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These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting
stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the
diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous
conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A
profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il of North Korea describes
Kim's exacting standards for gourmet fare, which he gorges himself
on while his country starves. A journalist becomes part of the
inner circle of an IRA cell thanks to his drinking buddies. And a
young, inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole
with an equally young Hamid Karzai. Along with tales of deprivation
and repression are stories of generosity and pleasure, sometimes
overlapping. This memorable collection, introduced and edited by
Matt McAllester, is seasoned by tragedy and violence, spiced with
humor and good will, and fortified, in McAllester's words, with "a
little more humanity than we can usually slip into our newspapers
and magazine stories."
China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated
system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet
grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent
quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist
Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in
paperback for the first time, The Great Firewall of China draws on
James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the
politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives
revolve around it. New chapters cover the suppression of
information about the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan,
disinformation campaigns in response to the exposure of the
persecution of Uyghur communities in Xinjiang and the crackdown
against the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong.
Palestine for the Third Time is a book of reportage originally
published in Poland in 1933 by Ksawery Pruszynski, a young reporter
working for a Polish newspaper, who went to Mandate Palestine to
see for himself whether the Zionist dream of returning to Eretz
Yisrael had a chance of turning into reality. Travelling widely and
talking to people he happened to meet on his way-Jews, Arabs,
committed dreamers and the disaffected-he was trying to explain to
his readers what he was seeing. This book is a unique firsthand
account of the early stages in formation of the state and nation of
Israel. But it's not just a nostalgic vignette. It resonates
powerfully today, linking Tony Judt, Edward Said, and Amos Oz,
illuminating the hotly debated questions of modern Israel.
Explores the link between revolutionary change in the Victorian
world of print and women's entry into the field of mass-market
publishing This book highlights the integral relationship between
the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and
diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media
during a period of revolutionary change, 1832-1860. It includes
discussion of canonical women writers such as Felicia Hemans,
Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, as well as lesser-known figures
such as Eliza Cook and Frances Brown. It also examines the ways
women readers actively responded to a robust popular print culture
by creating scrapbooks and engaging in forms of celebrity worship.
Easley analyses the ways Victorian women's participation in popular
print culture anticipates our own engagement with new media in the
twenty-first century.
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