Title search results
Showing 2601 - 2620 of 4611 items
La farmacéutica: 492 días secuestrada
By Carles Porta. 2021
Has oído hablar de esta historia, pero ni la conoces entera ni te la han contado nunca así. *****INCREÍBLEMENTE REAL*****…
«El 20 de noviembre de 1992 secuestraron a Maria Àngels Feliu Bassols, farmacéutica de Olot. Esta mujer, madre de tres hijos, pasó dieciséis meses bajo tierra, enterrada viva en un agujero del tamaño de un armario. Arañas, hormigas, ratas, serpientes y humedad fueron sus compañeras de cautiverio.» Así empieza la historia increíblemente real de uno de los casos más extremos de la crónica negra española. Aquel crimen se transformó en un drama humano cuya investigación, repleta de errores policiales y judiciales, estuvo acompañada de vergonzosos ejemplos de periodismo basura. Por si fuera poco, los captores de Maria Àngels se mostraron incapaces de culminar el secuestro exprés que habían planeado. Lo único que lograron fue eternizar el suplicio de una mujer que sobrevivió a tan adversas circunstancias gracias a su determinación y su fortaleza psíquica. Tras ser liberada, aún tuvieron que transcurrir cinco años para que los responsables fueran detenidos y otros cuatro para juzgarlos. Después de revisar a fondo la información generada por el suceso, Carles Porta ha reconstruido el caso al completo, en un único hilo narrativo. No existe otra recreación tan rigurosa de todas las historias entrecruzadas que rodearon el secuestro de la farmacéutica de Olot. Sin duda, con este libro Porta se consagra como uno de los maestros del periodismo narrativo de nuestro país. La crítica ha dicho sobre Tor, la montaña maldita:«Truman Capote, James Ellroy o Emmanuel Carrère han demostrado que se puede hacer gran literatura utilizando tan solo los datos reales de un crimen, por archiconocido que este sea. Por estas tierras, Carles Porta ya lo dejó claro con Tor, la montaña maldita.»Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia «Un excelente trabajo periodístico.»María José Obiol, Babelia «Se lee como una muy buena novela.»Kiko Amat, Cultura/s Sobre Fago. Si te dicen que tu hermano es un asesino:«Un libro fantástico y emocionante, [...] digno representante del periodismo literario.»Óscar López, Página Dos «Su calidad literaria es inapelable. [...] Una obra profunda y poderosa.»Pere Antoni Pons, Ara Sobre Le llamaban padre:«Periodismo en profundidad, y próximo. Una gran investigación.»Ignacio Orovio, La VanguardiaMobile and Social Media Journalism: A Practical Guide
By Anthony C. Adornato. 2018
A Practical Guide for Multimedia Journalism Mobile and Social Media Journalism is the go-to guide for understanding how today’s journalists…
and news organizations use mobile and social media to gather news, distribute content, and create audience engagement. Checklists and practical activities in every chapter enable readers to immediately build the mobile and social media skills that today’s journalists need and news organizations expect. In addition to providing the fundamentals of mobile and social media journalism, award-winning communications professional and author Anthony Adornato discusses how mobile devices and social media have changed the way our audiences consume news and what that means for journalists. The book addresses a changing media landscape by emphasizing the application of the core values of journalism—such as authentication, verification, and credibility—to emerging media tools and strategies.Mobile and Social Media Journalism: A Practical Guide
By Anthony C. Adornato. 2018
A Practical Guide for Multimedia Journalism Mobile and Social Media Journalism is the go-to guide for understanding how today&’s journalists…
and news organizations use mobile and social media to gather news, distribute content, and create audience engagement. Checklists and practical activities in every chapter enable readers to immediately build the mobile and social media skills that today&’s journalists need and news organizations expect. In addition to providing the fundamentals of mobile and social media journalism, award-winning communications professional and author Anthony Adornato discusses how mobile devices and social media have changed the way our audiences consume news and what that means for journalists. The book addresses a changing media landscape by emphasizing the application of the core values of journalism—such as authentication, verification, and credibility—to emerging media tools and strategies.Ticking clock: Behind the scenes at 60 minutes
By Ira Rosen. 2021
This program includes a prologue read by the author. Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate,…
