Author: Janny Scott
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110151390X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From the author of The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune and the Story of My Father comes a major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father, but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham, the fiercely independent woman who raised him, the person he credits for, as he says, "what is best in me." Here is the missing piece of the story. Award-winning reporter Janny Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Dunham's friends, colleagues, and relatives (including both her children), and combed through boxes of personal and professional papers, letters to friends, and photo albums, to uncover the full breadth of this woman's inspiring and untraditional life, and to show the remarkable extent to which she shaped the man Obama is today. Dunham's story moves from Kansas and Washington state to Hawaii and Indonesia. It begins in a time when interracial marriage was still a felony in much of the United States, and culminates in the present, with her son as our president- something she never got to see. It is a poignant look at how character is passed from parent to child, and offers insight into how Obama's destiny was created early, by his mother's extraordinary faith in his gifts, and by her unconventional mothering. Finally, it is a heartbreaking story of a woman who died at age fifty-two, before her son would go on to his greatest accomplishments and reflections of what she taught him.
The Reporter
Author: Robert Sutton (reporter.)
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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The Medical Reporter
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Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Languages : en
Pages : 780
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The Reporter's Handbook
Author: Carrol Baker Dotson
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Reporter's Nosegay
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Women Who Made the News
Author: Marjory Lang
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773567747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The first newspaperwomen were employed to attract female subscribers and advertising revenue. Once hired, they found themselves confined to a narrow range of specialties that catered to conventionally defined women's interests - home-making, fashion, and high society - and most were patronized by their male peers. But these women journalists did more than simply deliver female consumers to advertisers. Some of them eventually made names for themselves as commercial reporters or political and even war correspondents. By making news about women for women, they created a distinctly female culture within the newspaper, chronicling the increasing participation of women in public affairs. Women Who Made the News is the story of the women who helped raise Canadian women's collective awareness of each other and of their achievements in the period leading up to World War II.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773567747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The first newspaperwomen were employed to attract female subscribers and advertising revenue. Once hired, they found themselves confined to a narrow range of specialties that catered to conventionally defined women's interests - home-making, fashion, and high society - and most were patronized by their male peers. But these women journalists did more than simply deliver female consumers to advertisers. Some of them eventually made names for themselves as commercial reporters or political and even war correspondents. By making news about women for women, they created a distinctly female culture within the newspaper, chronicling the increasing participation of women in public affairs. Women Who Made the News is the story of the women who helped raise Canadian women's collective awareness of each other and of their achievements in the period leading up to World War II.
Friedrichstrasse Central
Author: Geoff Logan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728398770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Friedrichstrasse Central follows on from the previous book, The Legacy of Two Gemini Knights. In the original book, fate demands a series of actions to bring about the beginning of the end-time. Often these demands go in cycles so that when one task is accomplished, another step can follow on. However, these actions are occasionally interrupted by life events or halted because they came too early. This happened seven hundred years ago and was only restarted when the Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933. This is the story of how a number of unsung heroes who went through Friedrichstrasse Railway Station tried to progress Fate’s demands toward the next level. Iva Davies, like his predecessor, William McBride, attempted to find these past elements by traveling to places like Dresden, Edinburgh in Scotland, and the Greek island of Kastellorizo. Accompanied by his older German friend, Peter Maueraberger, Iva stumbled across aspects of the Templar treasure, the Jerusalem copper scroll, and the last iman of Islam. All of these pointed to the quest they were searching for. However, the path to these past secrets was filled with danger and intrigue for Iva Davies. And without the help of a rag doll, the Black Madonna statue, and Solomon’s ring, he would have likely not survived such an ordeal. In the end one can only ask, have these actions enhanced the legacy of the Gemini knights and the building of the last temple in Jerusalem? Perhaps only the reader can make this judgement for now and only wait until further things are revealed when a future text speaks at the dawn of the end-time.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728398770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Friedrichstrasse Central follows on from the previous book, The Legacy of Two Gemini Knights. In the original book, fate demands a series of actions to bring about the beginning of the end-time. Often these demands go in cycles so that when one task is accomplished, another step can follow on. However, these actions are occasionally interrupted by life events or halted because they came too early. This happened seven hundred years ago and was only restarted when the Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933. This is the story of how a number of unsung heroes who went through Friedrichstrasse Railway Station tried to progress Fate’s demands toward the next level. Iva Davies, like his predecessor, William McBride, attempted to find these past elements by traveling to places like Dresden, Edinburgh in Scotland, and the Greek island of Kastellorizo. Accompanied by his older German friend, Peter Maueraberger, Iva stumbled across aspects of the Templar treasure, the Jerusalem copper scroll, and the last iman of Islam. All of these pointed to the quest they were searching for. However, the path to these past secrets was filled with danger and intrigue for Iva Davies. And without the help of a rag doll, the Black Madonna statue, and Solomon’s ring, he would have likely not survived such an ordeal. In the end one can only ask, have these actions enhanced the legacy of the Gemini knights and the building of the last temple in Jerusalem? Perhaps only the reader can make this judgement for now and only wait until further things are revealed when a future text speaks at the dawn of the end-time.
Interdisciplinary Research
Author: John Atkinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470029471
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An important book by researchers from across disciplines introducing varying ideas on research, important in these days of inter-disciplinary and multi-centered investigation. The book introduces academics to new areas of endeavour and encourages researchers and students to think broadly when devising their studies. Linking chapters present the contributions in an historical and theoretical context, identifying the themes between the approaches, and encourages new thinking about old problems. Includes contributions from leading researchers across the quantitative-qualitative spectrum, from marine biology to spirituality. With funding under increasing pressure, the different views will help departments form new alliances and encourage interdisciplinary working.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470029471
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
An important book by researchers from across disciplines introducing varying ideas on research, important in these days of inter-disciplinary and multi-centered investigation. The book introduces academics to new areas of endeavour and encourages researchers and students to think broadly when devising their studies. Linking chapters present the contributions in an historical and theoretical context, identifying the themes between the approaches, and encourages new thinking about old problems. Includes contributions from leading researchers across the quantitative-qualitative spectrum, from marine biology to spirituality. With funding under increasing pressure, the different views will help departments form new alliances and encourage interdisciplinary working.
The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918
Author: Frank Michael O'Brien
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book chronicles the history of The Sun, a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets, The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book chronicles the history of The Sun, a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets, The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune.
Encyclopedia of Television
Author: Horace Newcomb
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135194793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2732
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135194793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 2732
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.
Great Women Reporters
Author: John Jakes
Publisher:
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Category : JOURNALISM--U. S.
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
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Category : JOURNALISM--U. S.
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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