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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism

Taking Sides - a memoir about love, war, and changing the world (Hardcover): Sherine Tadros Taking Sides - a memoir about love, war, and changing the world (Hardcover)
Sherine Tadros
R602 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R63 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist - and her rousing defence of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism. As a broadcast journalist for Sky News and Al Jazeera, Sherine Tadros was trained to tell only the facts, as dispassionately as possible. But how can you remain neutral when reporting from war zones, or witnessing brutal state repression? For twenty-six years, Tadros grew up in the quiet surroundings of her family's London home, and yet injustice was something her Egyptian immigrant parents could never shelter her from. From her first journalistic assignment trapped inside a war zone in the Gaza Strip, to covering the Arab uprisings that changed the course of history, Tadros searched for ways to make a difference in people's lives. But it wasn't until her fiance left her on their wedding day, and her life fell apart, that she found the courage to pursue her true purpose. It was the beginning of a journey leading to her current work for Amnesty International at the United Nations, where she lobbies governments to ensure that human rights are protected around the world. With the compassion and verve of a clear-sighted campaigner and a natural storyteller, Tadros shares her remarkable journey from witnessing injustice to fighting it head-on in the corridors of power.

Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): Susan Hamilton Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Susan Hamilton
R1,586 Discovery Miles 15 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on the history of English feminism and the study of Victorian periodical and newspaper presses, this important and timely new book asks a key question that neither history nor literary studies has yet addressed: what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances Power Cobbe (one of a handful of women to make a steady living for the mid-nineteenth century established press), Susan Hamilton opens up our understanding of Victorian feminism and its political workings, and urges us to reconsider what feminism looked like in the nineteenth-century.

Confederate Blood and Treasure - An Interview with Lochlainn Seabrook (Hardcover): Lochlainn Seabrook Confederate Blood and Treasure - An Interview with Lochlainn Seabrook (Hardcover)
Lochlainn Seabrook
R797 R648 Discovery Miles 6 480 Save R149 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Breastfeeding and Media - Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Katherine A... Breastfeeding and Media - Exploring Conflicting Discourses That Threaten Public Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Katherine A Foss
R3,626 Discovery Miles 36 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book centers on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of breastfeeding. Drawing from magazines, doctors' office materials, parenting books, television, websites, and other media outlets, Katherine A. Foss explores how historical and contemporary media often undermine breastfeeding efforts with formula marketing and narrow portrayals of nursing women and their experiences. Foss argues that the media's messages play an integral role in setting the standard of public knowledge and attitudes toward breastfeeding, as she traces shifting public perceptions of breastfeeding and their corresponding media constructions from the development of commercial formula through contemporary times. This analysis demonstrates how attributions of blame have negatively impacted public health approaches to breastfeeding, thus confronting the misperception that breastfeeding, and the failure to breastfeed, rests solely on the responsibility of an individual mother.

Mentioning the War - Essays and Reviews 1999-2011 (Paperback): Kevin Higgins Mentioning the War - Essays and Reviews 1999-2011 (Paperback)
Kevin Higgins
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is Kevin Higgins' first book of essays on poetry, the written word, and the wider world. Higgins is an enthusiastic advocate for the new generation of Irish poets emerging from a thriving live poetry scene. He is also a merciless opponent of hypocrisy and pretentiousness wherever he finds it.

Facts and Inventions - Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell (Hardcover): Paul Tankard Facts and Inventions - Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell (Hardcover)
Paul Tankard; James Boswell
R3,608 Discovery Miles 36 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist, and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a generous and varied selection of Boswell's journalistic writings, most of which have not been published since the eighteenth century. It offers a new angle on the history of journalism, an idiosyncratic view of literature, politics, and public life in late eighteenth-century Britain, and an original perspective on a complex and engaging literary personality.

