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Broadcast Newswriting: The RTNDA Reference Guide
This book is filled with tips about words. No matter where you look you'll find examples of what to do and what to avoid. Nobody made up these examples. Nobody...
The Surge: The Race Against the Most Destructive Force in Nature
An Observer 'book to look out for' in 2026 A New Scientist pick for 2026 The Surge is a timely, gripping account of humanity's battle against rising waters - and...
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance
'Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but not proscriptive: there's not an awful lot of wiggle room there, but it's the space...
Copy Righter: Become a Master Wordsmith and Harness the Copywriting
An invaluable, modern guide to great copywriting, Copy. Righter. shows you how to write in a way that is brand-literate, media-savvy, utterly engaging...and irresistibly persuasive. It will show you how...
The Good Ship Venus: Erotic Voyage of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia
The book titled The Good Ship Venus: Erotic Voyage of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia by the author John De St. Jorre. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media The classic political study of how elite forces shape mass media. Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky...
A New York Life: Of Friends and Others
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The book titled A New York Life: Of Friends and Others by the author Brendan Gill. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald
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This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of...
Man from Babel
The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of...
Fortunate Circumstances
The sole anchorman of ITN's News at Ten describes his rise from Radio Trinidad, via the BBC World Service, to his current position as international journalist and the guiding hand...
Waiting for the Monsoon
By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the
Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...
The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality
The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the...
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. Mccormick 1880-1955
For most of his varied and colorful career, Colonel Robert R. McCormick was the self-proclaimed emperor of "Chicagoland," a Middle America of his own imagination, forever at odds with the...
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over
Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andre Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit...
Breaking News
During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Martin Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to Tel Aviv bureau chief for NBC News. His extraordinary, real-life adventure...
Packaging Prototypes: v. 1
Packaging Prototypes is the first book to offer designers, and those who commission design, a work which is both a source of inspiration and an invaluable reference tool. It aims...
Once While Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story
Tony and Maureen Wheeler established Lonely Planet Publications in the basement of a terrace house in Sydney in 1973, to self-publish a modest travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap....
Venus Bound:: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press
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We Interrupt This Broadcast
Features the great news stories which have broken in upon broadcasting throughout the BBC's prestigious 75-year history. Events include the moon landing, the deaths of Kennedy and Diana, the Suez...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...
Scribe: My Life in Sports
Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him...
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium...
A Mighty Heart: the Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
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In "A Mighty Heart," an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny...
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992: From the author of the Sunday
'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard 'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep It's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the...
My Turn to Make the Tea: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE 'Wherever her eye falls, it...
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local
WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 'A hilarious and depressing account of the shrivelling of local journalism' GRAHAM ROBB, Spectator Books of the Year 'For those...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he...
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who put the price of an AIDS pill up from $13.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs...
News Cowboys: Behind the scenes of international breaking news,
News cowboys - it was the nickname the reporters and camerapeople at Seven Network's Los Angeles bureau jokingly gave themselves as they headed off on assignments, not knowing what to...
News Cowboys: Behind the scenes of international breaking news,
News cowboys - it was the nickname the reporters and camerapeople at Seven Network's Los Angeles bureau jokingly gave themselves as they headed off on assignments, not knowing what to...
Life As We Know It (Can Be): My Search for a World Worth Passing Down
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...
The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media
An unnerving look at right-wing media and the affect it has on us all-on every family level After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News,...
Jane Austen at Penguin: 50 Postcards from 10 Decades
A collection of 50 postcards, each featuring an iconic Jane Austen cover from Penguin, in a beautifully designed box. 'I have now attained the true art of letter writing,' wrote...
The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron
'Superb...his pages fizz with character and colour' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Scholarly and very readable' Andrew Lycett, Spectator 'Energetic and hugely entertaining' A.N.Wilson, TLS The definitive biography of Alfred Harmsworth,...
Playing for Time
The humour of self-deprecation is peculiarly English. Few people do it better than Jeremy Lewis. His first two autobiographical volumes ? Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits ? are being...
The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
"The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He's...
Lost In Transmission
A funny and moving memoir of a young journalist on a mission to make sense of life in a part of the world that never makes sense... 'I grew up...
The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great
In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public...
The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the
A true detective story from the age of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers- the literary crime that fooled the world - and the daring young booksellers who uncovered it...
The Wit of the "Spectator"
The book titled The Wit of the "Spectator" by the author Christopher Howse. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Rules Do Not Apply
'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris 'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There...
One to One
The book titled One to One by the author Ramona Koval. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.