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Since the magazine’s first issue in 1964, TeenSet’s role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underapprec......more
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A powerful critique of mass incarceration by the people who have experienced it Inside Knowledge is the first book to ex......more
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Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public offic......more
Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political co......more
The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor......more
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The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 proclaimed a vision of freedom of expression exercised......more
Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American......more
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There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fun......more
Lalithambika Antharjanam (1909-1989) was one of the earliest women to gain recognition in modern Malayalam literature as......more
The ESL Writer s Handbook is a reference work for ESL students who are taking college-level courses. Because its purpose......more
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While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, ar......more
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The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines ......more
BAX 2015 is the second volume of an annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction......more
Conventional wisdom holds that the Bush administration was able to convince the American public to support a war in Iraq......more
A theory of control, equally grounded in syntax and semantics, that argues that obligatory control is achieved either th......more
Engaged Journalism explores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists c......more
This book examines in detail traditional status signals in the translation profession. It provides case studies of eight......more
Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country s most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Lo......more
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Teaching the parts of speech is super fun with Marvin Terban--Professor Grammar himself--as a virtual co-teacher. Marvin......more
Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government "of the people, by the people and for the peo......more
The Core and the Periphery is a collection of papers inspired by the linguistics career of Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013), writ......more
Writing in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in......more
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Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react? Revisiting our ......more
How midcentury periodicals that fostered an indelible middle-class ideal for American women also confronted the happy ho......more
Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Medi......more
A scrutiny of the ANC s policy towards the press since 1994. Fight for Democracy is a penetrating and critical scrutiny ......more
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The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is ......more
Maurice Sendak′s classic book Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventures of Max, a headstrong young boy who leaves......more
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This volume recasts the influential work of Barbara H. Partee in light of new studies surrounding the semantics of quant......more
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Images of the assassination of John F. Kennedy are burned deeply into the memories of millions who watched the events of......more
Mary Dalrymple provides a theory of the syntax of anaphoric binding, couched in the framework of Lexical-Functional Gram......more
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This book is the first systematic study of investigative reporting in the post-Watergate era. The authors examine the hi......more
Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this......more
Designed for introductory courses in Old English, Word-Hoard offers a vocabulary of some 2000 words drawn from the poems......more
Newmeyer persuasively defends the controversial theory of transformational generative grammar. Grammatical Theory is for......more
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