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Journalism

New Arrivals $34.95 Hardcover add to wishlist All the Art That's Fit to Print (and Some That Wasn't): Inside the New York Times Op-Ed Page Jerelle Kraus $13.95 Hardcover add to wishlist The Glen Rock Book of the Dead Marion Winik $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Blind Spot When Journalists Don't Get Religion Paul (edt) Marshall $42.00 Hardcvr W/comp Media add to wishlist The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008 Bill Keller $10.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly Marvin Kitman $12.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Teach Yourself Writing for Magazines (Teach Yourself) Lesley Brown $18.20 Hardcover add to wishlist Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq Steve Fainaru $18.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Faces of Combat, Ptsd and Tbi: One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment for Our Veterans Eric Newhouse $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss, and Television News Lynn Sherr $17.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Touch and Go: A Memoir Studs Terkel $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle Howard Rosenberg $11.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Come to Think of It: Commentaries from National Public Radio's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr Journalists The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J R Moehringer Publisher Comments Torn between the feminine comfort of his mother and the masculine camaraderie he finds in a series of bars and taverns, Moehringer details his difficult but loving upbringing.... (read more) Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Sale Books Let Me Finish by Roger Angell Powells.com Staff Pick This wonderful collection of personal anecdotes by the New Yorker magazine writer and baseball chronicler comes together into a vivid portrait of a life well lived. Angell is witty and urbane. He deftly balances the deeply felt with a delightful, light... (read more) Your Price $25.00 (New - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Bob Schieffer's America by Bob Schieffer Publisher Comments Wise, rueful, candid, graceful commentaries from one of journalismas most stylish and respected writers. With his critically acclaimed bestselling memoir, This Just In, Bob Schieffer proved a natural storyteller, a gifted writer able to capture current... (read more) Your Price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Journalism to your inbox General A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O'reilly Publisher Comments The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For... (read more) Your Price $26.00 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Reference Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Publisher Comments "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write [it] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Oversized Books You Are Being Lied to: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths by Russell Kick Publisher Comments You Are Being Lied Tois a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society... (read more) Your Price $10.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Media Studies Secret and Suppressed II: Banned Ideas and Hidden History Into the 21st Century by Adam Parfrey Publisher Comments There are two ways of looking at the world: You can take the mass media at face value and believe the world oscillates between the dumb-show of "left wing"and "right wing."Or you can begin to question this national hypnosis. The groundbreaking and now... (read more) Your Price $17.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Radio Public Radio: Behind the Voices by Lisa A. Phillips Publisher Comments Lisa Phillips loved public radio so much that after graduating from college, she took a job as News Director of KTPR in rural Fort Dodge, Iowa. Her day started at 4:30 a.m., in time to broadcast Bob Edwards's first "Good Morning" on Morning Edition. Over... (read more) Your Price $8.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies General This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Allison (ed.) Gregory (ed.) Gediman (ed.) Merrick (ed.) Publisher Comments Featuring 80 Americans--from the famous to the unknown--this series of insightful observations completes the thought that the books title introduces. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they arrive at their own personal beliefs but also... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Journalists Hell's Angels (96 Edition) by Hunter S. Thompson Publisher Comments "California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies General This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison Publisher Comments A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventyfive essayists—ranging from famous to previously unknown—completing the thought that... (read more) Your Price $15.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Journalists Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Powells.com Staff Pick When Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer bought the Modern Library in 1925, its mission was ? and still is ? to provide attractive, hardcover editions of important works of literature and thought to serious readers on a budget. The Modern Library became... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $6.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies

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