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Marketing Communications
by Ze Zook Pr SmithMarketing Communications provides a comprehensive overview of every aspect of marketing communications, from social media, advertising, PR and sponsorship to direct selling and merchandizing. It presents modern marketing communications theories and tools in an accessible way so readers can fully understand the landscape and achieve better results. With a plethora of examples and case studies, as well as online support material for lecturers and students, this essential textbook will guide students and practitioners through everything they need to know about the changing face of marketing. This fully updated 6th edition of Marketing Communications features more of the underpinning theory whilst building on its impressive reputation as a leading practical textbook on the subject. Case studies and anecdotes from companies such as Campbell's Soup, Spotify, Paypal, Kraft and Nike focus on recent digital developments to bring the latest marketing tools to life. With a particular emphasis on analytics, engagement and integration, it addresses the integrated offline and online with social media approach to reflect the current state of play for marketing communications experts.
Marketing Communications: Integrating Online and Offline, Customer Engagement and Digital Technologies
by Ze Zook PR SmithThe integration of online and offline marketing techniques is central to modern marketing practice. Companies can no longer compete if their digital and traditional marketing operate in silos, and organizations are therefore looking for graduates with the skills to implement genuinely integrated marketing campaigns. This new edition of Marketing Communications has had, from its very first edition, a strong focus on integration, and will give students the precise skills that employers are seeking. This new, seventh edition is written by both an academic and professional, and therefore provides the perfect balance of research and theory combined with real world practicality that teaches students the why behind the how. Marketing Communications features a mixture of extended and short case studies, giving lecturers the flexibility to choose what best suits their teaching style. With increased focus on social media as well as coverage of the latest digital technologies, students will learn more than just how to use the current preferred digital marketing tools - they will become truly confident working in an environment of ongoing technological transformation. Online resources include chapter PowerPoints, multiple choice question bank, and video reviews.
Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools
by Teri Kline Henley Walter W Wymer, Jr Donald SelfHelp your nonprofit organization keep up with the competition!As the competition for funding among nonprofit organizations becomes more intense, so does the need to develop survival strategies that focus limited resources in the most effective ways. Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools presents proven methods for effectively reaching the target markets essential to your organization&’s future. This practical guidebook is divided into two easy-to-use sections: “Targets” details how to develop employees and volunteers, form alliances with for-profit organizations, and develop social entrepreneurship programs; “Tools” explains how to make maximum use of communications and media (advertising, direct marketing, public relations), fundraising, and Internet and e-commerce potential.Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools also provides expert guidance on: multimedia marketing, including Web conferencing event planning and promotion branding and positioning promotional products tax, legal, cultural, and financial issues and much more!Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools is an essential handbook for nonprofit organizations as they struggle against reduced government funding and a rapidly changing environment. Educators and students will also find the book invaluable as a how-to marketing guide based on effective methods and proven strategies.
Marketing De Afiliación: Los Secretos De Ganar Dinero Con Marketing De Afiliación
by Anthony BreyerEste libro le enseñará mi método para crear un ingreso en línea que pueda proporcionar todo eso y más. Olvídate de conseguir otro trabajo, ¡trabaja por ti mismo en TUS términos! Lleno de consejos, fórmulas y súper atajos, este libro explica la historia del marketing de afiliación, ¡y cómo puede usarlo para crear un futuro mejor!
