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An American story about rediscovering the past and how it makes people who they are today, "Abbeville" tells the tale of one man's pilgrimage to come to terms with himself while learning to embrace the world around him.

The shift from preschool to kindergarten can be tough, not only on the preschooler but on caregivers as well. It's a rite of passage for both parties. Told through the eyes of Sabrina's little sister, Izzy, "Sabrina's Locket" takes you on a mother's journey to find a solution for her daughter who still cries at preschool drop-off and is scared to go to kindergarten. "Sabrina's Locket" is a reminder that even when things change around us, and t...

Drawing on the discoveries of neuroscience, this book explains why the information overload of contemporary life makes us dramatically more receptive to sensational news, while rendering the staid, objective voice of standard journalism ineffective, and the result is a toxic mix that threatens to prove fatal to journalism as we know it.

Reclaim ethics for the every day

A large credit reporting company sees the era of Big Data coming. Its CEO dreams of knowing so much about the people it tracks that it will be able to predict what they will do. With the data, he believes, the company will know people better than they know themselves. Meantime, his chief financial officer has come to the corporate world in order to hide in the numbers on his spreadsheets, trying to escape a dark, ambiguous experience from his ...

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In financial crisis, a man looks back to the life of his grandfather for lessons about how to accept and overcome his problems. Abbevillesweeps through the history of the late 19th through the early 21st century American - among loggers stripping the North Woods bare, at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, with French soldiers at the Battle of Verdun, into the abyss of the Depression and finally toward the new Millennium's own nightmares...

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A concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today, "News Values" offers a provocative new perspective on the questions which journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow.

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FRAGMENTS is a story about how war can make everything explosive--even love--and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again. Jack Fuller served as a combat correspondent in the Vietnam bureau of STARS AND STRIPES and is now a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and publisher. FRAGMENTS has been called "the best novel yet about the Vietnam War" (WALL STREET JOURNAL). 212 pp.