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HarperCollins On the Grid
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Penguin Putnam Inc Garlic and Sapphires
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dolls Dolls Dolls Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls
Book SynopsisA blissful treasure trove of gossipy insider details that Dolls fans will swiftly devour.--Kirkus ReviewsThe unbelievable-but-true, inside story of Jacqueline Susann's pop culture icon Valley of the Dolls--the landmark novel and publishing phenomenon, the infamous smash hit film (the best worst movie ever made), and Dolls's thriving legacy todaySince its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the way books got sold, thanks to the tireless and canny self-promoting Susann. It also generated endless speculation about the author's real-life models for its larger-than-life characters. Turned in 1967 into an international box-office sensation and morphing into a much-beloved cult film, its influence endures today in everything f
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Oxford University Press Australia New Media
Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Terry Flew's New Media combines a comprehensive overview of theories of new media with contemporary cases studies.Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA; 2. TWENTY KEY NEW MEDIA CONCEPTS; 3. APPROACHES TO NEW MEDIA; 4. SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA; 5. PARTICIPATORY MEDIA CULTURES; 6. GAMES: TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, CULTURE; 7. ONLINE NEWS AND THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM; 8. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES; 9. THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; 10. TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION; 11. INTERNET LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE; 12. ONLINE ACTIVISM AND NETWORKED POLITICS; 13. CONCLUSION
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University of Illinois Press Global TV
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between the growth of global media and Cold War tensions and resolutionsTrade Review“The historical background Schwoch provides is certainly relevant as a backdrop to the US’s involvement with electronic information networks in the 21st century . . . . This is a readable, well-researched study.”--Choice"Vital to our understanding of global media."--Cinema Journal"An ambitious and informative study."--American Historical Review“A wholly original, well-researched, and superbly written account of the development of global television set within the intertwined contexts of American foreign policy, psychological warfare, and information diplomacy during the years 1946–69. Stimulating and enjoyable.”--John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television“The sheer joy that Schwoch takes in hauling curiosities out of the archives is contagious. The result is a portrait that brings forth many treasures, some comic, some poignant, from the Cold War era, and also provides some serious food for thought in considering current U.S. policy about international media and goodwill building.”--John Durham Peters, author of Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal TraditionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1PART 1: THE FIRST STRAND 1. "A Facet of East-West Problems" 17 2. "A Western Mind Would Consider This Kind of Spectacle as Stupid" 31 3. "The Key to Many of These Countries Is Not the Mud Hut Population" 43 4. "A Group of Angry Young Intellectuals" 61PART 2: THE SECOND STRAND 5. "We Can Give the World a Vision of America" 79 6. "A Record of Some Kind in the History of International Communication" 94 7. "Something of That Sense of World Citizenship" 118 8. "A New Idea Capable of Uniting the Thoughts of People All Over the Earth" 139 Epilogue: "To Speak with a Single Voice Abroad" 157 Notes 175 Selected Bibliography 207 Index 213Illustrations follow pages 76 and 138
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Hachette Books Playing Hurt My Journey from Despair to Hope
Book SynopsisA candid memoir about confronting a crippling disease, by the host of ESPN's Sports Reporters and ABC's college football
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Random House USA Inc A Writer at War
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Little Brown and Company The Only Girl
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Back Bay Books THAT WILL NEVER WORK
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Random House USA Inc Eyes on the Street The Life of Jane Jacobs
Book SynopsisThe first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates—all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.
