facilitates efforts to rule through consent.

Reality Check

Reality Check
Author: Guy Kawasaki
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781591842231

"Reality Check is Guy Kawasaki's all-In-one guide for starting and operating great organizations - ones that stand the test of time and ignore any passing fads in business theory. This volume collects, updates, and expands the best entries from his popular blog and features his inimitable take on everything from effective e-mailing to sucking up to preventing "bozo explosions.""--BOOK JACKET.

Unveiling the End Times in Our Time

Unveiling the End Times in Our Time
Author: Adrian Rogers
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003-12
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0805426914

Conducted from a premillennial and pretribulational point of view, this study of the Book of Revelation explores the theme that America ultimately will separate from Israel and what prophetically will happen.

Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Author: Frank B. Cross
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780804757133

This book studies the decisions of the United States circuit courts and their grounding in law and judicial ideology.

Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing

Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing
Author: Russell W. Belk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1847204120

A rare and much needed compilation of some thought-provoking papers in the area of qualitative research in marketing, this book is a must have for anyone pursuing the discipline of marketing research, scholars intent on the pursuit of qualitative inquiry as well as practising professionals looking for innovative approaches to research. Global Business Review Belk has compiled an exhaustive collection of contributions from scholars and practitioners throughout North America and Europe. . . . This extremely informative volume spans the full array of qualitative research areas. . . . Highly recommended. S.D. Clark, Choice The Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing offers both basic and advanced treatments intended to serve academics, students, and marketing research professionals. The 42 chapters begin with a history of qualitative methods in marketing by Sidney Levy and continue with detailed discussions of current thought and practice in: research paradigms such as grounded theory and semiotics research contexts such as advertising and brands data collection methods such as projectives and netnography data analysis methods such as metaphoric and visual analyses presentation topics such as videography and reflexivity applications such as ZMET applied to Broadway plays and depth interviews with executives special issues such as multi-sited ethnography and research on sensitive topics. Authors include leading scholars and practitioners from North America and Europe. They draw on a wealth of experience using well-established as well as emerging qualitative research methods. The result is a thorough, timely, and useful Handbook that will educate, inspire, and serve as standard reference for marketing academics and practitioners alike.

Shoveling Smoke

Shoveling Smoke
Author: Austin Davis
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2006-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811849579

Tired of the corporate hassle, burnt-out attorney Clay Parker abondons Houston to set up practice with a small firm in an East Texas town, only to find himself caught up in the middle of a fraud case and defending the nasty Bevo Rasmussen.