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Tell Me No Lies Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs by John Pilger
mobi |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:John Pilger

* * * 1 International Miners' Organisation (IMO), an alliance of mining unions created on the initiative of the NUM and the French CGT. 2 British Government Communications Headquarters. 3 ...
( Category: Business & Money December 22,2017 )
People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East by Joris Luyendijk
epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Joris Luyendijk [Luyendijk, Joris]

Before I became a correspondent, I saw a journalist as a kind of a fly on the wall, an invisible microphone recording events, like the football commentators who sit somewhere ...
( Category: Historical December 22,2017 )
News Is a Verb by Pete Hamill
epub |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Pete Hamill [Hamill, Pete]

4 Tell It to Abdul (or Kim, or Ivan, or Rosa …) IN 1922, WHEN the New York Daily News was three years old, its advertising department invented a slogan ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 22,2017 )
Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism by W. Joseph Campbell
epub |eng | 2010-12-15 | Author:W. Joseph Campbell [Campbell, W. Joseph]

“CRACK BABIES” IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY The appeal of the thirty doctors and scientists did little to stem the appearance of the term crack baby in the media. It remained ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides December 22,2017 )
God's Traitors Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Jessie Childs [Jessie Childs]

fn1 Watson and the appellants did not represent the views of all the secular priests in England, of whom, in the 1580s and 1590s, there were between 120 and 150 ...
( Category: Europe December 21,2017 )
Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life & Legend by Mark Nicholls & Penry Williams
epub |eng | 2015-04-18 | Author:Mark Nicholls & Penry Williams [Nicholls, Mark]

Was...found guilty of high Treason for practising with the Lord Cobham to disturb his Majestys possession of this Crown, by invasion from abroad, and Sedition both here at home and ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 21,2017 )
Runner by Robert Newton
epub |eng | 2005-12-21 | Author:Robert Newton

CHAPTER FOURTEEN That night, after dinner, I left Ma and Jack in front of the fire, loaded the trolley full of wood and called on the Redmonds next door. It ...
( Category: Children's Books December 21,2017 )
Married to the SAS by Frances Nicholson
epub |eng | 1997-05-15 | Author:Frances Nicholson [Nicholson, Frances]

FRANCES NICHOLSON I knew something dramatic had happened because Andy had never behaved in such an off-hand manner when he returned home, no matter how shattered he felt. I kept ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 21,2017 )
Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Brian Latell
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Brian Latell [Latell, Brian]

Lee Harvey Oswald had wanted since his Marine Corps days in the late 1950s to bear arms for Fidel and the Cuban revolution. Castro “was his hero . . . ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 21,2017 )
Early Kings of Norway by Carlyle Thomas;
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Carlyle, Thomas;

CHAPTER X. REIGN OF KING OLAF THE SAINT. The late two Jarls, now gone about their business, had both been baptized, and called themselves Christians. But during their government they ...
( Category: Europe December 21,2017 )
THE AMERICAN CHURCHES THE BULWARKS AMERICAN SLAVERY by JAMES G. BIRNEY
epub |eng | | Author:JAMES G. BIRNEY

Rev. R. Furman, D. D., of South Carolina: "The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.”—Exposition of the views of the ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
My Captivity by Fanny Kelly
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Fanny Kelly

CHAPTER XV. PREPARING THE CHI-CHA-CHA, OR KILLIKINNICK—ATTACK ON CAPTAIN FISK’S EMIGRANT TRAIN—FOURTEEN WHITES KILLED — A BIG HAUL OF WHISKY—A DRUNKEN DEBAUCH—I WRITE A LETTER TO CAPTAIN FISK UNDER DICTATION—POISONED ...
( Category: Americas December 21,2017 )
Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989 by Tim Rutherford-Johnson
epub |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Tim Rutherford-Johnson [Rutherford-Johnson, Tim]

FIGURE 24. Distribution of performing ensembles (shown as black dots) for Lisa Bielawa’s Tempelhof Broadcast, 2013. Between sections, the hundreds of musicians brought together to perform Tempelhof Broadcast walked in ...
( Category: Music December 21,2017 )
Revolutionary Cooking by Virginia T. Elverson
epub |eng | 2013-12-21 | Author:Virginia T. Elverson

Basic Soup Stocks It’s so easy to make stocks and freeze them in small containers to have on hand for sauces, or in larger containers for quick soups. Use up ...
( Category: Regional & International December 21,2017 )
Something Beautiful Happened by Yvette Manessis Corporon
epub |eng | | Author:Yvette Manessis Corporon

PART FOUR chapter seventeen THE ONES WHO STOOD UP It was love at first phone call. “Do you speak Greek?” Marcia asked. “Yes, of course,” I replied. “I married a ...
( Category: Historical December 21,2017 )

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