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Random House Canada Mass Disruption
Book SynopsisDrawing on his thirty years in newspapers, the former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail examines the crisis of serious journalism in the digital era, and searches for ways the invaluable tradition can thrive in a radically changed future. John Stackhouse entered the newspaper business in a golden age: 1980s circulations were huge and wealthy companies lined up for the privilege of advertising in every city's best-read pages. Television and radio could never rival newspapers for hard news, analysis and opinion, and the papers' brand of serious journalism was considered a crucial part of life in a democratic country. Then came the Internet... After decades as a Globe journalist, foreign bureau chief and then editor of its Report on Business (not to mention former Scarborough delivery boy), he assumed one of the biggest jobs in Canadian journalism: The Globe and Mail's editor-in-chief. Begi
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Vintage Espanol Casi una Mujer Almost a Woman
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Random House USA Inc A Long Way From Home Growing Up in the American
Book SynopsisReflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty yearsFrom his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom’s mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers’ proj
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WW Norton & Co Unreliable Memoirs
Book SynopsisA best-selling classic around the world, Clive James’s hilarious memoir has long been unavailable in the United States.Trade Review"Do not read this book in public. You will risk severe internal injuries from trying to suppress your laughter. . . . What’s worse, you can’t put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed." -- Sunday Times
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WW Norton & Co Cast of Characters Wolcott Gibbs E B White James
Book Synopsis“Exuberant . . . elegantly conjures an evocative group dynamic.” —Sam Roberts, New York TimesTrade Review"Swift and enjoyable reading." -- Pamela Erens - New York Times Book Review"Vinciguerra is an artful stage manager of his material; at times, one has a stirring sense of eavesdropping on intimate, literate, testy conversations. As a writer, he has a knack for understatement, an eye for the odd and telling fact….his writing would not be out of place in a New Yorker issue of, say, 1938. I hasten to add that that is a high compliment." -- Ben Yagoda - Wall Street Journal"Fresh and invigorating…it’s to Vinciguerra’s great credit that he manages to avoid both condescension and hagiography in writing about the flawed, brilliant people behind it." -- Kate Tuttle - Boston Globe"Captures the eccentricities and idiosyncrasies of its editors and writers…will be embraced be faithful New Yorker readers." -- Publishers Weekly"Vinciguerra’s writing has a way of bringing these characters to sparkling life…. New Yorker readers are a dedicated lot and will snap this ‘golden age’ volume up." -- Booklist"Irresistible…a banquet of information about the good writing and bad manners of the eccentric crew who made a myth both of themselves and of the journal they made famous. Vinciguerra writes a sharp, crisp sentence, and tells his story with brio." -- John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh"Reading Thomas Vinciguerra’s Cast of Characters is like being at a tantalizing gossip session about the star writers and supporting players of The New Yorker in its formative years. The book is entertaining, often surprising, and deeply interesting. Vinciguerra is an avid chronicler and a fair one." -- Mary Norris, New York Times best-selling author of Between You and Me"To lovers of The New Yorker, Tom Vinciguerra’s marvelous Cast of Characters is a must-have. It’s as close as you’ll ever get to going behind the scenes with Wolcott Gibbs, James Thurber, E. B. and Katharine White, and their colleagues as they helped Harold Ross create this influential publication. Gibbs’s role in particular is a revelation." -- Thomas Kunkel, author of Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker"Too many of the books about the Algonquin Round Table and The New Yorker magazine are little more than laundry lists of well-worn anecdotes. Thomas Vinciguerra gives us substance along with the bon mots and, in so doing, evokes the bright, brilliant, long-ago Manhattan that all newcomers have dreamed of finding." -- Tim Page, author of Dawn Powell: A Biography and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism"Writing this scrupulous is almost never this completely entertaining. Cast of Characters brings White, Thurber, and Gibbs—and the American culture of letters during an unexampled heyday—to brilliant life." -- Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir"Compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud funny. With talent, tireless research, and the necessary obsession, Tom Vinciguerra has managed to breathe fresh life into a famous and glittering cast of characters…. The history of The New Yorker is richer for it." -- Linda H. Davis, author of Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