The Pyramid of Lies - Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal (Paperback): Duncan Mavin The Pyramid of Lies - Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal (Paperback)
Duncan Mavin
R360 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Pyramid of Lies by international financial journalist Duncan Mavin, is the true story of Lex Greensill, the Australian farmer who became a hi-flying billionaire banker before crashing back down to earth, exposing a tangled network of flawed financiers, politicians and industrialists. Lex Greensill had a simple, billion-dollar idea - democratising supply chain finance. Suppliers want to get their invoices paid as soon as possible. Companies want to hold off as long as they can. Greensill bridged the two, it's mundane, boring even, but he saw an opportunity to profit. However, margins are thin and Lex, ever the risk taker, made lucrative loans with other people's money: to a Russian cargo plane linked to Vladmir Putin, to former Special Forces who ran a private army, and crucially to companies that were fraudulent or had no revenue. When the company finally collapsed it exposed the revolving door between Westminster and big business and how David Cameron was allowed to lobby ministers for cash that would save Greensill's doomed business. Instead, Credit Suisse and Japan's SoftBank are nursing billions of dollars in losses, a German bank is under criminal investigation, and thousands of jobs are at risk. What Bad Blood did for Silicon Valley and The Smartest Guys in the Room did for Wall Street, The Pyramid of Lies will do for the world of shadow banking and supply chain finance. It is a world populated with some of the most outlandish characters in business and some of the most outrageous examples of excess. It is a story of greed and ambition that shines a light on the murky intersection between politics and business, where lavish fortunes can be made and lost.

Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing, v. 6, No. 1 - Ireland in Crisis (Paperback): Chris Agee, Cathal... Irish Pages: A Journal of Contemporary Writing, v. 6, No. 1 - Ireland in Crisis (Paperback)
Chris Agee, Cathal O'Searcaigh, Sean MacAindreasa
R367 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R25 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Wokelore - Boris Johnson's Culture War and Other Stories (Paperback): Hardeep Matharu Wokelore - Boris Johnson's Culture War and Other Stories (Paperback)
Hardeep Matharu
R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Following the story wherever it goes can take you to some unexpected places Wokelore is a thought-provoking collection of more than fifty articles, essays and stories you won't find anywhere else. The first book from the independent and fearless newspaper Byline Times, it transports you from 1970s Europe to Putin's Russia, from the days of empire in Kenya to Brexit Britain, shedding light on America's political crisis and exposing the UK's disastrous handling of COVID-19. The work collected here - from an impressive range of writers including Anthony Barnett, Otto English, Misha Glenny, Bonnie Greer, Salena Godden, Peter Oborne and Musa Okwonga - explores race, identity, disinformation, populism, the state of journalism, threats to our democracy and more, each piece offering a fresh take and new ideas.

Black Earth - A Journey through Ukraine (Paperback): Jens Muhling Black Earth - A Journey through Ukraine (Paperback)
Jens Muhling
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions that have left them with nothing. As a state, Ukraine exists only since 1991 and what it was before is controversial among its people as well as its European neighbours. Writing in a simple and vivid way, Jens Muhling narrates his encounters with nationalists and old Communists, Crimean Tatars and Cossacks, smugglers, archaeologists and soldiers, all of whose views could hardly be more different. Black Earth connects all these stories to convey an unconventional and unfiltered view of Ukraine - a country at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and the centre of countless conflicts of opinion.

The View from the Ground - Peacetime Dispatches,1936-87 (Paperback): Martha Gellhorn The View from the Ground - Peacetime Dispatches,1936-87 (Paperback)
Martha Gellhorn
R469 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R79 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror and intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night. Martha Gellhorn wrote it as a 28-year-old, having just returned home to the States after four years in Europe, in 1936. What follows is a selection of fifty years of peacetime journalism, history caught at the moment of its unfolding, as it looked and felt to those who experienced it. It's about revolutions in the making, guilty acts of state terrorism, poverty, injustice and recovery. It vividly captures the range and intensity of Gellhorn's courageous work and is also a passionate call to arms, not only to remember the wronged and to bear witness to evil, but to stand your ground in the face of it.

