Bøger af Barbara Reynolds

Originally designed for communicating public health information associated with communicable diseases, this book covers essential topics concerning media relations for public and private sector public information officers. Topics include: Introduction to Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication-Types of crisis and communications during a crisis, the risk of disaster, emergency/crisis/risk communications, the crisis communications lifecycle-pre-crisis phase, initial phase, crisis maintenance, resolution, and evaluation.Psychology of a Crisis-Human behavior in an emergency, decision making, perception of risk, facts to consider about human psychology in a crisis, and how to communicate effectively in a crisis.The Crisis Communication Plan-Developing an emergency/crisis communication plan, Information verification and clearance/approval procedures, agreements on information release authorities (who releases what/when/how, procedures to secure needed resources (space, equipment, people) to operate the public information.The nine steps of crisis response.Surviving the first 48 hours of an emergency: Be first, be right, be credible.The Role of the Spokesperson- The role of the spokesperson in an emergency, what makes a good spokesperson, general recommendations for spokespersons in all settings, pitfalls for spokespersons during an emergency, when emotions and accusations run high in an emergency public meeting, what spokespersons should know when talking through the media, general media interview pitfalls, media opportunity or press conference tips, counters to electronic media interview techniques, radio interview tips, television interview tips, what to wear on television, assessing your communication skills and habits, facial expressions, voice cues, body positions and movements, and effective nonverbal communication.Working With the Media- Think local media first, what do reporters want, getting emergency information to the media, the press conference or media opportunity, telephone news conferences/Web casts, commercial press release services, E-mail listservs and broadcast faxes, Web sites/video streaming, and responding to media calls. Writing For the Media During a Crisis- What your media release should include, press statements are not press releases, media factsheets/backgrounders, visuals, video press releases, and B-roll.Press Conferences- Where to hold the press conference, whom to invite, how and when to invite the media, how to conduct the media opportunity, using visuals and handouts.

Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers is loved and remembered, most notably, for the creation of sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. As this biography attests, Sayers was also one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford, a playwright, and an essayist--but also a woman with personal joys and tragedies. Here, Reynolds, a close friend of Sayers, presents a convincing and balanced portrait of one of the 20th century's most brilliant, creative women. 30 b&w photos.

Dorothy L. Sayers, detective novelist, poet, scholar, playwright, and Christian apologist, spent the last fourteen years of her life reading and translating Dante''s ''Divine Comedy''. The first two volumes of her translation, ''Hell'' and ''Purgatory'', were published during her lifetime, but when she died in 1957 the third volume, ''Paradise'', was unfinished. It was completed by her friend Barbara Reynolds.Thirty years later Barbara Reynolds wrote this book, the first full-length study of this illuminating stage in the creative life of Dorothy Sayers. Drawing on personal reminiscences and unpublished letters, she tells a moving and compelling story. The work explores the dynamic impact of Dante upon a mature mind. New light is shed on Dorothy Sayers'' personality, her relationship with her friends, her methods of work, and her intellectual and spiritual development. Readers of Dante, no less than readers of Sayers, will find this an exciting book.Dr. Reynolds has not told us merely about Sayers'' Dante translations and lectures; she has told us about Sayers'' radio broadcasts on Dante, her proposed Dante novel, her carefully planned study on the Beatrician vision; and she has discussed the part Charles Williams played in guiding Sayers in her Dante study. This book observes a brilliant mind meeting a Great Poet and becoming continuously awed, inspired, and energized by his verse and vision.Ralph E. HoneBarbara Reynolds is an Italian scholar and translator, known for her completion of Dorothy L. Sayers'' translation of Dante''s ''Divine Comedy'' for Penguin Classics. She has also translated Dante''s ''La Vita Nuova'' of which a new edition has recently been issued. Her translation of Ariosto''s ''Orlando Furioso'', also for Penguin Classics, was distinguished by an international award.She is also the author of a highly acclaimed biography, ''Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul'' and is the editor of ''The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers'' in four volumes, plus a supplementary volume of childhood memoirs. She has told the story of Sayers'' commitment to Dante in ''The Passionate Intellect'', now in its second edition.The general editor of ''The Cambridge Italian Dictionary'', she has been honored by the Italian Republic for her services to Italian studies. She also holds three honorary doctorates. She is now residing in Cambridge, England.

Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. This biography indicates that Dante may have smoked cannabis to reach new heights of creativity. It tells that Dante was a talented public speaker, who created a quite new form of poetic art, holding audiences spellbound.

For five centuries Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was the most famous and influential poet in Europe. He has been acclaimed as the Father of Humanism. This book claims Petrarch as writer, lover and statesman: a medieval man compellingly relevant to the modern age in all his tastes and talents.