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WW Norton & Co Fierce Ambition
Book SynopsisA spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession.Trade Review"[A] mesmerizing, meticulously researched biography.... Higgins was only 45 when she died on Jan. 3, 1966. Ms. Conant’s book has brought her back to life." -- Andrew Nagorski - Wall Street Journal"The glamorous, accomplished 20th-century war journalist Higgins—a Pulitzer winner with a nose for news and the nerve to chase it at any cost—gets her due in this lively biography." -- New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice"Higgins’s life is now rendered in full, no longer lost to the march of male-dominated history." -- Helene Stapinski - Washington Post"Kept me turning the pages because this true story is more compelling than most novels.... A tale of triumph over almost insurmountable odds." -- Sandy Kenyon - WABC-TV"No one who reads the first chapter will be able to set this book aside, rich as it is in rare insights and high drama. Fierce Ambition left me believing that if Maggie Higgins could have selected her biographer it would have been Jenny Conant." -- Cynthia McFadden, senior investigative and legal correspondent, NBC News"The remarkable story of an irrepressible wartime reporter who would do almost anything to get a scoop. Beautiful, brilliant, and demanding, Maggie Higgins was a comet in the gray, male world of mid-twentieth-century American journalism captured in all of her complexity by Jennet Conant in her utterly compelling Fierce Ambition." -- Gay Talese, author of The Kingdom and the Power"Jennet Conant’s brilliant storytelling and extraordinary granular research bring Maggie Higgins’s long-forgotten but vital story to life…Her fearless quest to bring the truth to light will serve as inspiration for a new generation of pathfinding women. What a woman, what a legend." -- Janine di Giovanni, author of The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria"Maggie Higgins lived life at a gallop and this book keeps up with her…Jenny Conant tells the whole story with verve, insight, and deep appreciation for this fascinating, complex, and pioneering woman." -- Richard Cohen, four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist"Fierce Ambition is a reflection of journalism, hung on the passionate, brilliant, sexy, hilarious, honest, complicated, moving, tough, heartbreaking, outrageous, courageous, astonishing life of the intrepid ‘girl’ war correspondent Maggie Higgins. Slam! Bang! Kapow! If you’re a journalist and you’re not reading Fierce Ambition, you’re not doing your homework." -- Terry McDonell, author of The Accidental Life: An Editor’s Notes on Writing and Writers"Doggedly reported, incisive, and one fabulous ride, Fierce Ambition shows us a Maggie Higgins who is bold, shrewd, and indomitable, a role model not just for aspiring journalists but for fearless women of every stripe." -- Mimi Swartz, executive editor, Texas Monthly"Engrossing.... Propulsive and high-spirited, this is a riveting depiction of a larger-than-life trailblazer." -- Publishers Weekly"An admiring, cleareyed portrait of an ambitious, successful woman." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Random House USA Inc At Random Reminiscences
Book Synopsis“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and an abiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes the heady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers who revolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helped usher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality, whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer, radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge of the Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line?) helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his c
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Vintage Espanol El Escndalo del Siglo Textos En Prensa Y Revistas
Book SynopsisDejó muy claro Gabriel García Márquez que el periodismo siempre fue su principal pasión, la más perdurable y por la que quiso ser recordado: “No quiero que se me recuerde por Cien años de soledad, ni por el premio Nobel, sino por el periódico. [...] Nací periodista y hoy me siento más reportero que nunca. Lo llevo en la sangre, me tira”. Esta antología pretende ser la muestra más representativa de la tensión narrativa entre periodismo y literatura que recorrió toda su trayectoria como reportero. Cubriendo cuatro décadas, este delicioso viaje a través de medio centenar de textos muestra como “el mejor oficio del mundo” está en el corazón de la obra del premio Nobel colombiano. Con edición a cargo de Cristóbal Pera y prólogo de Jon Lee Anderson, este volumen contiene piezas tan indispensables co
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Alfred A. Knopf Working
Book Synopsis“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London)From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's mi
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Random House USA Inc Dilettante
