News and Media Books

This is a great devotional and study Bible. The notes are plainly written, applicable and often present ideas that other study Bible's miss. Very thoughtful. I use it every day for my devotional time and I often use the notes when I am developing my sermons. They give such a fresh take on the Scriptures. I love it!! You'll just have to try it for yourself.

This cute little book is a retelling of Pixar's smash hit movie, The Incredibles. Brightly colored and richly drawn, it does an excellent job of retelling the story for younger readers. But, this book has an extra: It has a pop-up "viewer" and when you look through it, you will see that each page has a 3-D picture!

I bought this book for a nephew, and he loves it. I think that the people who made this book did an excellent job of putting it together. So, if you have a young fan of The Incredibles, then you simply must get him this book! My nephew and I highly recommend it.

In 141 pages Karen Kreider tells the story of Disney's Aladdin and goes beyond it. Supported by full color images directly taken from the film. A recommendation for any Disney lover. Great way to introduce the story of Aladdin to anyone who wants to learn more about the movie but can't watch it.

After watching this movie with my 3 year old son I had to find a book about it. He loved the movie and the book is a nice compliment to it. We read it every night before bed. He also likes to tell the story in his own words by looking at the pictures in the book.

I recommend this book to parents of toddlers everywhere. My son loves for us to read to him, but he has a short attention span. The pictures are bright and colorful, and the stories are fairly short and are about Disney characters that he can easily identify. So, even though he cannot read he loves to look at the pictures. You can read it over and over without getting too bored and since it is one book, you don't have a lot of books to carry around. For older children, it is easy to read, and involves several different characters.

This fourth edition of The Distance Learning Funding $ourcebook is an all-in-one comprehensive guide that covers funding sources, cable industry information, includes a section on intellectual property and distance learning, contains numerous Internet and multimedia resources, and a section on grantwriting. As a grantwriter that must identify the right funding source the first time around and use the most recent technology terms to write a competitive grant application, this book is a valuable tool. Arlene's expertise in the field of telecommunications shines throughout each chapter. Her indepth review of each distance learning funding source along with up-to-date contact information is critical for the grantseeker. This book was most helpful in helping me secure over $1,000,000 in U.S. Department of Commerce TIIAP (Telecommunications Information Infrastructire Assistance Program) grant funds for the Brooklyn College Library (NY) and Union County College (NJ). Arlene's section on TIIAP funding is clear and factual. Very little changes from year-to-year in federal grant competitions, so the 1998 and 1997 list of funded projects were instrumental in enabling me to create another winning program design for the 1999 TIAAP competition. The author has an insight in her specialized field that can be replicated by none. I would recommend this book to any grantseeker, both the novice and advanced grantwriter.

In this honest and entertaining book, Dr. Edward Rosenbaum lets doctors know what it is really like to be a patient.

Dr. Rosenbaum constructs a remarkable narrative of his successful, yet painful battle with cancer and the medical system.

Dr. Rosenbaum's succint, humorous and imaginative style remarkablly illustrates his personal, familial and professional relationships during his ordeal.

Like most great works, the book is far better than the movie. THE DOCTOR is an essential-read for anyone in the health care profession.

This is an important book for "so called" documentary writers, photographers, and film makers. I say "so called" because we tend to think of documentary work as an accurate representation--literally the truth. Robert Coles pretty much shoots that idea down, showing how the background, beliefs, biases, hopes, and fears of the documentarian color the narrative. I came away believing that the word objective is not relevant here, and that it may be impossible to ever get at the truth. If I read Coles right, the documentarian may, in fact, be more akin to the literary fiction writer/photographer/film-maker, who does seem to get at the truth. This is not to say that documentary work is futile. On the contrary it can be potent, meaningful, and worthwhile. We may just have to look at it differently and face up to the fact that it reflects the person doing the documentary work as much as it does his/her subject. This is a liberating idea. And we owe a debt to Coles for proffering it. There are consequences, too. For instance, in the light of Coles' discovery, a lot of critics may owe an apology to Richard Avedon, whose photographic fiction, "In The American West," may be fine documentary work after all.

This book should be brought back into print. Unlike all the other critiques of the press, which accuse it of being left-biased or right-biased depending on the bias of the critic, this book points out that the press's bias is in favor of itself! Its highly selective offerings are designed to sell more papers/magazines, attract more listeners/viewers. To this end, they put in stories to delight the conservatives and enrage the left, then the next day put in stories to delight the left and enrage the conservatives. So, keeping up with the "news" has all the excitement of watching a tennis match.

These days, what is left out is as important as what is put in. Issues and causes that do not have enough popular support are not given space, simply because the benefit (selling papers) will not outweigh the cost.

With the wealth of information on the web and the easy access to books on Amazon, there is a chance for this information to get out. The problem is finding it among all the dross and deadwood. The newspapers, magazines and TV find "it" for you and trumpet it to you in the jazziest possible way. This explains why people have the benighted opinions that they do.

The situation is even worse today since the education system has been hijacked by a network of cynics who exploit minority groups under the guise of helping them and exploit the majority in the name of the minorities (see The Rape of Alma Mater).

So, read this book for the details. After that, instead of picking up a magazine or turning on the news, you'll spend your time on the web.

When I started it, I couldn't stop until I finished. The plotkeeps thickening until you can fit an elephant in! It is also veryfunny.