The Most of Nora Ephron - The ultimate anthology of essays, articles and extracts from her greatest work, with a foreword by... The Most of Nora Ephron - The ultimate anthology of essays, articles and extracts from her greatest work, with a foreword by Candice Carty-Williams (Paperback)
Nora Ephron; Introduction by Candice Carty-Williams
R349 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLIST INCLUDING: * Nora's much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalism * Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn * Scenes from her hilarious screenplay for When Harry Met Sally * Unparalleled advice about friends, lovers, divorces, desserts and black turtleneck sweaters 'It's got a little bit of everything, from witty essays on feminism, beauty, and ageing to profiles of empowering female figures' ELLE *PRAISE FOR NORA EPHRON* 'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'Nora's exacting, precise, didactic, tried-and-tested, sophisticated-woman-wearing-all-black wisdom is a comfort and a relief' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Nora Ephron is the funniest, cleverest, wisest friend you could have' NIGELLA LAWSON 'I am only the one of millions of women who will miss Nora's voice' LENA DUNHAM

The Real Daft Punk (Hardcover, 80th More Pages with Larger Photos ed.): Harris Rosen The Real Daft Punk (Hardcover, 80th More Pages with Larger Photos ed.)
Harris Rosen
R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
True Crimes and Misdemeanors - The Investigation of Donald Trump (Hardcover): Jeffrey Toobin True Crimes and Misdemeanors - The Investigation of Donald Trump (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Toobin 1
R623 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Save R72 (12%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity? He runs for re-election. Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his National Security Advisor pleaded guilty to several more. Multiple Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by his actions as President that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process. Yet despite all this, a years-long inquiry led by Robert Mueller, and the third Presidential impeachment trial in American history, Donald Trump survived to run for presidency again. Why? Jeffrey Toobin's highly entertaining, definitive account of the Mueller investigation and the impeachment of the President takes readers behind the scenes of the epic legal and political struggle to call Trump to account for his misdeeds. Toobin recounts the mind-boggling twists and turns in the case - Trump's son met with a Russian operative promising Kremlin support; Trump paid a porn star $130,000 to hush up an affair; Rudy Giuliani and a pair of shady Ukrainian-American businessmen got the Justice Department to look at Russian-created conspiracy theories. Toobin shows how Trump's canny lawyers used Mueller's famous integrity against him, and how Trump's bullying and bluster cowed Republican legislators into ignoring the clear evidence of the impeachment hearings. Based on dozens of interviews with prosecutors in Mueller's office, Trump's legal team, Congressional investigators, White House staffers, and several of the key players, including some who are now in prison, True Crimes and Misdemeanours is a revelatory narrative that makes sense of the seemingly endless chaos of the Trump years. Filled with never-before-reported details of the high-stakes legal battles and political machinations, the book weaves a tale of a rogue President guilty of historic misconduct, and how he got away with it.

Journalism and Mass Communication (Hardcover): Cassandra Young Journalism and Mass Communication (Hardcover)
Cassandra Young
R3,464 R3,127 Discovery Miles 31 270 Save R337 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Photograph: What We See - Women and nonbinary perspectives through the lens (Hardcover): Daniella Zalcman, Sara Ickow Women Photograph: What We See - Women and nonbinary perspectives through the lens (Hardcover)
Daniella Zalcman, Sara Ickow 1
R546 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R48 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists' stories from behind the lens. 85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is reported in the world is seen through men's eyes. Similarly, spaces and communities men don't have access to are left undocumented and forgotten. With the camera limited to the hands of one gender, photographic 'truth' is more subjective than it seems. To answer this serious ethical problem, Women Photograph flips that bias on its head to show what and how women and nonbinary photojournalists see. From documenting major events such as 9/11 to capturing unseen and misrepresented communities, this book presents a revisionist contemporary history: pore over 50 years of women's dispatches in 100 photographs. Each image is accompanied by 200 words from the photographer about the experience and the subject, offering fresh insights and a much-needed perspective. Until we have balanced, representative reporting, the camera cannot offer a mirror to our global society. To get the full picture, we need a diverse range of people behind the lens. This book offers a first step. Relearn how to see with this evergreen catalogue that elevates the voices of women and nonbinary visual storytellers.

Monsieur Maritain, Meet Miss O'Connor - An Imaginary Dialogue (Hardcover): Joseph Nicolello Monsieur Maritain, Meet Miss O'Connor - An Imaginary Dialogue (Hardcover)
Joseph Nicolello
R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Hardcover): J Browning The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Hardcover)
J Browning
R2,402 Discovery Miles 24 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published works of fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), three works never before reprinted, twelve period writings about Stoker, and the rare 1913 estate sale catalogue of his personal library.

