Journalism category: 1922 books
The Big Heat
Earth on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers,...
Mind the gap
het Engelse eilandgevoel en de vele tegenstellingen in één land
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 3, 2017
‘Mind the gap’ klinkt het voortdurend in de Londense Underground. Een betere metafoor voor het Verenigd Koninkrijk is er nauwelijks; niet alleen voor de afstand tussen de Britten en het Europese vasteland maar ook voor de verschillen binnen de Britse samenleving: stad en land, arm en rijk, Engelsen,...
by Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Semitic Languages presents a unique, comprehensive survey of individual languages or language clusters from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms.
The Semitic family occupies a position of great historical and linguistic significance: the spoken and written languages of the Phoenicians,...
by Boping Yuan, Kan Qian
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Developing Writing Skills in Chinese has been devised for post-intermediate students who need to write Chinese in the course of their life, work or study.
Each unit covers a specific style of writing and is reinforced with a rich selection of model texts. All texts are followed by supporting...
Familiar Strangers, Juvenile Panic and the British Press
The Decline of Social Trust
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book argues that Britain is gripped by an endemic and ongoing panic about the position of children in society – which frames them as, alternately, victims and threats. It argues the press is a key player in promoting this discourse, which is rooted in a wide-scale breakdown in social trust.
Public Issue Radio
Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Based on original and previously unseen written and sound archives and interviews with former and current radio producers and presenters, Public Issue Radio addresses the controversial question of the political leanings of current affairs programmes, and asks if Analysis became an early platform for both Thatcherite and Blairite ideas.
by Noha Mellor
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Since September 11, Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity. But is news coverage in Arab countries all that different from American coverage? The Making of Arab News draws comparisons, including examples of Arabic news language...
Will the Real Pakistani Woman Please Stand Up?
Empire, Visual Culture and the Brown Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This series of absorbing case studies focuses on the portrayal of Pakistani women in the global media. Analyzing Hollywood films, British documentaries, newspapers and mainstream U.S. magazines, the book traces sensational female figures of Pakistan—all of whom have been subject to patriarchal violence—highlighting...
War Stories
A GI Reporter in Vietnam, 1970-1971
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author—“an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men”—chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles. His stories gave the Army’s version of events, sprinkled with human interest and...
Changing Minds or Changing Channels?
Partisan News in an Age of Choice
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has been roundly castigated for...
The Girl on the Magazine Cover
The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.
Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930...
The Pastor and the Painter
Inside the lives of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran from Aussie schoolboys to Bali 9 drug traffickers to Kerobokan's redeemed men
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A very personal look at Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Cindy Wockner was a journalist reporting the story of two surly drug smugglers. She was there from the beginning and would become a good friend of the two changed men.
At 12.35 a.m. on 29 April 2015, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran...
Revival: An English-Chinese Dictionary of Peking Colloquial (1945)
New Edition Enlarged by Sir Trelawny Backhouse and Sidney Barton
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Many of the marks attached to the phonetic rendering of the Chinese words in this volume differ from those assigned to them in the dictionaries. These apparent discrepencies are intentional, the tones being given as they are applied, or appear to the ear of the compiler to be applied, by the natives of Peking.
Leila Khaled
Icon of Palestinian Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara.*BR**BR*In this intimate...