Marketing en redes sociales 2021
by Michael BrandingSi desea convertir la presencia online de su negocio o marca personal en una máquina de hacer dinero, ¡siga leyendo!El marketing en redes sociales podría ser el arma secreta de su arsenal para derrotar a sus competidores de una vez por todas. De hecho, los estudios han demostrado que el marketing en redes sociales se ha convertido en una de las principales herramientas que tienen las empresas para promocionar sus productos y servicios. Esto no debería ser una sorpresa, teniendo en cuenta que la gente está pasando la mayor parte de su tiempo en Facebook, Instagram y Youtube. Lo que no es una realidad, sin embargo, es el hecho de que la mayoría de las empresas y marcas personales aún no tienen una presencia en línea adecuada. De hecho, muchas veces su "estrategia" de marketing en redes sociales consiste en limitarse a publicar contenido al azar en su página web, con la esperanza de conseguir algo de tráfico orgánico y ventas.Si eso podía funcionar en 2020, este año las cosas ya empiezan a cambiar. ¡Es el momento de actualizar su estrategia para 2021 y más allá y este libro le mostrará exactamente cómo hacerlo! En esta completa guía de marketing en redes sociales, usted descubrirá: La tendencia más importante para 2021 y cómo puede aprovecharla para aumentar las ventas. El principio secreto detrás de algunas de las campañas de marketing más exitosas de la historia y cómo puede aplicar esta estrategia aunque tenga un presupuesto bajoLas mejores herramientas para entender claramente a su público objetivo y construir el buyer persona. La única manera de crear una estrategia de contenido eficaz que se centre en generar clientes potenciales y de pago, no solo me gusta y comentariosUna guía paso a paso de Facebook Ads que enseña a maximizar los resultados con esta increíble herramienta de marketingLos 8 pasos comprobados para dar formato a un blog que se posicione en lo alto de Google y que los usuarios no puedan deja
Marketing Extravagante: La Historia de The Onion y Cómo Construir Una Marca Potente Sin Presupuesto de Marketing
by Scott DikersMarketing Extravagante por Scott Dikkers La Historia de The Onion y Cómo Construir Una Marca Potente Sin Presupuesto de Marketing El autor más vendido del New York Times, Scott Dikkers, cuenta la historia hilarante, extravagante y profundamente personal de cómo construyó la fuente de noticias más confiable en Estados Unidos, The Onion. Por supuesto, todas las historias en The Onion son falsas, y cualquiera que las tome en serio es el verdadero blanco de la broma. Pero Marketing Extravagante cuenta la historia real y sin censura de The Onion. The Onion comenzó como un pequeño periódico de humor universitario en 1988. ¿Cómo fue que creció hasta convertirse en una marca de comedia mundial con millones de seguidores en las redes sociales y una horda de fanáticos en la actualidad? Las marcas de hoy tienden a seguir a la manada cuando se trata de marketing y marca, pero a menudo es ir en una dirección diferente a la de la manada lo que te hace sobresalir. The Onion hizo lo contrario de lo que se supone que deben hacer las marcas. The Onion no escuchaba a sus clientes. No les daba lo que querían. No se involucraba con ellos. Nunca era "auténtica". De hecho, todo lo que imprimía The Onion era fabricado, hablado a través de una fachada falsa. Esto no fue por accidente. Fue calculado y ejecutado con precisión. Qué hay adentro… • ¡Cómo cortejar y seducir a las personas para que se enamoren de tu marca! • ¡Cómo reclutar a las mejores y más brillantes mentes de su industria para que trabajen para usted! • ¡La mejor manera de gestionar personas creativas en su equipo y liberar TODO su potencial! • ¡El secreto para hacer que cada día de trabajo se sienta tan suave y agradable como el esquí alpino! • ¡Lo único en lo que DEBE enfocarse todo constructor de marcas (pista: no son las ganancias)! • ¿Cómo llegar a más personas y conseguir más fan
Marketing for Small B2B Businesses: How Content Creates Marketing Muscle and Powers Traditional and Digital Marketing
by Andrew SchulkindSmall business marketers don’t need to understand technical minutia of websites or the high-level social media strategies of national consumer brands. They need to understand how to build successful marketing machines that they can sustain with the resources they have available. This book will help small-business B2B marketers build a strong digital presence that will drive growth. Most B2B buyers are about two-thirds of the way through their purchase process before they are willing to engage with a salesperson. Therefore, having a strong digital presence is the difference between making your prospect’s short list and your prospect not even knowing you exist. Most critically, a strong digital presence relies on content written from your audience’s perspective. This book provides insight and information about the questions that are critical to their business and that you can help them solve. It is the key to capturing their attention, gaining their trust, and winning their business. Marketing can’t work its magic alone. It needs the support of strong branding and must provide support to well-executed sales processes. Marketing for Small B2B Businesses will dive into the relationship between each of these areas. What You'll LearnBuild a website that serves as the hub of your marketingEstablish a content promotion plan that puts your content in front of the right audienceDevelop strategies and tactical plans for finding the channels best suited to your message such as social media and email marketing Create effective content in a timely manner with the resources you have availableTrack what is working and what needs improvement via an analytics platform to consistently produce strong marketing returnsWho This Book Is ForThe primary audience is B2B small business owners and B2B small business marketing leaders.