Book SynopsisA witty, insightful, and delightfully snarky blend of pop culture meets memoir meets real-life Devil Wears Prada as readers learn the stories behind twenty-five years at Vanity Fair from the magazine’s former deputy editor“Dilettante offers the best seat in the house into the workings of one of the great cultural institutions of our time.”—Buzz Bissinger, New York Times bestselling author of Friday Night LightsDana Brown was a twenty-one-year-old college dropout playing in punk bands and partying his way through downtown New York’s early-nineties milieu when he first encountered Graydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair. After the two had a handful of brief interactions (mostly with Brown in the role of cater waiter at Carter’s famous cultural salons he hosted at his home), Carter saw what he believed to be Brown’s untapped potential, and on a whim, hired him as h
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Random House USA Inc An Affirming Flame
Book Synopsis“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from the streets of Kyiv to an execution chamber in Alabama, you can read him at his best.”—Dexter Filkins, best-selling author of The Forever WarA collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen over more than a decade, accompanied by an original, twenty-thousand-word essay on the state of the worldThe countless readers who followed Roger Cohen’s column and mourned its end responded above all to what they saw as the marriage in his writing of head and heart. That tenor permeates An Affirming Flame.During his twelve years as a columnist, Cohen aimed to hold power to account at home and abroad, in the na
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Random House USA Inc Looking for Trouble
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Random House USA Inc The Summer Friend
Book SynopsisAlive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends.“Sun-drenched and deeply touching.” —The New York Times“Positively aches with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire FallsIt was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that?Over the course of this rich
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Penguin Putnam Inc I Love Russia
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Diversified Publishing Never Give Up
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Penguin Random House India Some Sizes Fit All
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Phaidon Press ellebrity
Book SynopsisA survey of the unforgettable career of legendary adman George Lois.
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Irish Academic Press Ltd De Valera Fianna Fail and the Irish Press The
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Random House Canada Run Hide Repeat
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionLonglisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction AwardShortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book AwardShortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging AuthorsAn unforgettable family tale of deception and betrayal, love and forgivenessPauline Dakin spent her childhood on the run. Without warning, her mother twice uprooted her and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Disturbing events interrupt their outwardly normal life: break-ins, car thefts, even physical attacks on a family friend. Many years later, her mother finally revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task
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Pluto Press Shooting a Revolution
Book SynopsisWhat has been the impact of visual media on the Syrian conflict?Trade Review'This gripping work maps the media transformations in Syria - from the high hopes during the 2011 protests to the depression and despair of a never-ending war... what hits us most is Della Ratta's deep insider knowledge to blend personal insights with urgent critical theory. Tactical media theory at its best' -- Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Culture, author of Networks Without a Cause'In this innovative and original book, Donatella Della Ratta critically engages with the visualization of violence and the violence inherent to visuality, in the Syrian conflict. Essential reading for scholars of media, visual cultures, film, politics, political economy and sociology and those interested in understanding war in the digital age' -- Dina Matar, Head, Centre for Global Media and Communication, SOAS'An original reflection on the relationship between images and violence in Syria which reveals, the paradox of our hyperconnected societies well beyond Syria itself' -- Internazionale'An intellectual adventure that unfolds in a sequence shot between the Syrian war, the media social and not, the protagonists and the extras' -- Alfabeta2Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration Glossary Introduction 1. Making Media, Making the Nation: Syria's Tanwir in Neoliberal Times 2. The Whisper Strategy 3. The Death of Tanwir in Real-Time Drama 4. The People's 'Raised Hands' 5. Fear and Loathing on the Internet: The Paradoxes of Arab Networked Activism 6. Screen Fighters: Filming and Killing in Contemporary Syria 7. Syria's Image-Makers: Daesh Militants and Non-Violent Activists 8. Notes on a Theory of Violence and the Visual in the Networked Age Notes Bibliography Index