I Have to Move my Car - Tales of Unpersuasive Advocates and Injudicious Judges (Hardcover): David Pannick I Have to Move my Car - Tales of Unpersuasive Advocates and Injudicious Judges (Hardcover)
David Pannick
R1,836 R1,700 Discovery Miles 17 000 Save R136 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There are law books about constructive trusts, the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964, and the rule in Foss v Harbottle. This law book is not one of them. Writer David Pannick has always been much more interested in unpersuasive advocates and injudicious judges. In this entertaining and sometimes shocking collection of his fortnightly columns from The Times (London), Pannick passes judgement on advocates who tell judges that their closing submissions to the jury will not take long because "I would like to move my car before 5 o'clock." Pannick also sentences judges who claim to have invisible dwarf friends sitting with them on the Bench, who order the parties to "stay loose - as a goose," and who signal their rejection of an advocate's argument by flushing a miniature toilet on the bench. Pannick will entertain and inform the reader about judges, lawyers, legal culture, and law reform. I Have to Move My Car is an ideal gift for all those who appreciate the lighter side to court life.

March of the Lemmings - Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019 (Paperback, Main): Stewart Lee March of the Lemmings - Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019 (Paperback, Main)
Stewart Lee
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'A true genius of comedy' Grayson Perry As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the EU referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience - and the result is March of the Lemmings. Drawing on three years of newspaper columns, a complete transcript of the Content Provider stand-up show, and Lee's caustic footnote commentary, this is the scathing record the Brexit era deserves. With a riotous cast of characters (including a Lemming-obsessed Michael Gove), a dramatic chorus of online commenters and Kremlin bots, and Lee himself as our unreliable narrator-hero, this is the ultimate companion to the Brexit horror show.

All We Are Saying - The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Paperback, 40th Anniversary Edition): John Lennon,... All We Are Saying - The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (Paperback, 40th Anniversary Edition)
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, David Sheff
R285 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's death.

Originally published in Playboy in 1981 just after John Lennon's assassination, All We Are Saying is a rich, vivid, complete interview with Lennon and Yoko Ono, covering art, creativity, the music business, childhood beginnings, privacy, how the Beatles broke up, how Lennon and McCartney collaborated (or didn't) on songs, parenthood, money, feminism, religion, and insecurity. Of course, at the heart of the conversation is the deep romantic and spiritual bond between Lennon and Ono.

Sheff's insightful questions set the tone for Lennon's responses and his presence sets the scene, as he goes through the kitchen door of Lennon and Yoko's apartment in the Dakota and observes moments at Lennon's famous white piano and the rock star's work at the stove, making them grilled cheese sandwiches. Sheff's new introduction looks at his forty-year-old interview afresh, and examines how what he learned from Lennon has resonated with him as a man and a parent. This is a knockout interview: unguarded, wide-ranging, alternately frisky and intense.

Judy Blame's Obituary - Writings on Fashion and Death (Paperback): Derek McCormack Judy Blame's Obituary - Writings on Fashion and Death (Paperback)
Derek McCormack
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Op Die Man Af (Afrikaans, Paperback): Freek Robinson Op Die Man Af (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Freek Robinson
R350 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Vir 45 jaar het Freek Robinson die grootste nuusgebeure in die ou én nuwe Suid-Afrika eerstehands beleef. As TV-joernalis en nuusanker was hy ’n gereelde besoeker in miljoene Suid-Afrikaners se huise.

In sy memoires deel Freek dit wat hy agter die skerms beleef het.

Dié boek verweef die lewe en loopbaan van een van ons land se mees gerespekteerde en geliefde joernaliste en gee ’n besonderse blik op die ingrypende nuusomwentelinge in ons onlangse geskiedenis.

The Successor - The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch (Paperback): Paddy Manning The Successor - The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch (Paperback)
Paddy Manning
R689 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R64 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Headlines from the Holy Land - Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): James Rodgers Headlines from the Holy Land - Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
James Rodgers
R1,071 Discovery Miles 10 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tied by history, politics, and faith to all corners of the globe, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fascinates and infuriates people across the world. Based on new archive research and original interviews, Headlines from the Holy Land explains why this fiercely contested region exerts such a pull over leading correspondents and diplomats.

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