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461) Absolute Radio
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From the heart of Africa, a spellbinding true story of entrepreneurship, media, culture and tradition, all tastefully rolled into one! Absolute Radio is an authentic story of girls and boys who became women and men, and heroes, on the wings of a radio station. Running the course of 25 years, the story comes from the culturally stylish twin city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, with global footprints. It is the most tantalising and groundbreaking body...
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The first book that J. Malcolm Garcia ever bought would impact his life in a way that the then twelve-year-old could have never imagined. The Day the Red Baron Died plunged Garcia into the intrigue and excitement of the World War I German flying ace's life and death. Garcia was enraptured and brimming with questions. His mother encouraged the curious boy to write to the book's author, Dale M. Titler. When the author replied, a friendship began...
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Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the majority of our mainstream news is no longer just liberal; it's woke. Today's newsrooms are propagating radical ideas that were fringe as recently as a decade ago, including "antiracism," intersectionality,...
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Autour de la liberté d'expression au Maroc.
Abdelfettah Fakihani est journaliste depuis 1990. Il a été emprisonné pour délit d'opinion une première fois de mars 1972 à août 1973, puis de 1975 à 1989. Au-delà de son témoignage sur son incarcération, il nous livre sa vision du militantisme avant, pendant et après sa détention. Il pose les questions de la fragile liberté d'expression et de l'option démocratique au Maroc.
Cet ouvrage...
465) We're Standing By
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"We're Standing By."
Say "Al Allen" in Metro Detroit, and people smile, thinking of the cheerful reporter who greeted them through their TV screens every morning... broadcasting live from frigid freeway overpasses, crime scenes, celebrations, and just about anywhere.
Al Allen's iconic voice and face on the Fox 2 Morning Show, as well as evening and radio newscasts before that, provided big city news in a hard news town for 50-years.
He delivered firsthand...
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Quand l'addiction devient un fléau et entraîne violence et délinquance dans son sillage...
Sans conteste, la question de l'addiction est parmi les plus difficiles à appréhender, selon les spécialistes qui se succèdent comme «experts» devant les tribunaux.
En reportage aux « Alcooliques Anonymes », un homme d'une quarantaine d'années confia à l'auteur qu'il en était arrivé à boire de l'Eau de Cologne pour assouvir son assuétude...
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Découvrez les pensées, le vécu et les sentiments d'une jeune femme qui doit affronter les mystères de la vie et du suicide de son père.
Récit sensible d'un deuil et d'une quête de sens, Ianthe Brautigan, fille de l'écrivain culte Richard Brautigan, dresse un portrait intime et pudique de son père.
Ce livre contient également de nombreuses photos inédites.
Ianthe Brautigan, d'une langue juste et sobre, dresse un portrait intime et pudique...
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Yvan Tetelbom nous raconte son errance dans un monde trop violent, mais aussi sa reconstruction rendue possible grâce à la poésie.
Un enfant insouciant, émerveillé par la vie, est soudain figé dans son élan par la destruction de son innocence, dont la déflagration le projette dans un monde trop dur pour lui. Un chemin d'errance et de solitude au cours duquel il est confronté à la violence de la guerre d'Algérie, à la douleur de l'exil,...
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'The story of India's most neglected region told by the narrative voice of a poor, petulant reporter… Stripped of the exotic, the Northeast in [this book] appears bare, burnt and betrayed…'
-Scroll.in
When violence broke out before elections in Assam in 2000, in which Hindi-speakers from North India were massacred, two out-of-work journalists, Anil Yadav and Anhes Shashwat, decided to go there, braving violence and uncertainty, with the hope...
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"It's hard to know when you're having a breakdown in New York City. The symptoms of living here, succeeding here, and losing your mind here are almost identical." So begins Matousek's 1996 breakout memoir about leaving a fast-track publishing life (working for pop artist Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine) and hitting the dharma trail in search of a meaningful life and spiritual wisdom. Hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "brave, beautiful, and brilliantly...
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How the US Army developed historical programs since World War I-sending combat historians into the fray to interview soldiers and collect documents for the benefit of history.
In World War I, Major General Pershing proposed the idea of establishing a historical office within the AEF headquarters. The War Department reorganized the General Staff to include a Historical Branch. Evidence shows that soldiers acting as historians went "down range,"...
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Huell Howser, the exuberant, hugely popular host of California's Gold and other public-television shows, was always exclaiming to the camera in his Southern drawl, "Louie, take a look at this!" Now, three years after Howser's death, Louie-aka Luis Fuerte, a five-time Emmy-winning cameraman-shares the stories of their adventures exploring California, making great television, and showcasing Howser's infectious love for the Golden State. During their...
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Make those writing, dreams a reality with this comprehensive guide of publishing secrets, which will, show you how, to go from staring at an empty page, to becoming a published author. Sound familiar? In all honesty, it's never been easier or cheaper to get your book published.
Equally, there are numerous book publishing gurus selling the idea, that writers can become successful authorpreneurs, if they follow their respective tips, usually at a hefty...
474) Not So Wild a Dream
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In this captivating first-person account, Eric Sevareid describes in thrilling detail his time as a journalist covering international affairs during World War II. From a young man in North Dakota to an instrumental figure in establishing CBS as an international news organization, Sevareid witnessed the shaping of America's journalistic landscape. His experiences provide an invaluable glimpse into the trials and tribulations of a dogged reporter. With...
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At 21, Belén left the U.S. and didn't look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she confronts violence, lechery, and places where it's hard to find a good glass of wine, and reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world.
After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Belén Fernández ended up in a state of self-imposed...
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The must-read summary of Jerome Tuccille's book: "Rupert Murdoch: Australia's Richest Man".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jerome Tuccille's book "Rupert Murdoch" tells the life story of one of the world's most successful businessmen. In his book, the author takes a look at Murdoch's life, giving fascinating biographical detail and analysing why and how he became so powerful. This summary also explores how Murdoch's early years had an...
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“Diary of a Scaredy Cat: a year in the life of a frightened writer”. Diane Wordsworth was struggling to get back into the swing of being a full-time freelance writer. She'd done it very well in the past, thank you very much. But years of editing books for various publishers had taken her out of the discipline of the freelance writing world and she needed to get back in. When she met her future husband in 2013, he very quickly encouraged her to...
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“Behind the Mic” takes the reader into radio newsrooms and on the air from the 1970s and on. It details some of the region's major events from the Saint John jail fire to the Westray Mine explosion. Readers will also learn about the inner workings of a news department and those who bring us the news each day.
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If it is true that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one picture is worth a thousand words, Thomas Nast must certainly rank as one of the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American history. His pen, dipped in satire, aroused an apathetic, disinterested, and uninformed public to indignation and action more than once. The most notable Nast campaign, and probably the one best recorded today, was directed against New York...
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Dominick Dunne seemed to live his entire adult life in the public eye, but in this biography Robert Hofler reveals a conflicted, enigmatic man who reinvented himself again and again. As a television and film producer in the 1950s-1970s, hobnobbing with Humphrey Bogart and Natalie Wood, he found success and crushing failure in a pitiless Hollywood. As a Vanity Fair journalist covering the lives of the rich and powerful, he mesmerized readers with his...
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