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Hyperion The Tender Bar
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Rise of Abraham Cahan Jewish Encounters
Book SynopsisPart of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers; helped redefine journalism during its golden age; and transformed American culture. Already a noted journalist writing for both English-language and Yiddish newspapers, Abraham Cahan founded the Yiddish daily in New York City in 1897. Over the next fifty years he turned it into a national newspaper that changed American politics and earned him the adulation of millions of Jewish immigrants and the friendship of the greatest newspapermen of his day, from Lincoln Steffens to H. L. Mencken. Cahan did more than cover the news. He led revolutionary reforms—spreading social democracy, organizing labor unions, battling communism, and assimilating immigrant Jews into American society, most notably via his groundbreaking a
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University of Oklahoma Press Loren Miller Civil Rights Attorney and
Book Synopsis“Either we shall have to make democracy work for every American,” Loren Miller declared, or “we shall not be able to preserve it for any American.” The story told here is of an American original who defied societal limitations to reshape the racial and political landscape of twentieth-century America.Trade ReviewIn this book, Amina Hassan recovers the forgotten story of the biracial African American writer, newspaper editor, radical activist, and respected judge who also happened to be one of the most important civil rights lawyers of the twentieth century. Everyone should know Loren Miller's story. This is a tremendous achievement."" - Kenneth W. Mack, author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer""What an outstanding and incredible work on civil rights attorney Loren Miller! I salute Amina Hassan's keen analysis of Miller's journalistic approach to advancing civil rights for Black Americans."" - Diane E. Watson, U.S. Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, 1999 - 2001, and U.S. Representative from California, 2001 - 2011""Amina Hassan has written a superb biography of California attorney Loren Miller, who played a major role in civil rights reform on the local, state, and national levels between 1940 and 1965. Hassan's book belongs on the shelves of historians, urban studies scholars, and anyone interested in the movement for racial equality in the United States."" - Martin Schiesl, author of The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, 1880 - 1920""A recommended work that adds to the corpus of civil rights histories and offers a rich portrait of a central figure in the related struggle in California."" - The Library Journal
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Random House USA Inc The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity—and leave readers doubled over with laughter. Need proof? Check out The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death and try not to bust a gut. Join Notaro as she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of her chins should be stubble-free); bemoans the scourge of the Open Mouth Coughers on America’s airplanes and in similarly congested areas; welcomes the newest ex-con (yay, a sex offender!) to her neighborhood; and watches, against her own better judgment, every Discovery Health Channel special on parasites and tapeworms that has ever aired—resulting in an overwhelming fear that a worm the size of a python will soon come a-knocking on her back door. In Notaro’s world, strangers are stranger than fiction. One must always check the hotel bathroom for hobo hairs and consciously remember
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Random House USA Inc Yours In Truth A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Book SynopsisAn intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post “A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The New York Times Book Review Ben Bradlee was a fixture on the American scene for nearly half a century—a close friend to John F. Kennedy; the center of D.C. social life; and a crusty, charismatic editor whose decisions at the helm of the Post during Watergate changed the course of history. Granted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal Post memos, correspondence, personal photographs, and private interviews to trace the full arc of Bradlee’s forty-five-year career—from his early days as a pre
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The University Press of Kentucky Henry Watterson and the New South The Politics of
Book SynopsisHenry Watterson (1840--1921), editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal from the 1860s through WWI, was one of the most important and widely read newspaper editors in American history.
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The University Press of Kentucky A Voice in the Box My Life in Radio
Book SynopsisThe host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite radio.
