Newspaper reader

This book allows readers to bring newspapers into their everyday lives by promoting the idea that newspapers give us the opportunity to perceive ourselves as intrinsically involved in local, national, and global discussions. The only book of its kind on the market today, it provides a base for the development of critical thinking, reading, and writing skills as it shows ways in which we can reference newspaper articles as we work through new ideas and problems we encounter. This reader contains timely and interesting selections, and its organization mirrors that of any typical newspaper. Selections are divided into a News section, a Business section, a Discovery section, a Sports section, and a Life section. Each storyline presented includes a sample of an editorial, a report, and a feature article. Storylines include: the Jessica Smart case; the USA Patriot Act; Jayson Blair and The New York Times; Amazon.com; lotteries; fast food; the Space Shuttle disaster; cyberspace; cloning; Michael Jordan; Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding; The US Olympic Hockey Team and the Gold Medal; fashion and fads; diet; and the 9/11 attacks. An excellent and exciting book that provides an excellent tutorial on how to read a newspaper for maximum effect and benefit. Will provide special insight for ESL students and others learning about newspapers and article-writing.

Historians and military men have had their say about the Indian wars, which lasted from 1866 to 1891. But the newspaper correspondents who took to the field with troops now get their innings—if not the last word. And what they have to say, as revealed by Oliver Knight, himself a former newspaperman, sheds new and important light on twenty-five years of conflict extending over half a continent. Using a huge canvas, the author deploys the historical facts about more than one thousand fights between troops and Indians, the immediate, first-hand impressions of correspondents who participated in the battles and skirmishes, and his own interpretations from the combined evidence. It is as if the reader himself had gone along on these expeditions, to see what was happening, to assess the relative skill of commanders and their troops, and to share both the dangers and the relaxations of military life on the vast frontier beyond the Mississippi. The correspondents were new men, not the old Civil War hands, following troops that, in the years to come, were to be called “Old Army.” Frank, uninhibited, and, above all, daring, they knew what the fighting was about, for they were in it, members of an unsupported military element far advanced into hostile territory. Their adventures are related in the twelve major campaigns of the period, ranging from the Southern Plains to the Sioux country, and from Colorado to California, and involving tribes as various as the Kiowas, Comanches, Sioux, Modocs, Utes, Cheyennes (both Northern and Southern), Apaches, Bannocks, and Nez Percés.

From the man who has helped redesign over 60 newspapers, both in the United States and abroad, comes this best-selling guide to a constantly evolving field. Emphasising scope and sequence, this completely updated Third Edition begins with a general discussion of design, moves the reader through a systematic chronology of design functions, then builds upon blocks of information - typography, architecture and colour.