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| Author | : Justin Lewis |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780820474182 |
Based on extensive original research, Shoot First and Ask Questions Later provides a comprehensive analysis of media coverage of the war in Iraq in 2003. The authors look closely at the main actors involved through a broad range of interviews with journalists (both embedded and non-embedded), news editors, news heads, and with key planners at the Pentagon and the UK Ministry of Defence. This book also investigates how the war was represented on television, employing both a systematic content analysis of the broadcast news coverage of the war and a series of case studies that unravel key moments of good and bad reporting during the war. Finally, it examines how people responded to and interpreted the information they received from the media, drawing upon both large-scale surveys and focus groups. What emerges, for all its blemishes, is a picture of a sophisticated, military public-relations campaign - one that had less to do with censorship than with promoting certain kinds of coverage. At the heart of this was the embedded journalists program, which has clearly changed the way war is reported. In future, the authors argue, journalists need to understand their role in this public relations effort, and to ask questions not only when access is denied, but also when it is granted.
| Author | : JB Lynn |
| Publisher | : Jennifer Baum |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2024-08-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Pet portrait artist Kiki Long is driving to her first day of work at her new job as the Pride Falls forensic photographer when she spots a smoking car that's skidded off the road. After confirming nobody is inside, her natural inclination to document what she's witnessing takes over and she starts taking pictures, which means she's standing too close when the vehicle explodes. Now she's dealing with a head injury and an irate detective who accuses her messing up his crime scene. That's nobody's definition of a good first day. But she did do a good job with the photos. They prove that the owner of the car didn't die in the explosion, and they give the ornery detective a place to start his investigation. It's the goat that Kiki saw before she started snapping photos that makes her curious. Despite the detective's dismissal of her idea, she starts her own amateur sleuthing along with her two best friends, Her curiosity just might just get them all killed.
| Author | : Caroline Light |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2017-02-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807064661 |
A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for “good guys with guns” relies on the entrenched belief that certain “bad guys with guns” threaten us all. Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories—from the original “castle laws” of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of “criminal” Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country’s most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States’ unprecedented ascension as the world’s foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable.
| Author | : Piers Steel |
| Publisher | : Random House Canada |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2010-12-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0307366383 |
DON'T WAIT TO READ THIS BOOK: The world's leading expert on procrastination uses his groundbreaking research to offer understanding on a matter that bedevils us all. Writing with humour, humanity and solid scientific information reminiscent of Stumbling on Happiness and Freakonomics, Piers Steel explains why we knowingly and willingly put off a course of action despite recognizing we'll be worse off for it. For those who surf the Web instead of finishing overdue assignments, who always say diets start tomorrow, who stay up late watching TV to put off going to sleep, The Procrastination Equation explains why we do what we do—or in this case don't—and why in Western societies we're in the midst of an escalating procrastination epidemic. Dr. Piers Steel takes on the myths and misunderstandings behind procrastination and motivation. With accessible prose and the benefits of new scientific research, he provides insight into why we procrastinate even though the result is that we are less happy, healthy, and even wealthy. Who procrastinates and why? How many ways, big and small, do we procrastinate? How can we stop doing it? The reasons are part cultural, part psychological, part biological. And, with a million new ways to distract ourselves in the digitized world, more of us are potentially damaging ourselves by putting things off. But Steel not only analyzes the factors that weigh us down but the things that motivate us—including understanding the value of procrastination.
| Author | : Martin H. Manser |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 513 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Proverbs, English |
| ISBN | : 0816066736 |
Lists the meaning and origin of more than 1,700 traditional and contemporary English proverbs.
| Author | : JB Lynn |
| Publisher | : Jennifer Baum |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2024-08-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Ever since her husband disappeared seven months ago and it came out that he’d been embezzling funds from the town, pet photographer Kiki Long has been keeping a low profile. But now it’s time to focus on creating a new life for herself. Risking the wrath of the town’s residents, Kiki attends the annual Pride Falls Fair where she’s regarded with a mix of animosity, curiosity, and pity. When a participant in the pie eating contest drops dead due to poisoning, Kiki realizes that the pictures she captured at the fair could hold the key to figuring out the mystery of his death. But it’s not like she can go to Sheriff Rockland with them. He still considers her to be a suspect in her husband’s disappearance. With the help of her cat, Kodak, Kiki sets out to prove that her friend, who baked the deadly pie, did not poison it. Can she catch the killer? Or will this new development be what lands her in prison?
