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  • Chained Eagle

    by Anthony S. Pitch; Everett Alvarez, Jr. ...
    On August 5, 1964, while Lt. (jg) Everett Alvarez was flying a retaliatory air strike against naval targets in North Vietnam, antiaircraft fire crippled his A-4 fighter-bomber, forcing him to eject over water at low altitude. Alvarez relates the engrossing tale of his capture by fishermen, brutal treatment by the North Vietnamese, physical and mental endurance, and triumphant repatriation nearly ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Crisis Communications

    Lessons from September 11

    by Peter Clarke, James Alleman, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Menahem Blondheim, James William Carey, John Carey, Elisia Cohen, William H. Dutton, Joachim W. H. Haes, Joo-Young Jung, James E. Katz, Yong-Chan Kim, Jonathan Liebenau, Tamar Liebes, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Patrick Martin, Fiona McNee, Mitchell L. Moss, Frank Nainoa, A Michael Noll, Sean Phelan, Paul N. Rappoport, René-Jean Ravault, Ronald E. Rice, Everett M. Rogers, Anthony Townsend, Pille Vengerfeldt ...
    On September 11, 2001, AT&T's traffic was 40 percent greater than its previous busiest day. Wireless calls were made from the besieged airplanes and buildings, with the human voice having a calming influence. E-mail was used to overcome distance and time zones. And storytelling played an important role both in conveying information and in coping with the disaster. Building on such events and ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Fictional Objects

    Edited by Stuart Brock, Anthony Everett ...
    Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects. For example, they ask questions like the following: Do they really exist? What would fictional objects be like if they existed? Do they exist eternally? Are they created? Who by? When and how? Can they be destroyed? If so, how? Are they abstract or ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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    The Stowaway in First Class

    A True Story of an Unforgettable Quest to Come to America

    by Anthony DeSantis ...
    Narrated by Mike Everett ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 52 min

    A family’s legacy is forever changed in this true story of ransom notes, stowaways, and mobsters.Paris, 1929. Gaetano “Guy” DeSantis is an Italian emigrant with a good life: a stable construction job, a comfortable place to live, and a blossoming relationship with a young waitress, Marie. But Guy dreams of making a future in America, alongside his cousin Frank who immigrated a few years earlier.So ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
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  • Post-Truth

    by Lee McIntyre ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    We are living in a world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts—and where feelings have more weight than evidence. But how did we get here?In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into ... Read more

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  • The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 4th Edition

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
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  • Twitter and Tear Gas

    The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

    by Zeynep Tufekci ...
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  • Blur

    How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
    Amid the hand-wringing over the death of "true journalism" in the Internet Age-the din of bloggers, the echo chamber of Twitter, the predominance of Wikipedia-veteran journalists and media critics Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel have written a pragmatic guide to navigating the twenty-first century media terrain.Yes, old authorities are being dismantled, new ones created, and the very nature of ... Read more

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  • You Are Here

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    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...
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  • Veils of Distortion

    How the News Media Warps Our Minds

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    UPDATED IN 2026. A rare and penetrating account by a former CBC and Al Jazeera newsroom insider of how the news skews our perceptions and disorients society.'Fake news' has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a worldwide obsession. Yet too few of us know that shades of falsehood have always run through the mainstream news media. As news organizations double-down in their efforts to shock and ... Read more

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  • Our Biometric Future

    Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

    by Kelly Gates ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to “see” the human face—to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another—commonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. While computer scientists are developing FRT in order to design more intelligent and interactive machines, businesses and states agencies view the technology ... Read more

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