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  • High School Journalism: A Practical Guide

    A Practical Guide

    by Jim Streisel ...
    High school journalists share the same objectives as professional reporters--finding the story, writing the story, and packaging the story so that it appeals to an audience. Understanding how to best accomplish these objectives is key to the student on the newspaper, yearbook or Web site staff, but the fundamental art of storytelling and story presentation are not always at the center of high ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

    by Mary Roach ...
    "Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain NewsThe best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    by Mary Roach ...
    "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment WeeklyStiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Froth and Scum

    Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America's First Mass Medium

    by Andie Tucher ...
    Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases--a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt--set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspaper--cheap, feisty, and politically independent--introduced American readers ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • In My Fashion: The Autobiography of Bettina Ballard, Fashion Editor of Vogue

    Series series V&A Fashion Perspectives
    Bettina Ballard, Paris-based correspondent and later Fashion Editor for US Vogue, was at the centre of the fashion world from the 1930s to the ’50s and an intimate of Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga and Elsa Schiaparelli. With journalistic flair, she captures the spirit of pre-war Paris, the working methods of the fashion greats and the transformation of the post-war fashion industry with the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays

    In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Bureau of Spies

    The Secret Connections between Espionage and Journalism in Washington

    Brings to light the long history of spies posing as journalists in Washington.Covert intelligence gathering, propaganda, fake news stories, dirty tricks--these tools of spy craft have been used for seven decades by agents hiding in plain sight in Washington's National Press Building. This revealing book tells the story of espionage conducted by both US and foreign intelligence operatives just ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism

    Lessons From the Front Lines

    A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism brings together award-winning journalists from around the world to share fascinating tales of science and how it works and to provide guidance into reporting specialties like infectious disease, climate change, astronomy, public health, physics, and statistics. From practical advice on finding sources and distilling complex research subjects for a general ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Avoiding the News

    Reluctant Audiences for Journalism

    Series series Reuters Institute Global Journalism Series
    A small but growing number of people in many countries consistently avoid the news. They feel they do not have time for it, believe it is not worth the effort, find it irrelevant or emotionally draining, or do not trust the media, among other reasons. Why and how do people circumvent news? Which groups are more and less reluctant to follow the news? In what ways is news avoidance a problem—for ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Witness Tree

    Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak

    An intimate look at one majestic hundred-year-old oak tree through four seasons--and the reality of global climate change it reveals.In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping its leaves later as the climate warms. Even the inner workings of individual leaves have changed to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Wandering Dixie

    Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South

    by Sue Eisenfeld ...
    Sue Eisenfeld is a Yankee by birth, a Virginian by choice, an urbanite who came to love the rural South, a Civil War buff, and a nonobservant Jewish woman. In Wandering Dixie, she travels to nine states, uncovering how the history of Jewish southerners converges with her personal story and the region’s complex, conflicted present. In the process, she discovers the unexpected ways that race, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    by Michael Lewis ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."-Graydon Carter, Vanity FairThe real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

    by Mary Roach ...
    “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller.Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

    by Mary Roach ...
    The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

    by Mary Roach ...
    “Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It’s compulsively readable.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Guadalcanal Diary

    #1 New York Times Bestseller: A “superb” eyewitness account of one of the bloodiest and most pivotal battles of World War II (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down).On August 7, 1942, eleven thousand US Marines landed on Tulagi and Guadalcanal Islands in the South Pacific. It was the first major Allied offensive against Japanese forces; the first time in history that a combined air, land, and sea ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Could Be You

    An addictive and gripping suspense thriller

    by Sheila Bugler ...
    Series Book 1 - A Dee Doran Crime Thriller
    A life has been taken. But whose life is it?On a stifling hot day, former journalist Dee Doran finds the crumpled body of her friend at the roadside. Katie and her little boy, Jake, have been a light in Dee’s otherwise desolate life – now a woman is dead and a child is missing.Katie has been keeping secrets for a long time. Years earlier, she fell for the wrong person. But he was in love with ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media Ethics

    A Guide For Professional Conduct

    Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics — the news industry's widely accepted "gold standard" of journalism principles — this updated edition uses real-life case studies to demonstrate how journalism students and professionals can identify and reason through ethical dilemmas. Stressing the cross-platform viability of basic ethical principles, this study ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    “A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution” and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invasion Diary

    A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Allied Invasion of Italy

    A dramatic and richly detailed chronicle of the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy from one of America’s greatest war correspondents.Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, Allied military strategists turned their attention to southern Italy. Winston Churchill famously described the region as the “soft underbelly of Europe,” and claimed that an invasion would pull German troops from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    by Michael Lewis ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller—Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount PicturesFrom the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The film adaptation by Adam McKay (Anchorman I and II, The Other Guys) features Academy Award® winners Christian Bale, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Socratic Assassin

    Socratic Interviews 0f Politicians and Journalists

    by Jan Helfeld ...
    Jan Helfeld has revealed the contradictions and flawed character of the most high-profile politicians, including Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator John McCain, and many more.Nobody in America (or in the world) has ever done this like Jan Helfeld has. You have never seen anything like this on TV or the internet.TV news executives and journalists have ... Read more

    $3.00 USD

  • Round the Bend

    Jeremy Clarkson gets REALLY riled up in Round the BendWhat's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you?This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles attempting to block highway and byway, he he:- Shows how the world of performance cars may be ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • VOICE: The Secret Power of Great Writing

    Series Book 7 - Bell's Knockout Fiction Series
    What is the single greatest secret to a breakout writing career? What is it that every agent and editor wants to see, and every reader delights in?It's VOICE. Everyone talks about it, yet no one seems able to define it. Voice has therefore been the most elusive aspect of the entire writing craft to teach.Until now.In this book, #1 bestselling writing teacher James Scott Bell reveals the true ... Read more

    $4.99 USD