books about: dispatches     books:       Dispatches from the Tenth Circle: The Best of The Onion Robert Siegel, Onion Staff, ... Three Rivers Press, 2001 “The Onion is laugh-out-loud, go-tell-your-friends, get-angry-you-didn’t-think-of-it funny.” –Conan O’Brien “Outside of maybe Dario Fo, an Italian who few are sure exists, the Onion people make the most consistently perfect and excoriating social commentary we currently have. But will those Nobel bastards honor them, too? Only God, our merciless and just God, knows.” –Dave Eggers “The funniest publication in the United ...             A Rumor of War Philip Caputo Holt Paperbacks, 1996 The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home--physically whole but emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism forever gone. A Rumor of War is more than one soldier's story. ...             The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World Marina Gorbis Free Press, 2013 A renowned futurist offers a vision of a reinvented world. Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in his famous 1937 paper “The Nature of the Firm,” provided an economic explanation for this: Organizations lowered transaction costs, making ...             Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Tony Horwitz Vintage, 1999 National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz ...             Dispatches from Bitter America: A Gun Toting, Chicken Eating Son of a Baptist's Culture War Stories Todd Starnes B&H Books, 2012 FOX News Radio reporter Todd Starnes is a self-professed “gun toting, chicken eating son of a Baptist” whose Dispatches from Bitter America is “a collection of stories from my travels across this country (and) conversations I’ve had with regular folks who have deep concerns about the direction we are going as a nation.” In his award-winning, satire-meets-serious writing style, Starnes jumps headfirst into the current culture war, ...             Dispatches from Juvenile Hall: Fixing a Failing System John Aarons, Lisa Smith, ... Penguin Books, 2009 A revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality and the ways that public institutions are failing to curtail them. Now a team of experts with decades of collective hands-on experience present a book that cuts through the hype and ...             Dispatches (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) Michael Herr Everyman's Library, 2009 (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the ...             Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival Anderson Cooper Harper Perennial, 2007 Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward ...             Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx (Penguin Classics) Karl Marx Penguin Classics, 2008 A compelling, wide-ranging collection of Karl Marx's journalism-available only from Penguin Classics Karl Marx is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. Drawing on his eleven- year tenure at the New York Tribune (which began in 1852), this completely new collection presents Marx's writings on an abundance of topics, from issues of class ...             Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers' Movement Storey Publishing, LLC, 2012 A community of more than 5000 young farmers and activists, the Greenhorns are committed to producing and advocating for food grown with vision and respect for the earth. This book, edited by three of the group's leading members, comprises 50 original essays by new farmers who write about their experiences in the field from a wide range of angles, both practical and inspirational. Funny, sad, serious, and light-hearted, these essays touch on ...             Dispatches Summary by Michael Herr | Summary & Study Guide, 2010 Dispatches Study Guide by BookRags.com consists of approx. 42 pages of summaries and analysis on Dispatches by Michael Herr. This study guide, written by BookRags.com, includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, and Topics for Discussion.             The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books, 2009 A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.    The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived ...             The Arab Revolts: Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East (Public Cultures of the Middle East and ... Indiana University Press, 2013 The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways of oppressing their subjects would no longer be tolerated. These essays from Middle East Report—the leading source of timely reporting and insightful analysis of the ...             Dispatch from the Future: Poems Leigh Stein Melville House, 2012 "I love these poems."  —Joe Dunthorne, author of  Submarine   Funny, surprising and lyrical, these poems range from the deserts of the Southwest to the abysses of Facebook. From online dating to beauty pageants, Greek mythology to road trips, Leigh Stein gives us resilient young women in longing and in love.   Post-confessional—like Sylvia Plath raised on MTV, or Anne Sexton on Twitter—the poems seduce with a narrative hook or ...             Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture Peggy Orenstein Harper Paperbacks, 2012 The rise of the girlie-girl, warns Peggy Orenstein, is no innocent phenomenon. Following her acclaimed books Flux , Schoolgirls , and the provocative New York Times bestseller Waiting for Daisy , Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults.             Dispatch (Signet Novel) Bentley Little Signet, 2005 Jason Handford has a real gift for writing letters that get results-from complaints to love letters to editorials. Then he's offered a job to do it for a living. It consumes his time, his mind, and eventually, his soul. Jason really should have stuck with freelance.             Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (P.S.) Peter Hessler Harper Perennial, 2013 Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United ...             Dispatch Manual Trucking 2013 Edition (My Career Package) TruckingSuccess.com, 2012 A Guide to Successfully Manage your Dispatch and Increase your Revenue. Plus Over 150 Brokerage Companies you can Trust. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 – Transportation Industry Overview - Professional Organizations - Industry Image - Dispatch History - Owner Operator Income Chapter 2 – Tools Of The Trade - Your Mobile Office - Important Business Contacts - Laws And Regulations - Required Documents Chapter 3 – ...             Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science Dorion Sagan Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2013 In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery. As science has become more specialized and more costly, its questing spirit has been constrained by dogma. 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