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It's a WONDERFUL Life.(public radio show): An article from: American Journalism Review

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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on July 1, 1999. The length of the article is 4124 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: The public radio show 'This American Life' offers an innovative way of approaching and covering events.  read more »

Channels 2 and 5 fail to measure up to breaking story of gas explosion. (television stations play up wrong account about

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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on December 1, 1994. The length of the article is 990 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: KMOV Channel 4 was the only station to give accurate details of the events surrounding the explosion which occurred in Jennings, MO, at 4 p.m. on Oct. 16, 1994.  read more »

Viets' future with the Post uncertain; she continues to build syndication. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Elaine

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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1716 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Elaine Viets was a fashion writer when she started at the St. Louis Post- Dispatch in the late 1970s.  read more »

Covering China (Media Studies Series)

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The relationship between China and the United States has been marked by a lack of mutual comprehension that stretches from America's missionary paternalism in the early twentieth century to the fears and fascinations of the present. Throughout the twentieth century China has attracted the attention of American journalists, from the first China hands who covered an ancient country lurching into the modern world, to the chroniclers of World War II and the Chinese civil war, to the reporters who today explore the contradictions of China's economy.  read more »

Labor Struggles In The Deep South and Other Writings

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asin: 0882862448
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In the half-century since it was written, Hall's Labor Struggles In The Deep South, published here for the first time, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall - journalist, organizer, rebel, professor and poet - brings to life the dramatic early 20th century struggles of the waterfront workers of New Orleans and the militant timber workers of Louisiana and East Texas.  read more »

Outlines & Highlights for Business Communication: With Writing Improvement Exercises by Hemphill, ISBN: 0130400211 (Cram101

cover of Outlines & Highlights for Business Communication: With Writing Improvement Exercises by Hemphill, ISBN: 0130400211 (Cram101author: Cram101 Textbook Reviews
asin: 1428805435
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Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.

The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean

cover of The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegeanauthor: Michael N. Kalafatas
asin: 1584652721
binding: Hardcover
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For centuries,the young men of the Dodecanese Islands, a string of islands in the Aegean Sea between Greece and the coast of Asia Minor, earned their living by diving for sponges. They would descend to the bottom of the sea on just a single breath of air, using as a weight and rudder a flat, marble diving stone called a bellstone. They used this ancient technique of "naked diving" until 1863 when the deep-sea diving suit was introduced into the sponge-fishing industry.  read more »

The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing

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The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret.Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs.  read more »