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Up from the Projects An Autobiography
Book SynopsisProlific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an ‘only in America’ story of a life of achievement.Trade ReviewWhen I finished reading Up from the Projects, I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done—and its insights are much needed today." — Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover InstitutionTable of Contents Preface ONE Starting Out TWO Rudderless and Drifting THREE In the Army Now FOUR Heading West for Opportunity FIVE Heading East for Opportunity SIX Teaching and Preaching SEVEN Afterthoughts Index
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Up from the Projects An Autobiography
Book SynopsisProlific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an ‘only in America’ story of a life of achievement.Trade ReviewWhen I finished reading Up from the Projects, I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done—and its insights are much needed today." — Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover InstitutionTable of Contents Preface ONE Starting Out TWO Rudderless and Drifting THREE In the Army Now FOUR Heading West for Opportunity FIVE Heading East for Opportunity SIX Teaching and Preaching SEVEN Afterthoughts Index
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Berklee Press Publications Music Smarts The Inside Truth and Roadtested
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Teacher Created Materials, Inc Amusement Parks Around America
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Russian Cinema
Book SynopsisA Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv Notes on Transliteration and References xvi Introduction 1 Birgit Beumers Part I Structures of Production, Formation, and Exhibition 21 1 The Film Palaces of Nevsky Prospect: A History of St Petersburg’s Cinemas, 1900–1910 23Anna Kovalova 2 (V)GIK and the History of Film Education in the Soviet Union, 1920s–1930s 45Masha Salazkina 3 Lenfilm: The Birth and Death of an Institutional Aesthetic 66Robert Bird 4 The Adventures of the Kulturfilm in Soviet Russia 92Oksana Sarkisova 5 Soiuzdetfilm: The Birth of Soviet Children’s Film and the Child Actor 117Jeremy Hicks Part II For the State or For the Audience? Auteurism, Genre, and Global Markets 137 6 The Stalinist Musical: Socialist Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism 139Richard Taylor 7 Soviet Film Comedy of the 1950s and 1960s: Innovation and Restoration 158Seth Graham 8 Auteur Cinema during the Thaw and Stagnation 178Eugénie Zvonkine 9 The Blokbaster: How Russian Cinema Learned to Love Hollywood 202Dawn Seckler and Stephen M. Norris 10 The Global and the National in Post]Soviet Russian Cinema (2004–2012) 224Maria Bezenkova and Xenia Leontyeva Part III Sound – Image – Text 249 11 The Literary Scenario and the Soviet Screenwriting Tradition 251Maria Belodubrovskaya 12 Ideology, Technology, Aesthetics: Early Experiments in Soviet Color Film, 1931–1945 270Phil Cavendish 13 Learning to Speak Soviet: Soviet Cinema and the Coming of Sound 292Lilya Kaganovsky 14 Cinema and the Art of Being: Towards a History of Early Soviet Set Design 314Emma Widdis 15 Stars on Screen and Red Carpet 337Djurdja Bartlett 16 Revenge of the Cameramen: Soviet Cinematographers in the Director’s Chair 364Peter Rollberg Part IV Time and Space, History and Place 389 17 Soldiers, Sailors, and Commissars: The Revolutionary Hero in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s 391Denise J. Youngblood 18 Defending the Motherland: The Soviet and Russian War Film 409Stephen M. Norris 19 Shooting Location: Riga 427Kevin M. F. Platt 20 Capital Images: Moscow on Screen 452Birgit Beumers Part V Directors’ Portraits 475 21 Boris Barnet: “This doubly accursed cinema” 477Julian Graffy 22 Iulii Raizman: Private Lives and Intimacy under Communism 500Jamie Miller 23 The Man Who Made Them Laugh: Leonid Gaidai, the King of Soviet Comedy 519Elena Prokhorova 24 Aleksei Gherman: The Last Soviet Auteur 543Anthony Anemone 25 Knowledge (Imperfective): Andrei Zviagintsev and Contemporary Cinema 565Nancy Condee Appendix Chronology of Events in Russian Cinema and History 585 Bibliography 614 Index 631
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Green Communications
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive view of green communications considering all areas of ICT including wireless and wired networks.It analyses particular concepts and practices, addressing holistic approaches in future networks considering a system perspective.It makes full use of tables, illustrations, performance graphs, case studies and examples making it accessible for a wide audience.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Preface 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals: Categorization of Green Communication concepts 3. Fundamentals: Energy Efficiency Metrics and Performance Tradeoffs of Green Wireless networks Trade-offs and metrics of green communication 4. Fundamentals: Embodied energy of communication devices 5. Wireless: Energy efficient Base stations 6. Wireless: Network design and planning 7. Wireless: Green Radio 8. Wireless: Network management 9. Wireless: Home and Enterprise Networks 10. Wireless: Towards Delay Tolerant Cognitive Cellular Networks 11. Wireless: Green MTC, M2M, Internet of Things 12. Wireless: Energy Saving standardization in Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems 13. Wireline: Routing, Switching and Transport 14. Wireline: Energy Efficient Ethernet 15. Wireline: Green Optical Networks 16. Wireline: Energy Efficient Networking in Modern Data Center 17. Wireline: SDN-Enabled Energy-Efficient Network Management 18. Wireline: Energy Efficiency Protocol Design 19. Wireline: Energy Efficiency benefits due to Information Centric Networking 20. Wireline: Energy Efficient Standards for Wireline Communications 21. Conclusion
