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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
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Widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on leadership, John Kotter has devoted his remarkable career to studying organizations and those who run them, and his bestselling books and essays have guided and inspired leaders at all levels. Here, in this collection of his acclaimed Harvard Business Review articles, is an astute assessment of the real work of leaders, as only John Kotter can offer. To complement the HBR articles, Kotter also...
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"Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life" -- publisher description (January 2007).
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Dean Starkman takes on what has become a dominant perspective on the future of news in the digital age as personified by three well known media thinkers - Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and Jeff Jarvis - who have dominated the "future of news" debate. Starkman makes a powerful case that the perspective that these three represent, despite their many useful insights, is in the end corrosive to public-service journalism.
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The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Along the way, the authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute "truthiness" for hard, challenging fact....
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Can digital journalism be profitable? What's making money, what isn't, and why? Columbia University faculty members Bill Grueskin, academic dean of the Journalism School, and Ava Seave, principal at Quantum Media and adjunct professor at the Business School, addresses these questions about the financial state of digital journalism. The Story So Far offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the business challenges that large and small, old...
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From finding and cultivating authors to effectively incorporating art and design, from the importance of fact checking and copyediting to the critical relationship between advertising dollars and content, this anthology provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the making of a successful and influential magazine. It also engages with the industry's most pressing issues, such as the future of magazines in a digital environment and the increasing pressure...
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Launched at a time of major economic change and an uncommon era in business, this new annual series presents the most intriguing and rigorous coverage of the year's well-known and crucial-to-know developments in business and finance. Divided into thematic sections, such as bad business behavior; the financial system and its discontents; trends in global markets; the relationship between politics and money; big-picture practices; and news from the...
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An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called riveting and indispensable," The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year's selections include John Markoff (New York Times) on innovations in robot technology and the decline of the factory worker; Evgeny Morozov (New Republic) on the questionable value of the popular TED conference series and the idea industry behind it; Paul...
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This anthology of the year's best investigative business writing explores the secret dealings of an elite Wall Street society and uncovers the crimes and misadventures of the young founder of Silk Road, the wildly successful online illegal goods site known as the "eBay of vice." It reveals how the Fed dithered while the financial crisis unfolded and explains why the leaders of a two-trillion-dollar bond fund went to war with each other. Articles from...
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An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public.
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details "how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years" (Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation).
In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He examines the deep cultural and structural...
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Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel. This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. An instant lesbian classic...
16) The Century trilogy by Ken Follett (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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Unlock the more straightforward side of the Century trilogy with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of the Century trilogy by Ken Follett, which tells the tale of several families in different parts of the world whose lives become inextricably entwined during the dramatic political and social events of the 20th century, from the First World War to the American civil rights movement and the...
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Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre le livre Comment se faire des amis de Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie, self-made-man américain, est considéré comme l'un des fondateurs du développement personnel. Il a compilé ses techniques de public speaking et de bonne gestion relationnelle, applicables tant sur le plan professionnel que privé, dans un ouvrage publié en 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Référence incontournable...
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Une analyse concise pour comprendre rapidement tout l'intérêt du livre De la performance à l'excellence de Jim Collins
Jim Collins est un ancien professeur d'université et un expert en stratégie managériale. Dans son best-seller publié en 2001, De la performance à l'excellence, l'auteur établit avec son équipe une marche à suivre pour les entreprises performantes désireuses de devenir leaders dans leur secteur. Grâce à son approche...
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Un guide pratique et accessible pour comprendre le livre Le capital au XXIe siècle de Thomas Piketty
Le capital au XXIe siècle, paru en 2013, a connu un succès considérable tant auprès des spécialistes en économie que des personnes désireuses d'approfondir leurs connaissances en la matière. Thomas Piketty y fait une analyse de la situation économique en ce début de siècle, au regard de l'évolution et des modifications de la dynamique...
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Une analyse concise pour comprendre rapidement tout l'intérêt du livre Le point de bascule de Malcolm Gladwell
Le point de bascule, ouvrage rédigé par le journaliste britannique Malcolm Gladwell, spécialiste en psychologie et sociologie, a rencontré un franc succès dès sa parution en 2012. L'écrivain y propose une analyse originale du déclenchement et de la propagation des phénomènes sociaux, basée sur sa théorie personnelle du « point...
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