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

The Kingdom and the Power - Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World (Paperback): Gay... The Kingdom and the Power - Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World (Paperback)
Gay Talese
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A landmark in the field of writing about journalism." The Nation
The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines.

Seeing Things as They Are - Selected Journalism and Other Writings (Hardcover): George Orwell Seeing Things as They Are - Selected Journalism and Other Writings (Hardcover)
George Orwell
R792 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing, showing his genius across a wide variety of genres. Selected by leading expert Peter Davison. Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his writing: a champion of free speech, a defender against social injustice and a sharp-eyed chronicler of the age. But his work is also timeless, as pieces on immigration, Scottish independence and a Royal Commission on the Press attest. Seeing Things As They Are, compiled by renowned Orwell scholar Peter Davison, brings together in one volume many of Orwell's articles and essays for journals and newspapers, his broadcasts for the BBC, and his book, theatre and film reviews. Little escaped Orwell's attention: he writes about the Spanish Civil War, public schools and poltergeists, and reviews books from Brave New World to Mein Kampf. Almost half of his popular 'As I Please' weekly columns, written while literary editor of the Tribune during the 1940s, are collected here, ranging over topics as diverse as the purchase of rose bushes from Woolworth's to the Warsaw Uprising. Whether political, poetic, polemic or personal, this is surprising, witty and intelligent writing to delight in. A mix of well-known and intriguing, less familiar pieces, this engaging collection illuminates our understanding of Orwell's work as a whole.

Moranthology (Paperback): Caitlin Moran Moranthology (Paperback)
Caitlin Moran 1
R452 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R43 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. In MORANTHOLOGY Caitlin 'gets quite chatty' about many subjects, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag. These other subjects include... Caffeine | Ghostbusters | Being Poor | Twitter | Caravans | Obama | Wales | Paul McCartney | The Welfare State | Sherlock | David Cameron Looking Like Ham | Amy Winehouse | 'The Big Society' | Big Hair | Nutter-letters | Michael Jackson's funeral | Failed Nicknames | Wolverhampton | Squirrels' Testicles | Sexy Tax | Binge-drinking | Chivalry | Rihanna's Cardigan | Party Bags | Hot People| Transsexuals | The Gay Moon Landings

Becoming the News - How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight (Hardcover): Ruth Palmer Becoming the News - How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight (Hardcover)
Ruth Palmer
R2,569 R2,392 Discovery Miles 23 920 Save R177 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does it feel like to be featured, quoted, or just named in a news story? A refugee family, the survivor of a shooting, a primary voter in Iowa-the views and experiences of ordinary people are an important component of journalism. While much has been written about how journalists work and gather stories, what do we discover about the practice of journalism and attitudes about the media by focusing on the experiences of the subjects themselves? In Becoming the News, Ruth Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who have been featured in news stories-voluntarily or not-sheds new light on the practice of journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of the mainstream media. Based on dozens of interviews with news subjects, Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Palmer charts the arc of the experience of "making" the news, from the events that brought an ordinary person to journalists' attention through the decision to cooperate with reporters, interactions with journalists, and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath. She explores what motivates someone to talk to the press; whether they consider the potential risks; the power dynamics between a journalist and their subject; their expectations about the motivations of journalists; and the influence of social media on their decisions and reception. Pointing to the ways traditional news organizations both continue to hold on to and are losing their authority, Becoming the News has important implications for how we think about the production and consumption of news at a time when Americans distrust the news media more than ever.

????????? - ?????????? (Chinese, Paperback): Diantao Sun 殿涛文集(第二卷) - 中美两国难成哥们儿! (Chinese, Paperback)
Diantao Sun
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
????????? - ????????????? (Chinese, Paperback): Diantao Sun 殿涛文集(第一卷) - 当总统,做观众,都不容易! (Chinese, Paperback)
Diantao Sun
R777 Discovery Miles 7 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fight for Privacy - Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age (Paperback): Danielle Keats Citron The Fight for Privacy - Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age (Paperback)
Danielle Keats Citron
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Danielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in all the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable - and shows us that privacy, as we think we know it, is largely already gone. The boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have embraced a vast array of technology that enables constant access and surveillance of the most private aspects of our lives. From non-consensual pornography, to online extortion, to the sale of our data for profit, we are vulnerable to abuse. As Citron reveals, wherever we live, laws have failed miserably to keep up with corporate or individual violators, letting our privacy wash out with the technological tide. And the erosion of intimate privacy in particular, Citron argues, holds immense toxic power to transform our lives and our societies for the worse (and already has). With vivid examples drawn from interviews with victims, activists and lawmakers from around the world, The Fight for Privacy reveals the threat we face and argues urgently and forcefully for a reassessment of privacy as a human right. And, as a legal scholar and expert, Danielle Citron is the perfect person to show us the way to a happier, better protected future.

