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Olio - Leaves from an Editor's Notebook (Hardcover) Loot Price: R701
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Olio - Leaves from an Editor's Notebook (Hardcover): Guy M Townsend

Olio - Leaves from an Editor's Notebook (Hardcover)

Guy M Townsend

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By their very nature, most newspaper columns and editorials are ephemeral. They are often written in haste to meet a deadline, and what excites interest today may elicit only yawns tomorrow or the next day. This is especially true of community newspapers, whose focus is on matters of interest to a smaller, parochial readership. This book is a collection of pieces that step outside that mold. The author's broad education (four degrees, including a Ph.D. and a J.D.) and wide range of work experiences (college professor, probation officer, prosecuting attorney, professional magician, novelist, editor, publisher, and grocery-store sackboy, to name a few) have provided him with a unusual perspective from which to observe and comment on the problems and pleasures of being a sentient being on Planet Earth in the twenty-first century-and on how we got to this point in human history. Inspired by the example and encouragement of the newspaper editor who gave him his first job in journalism, the author has inflicted upon the readers of several newspapers his reflections on a broad and eclectic range of subjects, from religious and racial intolerance to UFO "sightings" and the beauty of a toad's eye. Throughout it all, the author has been motivated by one unvarying purpose-to make his readers think. Not just about last week's school board meeting or next month's municipal elections, but about ideas and issues with a shelf-life longer than that of ripe tomatoes in your grocer's produce department. Here, then, are half a hundred of those pieces, rescued from dusty newspaper "morgues" and offered to a broader audience than the unsuspecting subscribers to whom they were originally addressed. The author will be pleased if you read them, but he will have failed in his purpose unless reading them makes you think.

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Imprint: Authorhouse
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2010
First published: October 2010
Authors: Guy M Townsend
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 978-1-4520-7499-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian worship > General
Books > Biography > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian worship > General
Books > Christianity > Christian Worship
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LSN: 1-4520-7499-2
Barcode: 9781452074993

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