Neon Nevada

Neon Nevada is at once a stirring ode to a fading tradition and a celebration of a unique modern art, one whose pages will bring back memories while, perhaps, also conjuring up dreams of the future.

Arts & Photography

Laufer, Peter

Laufer, Sheila Swan

Photography & Video

Globe Pequot

Fullcolor collages and accompanying text describe the importance of the guitar in Mexico, especially in Paracho, a tiny town which is becoming the center of the Mexican guitar industry.

Made in Mexico

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

National Geographic Children's Books

Fullcolor collages and accompanying text describe the importance of the guitar in Mexico, especially in Paracho, a tiny town which is becoming the center of the Mexican guitar industry.

Hecho en Mexico (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

National Geographic Kids

With this provocative and concise book, journalist Peter Laufer launches a Slow News movement, inviting us to question the value of the perpetual empty-calorie news that accompanies our daily lives. Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer examines the nature of news in the context of the increasingly frenetic pace of modern life in the twenty-first century. Taking a cue from the slow food movement, Laufer suggests that we step back from the constant barrage of instant news to consider news thoughtfully and thoroughly. He argues that it is valuable for both the journalist in the field and the news consumer at home to take the time to ruminate on most news events. Inspired by Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, Laufer offers twenty-eight rules―including “Trust accuracy over time,” “Know your sources,” and “Don’t become a news junkie”―to guide us in a gradual quest for slower news.

Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Oregon State University Press

Interviewing is a crucial skill for journalists but the list of professions that rely on the interview to conduct business is long. From doctors and police to clergy and the gal or guy at the drive-through window, just about every human interaction is a form of interview. Interviewing: The Oregon Method collects analysis and instruction from three-dozen expert interview practitioners, scholars and teachers. Its chapters take focused looks at interview ethics, the sanctity of quotes, sourcing via social media, studies of interviewing in the virtual world, negotiating identity, and building rapport. The art of interviewing has been taught at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication for generations. This book binds those years of experience into a collection of vibrant essays designed to train novices and invigorate old hands. Interviewing is edited by University of Oregon's James Wallace Chair Professor of Journalism Peter Laufer, who lectures his students, The interview is intimate, immediate, and often an entree toward the soul. Conducting interviews can be both great fun and an art form.Interviewing is a primer of the digital age yet one that embraces age-old lessons, lessons that make clear the crucial importance of successful interviewing techniques for productive civic engagement. In conjunction with the Center for Innovation and Civic Engagement at the University of Oregon, USA, contributors include Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and UO professor Alex Tizon, retired Seattle Times executive editor and UO alumnus Mike Fancher, and the longtime dean of the UO School of Journalism and Communication Tim Gleason. Distributed for the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Center for Innovation and Civic Engagement.

Interviewing: The Oregon Method

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Each night, as twilight descends on cities and towns across Nevada, the desert night sky is lit with the glow of hundreds of neon signs. Whether the signs are a part of the shimmering onslaught of Las Vegas's Glitter Gulch, a lone cowboy beckoning travelers on Interstate 80, or a simple martini glass on a tavern sign, they are an element of Nevada's cultural heritage. After all, in the words of one veteran sign maker, "Neon and flashing lights mean Nevada. Without neon and flashing lights, you might as well be anywhere." In the early 1970s, Swan and Laufer set out to chronicle this cultural heritage in photographs as a means of preserving an art form that was at the time fast dying out. Neon Nevada combines these photographs, many of signs no longer in existence, with newer photos of signs installed during the recent renaissance in neon. It is a lighthearted, charming record of images from the generic to the unforgettable. The accompanying text provides a brief history of neon sign-making, from its beginnings in Paris to its spread across the United States, pointing out in particular how it found its perfect setting in Nevada. The text is also a captivating description of how Swan and Laufer came to fall in love with neon - a love that the reader will grow to share - and of their travels in search of signs to immortalize.

Swan, Sheila

Business & Money

Univ of Nevada Pr

Hope Is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era

Kounalakis and Laufer, hosts of a nationally syndicated radio program and authors of a regular feature in Washington Monthly, present conversations with a diverse selection of leading policy and opinion leaders. These well-known personalities from across the ideological spectrum propose solutions to problems and conflicts vexing America as it heads into the 2008 election.

Kounalakis, Markos

Politics & Government

Polipoint Pr

Calexico creates a new border narrative and an authoritative blueprint for change. Through interviews, on-the-scene reporting, and historical analysis, Calexico contextualizes the region as emblematic of the immigration issues facing California and the nation while spotlighting the little-known unique individuality of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Calexico: Hope and Hysteria in the California Borderlands

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Neon Nevada

Made in Mexico

Hecho en Mexico (Spanish Edition)

Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer

Interviewing: The Oregon Method

Neon Nevada

Neon Nevada

Hope Is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era

Hope Is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era

Calexico: Hope and Hysteria in the California Borderlands