Judy Daubenmier collects the work of some of the most important press critics working today. Bloggers and journalists, they take us through the most important blunders of the mass media, from the 2000 election to the war in Iraq. It's a litany of missteps, fraught with instances of laziness, lies and manipulation, that leaves the reader with an overwhelming picture of a Fourth Estate for sale. Surprisingly, this isn't a hopeless situation, nor are its chroniclers cynical. Daubenmier and the critics she gathers in this volume point out media mistakes not out of a desire to point and laugh, but out of a hunger for a return to the role the press once provided: watchdogs of government and representatives of the people. They criticize because they believe very deeply in the value of good reporting and good reporters, and that belief shines through every piece in Project Rewire, making it a must-read for anyone who cares about the health of our democracy. [From the Foreword by Allison Hantschel]

Project Rewire: New Media from the Inside Out

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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

William, James & Company

Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum have collected some of their most insightful and amusing material from Language Log, the popular web site started by Liberman. Often irreverent and hilarious, these brief essays take on many sacred cows, showing us--among many things--why Strunk &amp; White is useless, how the College Board can't identify sentence errors in the SAT, and what makes Dan Brown one of the worst prose stylists in the business.There is plenty here to inspire deeper thoughts as well. Why do Pete Rose's statements fall short of saying "I'm sorry," and can we learn how to apologize by analyzing his mistakes? Is there such a thing as mind-reading fatigue? What is the meaning of "pluralism" and "Yankeehood"? Language Log is a site where serious professional linguists go to have fun. There's plenty of fun and plenty to get you thinking about language in new ways in this collection.

Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from Language Log

Liberman, Mark

Pullum, Professor of General Linguistics Geoffrey K

Words, Language & Grammar

Barbara Ashmun's life as a gardener follows the stages of romance. At first she's obsessed, dreaming of plants day and night. Like a woman in love, she's possessed, until weeds and slugs make her question the whole affair. Yet even a brief absence makes her realize that she can't live without her hands in the dirt. In the end, she surrenders to her garden, even with all its faults. These essays are sure to lure you into the backyard where your heart, too, will be filled with joy.

Married to My Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Ashmun, Barbara Blossom

Gardening & Landscape Design

Part Guinness Book of World Records, part Book of Lists, and part illustrated encyclopedia, Limits of Language is an whimsical and informative introduction to languages of the world and the study of linguistics.

Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know about Language and Languages

Parkvall, Mikael

Painting Cats

In this book's introduction, 'Why Do We Collect Pictures of Cats?' Marge Piercy tells us,'Deborah DeWit Marchant belongs to a long tradition of distinguished painters who have found cats irresistible.' Ms. Piercy's introduction illuminates why we find cats irresistible and catalogs their many qualities we find intriguing. At the center of our relationships with cats good or bad lies our need to ascribe human emotions and intelligence to them. . . . Ms. Marchant's point of view, told engagingly in this book, opens the way to further contemplation of this subject. She says, 'Painting cats is a complicated business. They are not like landscapes, or cozy lamp-lit interiors, or windows with a view. . . . For a domesticated animal, the cat is bewitchingly inscrutable about its true nature, so we tend to describe cats as we believe them to be, not necessarily as we know them to be.' The story of her life with cats brings us along willingly, especially with the arrival of the feral cat, Cabbit, at her household. The process of Cabbit s taming is heartwarming and thoughtful, leading to an epiphany shared by the artist and the reader: the tentative fear of painting cats is conquered as she wonders, 'What more could I bring to my work, if I could be like a cat?' . . . The book can be enjoyed on many levels. There are the meditations by two cat lovers who have written engagingly about their passion for them. Then there is the vivid imagery that delights and provokes us. Your options are to flip through the book and enjoy the artwork, or to flop down on the couch to immerse yourself in the complicated world of everyday cat behavior.

Arts & Photography

Marge Piercy

Deborah DeWit Marchant

History & Criticism

Culled from his On Language column in The Chicago Tribune, Nathan Bierma conducts a wide-ranging discussion of topics related to English language. He gets under the hood to find out what etymologists do to arrive at their conclusions (they get under the hood), looks at dictionaries through the eyes of those who make them (and catches them making up a word to catch would-be word pirates), and ponders simple usage questions (lay or lie? bring or take? could care less or couldn t care less?) in ways you may not have considered before. He also fields questions from his readers and shows off some of the more interesting Australian slang, horse racing cliches, untranslatable terms, birding vocabulary, and lots more.

The Eclectic Encyclopedia of English: Language at its most enigmatic, ephemeral, and egregious, as observed in "On Language"

Bierma, Nathan

Are there native speakers of Klingon? Has there ever been a state with Esperanto as its official language? What is the least useful dictionary ever produced? What is the world's smallest language? Does English have more words than other languages? In what country are people the most polyglot? Can words consist of consonants alone?

Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Language and Languages

Mikael Parkvall

In these images, the artist has not tried to catalog the fantastic sculptures. In these photographs, they are soaring, peeking, cowering, haunting and alive. Like beings, the stones enliven and enact a human drama. What makes them so vital is the revelation of their inner life, whether they reside quietly in the edges or hidden corners of buildings, or sail into open space. And, in choosing to restrict the images to black and white, Frank s images connect to a grand tradition in photography. Connected, yet still fresh, they are vivid reminders of the presence of the mediaeval past. (From the Introduction by James D. Burke.)

Stone Beings

Douglas, Frank

Photography & Video

India Tigers

Dianne Kornberg

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Project Rewire: New Media from the Inside Out

Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from Language Log

Married to My Garden

Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know about Language and Languages

Painting Cats

The Eclectic Encyclopedia of English: Language at its most enigmatic, ephemeral, and egregious, as observed in "On Language"

Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Language and Languages

Stone Beings

Painting Cats

India Tigers