£82.60
St Martin's Press Avid Reader A Life
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£13.99
St Martin's Press While You Were Out
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard.But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfoldinga heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the u
£24.00
WW Norton & Co The Unquiet Englishman A Life of Graham Greene
Book SynopsisA Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair.Trade Review"Diligently researched... [A]n astute and sympathetic biography." -- D.J. Taylor - Wall Street Journal"Authoritative and thoroughly researched, while being superbly readable... [The Unquiet Englishman] should long serve as the standard biography [of Graham Greene]." -- Dan Cryer - Boston Globe"[Richard Greene] displays an authoritative grasp of his subject. In a brisk and transparent style, he covers every chapter of Graham Greens' tumultuous life." -- Mary Ann Gwinn - Minneapolis Star Tribune"As [Graham] Greene’s rate of book and film production increases, the narrative becomes a dizzying merry-go-round of travel, publication, sex, alcohol, religion, money, adultery, self-loathing, intrigue and betrayal…[The Unquiet Englishman] bounds along with fluency, clarity and wry humour." -- John Walsh - Sunday Times"Thank goodness for Richard Greene, whose splendid one-volume biography…conjures [Graham Greene] in all his perplexing variety…Cogently argued and happily free of jargon, [The Unquiet Englishman] offers a long-needed antidote to ‘dirty linen’ biographers who have sought to expose a darker shade of Greene and, in consequence, lost sight of the books. At last Graham Greene has the biographer he deserves." -- Ian Thomson - Evening Standard"Cause for celebration…[Richard Greene] gives us a nicely written and well-judged cradle-to-grave portrait that needed to be conventional and unshowy, and is all the better for it…[He] has mastered a tremendous amount of material." -- Nicholas Shakespeare - Spectator"[Richard Greene] writes briskly and engagingly, with a wry wit and an endearing fondness for trivia and puns…[Graham] Greene emerges from these pages in three dimensions, as a uniquely fascinating man…We badly needed a sympathetic but clearheaded life of Greene, and this book fills the gap admirably." -- Jake Kerridge - Sunday Telegraph"Insightful... Though the narrative never loses its focus on Greene as an artist, readers will learn much about the daunting ideological barriers that Greene pushed through to craft his art... A complete portrait of a many-faceted titan." -- Booklist (starred review)"Greene's life story is both interesting and fascinating, and this balanced account offers the best reading of how his personal life infused and enriched his work." -- Library Journal (starred review)"Vivid…it’s awe-inspiring that Greene fit so much into a single life, and it’s no small feat that his latest biographer has so skillfully captured that life in a single work." -- Publishers Weekly
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Random House USA Inc The Prince of Frogtown
Book SynopsisIn the final volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winner's bestselling and beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, this evocative family memoir” (Boston Globe) delivers an unforgettable rumination about fathers and sons.Bragg documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of his youth, to Jacksonville's one-hundred-year-old mill and to his father, the troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow.Inspired by Rick Bragg's love for his stepson, The Prince of Frogtown also chronicles his own journey into fatherhood, as he learns to avoid the pitfalls of his forebearers. With candor, insight, and tremendous humor, Bragg seamlessly weaves these luminous narrative threads together.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc Yours in Truth A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Book SynopsisAn intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post “A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The New York Times Book Review Ben Bradlee was a fixture on the American scene for nearly half a century—a close friend to John F. Kennedy; the center of D.C. social life; and a crusty, charismatic editor whose decisions at the helm of the Post during Watergate changed the course of history. Granted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal Post memos, correspondence, personal photographs, and private interviews to trace the full arc of Bradlee’s forty-five-year career—from his early days as a pre
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