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The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda's capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala-part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan-does not hesitate to dive into difficult or even dangerous situations to aid a child. Author of a newspaper column called "Lost and Abandoned," she is...
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Re-issued with a new introduction and extra chapters, A Load of Bull is the hilarious true story of an Englishman sent to Madrid to help launch Spanish Vogue.In the late eighties Tim Parfitt blagged his way into a job at Condé Nast in London and from there into a six week stint in Madrid to help launch Spanish Vogue. Six weeks turned into nine years, and helping out turned into running the company. Along the way, Tim Parfitt discovered the real 'real'...
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After Long Busyness: Interviews with Eight Heartland Poets compiles a series of interviews with poets who have a connection to South Dakota.Originally conducted for poet and editor Eric Lochridge's After Long Busyness: A Poetry Blog, the interviews reveal a surprisingly robust community of poets in the state, ranging from poet laureate David Allan Evans to prairie haiku master Chad Lee Robinson and the only non-South Dakotan in the series, Wayne Miller,...
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This collection of more than a hundred anecdotes and essays from the legendary journalist, New York Times columnist, and author of the bestselling memoir Growing Up offers wise and sharply witty reflections on an extraordinary array of topics, ranging from youth, wealth, the media, and the joy of anger to the difference between "dinner" and "supper."
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In the tradition of such beloved food writers as Ruth Reichl, Laurie Colwin, and Calvin Trillin, Carrie Seidman, an award-winning newspaper journalist for 45 years, serves forth A PLACE AT THE TABLE, a collection of food/memoir essays that got its start as a column for the late Albuquerque Tribune.
Drawing on her memories of growing, cooking, foraging for, eating, and talking about food with family, friends, and strangers, Seidman explores the...
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Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then he realized what the real problem was.
In Give Me a Break, Stossel takes on the regulators, lawyers, and politicians who thrive on our hysteria about risk...
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Recounts a famously outspoken agnostic's surprising relationship with Christianity
H. L. Mencken (1880—1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author-and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day.
In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on...
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A colorful, wide-ranging memoir of danger and adventure in wars around the world.
Anybody who says that the pen is mightier than the sword hasn't spent time in Somalia ...
So begins this memoir of a career spent examining warfare-on the ground and as the bullets are flying. While many are intrigued by these violent conflicts, Al Venter feels compelled to see them in person, preferably at the center of the action.
Born in South Africa, Venter has...
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Grand reporter pour Le Soir, Colette Braeckman arpente la planète dès les premières années de sa carrière de journaliste. Les reportages se succèdent, Amérique latine, Asie du Sud-Est, Portugal, Corne de l'Afrique… Puis dans les années 80, elle se concentre sur le pays dont elle rêvait depuis l'enfance : le Congo devenu Zaïre, l'ancienne colonie des Belges.
Elle y couvre les dernières années du régime Mobutu, l'arrivée au pouvoir...
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"[A] breezy, charming chronicle."
-Time Out New York
The legendary founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner invites you into his world with Hef's Little Black Book, an illustrated treasury of advice and maxims. The only book ever written by the iconic publisher and unabashed hedonist, Hef's Little Black Book features a new, updated Afterword from Hef himself. Dedicated Playboy readers and fans of The Girls Next Door, the hit reality TV series...
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If you're between the ages of 6 and 118, AND if you're one of the elite "7 in 9 people who consider themselves writers," then Vincent "Vinnie The Weasel" Vulpikonek's 500k/MO!! as EPIC-POET! is the only essential guide YOU'll need to achieve all of YOUR goals, literary and (much-more importantly) financial. Ably assisted by Mentor-Helpmeet-Editor-At-Largess™, Mister C.N. Sumbvert, The Weasel addresses absolutely every subject across The Writing-World,...
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A former NPR correspondent takes you into his own ghost-filled life as he reports on a region in turmoil. Gerry Hadden was training to become a Buddhist monk when opportunity came knocking: the offer of a dream job as NPR's correspondent for Latin America. Arriving in Mexico in 2000 during the nation's first democratic transition of power, he witnesses both hope and uncertainty. But after 9/11, he finds himself documenting overlooked yet extraordinary...
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A sportswriter's deeply personal memoir of the love that turned his life around, and the struggle to overcome his wife's tragic death. Doug Krikorian beat deadlines and made headlines for more than four decades as the Los Angeles region's most compelling sportswriter. His brash and combative style-featured in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and Long Beach Press-Telegram and on radio with partner Joe McDonnell-shaped fans' perceptions of Wilt Chamberlain,...
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A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.
Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe-from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism.
From September 1942, as a freshly minted...
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In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone Atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan's 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan's dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of...
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A rollicking account of how Mark Twain mocked and mined DC's self-important, incompetent, and corrupt political scene to further his literary career. When young Samuel Clemens first visited the nation's capital in 1854, both were rough around the edges and of dubious potential. Returning as Mark Twain in 1867, he brought his sharp eye and acerbic pen to the task of covering the capital for nearly a half-dozen newspapers. He fit in perfectly among...
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In his trailblazing debut, Soren Kaplan gives business leaders the tools to do exactly what they're taught to avoid: embrace surprise-the new key to business breakthroughs. Instead of fighting against uncertainty, Kaplan reveals how to use it to break down limiting mindsets and barriers to change the game. By highlighting specific ways to transform both good and bad surprises into unique opportunities, Kaplan encourages leaders to compete by embracing...
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Award-winning journalist and CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir takes readers through time and around our changing world to confront the biggest threats to life as we know it and search for proven ways to build happier, healthier, and more resilient communities, come what may.
While reporting from every state and continent, and filming his acclaimed CNN Original Series, The Wonder List, Bill Weir has spent decades telling the stories of unique...
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Self-Publishing - 3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Self-Publish, How to Write Fiction and How to Write Non-Fiction
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HOW TO SELF-PUBLISH:
7 Easy Steps to Master Self-Publishing, eBook Creation, Ghostwriting, Book Marketing & Publishing.
YOU'LL LEARN:
• The beginning stages of self-publishing (writing, editing, and title generation)
• The intermediate stages of self-publishing (design and description writing)
• How to set...
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In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From the skyline to garbage collection, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residents was one that Liebling described as the apotheosis of such criticism: a postcard that read, simply, "You were never in Chicago."
The dynamic captured in this anecdote has always fascinated Chicago Sun-Times...
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