Marketing for Social Change: How to Turn Purpose into Business and Social Impact
by Kian BakhtiariBusiness as usual is not an option anymore. We need a new way of doing things and brands can no longer afford to stay silent on important social and environmental issues.With more consumer and legal scrutiny than ever before, brands need to work hard to ensure they embrace purpose in a long-term, sustainable and authentic way in order to actually create the social change they say they support. This is where Marketing for Social Change comes in. A deeply practical guide on how brands can take meaningful action whilst avoiding backlash, it outlines clear steps to building authentic purpose into the heart of business strategy. This book explores not only how you can find and define your brand's purpose but how you ensure that your purpose becomes an embedded part of your business rather than a mere PR stunt.By using real-world examples across a spectrum of issues such as The Body Shop's stance on animal testing to Nike's work with Colin Kaepernick, this book offers a guide of how marketers can create positive social change through creativity and action, regardless of the sort of company they work for, and how creating this positive change is beneficial for both society and business.
Marketing in 4 Weeks: The Complete Guide to Success: Teach Yourself
by Eric Davies Nick Smith Brian SalterMarketing In 4 Weeks is a comprehensive guide to contemporary marketing and PR, giving you everything you need to know in one place. Made up of four bestselling books in one, this book delivers a complete course in modern marketing. From strategy, mobile and ecommerce to social media, SEO and PR you'll discover all the tools, techniques and strategies you need to get your marketing right.This book introduces you to the main themes and ideas of marketing, digital marketing and PR, giving you a knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises. Whether you choose to work through it like a 4 week course or dip in and out, Marketing In 4 Weeks is your fastest route to success:Week 1: Marketing In A WeekWeek 2: Digital Marketing In A WeekWeek 3: Social Media Marketing In A WeekWeek 4: Public Relations In A WeekABOUT THE SERIESIn A Week books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From negotiating and content marketing to finance and social media, the In A Week series covers the business topics that really matter and that will help you make a difference today. Written in straightforward English, each book is structured as a seven-day course so that with just a little work each day, you will quickly master the subject. In a fast-changing world, this series enables readers not just to get up to speed, but to get ahead.
Marketing in Publishing (Blueprint Ser.)
by Patrick Forsyth Robin BirnMarketing in Publishing, offers a wealth of practical information on creative strategies to increase book sales in a competitive and rapidly-changing marketplace. It is the first comprehensive study in this area to be published since the ending of the Net Book Agreement.Patrick Forsyth, now a marketing consultant, draws in his many years' experience of the publishing industry to reinstate marketing firmly where it should be: as an integral and integrated part of the whole marketing process.Marketing in Publishing gives expert guidance on different elements of the marketing process, including advice on promotional and direct mail options, and a step-by-step section on how to make an effective sales call. It includes a valuable discussion of fusing market research intelligently to identify new opportunities and market niches. The book also features an authoritative chapter evaluating the importance of electronic publishing.Completely up-to-date, Marketing in Publishing will be essential reading both for those working in marketing and editorial departments, and for students of publishing studies.
Marketing in the Boardroom: Winning the Hearts and Minds of the Board
by Ruth SaundersIt’s no secret: marketing punches below its weight in the Boardroom. CEOs and other board members perceive that marketers lack commercial credibility when compared to their peers. Marketing in the Boardroom helps marketers to be more commercially credible and thereby more successful in the Boardroom. Ruth Saunders explains the importance of marketing in the Boardroom, and why marketers often struggle to engage the Board. She then shows how to develop compelling marketing strategies that the Board will buy into, offering a mix of practical solutions and varied case studies drawn from her years of industry experience. In the final section, she helps marketers better understand the Board mindset and language, demonstrating how to win over the Board members’ hearts, minds and confidence. Marketing in the Boardroom is an important book for any aspiring marketers who are moving up the career ladder, particularly those who are writing or giving presentations to the Board. It is also an important book for their organizations, particularly those that struggle to give marketing the support it needs to create customer-led strategies that will drive business growth.
Marketing Management (15th Global Edition)
by Philip Kotler Kevin Lane KellerThe 15th edition of Marketing Management is a landmark entry in the long successful history of the market leader. With the 15th edition, great care was taken to provide an introductory guide to marketing management that truly reflects the modern realities of marketing.
