Three representative profiles of farmers across the nation--a Massachusetts dairy farmer, an Iowa farmer devoted to raising corn and hogs, and a California 'agribusiness'--document the plight of America's small farmers and their vanishing way of life

Product Description: Three representative profiles of farmers across the nation--a Massachusetts dairy farmer, an Iowa farmer devoted to raising corn and hogs, and a Califor agribusiness--document the plight of America's small farmers and their vanishing way of life.

Collects fifteen essays by masters and new voices in the genre of reportage literature, including memoirs, personal essays, profiles, travel literature, and science and nature writing (view table of contents)

An absorbing chronicle of travels, from 1987 to 1993, around the new Russia offers a street-level account of the difficult changes happening there, following the slow breakup of the old system and the efforts to rebuild a nation.

The widespread devastation and social evils perpetrated by seven decades of communism are chronicled here, from the Stalin's atrocities to Ceausescu's destruction of Bucharest, from the killing fields of Cambodia to Ho Chi Mihn's Vietnam. (view table of contents)

Some of the nation's leading journalists and writers offer practical advice, personal anecdotes, and helpful writing techniques and suggestions in a volume that includes essays by Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story, Gay Talese on writing about private lives, and other contributions by Malcolm Gladwell, Nora Ephron, Alma Guillermoprieto, and others. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Story Building demystifies the narrative style of writing by playfully undoing the knots of journalistic storytelling. It provides personalized guidance and practical advice on how to muster the passion and skills to gather compelling details needed to tell an engaging journalistic story on deadline...read more

Product Description: The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe...read more

Product Description: This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. This correspondence provides revelatory insights into both men's attempts to secure Western support for a peaceful transition to an independent Chechnya...read more

In the summer of 1980, the eyes of the world turned to the Gdansk shipyard in Poland which suddenly became the nexus of a strike wave that paralyzed the entire country. The Gdansk strike was orchestrated by the members of an underground free trade union that came to be known as Solidarnosc [Solidarity]. Despite fears of a violent response from the communist authorities, the strikes spread to more than 800 sites around the country and involved over a million workers, mobilizing its working population. Faced with crippling strikes and with the eyes of the world on them, the communist regime signed landmark accords formally recognizing Solidarity as the first free trade union in a communist country. The union registered nearly ten million members, making it the world's largest union to date. In a widespread and inspiring demonstration of nonviolent protest, Solidarity managed to bring about real and powerful changes that contributed to the end of the Cold War.Solidarity:The Great Workers Strike of 1980 tells the story of this pivotal period in Poland's history from the perspective of those who lived it. Through unique personal interviews with the individuals who helped breathe life into the Solidarity movement, Michael Szporer brings home the momentous impact these events had on the people involved and subsequent history that changed the face of Europe. This movement, which began as a strike, had major consequences that no one could have foreseen at the start. In this book, the individuals who shaped history speak with their own voices about the strike that changed the course of history.