In an age when young people may confuse online chatter with legitimate news, Navigating the News is the first textbook designed to show students how to recognize credible reporting and how real journalists perform their jobs. The book begins with the basics of how to critically assess news stories, then covers what to look for in everything from community news and crime reporting to business, political and investigative coverage. More than 50 professional journalists share insights on how they gather, edit and report news, and discuss what critical audiences should expect from their news coverage. Students learn how to analyze complex topics including science, environmental and education news, and a series of chapters covers how to approach news from different parts of the world. Navigating the News is aimed at general audiences, not just journalism or communication majors. Given the importance and timeliness of the subject, this book could easily be the core text for general education classes on news and media literacy. The trend toward teaching young people how to understand and assess news is gaining momentum at universities everywhere. The book is written in a clear, straightforward style to engage students who may be getting their first taste of adult issues and concerns. Even students who have avoided "serious" news growing up will gain tools for understanding, assessing and processing coverage of complex stories. The mission of this text is simple: If students don't recognize what real news is, Navigating the News is going to teach them.

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys and men, civic manhood, maleness, and the fluidity of masculinities. These realities are acknowledged and interrogated across private and public contexts, media, education, occupation, and theoretical perspectives. This book encourages readers to reenvision social identity as an ongoing phenomenon, asserting that collective vision informs action and collective action informs possibilities for peace and freedom in the world around us. Scholars of communication, gender studies, and race studies will find this book particularly interesting.

In an age when young people may confuse online chatter with legitimate news, Navigating the News is the first textbook designed to show students how to recognize credible reporting and how real journalists perform their jobs. The book begins with the basics of how to critically assess news stories, then covers what to look for in everything from community news and crime reporting to business, political and investigative coverage. More than 50 professional journalists share insights on how they gather, edit and report news, and discuss what critical audiences should expect from their news coverage. Students learn how to analyze complex topics including science, environmental and education news, and a series of chapters covers how to approach news from different parts of the world. Navigating the News is aimed at general audiences, not just journalism or communication majors. Given the importance and timeliness of the subject, this book could easily be the core text for general education classes on news and media literacy. The trend toward teaching young people how to understand and assess news is gaining momentum at universities everywhere. The book is written in a clear, straightforward style to engage students who may be getting their first taste of adult issues and concerns. Even students who have avoided "serious" news growing up will gain tools for understanding, assessing and processing coverage of complex stories. The mission of this text is simple: If students don't recognize what real news is, Navigating the News is going to teach them.

This is a personal account of the life of Richard Craig after getting clean and sober in 2009. This is the art of overcoming everyday challenges in poetry form. The success of this book will be determined, not in how many books sell, but if any one of the readers can identify and better put into words their thoughts and feelings ... especially in the relationship to recovery, God, suffering, and hope.

Another book in the "Silly Faces" collection by Michael Richard Craig. This book is all about being silly. Silly faces and silly questions is a fun experience for kids of all ages.

A simple, fun, and colorful, way to teach counting numbers one to ten using original "silly faces" by Michael Richard Craig.

How would the existence of alien life forms from another world affect your faith? Your beliefs? Could you face the truth of life from other worlds? This manual will help you make sense of alien encounters from a theological perspective. This will help you come to terms with your view of other life in the universe and how to process its existence.

Runaway Jonah is the story of the Biblical prophet put to rhyme. It is a simple, colorful, fun and educational presentation helping to illustrate the message of the book. This book is ideal for anyone wanting to enjoy the Biblical story with children of all ages.

A resource of practical biblical tools with applications no Christian student should be without. This guide is designed to help today's student identify and avoid temptation in order to defeat sin. It will enable them to be faithful to God and true to the person he has created them to be as they struggle to maintain their moral integrity during their college years.

Children of all ages will enjoy the silly, fun and creative way of learning the ABC's with silly faces. These uniques silly faces will bring a smile as unusual names are used with each letter of the alphabet.

This is a colorful, fun, creative and silly way to learn to count. This is the seventh book in a series of ten on how to count silly faces to one-hundred. Children of all ages will enjoy this unique method of learning to count.

This is a fun, colorful and creative way to learn to count. In this volume, children of all ages will enjoy this silly method of counting numbers seventy-one to eighty

Michael Brennan is a cop in pursuit of a serial rapist-and the rapist has targeted Natasha Panova, the love of Michael's life. Ocean City, Maryland is a gemstone among the east coast resorts, a city of old values and older sins. In 1994 a predator moves at will through a town overflowing with tourists, and it appears that he's a cop. Or is he? Michael is a compassionate ladies man. He takes a personal interest in the vicious but seemingly unrelated attacks because he is a pro, and because he's known abuse. Two others are drawn into the hunt: Michael's courageous friend Officer Levi Hart, and Natasha-a brilliant waitress who dances to a logical beat. Levi knows one of the victims-but he's reluctant to say why-and Natasha knows that she is next on the rapist's list. Together, they trace the clues. As Michael closes in he discovers that he's become a suspect, and when a jealous coworker threatens to derail the investigation, he realizes that his crusade for justice may cost him his soul, Levi his honor, and Natasha her life. When Michael finally confronts the rapist, he turns out to be someone who was there all along-but nobody noticed.