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Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
Author Barbara Ehrenreich isn't against happiness, hope, good health and good thoughts. She just wants to end the mass delusion of the power of positive thinking.
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International News Reporting
International News Reporting is a compilation of essays from leading reporters edited by John Owen and Heather Purdey.
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Reporting War, Edited by Allan and Zelizer
This recommended book is a collection of essays from leading journalists and academics discussing compelling issues associated with reporting contemporary warfare.
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The Universal Journalist, 3rd edition
Author David Randall taps into his thirty years of experience to present common sense journalism in a well organized and easily referenced guide.
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Al-Jazeera, by El-Nawawy and Iskandar
How did a free Arab news network scoop the world and change the Middle East? This book chronicles the development and success of Al-Jazeera.
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The Global Journalist, by Philip Seib
An exploration of journalism as a moral enterprise with insight on news and conscience in a world of conflict.
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Compassion Fatigue, by Susan D. Moeller
Compassion Fatigue is an ambitious analysis of the how the media sells disease, famine, death, and war in the last two decades of the twentieth century.
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Review of Judith Shklar's American Citizenship
Being an 'American citizen' does not entitle one to employment or the right to vote- Judith Shklar asks why this is in her book 'American Citizenship'.
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Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby and Hunter S. Thompson
Just as Gatsby spent his life chasing the green light over the bay, Thompson spent his career chasing the elusive American Dream.
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Kierkegaard's Influence on Hunter S. Thompson
Thompson's writings on the death of the American dream are, in part, a response to Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.
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Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
The compelling and eye opening story of the American woman who married King Hussein and became Queen of Jordan, learning first hand about cultural and political relations
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The Great Unraveling
This collection of Krugman's columns for the New York Times from 1999 to 2003 explains why economic policy at that time favored those with political connections.
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Rule Number Two: Stories from Iraq
A Marine Psychologist Writes About Her Deployment While She Served At The Al Asad Airbase In Iraq.
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I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing
The poet Lucia Perillo has written a painfully truthful, always enlightening book of essays about living with Multiple Sclerosis.
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Smoke From the Branding Fire
The late cowman Hank Pallister spent his entire working life in the cattle industry. This book is a compilation of some of his stories, poems and researched articles.
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Ways We're All Going to Die
Think your day's going poorly? Trust in this: It really, truly could be worse. The trip to Armageddon has many a vehicle, be it nukes, comet strikes or lost biodiversity
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Author George Saunders' Nonfiction
Review of George Saunders' new collection of essays "The Braindead Megaphone," as it travels from Dubai to Nepal to the U.S./Mexico border to right here at home.
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The Rape of Nanking
In 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army began an assault on Nanking and slaughtered 300,000 Chinese civilians. This article provides a short overview of the massacre.
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The Earth Moved: Amy Stewart
Earthworms live beneath our feet, we seldom think about them. However, as Amy Stewart enlightens us in her book 'The Earth Moved' earthworms are very important.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning study of global human history, Jared Diamond offers a powerful explanation as to why some peoples rose to power and others fell behind
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Book Review - Weapon
Continuing in the traditions of DK's Eye Witness series, Weapon provides an enlightening inventory of the tools that have helped shape world history
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James Tiptree, Jr
For nine years debate raged over who was behind the mysterious byline of James Tiptree, Jr., until in 1977 it was revealed that 'he' was really Alice B. Sheldon
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Schott's Original Miscellany
In how many countries is voting compulsory? Can you name all the Bronte sisters? And what exactly does BHM stand for in the world of dating?
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Great Exploration Hoaxes
Dr. Frederick Cook and Robert E. Peary were experienced Arctic explorers but lied when they said that they reached the top of Mt. McKinley and the North Pole.
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The Worst Jobs in History
Tony Robinson explores some dangerous occupations throughout British history, from Roman gold mining to a Victorian tannery.
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