Journalism category: 1922 books
The Dog's Last Walk
(and Other Pieces)
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
'The author's prose is always a delight … a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' Times Literary Supplement
Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent,...
The Journalist's Craft
A Guide to Writing Better Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
This inspiring collection of 19 essays from veteran news writers explains how to weave storytelling skills into nonfiction narratives. Journalists of all backgrounds and levels of experience will discover dozens of exercises that have been tested successfully in newsrooms, workshops, and classrooms,...
Early Royko
Up Against It in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution—in Jimmy Breslin’s words, "the best journalist of his time." Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago will restore to print the legendary columnist’s earliest writings,...
Making Radio
Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The opening decades of the twentieth century witnessed a profound transformation in the history of modern sound media, with workers in U.S. film, radio, and record industries developing pioneering production methods and performance styles tailored to emerging technologies of electric sound reproduction...
by James Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Newpapers are a form of instant history, capturing forever the awe and fascination that great historical events inspire. They are also an intriguing source to return to as they reveal the contemporary view of world-changing events, before it can be shaped by subsequent developments.
While newspapers...
Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy
And Other Rules to Live By
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
** THE NEW BOOK FROM THE AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND WRITER - PRE-ORDER NOW **
'Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for him.' Daily Mail
David Mitchell's 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made...
Translating Chinese Culture
The process of Chinese--English translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Translating Chinese Culture is an innovative and comprehensive coursebook which addresses the issue of translating concepts of culture. Based on the framework of schema building, the course offers helpful guidance on how to get inside the mind of the Chinese author, how to understand what he or she...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This collection will appeal to everyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like "all part of life's rich pattern" and "long time no see". It covers a wide range of catch phrases in current use in all parts of the English-speaking world. Most entries are drawn from...
American Representations of Post-Communism
Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television....
by Emanuel Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This concise edition of the definitive 3-volume Dictionary of European Proverbs constitutes a fascinating collection of proverbs in 29 languages. The entries are arranged alphabetically according to the English equivalent, allowing the reader to identify common trends easily and quickly.
* All proverbs...
by Emanuel Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This Dictionary contains over 50,000 proverbs, in some 70 European languages and dialects, arranged in 2,500 sets. It is the fruits of over 40 years of collection and research, the only collection of proverbs on anything like this scale ever to be published anywhere in the world. Emanuel Strauss has...
Voice of the Wildcats
Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924--1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. His career followed Kentucky's rise to prominence as he announced the first four NCAA championship titles under Coach Adolph Rupp and covered...
Colloquial Panjabi
The Complete Course for Beginners
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Colloquial Panjabi: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Panjabi as it is written and spoken today.
Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language,...
by Martin Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Colloquial Somali: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Somali as it is written and spoken today.
Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language,...