Marketing Management and Communications in the Public Sector (Masters in Public Management)
by Martial Pasquier Jean-Patrick VilleneuveThis updated edition of Marketing Management and Communications in the Public Sector provides a thorough overview of the major concepts in public sector marketing and communications, two fields that have continued to grow in importance for modern public administrations. With extended coverage of topics such as social marketing and institutional communication, the authors skilfully build on the solid foundations laid down in the previous edition. Replete with real-world case studies and examples, including new material from the USA, Australia, and Asia, this book gives students a truly international outlook. Additional features include exercises and discussion questions in each chapter and an illustrative extended case study. This refreshed text is essential reading for postgraduate students on public management degrees, and aspiring or current public managers. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315622309, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Marketing mit Sprachassistenten: So setzen Sie Alexa, Google Assistant & Co strategisch erfolgreich ein
by Thomas HörnerLernen Sie mit diesem Buch, wie Sie Sprachassistenten im Marketing effektiv einsetzen Immer neue technische Entwicklungen vereinfachen unseren Alltag und das Geschäftsleben. Mit diesem Buch lernen Sie, wie Sie Sprachassistenten im Marketing Ihres Unternehmens nutzen. Es liefert viele praktische Hilfestellungen, mit denen Sie Ihren Geschäftsbetrieb effizienter gestalten. Ziel des Autors ist es, dass Sie nach der Lektüre des Buchs die passenden Strategien für Ihren Betrieb entwickeln. Mit diesem Buch über Sprachassistenten im Marketing erhalten Sie schnell erschließbares Wissen, beispielsweise über das Voice Content Marketing. Kompakt zusammengefasst ermöglicht es eine einfache Umsetzung. Der Autor richtet sich sowohl an Unternehmer als auch an Führungskräfte im Bereich des Marketings.
Marketing mit Sprachassistenten: So setzen Sie Alexa & Co strategisch erfolgreich ein
by Thomas HörnerLernen Sie mit diesem Buch, wie Sie Sprachassistenten im Marketing effektiv einsetzen Immer neue technische Entwicklungen vereinfachen unseren Alltag und das Geschäftsleben. Mit diesem Buch lernen Sie, wie Sie Sprachassistenten im Marketing Ihres Unternehmens nutzen. Es liefert viele praktische Hilfestellungen, mit denen Sie Ihren Geschäftsbetrieb effizienter gestalten. Ziel des Autors ist es, dass Sie nach der Lektüre des Buchs die passenden Strategien für Ihren Betrieb entwickeln. Mit diesem Buch über Sprachassistenten im Marketing erhalten Sie schnell erschließbares Wissen, beispielsweise über das Voice Content Marketing. Kompakt zusammengefasst ermöglicht es eine einfache Umsetzung. Der Autor richtet sich sowohl an Unternehmer als auch an Führungskräfte im Bereich des Marketings.
Marketing Planning Guide: A Guide To Developing A Strategic Marketing Plan (Haworth Marketing Resources Ser. #Vol. 2)
by Bruce Wrenn Phylis M MansfieldTHE CLASSIC guide to develop a marketing plan-completely updated! The newly revised Marketing Planning Guide, Third Edition is the step-by-step guide that gives you the tools to prepare an effective marketing plan for a company, product, or service. With over 50 pages of updated material, this classic textbook has the solid foundation of knowledge and philosophy of the previous editions while adding essential new information on Internet marketing, business ethics, and an illustrative sample business plan. Worksheets at the end of each chapter guide you in creating your own plan-once all the worksheets are completed you will have roughed out your own complete marketing plan. The accompanying instructor's package includes a helpful manual, a detailed sample course syllabus, and a test bank featuring a multiple-choice and true-false questions for each chapter with answers. This edition of the Marketing Planning Guide contains clear tables and diagrams, is fully referenced, and has updated examples for easy understanding of concepts. It shows how to: analyze the market, consumers, the competition, and opportunities develop strategy and marketing objectives make product, place, promotional, and price decisions realize the financial impact of marketing strategies implement, audit, and control your marketing planAnd now the Marketing Planning Guide, Third Edition is updated to include: extensive information on Internet marketing new examples illustrating the process a complete sample marketing plan end of chapter worksheets providing step-by-step instructions Internet data sourcesThis is the definitive book for marketing professionals who want to use a "hands on" approach for learning the planning process. It will guide anyone through the steps of preparing an effective marketing plan.
