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The Little Book of Plagiarism
Written by Richard A. Posner
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $10.95
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first... Read more >
Written by Richard A. Posner
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $10.95
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Best of Emerge Magazine
Written by George Curry
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $19.95
The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influence–and faced more explosive issues–than ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them. Emerge.
In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit, Emerge became a serious part of the American mainstream. Time... Read more >
Written by George Curry
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $19.95
The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influence–and faced more explosive issues–than ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them. Emerge.
In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit, Emerge became a serious part of the American mainstream. Time... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Star Machine
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.95
From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars.
With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio “star machine” worked when it worked, how it failed when it... Read more >
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.95
From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked to manufacture stars.
With revelatory insights and delightful asides, Jeanine Basinger shows us how the studio “star machine” worked when it worked, how it failed when it... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Yosemite Murders
Written by Dennis McDougal
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them
They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of the spellbinding true crime tour de force Mother's... Read more >
Written by Dennis McDougal
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $7.99
Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them
They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of the spellbinding true crime tour de force Mother's... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
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The Star Machine
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $35.00
From one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.
Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from... Read more >
Written by Jeanine Basinger
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2007
Price: $35.00
From one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.
Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Race Beat
The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Written by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $17.00
An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.
Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show... Read more >
The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Written by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $17.00
An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.
Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Little Book of Plagiarism
Written by Richard A. Posner
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $10.95
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first... Read more >
Written by Richard A. Posner
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $10.95
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Age of Missing Information
Written by Bill McKibben
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $14.95
“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”
——The New York Times
Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment... Read more >
Written by Bill McKibben
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $14.95
“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”
——The New York Times
Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment... Read more >
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Outrage, Passion, and Uncommon Sense
How Editorial Writers Have Taken On and Helped Shape the Great American Issues o f the Past 150 Years
Written by Michael Gartner and Newseum
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $30.00
Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues and events in U.S. history through the nation's editorial pages. Approximately fifty editorials are reprinted here on topics ranging from suffrage... Read more >
How Editorial Writers Have Taken On and Helped Shape the Great American Issues o f the Past 150 Years
Written by Michael Gartner and Newseum
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $30.00
Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues and events in U.S. history through the nation's editorial pages. Approximately fifty editorials are reprinted here on topics ranging from suffrage... Read more >
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Hard News
Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
Written by Seth Mnookin
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $14.95
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core... Read more >
Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
Written by Seth Mnookin
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $14.95
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Hard News
The Scandals at The New York Times and the Future of American Media
Written by Seth Mnookin
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core... Read more >
The Scandals at The New York Times and the Future of American Media
Written by Seth Mnookin
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 9, 2004
Price: $14.95
On May 11, 2003, The New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former Times reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the Times to its core... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Best of Emerge Magazine
Written by George Curry
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2003
Price: $19.95
The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influence–and faced more explosive issues–than ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them. Emerge.
In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit, Emerge became a serious part of the American mainstream. Time... Read more >
Written by George Curry
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2003
Price: $19.95
The 1990s. African Americans achieved more influence–and faced more explosive issues–than ever before. One word captured those times. One magazine expressed them. Emerge.
In those ten years, with an impressive circulation of 170,000 and more than forty national awards to its credit, Emerge became a serious part of the American mainstream. Time... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $18.95
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political... Read more >
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $18.95
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political... Read more >
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The Yosemite Murders
Written by Dennis McDougal
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $7.99
Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them
They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of the spellbinding true crime tour de force Mother's... Read more >
Written by Dennis McDougal
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2000
Price: $7.99
Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them
They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of the spellbinding true crime tour de force Mother's... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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