Dark Heart - The Story of a Journey into an Undiscovered Britain (Paperback, Reissue): Nick Davies Dark Heart - The Story of a Journey into an Undiscovered Britain (Paperback, Reissue)
Nick Davies 2
R391 R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...`In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars,Nick Davies noticed two boys,no more than twelve years old,oddly detached from the fun of the scene.Davies discovered they were part of a network of chidren sellingthemselves on the streets of the city,running a nightly gaunlet of dangers-pimps,punters,the Vice Squad,disease,drugs. This propelled Davies into a journey of discovery through the slums and ghettoes of our cities. He found himself in crack houses and brothels,he be- friended street gangs and drug dealers Nick Davies`s journey into the hidden realm is powerful,disturbing and impressive,and is bound torouse controversy and demands for change. Davies unravels threads of Britain`s social fabric as he travels deeper and deeper into the country of poverty ,towards the dark heart of British society.

El Otro Lado (Spanish, Paperback): Mariana Enriquez El Otro Lado (Spanish, Paperback)
Mariana Enriquez
R903 R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Save R114 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Everything Must Change! - The World after Covid-19 (Paperback): Renata Avila, Srecko Horvat Everything Must Change! - The World after Covid-19 (Paperback)
Renata Avila, Srecko Horvat
R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In these pages you'll encounter influential voices across the left, ranging from Roger Waters to Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek to Saskia Sassen. Gael Garcia Bernal, Brian Eno, and Larry Charles examine the pandemic's more cultural and artistic consequences, touching on topics of love, play, comedy, dreaming, and time. Their words sit alongside analyses of the paradoxes and possibilities of debt, internationalism, and solidarity by Astra Taylor, David Graeber, Vijay Prashad, and Stephanie Kelton. Burgeoning surveillance and control measures in the name of public health are a concern for many of the contributors here, including Shoshana Zuboff and Evgeny Morozov, as are the opportunities presented by the crisis for exploitation by financiers, technocrats, and the far right. Against a return to the normal and, indeed, the notion that there ever was such a thing, these conversations insist that urgent, systemic change is needed to tackle not only the pandemics arising from the human destruction of nature, but also the ceaseless debilitations of contemporary global capitalism. Contributors: Tariq Ali, David Adler, Gael Garcia Bernal, Larry Charles, Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno, Daniel Ellsberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Graeber, Johann Hari, Maja Kantar, Stephanie Kelton, Stefania Maurizi, Evgeny Morozov, Maja Pelevic, Vijay Prashad , Angela Richter, Saskia Sassen, Sasa Savanovic, Jeremy Scahill, Richard Sennett, John Shipton, Astra Taylor, Ece Temelkuran, Yanis Varoufakis, Roger Waters, Slavoj Zizek, and Shoshana Zuboff.

En busca de los ladrones del fuego (Spanish, Paperback): Joumana Haddad En busca de los ladrones del fuego (Spanish, Paperback)
Joumana Haddad
R613 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R52 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jose Kozer - tajante y definitivo (Spanish, Paperback): Gerardo Fernandez Fe Jose Kozer - tajante y definitivo (Spanish, Paperback)
Gerardo Fernandez Fe
R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
???? ????????? Intellectual's Language - ?????? ??????? A collection of Interviews (Persian, Paperback): Mansooreh Moosavi زبان روشنفکران Intellectual's Language - مجموعه گفتگوها A collection of Interviews (Persian, Paperback)
Mansooreh Moosavi
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Two Wheels Good - The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Hardcover): Jody Rosen Two Wheels Good - The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Hardcover)
Jody Rosen
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world. 'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike - and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a flashpoint in culture wars for more for than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen unfolds the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine' in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle's past and peers into its future, challenging myths and cliches, while uncovering cycling's connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel - a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. 'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence in the book' - Economist 'The best thing I've ever read on a single subject' - Lauren Collins, author of When in French 'This is social history as it ought to be written: funny, precise, surprising, anti-dogmatic and unafraid of following a story' - Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon

?????Viewpoints of Lixian, Chinese Edition? (Chinese, Paperback): Maria Lixian Gee-Schweiger 李岘视点(Viewpoints of Lixian, Chinese Edition) (Chinese, Paperback)
Maria Lixian Gee-Schweiger; Edited by Fanyu Li
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Preparacion para la entrevista de trabajo - Tecnicas probadas para conseguir el trabajo que desee y destacar entre la multitud.... Preparacion para la entrevista de trabajo - Tecnicas probadas para conseguir el trabajo que desee y destacar entre la multitud. Ademas respuestas a las preguntas mas dificiles de la entrevista (Spanish, Paperback)
Victor Baca
R472 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Busqueda y entrevista de trabajo - Formas de destacar entre la gente y obtener el trabajo de sus suenos, ademas del nuevo... Busqueda y entrevista de trabajo - Formas de destacar entre la gente y obtener el trabajo de sus suenos, ademas del nuevo enfoque que usa la tecnologia para impulsar su carrera (Spanish, Paperback)
Victor Baca
R567 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Os Cenarios ocultos do caso Battisti (Portuguese, Paperback): Carlos A Lungarzo Os Cenarios ocultos do caso Battisti (Portuguese, Paperback)
Carlos A Lungarzo
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ninguem me contou, eu vi (Portuguese, Paperback): Sebastiao Nery Ninguem me contou, eu vi (Portuguese, Paperback)
Sebastiao Nery
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nuevo Barnum, El (Spanish, Paperback): Alessandro Baricco Nuevo Barnum, El (Spanish, Paperback)
Alessandro Baricco
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Revista Letrare - Pranvere 2022 (Albanian, Paperback): Ornela Musabelliu, Arber Ahmetaj, Dritan Kici Revista Letrare - Pranvere 2022 (Albanian, Paperback)
Ornela Musabelliu, Arber Ahmetaj, Dritan Kici
R418 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Too Famous - The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Notorious, The Damned (Paperback): Michael Wolff Too Famous - The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Notorious, The Damned (Paperback)
Michael Wolff
R474 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R125 (26%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic.

Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House, Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his evisceration of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerising portrait of the hubris, overreach and periodic self-destruction of some of the most famous faces of the last twenty years.

This collection draws on new and unpublished work - recent reporting about Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein - and decades of coverage of the most notable figures of the time - among them Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Rusbridger, Arianna Huffington, Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch - to create a lasting statement on the corrosive influence of being in the public eye.

Ultimately, Too Famous is an examination of how the quest for fame and power became the driving force of culture and politics and the drug that alters all public personalities. And how the need, the desperation, the ruthlessness demanded to fulfil that quest became the toxic grease that keeps the world spinning. You know the people here by name and reputation, but it's guaranteed that after this book you will never see them the same way again. Or fail to recognise the scorched earth the famous leave behind them.

Revista letrare - Vere 2021 (Albanian, Paperback): Dritan Kici Revista letrare - Vere 2021 (Albanian, Paperback)
Dritan Kici; Edited by Ornela Musabelliu, Arber Ahmetaj
R371 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Em terreno minado (Portuguese, Paperback): Humberto Trezzi Em terreno minado (Portuguese, Paperback)
Humberto Trezzi
R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Insane Clown President - Dispatches from the American Circus (Paperback): Matt Taibbi Insane Clown President - Dispatches from the American Circus (Paperback)
Matt Taibbi 1
R508 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R50 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power - Bernie Sanders Matt Taibbi is the best polemic journalist in America - Felix Salmon NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end." In this groundbreaking battery of dispatches from the heartland of America, Matt Taibbi tells the full story of the Trump phenomenon, from its tragi-comic beginnings to the apocalyptic election. Full of sharp, on-the-ground reporting and gallows humour, his incisive analysis goes beyond the bizarre and disturbing election to tell a wider story of the apparent collapse of American democracy. Taibbi saw the essential themes right from the start: the power of spectacle over truth; the end of a shared reality on the left and right; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new, explicit form of white nationalism. From the thwarted Bernie Sanders insurgency to the aimless Hillary Clinton campaign, across the flailing media coverage and the trampled legacy of Obama, this is the story of ordinary voters forced to bear witness to the whole charade. At the centre of it all, "a bumbling train wreck of a candidate who belched and preened his way past a historically weak field" who, improbably, has taken control of the world's most powerful nation. This is essential and hilarious reading that explores how the new America understands itself, and about the future of the world just beyond the horizon.

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