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.

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

A fun, creative, colorful way to learn counting numbers from 1 to 100. Original silly faces are used with each number to capture the imagination and silliness of every child, regardless of age

A delightful and fun way to enjoy the experience of counting numbers 1-100. Original and creative silly faces make it fun and interesting for children of every age

This is the third volume in a series of ten books on counting silly faces to one hundred. Michael has thousands of silly faces both of people and animals and has been drawing since childhood. He is a member of the North Florida Chapter of The Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators. His other silly faces books are "Coloring Silly Faces" and "Silly Faces and ABC's."

This is the fourth in a ten volume set of "Counting Silly Faces to One-Hundred."

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

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