Marketing Technologies: Corporate Cultures and Technological Change (Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology)
by Elena SimakovaGlobal corporations initiate, join and maintain socio-technological change and hence, alter the ways in which we organize our lives. Demanding significant investment of resources and time, the development and implementation of new technologies on different levels must take into consideration these subtle processes. As such, it is particularly important that we have a greater insight into the practices of hi-tech corporations, in view of the often inflated promises of and concerns about the destiny of technological breakthroughs, especially those promising sizeable economic outcomes and societal transformation. Elena Simakova undertook a lengthy ethnographic study, working alongside marketing managers in a global IT corporation in their Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in the UK. Using the experience gained through a close participation in their everyday corporate rituals and routines, her account challenges common perceptions of how corporations make the world think and act with regard to technologies in particular ways. The book contains an interesting case study on the launch of a radio frequency identification (RFID) based solution. Unravelling the construction of expectations, inclusions and exclusions around emerging technologies, this reflexive account also tackles uneasy practical and methodological questions pertinent to corporate ethnography. This book is an essential read for scholars in science and technology studies, economic sociology, anthropology, as well as management and organizational studies and research policy.
Marketing Wisdom (Management for Professionals)
by Kartikeya KompellaThis book represents the work of some of the contemporary world leaders in marketing. The contributors are authors of a set of path-breaking books on marketing. To ensure sufficient depth of coverage, the contributors have taken the essence of their earlier books and combined it with their latest understanding and cases. This has served to enhance the content and put it in the readers’ current context. It is common knowledge that keeping pace with the growing application of marketing requires a novel approach. With new ideas and nuances being discovered every day, it has become a real challenge for marketers and students of marketing to keep up to date on important contemporary marketing concepts. Given its unique approach and thoughtful curation, this book presents readers with diversity of perspectives along with a unique depth of thinking.
The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age (The\mit Press Ser.)
by James G. WebsterHow do media find an audience when there is an endless supply of content but a limited supply of public attention?Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, public attention is not. How do digital media find the audiences they need in an era of infinite choice? In The Marketplace of Attention, James Webster explains how audiences take shape in the digital age.Webster describes the factors that create audiences, including the preferences and habits of media users, the role of social networks, the resources and strategies of media providers, and the growing impact of media measures—from ratings to user recommendations. He incorporates these factors into one comprehensive framework: the marketplace of attention. In doing so, he shows that the marketplace works in ways that belie our greatest hopes and fears about digital media.Some observers claim that digital media empower a new participatory culture; others fear that digital media encourage users to retreat to isolated enclaves. Webster shows that public attention is at once diverse and concentrated—that users move across a variety of outlets, producing high levels of audience overlap. So although audiences are fragmented in ways that would astonish midcentury broadcasting executives, Webster argues that this doesn't signal polarization. He questions whether our preferences are immune from media influence, and he describes how our encounters with media might change our tastes. In the digital era's marketplace of attention, Webster claims, we typically encounter ideas that cut across our predispositions. In the process, we will remake the marketplace of ideas and reshape the twenty-first century public sphere.
The Markets for News: Enduring Structures in the Age of Business Model Disruptions (Disruptions)
by Helle SjøvaagIn the face of ongoing digitisation, The Markets for News examines how certain established economic features of the news industry have persisted and what makes them such stable frameworks for journalistic organisations. Drawing on an analysis of Scandinavian news industries, this text revises journalism’s economic foundations in the context of the algorithmically driven platform economy. Exploration of features such as journalism’s two-sided market model, the network effect of platforms, and chain ownership, leads to a discussion about how journalism faces disruption from the introduction of artificial intelligence in the production, dissemination, and sale of news. As journalism undergoes transformations due to revenue losses, this book recognises a return to certain enduring features of journalism’s organisational form, in particular the chain ownership form, that enables scale in adapting to platform logics and economics. This text serves as a basis for a theoretical discussion about strategic media management and critical political economy in the age of digital disruption. This is an insightful book for academics and researchers in the fields of journalism, media industries, media policy and, communication studies.
