Jermyn, Leslie
Summary: "A book for middle and high school students about the history and culture of Paraguay."--Provided by publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 929.2 JERBrown, Robin Terry
Summary: "A look at culture's relationship with journalism, and an effort to teach kids what is "real" versus "fake" news"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 070.9 BROThiel, Kristin
Summary: With the creation of the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980, television news changed forever. Today, television news shapes viewers' opinions, politics, and journalism as a whole. Filled with attention-grabbing photographs, political cartoons, and in-depth sidebars, this book introduces readers to the story of what came before in-the-moment reporting, how the twenty-four-hour news cycle came...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.1 THIHarris, Duchess
Summary: "Media consumers rely on objectivity from their news sources, but that's not always a realistic expectation. Uncovering Bias in the News looks at the ways in which multiple media outlets can cover the same story in vastly different ways, the reasons for these differences, and how to recognize bias in a news report."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J071.3 HARHarris, Duchess
Summary: "The news media and its role in society are topics of conversation and debate in today's world. News Literacy looks inside newsrooms, exploring key moments in the history of journalism and explaining how today's journalists work. Examine how news is presented, and learn how advertising, online algorithms, and other modern trends affect the way we experience news. Investigate the phenomenon of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J301.16 HARBartlett, Bruce R.
Summary: A lucid, practical, and concise guide for citizens who want to cut through the lies in this era of "fake news" and "alternative facts." As recent national events have proven, the floodgates have opened and the political terrain is shifting rapidly with the dangerous concept of "alternative facts" supplanting actual facts at the highest levels of our government and in new media sources that are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 BARMcClellan, Ray.
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about the Loch Ness Monster. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.9 MCCMooney, Carla
Summary: "Although they started as a place to socialize online, social media platforms have increasingly become a place where people get their news worldwide. According to a 2022 Pew Research Center study, approximately 70 percent of Americans get at least some news from social media platforms. Concerns have risen as more people turn to social media to get news. While some information on social media...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MOOBerkowitz, Eric
Summary: "A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.31 BERBrook, Kevin Alan
Summary: "The Jews of Khazaria explores the history and culture of Khazaria--a large empire in eastern Europe (located in present-day Ukraine and Russia) in the early Middle Ages noted for its adoption of the Jewish religion. The third edition of this modern classic features new and updated material throughout, including new archaeological findings, new genetic evidence, and new information about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 BROLande, Nathaniel.
Contents: The Revolutionary War -- The War of 1812 -- The Mexican War -- The Civil War -- The Spanish-American War -- World War I -- World War II -- The cold war and the Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- The Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4333 LANBrownell, Kathryn Cramer
Summary: "As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2345 BROHile, Lori.
Summary: Presents information about the Loch Ness monster, offering accounts of incidents and sightings, theories that have been put forth about it, and scientific perspectives on the subject.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Raintree 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.944 HILHendershot, Heather
Summary: "Heather Hendershot argues that a moment long understood as sitting at the crux of American political history-the chaos of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago-is also crucial to understanding the country's media history. By scrutinizing those events and broadcasts in precise detail, Hendershot documents the emergence of the idea that the media are inherently liberal. As she shows, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 HENVarious Artists
Contents: Cigarette lighter / Japanese Telecom. -- Breakout / Ectomorph. -- Minors at night / Adult. -- Fogdust vs. Detroit / Paris the Black Fu. -- It's time / Keith Tucker. -- Whatchulookinat / DJ Godfather. -- Hoes / DJ Assault. -- No no / Aaron-Carl. -- If snow was black / Detroit Grand Pubahs. -- Murder scene / Andy Toth. -- A.M. / Maersk. -- Capture / Tony Ollivierra. -- Character maps remix /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Intuit-Solar 1969
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC COMFriedländer, Saul
Summary: The years of persecution describes and interprets the steadily increasing anti-Jewish bigotry in Germany after the 1933 Nazi accession to power. The years of extermination describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 FRISheen, Barbara
Summary: "Fake news is a . . . problem that affects everyone. It can undermine democracies, negatively impact public health, and destroy reputations. How fake news spreads, the problems fake news causes, how to recognize and keep from spreading it are discussed"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 302.23 SHEBartal, Israel
Summary: "In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940 BARRush, Elizabeth A.
Summary: "Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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Summary: Explores the characteristics, origins, anecdotal sightings, and appearance in popular culture of the Loch Ness monster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 001.9 RIVStewart, Katherine.
Contents: The Good News Club comes to town -- All part of the plan -- A wall of separation -- The originalists' new theory -- Little red church-house -- Thy neighbor's children: the 4/14 window -- Don't know much about history: the Texas textbook wars -- Bible "literacy" wars -- Packaging proselytizing as education -- The peer-to-peer evangelism loophole -- Enlisting in the army: how to join the Good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.28 STESidran, Ben.
Summary: A comprehensive examination of Jewish influence and participation in the American popular music business, that weaves together cultural, political, musical and economic history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nardis Books, an imprint of Unlimited Media Ltd. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SIDBarclay, Donald A
Summary: Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 BARLüsted, Marcia Amidon
Summary: Introduces the Great Depression, inviting readers to investigate its causes, offering insights into daily life and how the economics of the time shaped politics, and discussing Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press, A division of Nomad Communications 2016