untold stories of his decades at America's most iconic news show. It's a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself. When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980, he knew he was about to enter television history. His career catapulted him to the heights of TV journalism, breaking some of the most important stories in TV news. But behind the scenes was a war room of clashing producers, anchors, and the most formidable 60 Minutes figure: legendary correspondent Mike Wallace. Based on decades of access and experience, Ira Rosen takes listeners behind closed doors to offer an incisive look at the show that invented TV investigative journalism. With surprising humor, charm, and an eye for colorful detail, Rosen delivers an authoritative account of the unforgettable personalities that battled for prestige, credit, and the desire to scoop everyone else in the game. As Mike Wallace's top producer, Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace's work legendary, and the flaring temper that made him infamous. Later, as senior producer of ABC News Primetime Live and 20/20 , Rosen exposes the competitive environment among famous colleagues like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and the power plays between correspondents Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper, and Chris Cuomo. A master class in how TV news is made, Rosen shows listeners how 60 Minutes puts together a story when sources are explosive, unreliable, and even dangerous. From unearthing shocking revelations from inside the Trump White House, to an outrageous proposition from Ghislaine Maxwell, to interviewing gangsters Joe Bonanno and John Gotti Jr., Ira Rosen was behind the scenes of 60 Minutes' most sensational stories. Highly entertaining, dishy, and unforgettable, Ticking Clock is a never-before-told account of the most successful news show in American history. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressLiberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist
By Alexander Zevin. 2019
The path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supportersIn this landmark book,…
Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless—and internationally influential—champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the world. But what exactly is liberalism, and how has its message evolved? Liberalism at Large examines a political ideology on the move as it confronts the challenges that classical doctrine left unresolved: the rise of democracy, the expansion of empire, the ascendancy of high finance. Contact with such momentous forces was never going to leave the proponents of liberal values unchanged. Zevin holds a mirror to the politics—and personalities—of Economist editors past and present, from Victorian banker-essayists James Wilson and Walter Bagehot to latter-day eminences Bill Emmott and Zanny Minton Beddoes. Today, neither economic crisis at home nor permanent warfare abroad has dimmed the Economist&’s belief in unfettered markets, limited government, and a free hand for the West. Confidante to the powerful, emissary for the financial sector, portal onto international affairs, the bestselling newsweekly shapes the world its readers—as well as everyone else—inhabit. This is the first critical biography of one of the architects of a liberal world order now under increasing strain.Mapping Racial Literacies: College Students Write about Race and Segregation
By Sophie R. Bell. 2020
Early college classrooms provide essential opportunities for students to grapple and contend with the racial geographies that shape their lives.…
Based on a mixed methods study of students’ writing in a first-year-writing course themed around racial identities and language varieties at St. John’s University, Mapping Racial Literacies shows college student writing that directly confronts lived experiences of segregation—and, overwhelmingly, of resegregation. This textual ethnography embeds early college students’ writing in deep historical and theoretical contexts and looks for new ways that their writing contributes to and reshapes contemporary understandings of how US and global citizens are thinking about race. The book is a teaching narrative, tracing a teaching journey that considers student writing not only in the moments it is assigned but also in continual revisions of the course, making it a useful tool in helping college-age students see, explore, and articulate the role of race in determining their life experiences and opportunities. Sophie Bell’s work narrates the experiences of a white teacher making mistakes in teaching about race and moving forward through those mistakes, considering that process valuable and, in fact, necessary. Providing a model for future scholars on how to carve out a pedagogically responsive identity as a teacher, Mapping Racial Literacies contributes to the scholarship on race and writing pedagogy and encourages teachers of early college classes to bring these issues front and center on the page, in the classroom, and on campus.Mobility Work in Composition
By Bruce Horner. 2020
Mobility Work in Composition explores work in composition from the framework of a mobilities paradigm that takes mobility to be…
the norm rather than the exception to a norm of stasis and stability. Both established and up-and-coming scholars bring a diversity of geographic, institutional, and research-based perspectives to the volume, which includes in-depth investigations of specific forms of mobility work in composition, as well as responses to and reflections on those explorations. Eight chapters present specific cases or issues of this work and twelve shorter response chapters follow, identifying key points of intersection and conflict in the arguments and posing new questions and directions to pursue. Addressing matters of knowledge transfer and meaning translation, immigrant literacy practices, design pedagogy, academic career changes, student websites, research methodologies, school literacy programs, and archives, Mobility Work in Composition asks what mobility in composition means and how, why, and for whom it might work. It will be of broad interest to students and scholars in rhetoric and composition. Contributors: Anis Bawarshi, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Patrick Danner, Christiane Donahue, Keri Epps, Eli Goldblatt, Rachel Gramer, Timothy Johnson, Jamila Kareem, Carmen Kynard, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Andrea Olinger, John Scenters-Zapico, Khirsten L. Scott, Mary P. Sheridan, Jody Shipka, Ann Shivers-McNair, Scott Wible, Rick WysockiSpeaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom, and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House
By Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 2020
A candid, riveting account of the Trump White House, on the front lines and behind the scenes. In Speaking for…
Myself, Sarah Huckabee Sanders describes what it was like on the front lines and inside the White House, discussing her faith, the challenges of being a working mother at the highest level of American politics, her relationship with the press, and her unique role in the historic fight raging between the Trump administration and its critics for the future of our country. This frank, revealing, and engaging memoir will offer a truly unique perspective on the most important issues and events of the era, and unprecedented access to both public and behind-the-scenes conversations within the Trump White House.South Picene (Routledge World Languages)
By Raoul Zamponi. 2021
South Picene is the pre-Roman language spoken in the Adriatic sector of central Italy. This book presents a description of…
what we know about the structure of this language. South Picene is (together with Umbrian, Oscan, Latin, and Faliscan) one of the few members of the Italic branch of the Indo-European family and is also one of the European languages with the oldest existing texts (550 BCE). Besides a grammatical outline of the language, the book contains the linguistic (and often stylistic) analysis of all the 21 inscriptions that compose the South Picene epigraphic corpus and a word list. South Picene will be of interest to students and scholars of Indo-European languages, Italic languages, and in general, ancient languages of the Italian peninsula.Dynamics of Media Editing
By Vincent F. Filak. 2020
As traditional newsrooms staffed by journalists and managed by experienced editors become less and less common, there is an even…
greater need for all types of professional writers to be fluent in the editorial process. Dynamics of Media Editing emphasizes the broad value of editing as both a tool for journalistic management and an essential skill for individual writers of all stripes. Author Vince F. Filak recognizes editing as an essential process for improving the quality of published writing, something that is relevant and essential to investigative journalists, social media interns, celebrity bloggers, and everyone in between. By organizing the book around skills and by platforms, Dynamics of Media Editing shows students how the basic principles of good editing work across disciplines and media platforms.Dynamics of Media Editing
By Vincent F. Filak. 2020
As traditional newsrooms staffed by journalists and managed by experienced editors become less and less common, there is an even…
greater need for all types of professional writers to be fluent in the editorial process. Dynamics of Media Editing emphasizes the broad value of editing as both a tool for journalistic management and an essential skill for individual writers of all stripes. Author Vince F. Filak recognizes editing as an essential process for improving the quality of published writing, something that is relevant and essential to investigative journalists, social media interns, celebrity bloggers, and everyone in between. By organizing the book around skills and by platforms, Dynamics of Media Editing shows students how the basic principles of good editing work across disciplines and media platforms.Aim for the Heart: Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV and Multimedia
By Al Tompkins. 2018
Al Tompkins teaches students about broadcast journalism using a disarmingly simple truth—if you aim for the heart with the copy…
you write and the sound and video you capture, you will compel your viewers to keep watching. With humor, honesty, and directness, award-winning journalist and author Al Tompkins bottles his years of experience and insight in a new Third Edition that offers students the fundamentals they need to master journalism in today’s constantly evolving media environment, with practical know-how they can immediately put to use in their careers. Aim for the Heart is as close as you can get to spending a week in one of Tompkins’s training sessions that he has delivered in newsrooms around the world, from which students: • Learn how to build compelling characters who connect with the audience • Write inviting leads • Get memorable soundbites • See how to light, crop, frame, and edit compelling videos • Learn how to leverage social media to engage audiences • Gain critical thinking skills that move your story from telling the “what” to telling the “why”Aim for the Heart: Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV and Multimedia
By Al Tompkins. 2018
Al Tompkins teaches students about broadcast journalism using a disarmingly simple truth—if you aim for the heart with the copy…
