Unoriginal Misunderstanding revisits American traditions of press freedom that underlie the First Amendment. Author Kenneth Shear collects source material, overlooked in previous histories, demonstrating that Americans sought broad protection of press freedom in the late 1700's, culminating in adoption of the press freedom guarantee. Shear's work connects today's broad First Amendment law with its roots in early America. It's especially timely, because in the legal arena leading "originalists" (including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia) have argued for confining legal standards of press freedom to a narrower "original meaning". Shear shows how these "originalists" have misunderstood history and overlooked the actual origins of the First Amendment in deep American traditions of expansive press freedom. "After reading the monograph, you will never look at the phrase "original understanding" the same way.... UNORIGINAL MISUNDERSTANDING will be an insightful companion to any intellectual debate about whether press freedom should be narrowed by judges and scholars who have misunderstood the origins of the First Amendment. Finally, this monograph will serve as a practical guide for anyone seeking to find support for an expansive interpretation for freedom of the press." - Law and Politics Book Review "[E]very reader should come away impressed by the range of materials Shear has unearthed that support the notion that eighteenth-century Americans embraced expansive notions of freedom of the press." - Prof. Richard Buel, Jr. (author of Securing the Revolution) "Shear ... arrays a formidable group of writings by lawyers, ministers, and journalists during and after the revolution concerning press freedoms." - Prof. Alfred W. Blumrosen (Author of Slave Nation)

Unoriginal Misunderstanding: Press Freedom in Early America and Interpretation of the First Amendment

History

Shear, Kenneth

Americas

Libertary Co.

Luscious Chocolate Smoothies is a delicious collection of recipes that combines the rich, intoxicating taste and benefits of dark chocolate, with a tantalizing balance of fruits, nuts, tofu, liquor, juices and other unique combinations to create cool, refreshing, mouth watering drinks for all ages. The book is interspersed with chocolate anecdotes, humor and history, as well as tips for blending and information on its vivacious ingredients. Discover the connection between love and chocolate; delve into The Hurricane, Coyote's Howl or The Nutty Professor; and blissfully empty every cup to the last drop.

Luscious Chocolate Smoothies: An Irresistible Collection of Healthy Cocoa Delights

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Constans, Gabriel

Desserts

Acclaimed by successful screenwriters and authors, Invisible Ink is a helpful, accessible guide to the essential elements of the best storytelling. Brian McDonald, an award winning screenwriter who has taught his craft at several major studios, supplies writers with tools to make their work more effective and provides readers and audiences a deeper understanding of the storyteller's art. When people think of a screenplay, they usually think about dialogue-the "visible ink" that is readily accessible to the listener, reader, or viewer. But a successful screenplay needs Invisible Ink as well, the craft below the surface of words. Invisible Ink lays out the essential elements of screenplay structure, using vivid examples from famous moments in popular movies as well as from one of his own popular scripts. You will learn techniques for building a compelling story around a theme, making your writing engage audiences, creating appealing characters, and much more. Praise for Invisible Ink: "...If I manage to reach the summit of my next story it will be in no small part due to having read Invisible Ink." -Andrew Stanton (cowriter Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., and cowriter/director Finding Nemo and WALL-E) "...Brian McDonald uses his deep understanding of story and character to pass on essential truths about dramatic writing. Ignore him at your peril." -Jim Taylor (Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Sideways and Election) "... I recommend this fine handbook on craft to any writer, apprentice or professional, working in any genre or form." -Dr. Charles Johnson (National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage) "If you want to write scripts, listen to Brian. The guy knows what he's talking about." -Paul Feig (creator of NBC's Freaks and Geeks, co-executive producer The Office) "With Invisible Ink Brian McDonald has written us a book to keep and heed forever because through the simple, graceful, graspable, original wisdom of it, we might just save our screenwriting lives." -Stewart Stern (Screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause)

Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories That Resonate

Humor & Entertainment

McDonald, Brian

Movies

Writing in a New Convertible With the Top Down: A Unique Guide for Writers

Reference

Killien, Christi

Bender, Sheila

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Baseball remembered by nine great writers - there's community, there's family, there's heart. Sherman Alexie leaping from reservation Little League to women, race, and identity. Timothy Egan tells secrets of coaching girls' Little League, including use of Doppler radar to scan for rain. Holly Morris describes how her women's softball team, the Smellies, perfected the fine art of hooha. Lynda Barry shares a tale of a magical baseball glove laced with difficult memories of her father. Larry Colton, once a "can't miss prospect," recalls the hope and pain of his professional pitching debut, then watches a next-generation "can't miss prospect" make the same mistakes. And much more. Here is baseball without stats but full of life, played by local heroes and heroines on their home field. Praise for Home Field: "Wonderful yarns.... They may wind up in history and anthropology books, as well as in your heart." - Seattle Times "A bittersweet, poignant, beautiful book. Home Field throws nothing but strikes." - David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars "A sweet and easy book, filled with the kinds of memories only baseball can engender." - Donald Honig, author of Baseball When the Grass Was Real Home Field contains essays by: Sherman Alexie, Bryan DiSalvatore, Timothy Egan, Lynda Barry, Robert Leo Heilman, John Own, Holly Morris, Larry Colton and John Douglas Marshall

Home Field: Writers Remember Baseball

Sports & Outdoors

Egan, Timothy

ALEXIE, SHERMAN

Biographies

At the heart of every great work is an essential commonality, which author and teacher Brian McDonald explores in The Golden Theme. McDonald's previous book, Invisible Ink, has been acclaimed by award winning authors and screenwriters. In The Golden Theme he turns to the question of what makes writing and storytelling essential to us. Readers and writers will benefit from his deep insight. "Brian McDonald is one of the world's wisest teachers of the elements that create great storytelling....If you a writer in any genre, read The Golden Theme. If you are a non-writing reader who just loves stories, read it. If you are a teacher, share it with your students. And give it to friends, who will thank you for the clarity Brian McDonald so generously brings to our lives." - from the Foreword by National Book Award winner Charles Johnson.

The Golden Theme: How to Make Your Writing Appeal to the Highest Common Denominator

For every man who has lost love, and every woman who is searching for it. Penny Leyton is one smart sexy woman on her way to the top. Bridget Jones she certainly is not, but she has the same chaotic approach to romance. Just as she is breaking through the glass ceiling, her boss Dave Stockton hints at a workplace scandal. Ablaze with moral outrage, Penny realises too late that one of her own friends is implicated and that she herself is part of the problem. Can she untangle herself from a hidden web of intrigue and save herself?   "Anyone who cares about love will give this book to their partner or spouse, sister or brother." - Dr. Poonam Thapa, Gender, Culture and Sexual Health Expert

Friends or Lovers

Literature & Fiction

Ridley-Duff, Rory

Literary

Dove Creek is a wise, eloquent, fiercely honest fictional chronicle of a young woman's venturesome journey from her bare-bones Kentucky background to an Indian reservation in the Pacific Northwest. She finds a new life as a much-loved healer--a blonde, female, hillbilly shaman whose self-destruction and dogged perseverance come together in a novel of intimacy that crosses the boundaries of culture and time. "We don't have enough female quest stories, but this is one of them--lyrical in its language, vivid in its detail, important in its observations of the chaos and confusion that come when a young woman lets go of her identity and strikes out on her own perilous journey of self-discovery." -Kim Barnes, author of A Country Called Home "Paula Marie Coomer writes like a house afire, and her richly variegated novel deserves a prominent place in the literature of the modern American west." -Ed McClanahan, author of Famous People I have Known and O the Clear Moment.

Dove Creek

Coomer, Paula Marie

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