Markets of Dispossession: Ngos, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
by Julia ElyacharWhat happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a theoretically sophisticated and sobering account of the consequences of these initiatives. Julia Elyachar studied the efforts of bankers, social scientists, ngo members, development workers, and state officials to turn the craftsmen and unemployed youth of Cairo into the vanguard of a new market society based on microenterprise. She considers these efforts in relation to the alternative notions of economic success held by craftsmen in Cairo, in which short-term financial profit is not always highly valued. Through her careful ethnography of workshop life, Elyachar explains how the traditional market practices of craftsmen are among the most vibrant modes of market life in Egypt. Long condemned as backward, these existing market practices have been seized on by social scientists and development institutions as the raw materials for experiments in "free market" expansion. Elyachar argues that the new economic value accorded to the cultural resources and social networks of the poor has fueled a broader process leading to their economic, social, and cultural dispossession.
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
by John Durham PetersWhen we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds, John Durham Peters argues that though we often think of media as environments, the reverse is just as true--environments are media. Peters defines media expansively as elements that compose the human world. Drawing from ideas implicit in media philosophy, Peters argues that media are more than carriers of messages: they are the very infrastructures combining nature and culture that allow human life to thrive. Through an encyclopedic array of examples from the oceans to the skies, The Marvelous Clouds reveals the long prehistory of so-called new media. Digital media, Peters argues, are an extension of early practices tied to the establishment of civilization such as mastering fire, building calendars, reading the stars, creating language, and establishing religions. New media do not take us into uncharted waters, but rather confront us with the deepest and oldest questions of society and ecology: how to manage the relations people have with themselves, others, and the natural world. A wide-ranging meditation on the many means we have employed to cope with the struggles of existence--from navigation to farming, meteorology to Google--The Marvelous Clouds shows how media lie at the very heart of our interactions with the world around us. Peters's book will not only change how we think about media but provide a new appreciation for the day-to-day foundations of life on earth that we so often take for granted.
Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale
by Jessica TiffinExplores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.
A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
by Danny FingerothThe definitive biography of the beloved—often controversial—co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of “Stan the Man,” who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe."[Fingeroth's] intimate yet balanced account, highlights Lee’s humanity, humor and even humility. But it doesn’t ignore how his canny self-promotion at times shortchanged his collaborators and constrained his own choices." —Wall Street JournalStan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived.Thanks, especially, to his many cameos in Marvel movies and TV shows, Lee was—and even after his 2018 death, still is—the voice and face of comics and popular culture in general, and Marvel Comics in particular. How he got to that place is a story that has never been fully told—until now.With creative partners including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—with whom he had tempestuous relationships that rivaled any superhero battle—Lee created world-famous characters including Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X–Men, the Avengers, and the Hulk!But Lee’s career was haunted by conflict and controversy. Was he the most innovative creator to ever do comics? Was he a lucky no-talent whose only skill was taking credit for others’ work? Or was he something else altogether? Danny Fingeroth’s A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Leeattempts to answer some of those questions. It is the first comprehensive biography of this powerhouse of ideas who, with his invention of Marvel Comics, changed the world’s ideas of what a hero is and how a story should be told. With exclusive interviews with Lee himself, as well as with colleagues, relatives, friends—and detractors—Fingeroth makes a doubly remarkable case for Lee’s achievements, while not ignoring the controversies that dogged him his entire life—and even past his death. With unique access to Lee’s personal archives at the University of Wyoming, Fingeroth explores never-before-examined aspects of Lee’s life and career, and digs under the surface of what people thought they knew about him.Fingeroth, himself a longtime writer and editor at Marvel Comics, and now a lauded pop culture critic and historian, knew and worked with Stan Lee for over four decades. With his unique insights as a comics world insider, Fingeroth is able to put Lee’s life and work in a unique context that makes events and actions come to life as no other writer could. Despite F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous warning that “There are no second acts in American lives,” Stan Lee created a second act for himself that changed everything for him, his family, his industry, and ultimately for all of popular culture. How he did it—and what it cost him—is a larger-than-life tale of a man who helped create the modern superhero mythology that has become a part of all our lives.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century
by Jane RhodesMary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous and outspoken nineteenth-century African American who used the press and public speaking to fight slavery and oppression in the United States and Canada. Part of the small free black elite who used their education and limited freedoms to fight for the end of slavery and racial oppression, Shadd Cary is best known as the first African American woman to publish and edit a newspaper in North America. But her importance does not stop there. She was an active participant in many of the social and political movements that influenced nineteenth century abolition, black emigration and nationalism, women's rights, and temperance. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century explores her remarkable life and offers a window on the free black experience, emergent black nationalisms, African American gender ideologies, and the formation of a black public sphere. This new edition contains a new epilogue and new photographs.