you write and the sound and video you capture, you will compel your viewers to keep watching. With humor, honesty, and directness, award-winning journalist and author Al Tompkins bottles his years of experience and insight in a new Third Edition that offers students the fundamentals they need to master journalism in today’s constantly evolving media environment, with practical know-how they can immediately put to use in their careers. Aim for the Heart is as close as you can get to spending a week in one of Tompkins’s training sessions that he has delivered in newsrooms around the world, from which students: • Learn how to build compelling characters who connect with the audience • Write inviting leads • Get memorable soundbites • See how to light, crop, frame, and edit compelling videos • Learn how to leverage social media to engage audiences • Gain critical thinking skills that move your story from telling the “what” to telling the “why”Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice (Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation)
By William Hope, Saihong Li. 2021
Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice investigates the theory and practice of terminology translation, terminology management, and scholarship…
within the distinctive milieu of Chinese and explores the complex relationship between terminology translation (micro level) and terminology management (macro level). This book outlines the contemporary challenges of terminology translation and terminology management within Chinese contexts in specialized fields including law, the arts, religion, Chinese medicine, and food products. The volume also examines how the development and application of new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence have brought about major changes in the language service industry. Technology such as machine translation and computer-assisted translation has spawned new challenges in terminology management practices and has facilitated their evolution in contexts of ever greater internationalization and globalization. This book recontextualizes terminology translation and terminology management with a special focus on English–Chinese translation. It is hoped that the volume will enable and enhance dialogue between Chinese and Western scholars and professionals in the field. All chapters have been written by specialists in the different subfields and have been peer-reviewed by the editors.Vocabulary Workshop: Fifth Course
By Norbert Elliot. 1994
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
By Louise Desalvo. 2000
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the…
healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging. DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process. Writing as a Way of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inspire both experienced and beginning writers.Border Crossings: A Bedford Spotlight Reader
By Catherine Cucinella. 2016
Delving into questions like, "What are borders?" and "Who are border crossers?", Border Crossings breaks down the complex issue through…
an extensive variety of readings and activities to really get you thinking and evaluating this theme.Mientras escribo (Bestseller/debolsillo Ser. #Vol. 102)
By Stephen King. 2003
Pocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, útil y revelador. Cuando Stephen King se…
decidió a escribir sobre su profesión y su vida, un brutal accidente automovilístico puso ambas en riesgo. Durante su convalecencia, el novelista descubrió los vínculos cada vez más fuertes entre la escritura y la vida. Y el resultado es este extraordinario libro, que es al mismo tiempo un ensayo sobre creación literaria y un relato autobiográfico. Mientras escribo comienza con la asombrosa infancia de Stephen King y su extraño y temprano interés por la escritura que lo llevaron a la culminación de su primera novela, Carrie. A continuación, King describe las herramientas básicas del oficio y expone sus opiniones personales sobre los secretos de la escritura. Mientras escribo culmina con el conmovedor relato de cómo su necesidad de escribir lo ayudó a recuperarse de su casi fatal accidente. Una vez más Stephen King demuestra que es mucho más que unmaestro del thriller: un gran escritor.Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
By Winston Mano, Viola C. Milton. 2021
This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of…
scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism scholars.Rain, Steam, and Speed: Building Fluency in Adolescent Writers
By Gerald Fleming, Meredith Pike-Baky. 2005
This book is a comprehensive framework of instructional protocols intended to expand and deepen students' written fluency. It is a…
year-long curriculum that builds students' self-confidence, self-awareness, and knowledge of the world. It increases the students' abilities to write easily and articulately on personal and abstract topics. This journal-writing program can easily be integrated into a broader writing framework. The book includes a detailed discography of recommended and easily accessed CDs. The prompts are organized thematically and feature issues that range from imaginative to serious, reflecting the preoccupations of young people today. Support for teachers in implementing the program is abundant and includes grading and assessment guidance. Word-for-word teacher instructions as well as explanations of rationale for each component of the program make this book both easy to follow and entertaining to read.