| Author | : Brett Reetz |
| Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1648041000 |
Lucy Gaines (HC) By: Brett Reetz A bizarre and inexplicable killing has occurred on the Peninsula. What remains of the body appears to have been devoured by animals, but this is impossible. There are no wild animals in the county capable of doing such a thing to a human body, no humans either. Lucy Gaines, a Sheriff’s Deputy working the case, is in the throes of a premature mid-life crisis. When isn’t she, she wonders? All she wants is to have a normal life with a husband, children, a dog and a picket fence in front of a modest home. She’s working on it but the killing isn’t stopping. There’s more. Something evil has arrived on the Peninsula and it wants Lucy. It knows her needs and makes Lucy a tempting offer. She needs to decide. Her life depends on it.
| Author | : Megan Mitcham |
| Publisher | : Megan Mitcham |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2020-05-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1941899390 |
A crime scene photo gone viral. A fanboy turned stalker. How far will one FBI agent go to protect the ones she loves? FBI Special Agent Libby Irish thrives off the constant pressure of proving herself in a male-dominated workplace. After she busts a notorious weapons ring, she thinks she’ll finally get the respect she deserves. When a photo of her curvy figure in front of the guns goes viral, the media frenzy that follows only makes her the laughing stock of her division. Between unwanted fan mail, a feral cat attack, and the flashing cameras, she almost doesn't notice that someone has been rearranging small items in her house. Her first suspicions fall on her drop-dead-gorgeous neighbor who regrettably seems to be missing a few screws. But when tragedy strikes next door and her neighbor offers to help her track down the stalker, she discovers a whole new side to him she never expected. As Libby's stalker grows bolder, the pair must work together to catch him before his game of cat and mouse takes a deadly turn. How is the third standalone book in a high-octane series of psychological suspense thrillers. If you like strong female leads, shocking twists, and a dash of romance, then you’ll love Megan Mitcham’s tale of passion and madness. Buy How to pounce on a fast-paced, fiery thriller soon!
| Author | : Svetlana Savranskaya |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1080 |
| Release | : 2016-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9633861713 |
This book publishes for the first time in print every word the American and Soviet leaders – Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H.W. Bush – said to each other in their superpower summits from 1985 to 1991. Obtained by the authors through the Freedom of Information Act in the U.S., from the Gorbachev Foundation and the State Archive of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and from the personal donation of Anatoly Chernyaev, these previously Top Secret verbatim transcripts combine with key declassified preparatory and after-action documents from both sides to create a unique interactive documentary record of these historic highest-level talks – the conversations that ended the Cold War. The summits fueled a process of learning on both sides, as the authors argue in contextual essays on each summit and detailed headnotes on each document. Geneva 1985 and Reykjavik 1986 reduced Moscow's sense of threat and unleashed Reagan's inner abolitionist. Malta 1989 and Washington 1990 helped dampen any superpower sparks that might have flown in a time of revolutionary change in Eastern Europe, set off by Gorbachev and by Eastern Europeans (Solidarity, dissidents, reform Communists). The high level and scope of the dialogue between these world leaders was unprecedented, and is likely never to be repeated.
| Author | : Thomas Weisser |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2014-03-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476611696 |
Spaghetti Westerns--mostly produced in Italy or by Italians but made throughout Europe--were bleaker, rougher, grittier imitations of Hollywood Westerns, focusing on heroes only slightly less evil than the villains. After a main filmography covering 558 Spaghetti Westerns, another section provides filmographies of personnel--actors and actresses, directors, musical composers, scriptwriters, cinematographers. Appendices provide lists of the popular Django films and the Sartana films, a listing of U.S.-made Spaghetti Western lookalikes, top ten and twenty lists and a list of the genre's worst.
