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Pain is a universal language. We have all experienced it, all the varied variants of it.
Pain requires release
So I wrote these
Hope somehow, somewhen
These poems brings you ease
This book is to be a reminder of how we have been there before and will get through for sure.
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This book contains 50 Foniktoon puzzles that will help you increase your vocabulary in a fun way. Read the captions above the illustrations and then see the translations below.Homonyms are words that are pronounced the same as each other (e.g., maid/made) or have the same spelling (e.g., lead weight/to lead). When homonyms have the same sound, they are called homophones. When they have the same spelling, they are known as homographs.Foniktoons word...
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This is not a book or a guide. It's an instruction manual.Just like you would use to build a flat-pack wardrobe.This one happens to be for stories of any genre, from horror to romanceIt's a practical, step by step, nuts and bolts approach.Add a bunch of innovative, unique tips and you have everything you need to craft a page turner.Jan-Andrew Henderson is a professional editor, industry assessor and multi-award-winning author of 40 books.
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Get the Summary of Adam Nagourney's The Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Times" by Adam Nagourney chronicles the evolution of The New York Times through various executive editors' tenures, focusing on their leadership styles, the challenges they faced, and the newspaper's transformation in response to internal and external pressures. A.M. Rosenthal's era is marked by his commitment to journalistic standards...
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Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara.
In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image. Key moments of Khaled's turbulent...
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Who are the greatest reporters in history? This unique book is the first to try and answer this question. Author David Randall searched nearly two centuries of newspapers and magazines, consulted editors and journalism experts worldwide, and the result is The Great Reporters - 13 in-depth profiles of the best journalists who ever lived.
Each profile tells of the reporter's life and his or her major stories, how they were obtained, and their...
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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition of humanistic education that has fundamentally shaped our country and our civilization. This accessible volume argues for an order and integration of knowledge so that meaning might be restored to the haphazard approach to study currently dominating higher...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" is a collection of essays by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the intricacies of various phenomena through the lens of psychology, economics, and social science. The book delves into the lives of pitchmen like Ron Popeil and his family, who revolutionized the infomercial industry with...
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Sin duda, la literatura en lengua inglesa nos ha dado a algunos de los mejores escritores de la historia. Desde el gran William Shakespeare a Walter Scott, o desde Lord Byron a Walt Whitman, William Blake o Jane Austen, lo cierto es que la nómina de escritores en esta lengua destaca por su número, calidad y aportaciones a todos los géneros literarios.
En este libro, un profesor y especialista en literatura inglesa, docente en la University of Pittsburgh,...
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Este nuevo libro de la periodista y editora de género María Fitzgerald presenta a los lectores distintas crónicas periodísticas sobre temas de gran coyuntura y reflexión nacional, como lo son las mutilaciones oculares en el marco del Paro Nacional de 2021, la trata de mujeres con fines de explotación sexual en las grandes ciudades capitales, los estragos de la minería ilegal y las desapariciones extrajudiciales. Tomando como protagonistas a...
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"Complete freedom, nobody enjoys it: we start oppressed by syntax and end up dealing with the Police of Social and Political Order, but, within the narrow limits that grammar and law coerce us, we can still move". This quote of Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (in Memoirs of prison, 1953), also illustrates the present moment of Brazilian journalism. Among so many forms of censorship present in our days: the political and ideological (induced by the...
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Romantic letters are central to understanding same-sex romantic relationships from the past, with debates about so-called romantic friendship turning on conflicting interpretations of letters. Too often, however, these letters are treated simply as unstudied expressions of heartfelt feeling. In Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education, Pamela VanHaitsma nuances such approaches to reading letters, showing how the genre...
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Draws a history of journalism's most respected tenet-objectivity
If American journalism were a religion, as it has been called, then its supreme deity would be "objectivity." The high priests of the profession worship the concept, while the iconoclasts of advocacy journalism, new journalism, and cyberjournalism consider objectivity a golden calf. Meanwhile, a groundswell of tabloids and talk shows and the increasing infringement of market concerns...
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Esta es una colección de columnas del autor Moisés Wasserman, publicadas en el periódico El Tiempo de Bogotá, entre finales del año 2017 y el 2022, agrupadas en cinco capítulos que llevarán al lector en un recorrido profundo, reflexivo y ameno por distintos
temas de interés general, como la ciencia, la política y la actualidad nacional.
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Una juez en zona guerrillera es el libro ganador del Premio Nacional de Cultura Universidad de Antioquia 2022 en la modalidad Testimonio. Según el jurado, "este es un testimonio que mantiene un hilo conductor y transporta bien al lector a escenarios en los que ocurren los hechos que vive su protagonista. Está narrado de una manera muy auténtica y pone al lector frente a una realidad que el país debe conocer".
A través de las memorias y la voz...
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Get the Summary of Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Steven Pinker's "The Sense of Style" challenges the notion that writing prowess is purely instinctual, emphasizing the importance of reading in developing a sophisticated writing style. Pinker argues that principles of writing can be taught and that analyzing exemplary prose is key to improving one's own writing. He critiques...
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En la cola de Correos, un hombre solo. Ni por asomo: un escritor nunca está solo. En su cabeza encresta diálogos consigo mismo y con toda aquella que se cruza entre sus orejas, tiene a bien trenzar neuronas y acepta la invitación a dar otra vuelta de tuerca a las peculiaridades del lenguaje, a las maldiciones y milagros de las lenguas y a los infinitos recreos y abismos que la literatura posibilita y sugiere. ¿Y si hablar, leer y escribir no fueran...
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