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  1. Agreement on terms
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
  2. Between the Lines
    How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  3. Books of Interest - Sources 58
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
  4. Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
  5. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
  6. The Complete Plain Words
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  7. Contested Truths
    Keywords in American Politics since Independence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  8. CP Caps and Spelling.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  9. CP Style Book
    A Guide for Writers and Filing Editors

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  10. Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers
    A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Covers almost 3000 words are covered here, mainly American white slang from fads and trends that came out of technology, music, the armed forces, rhymes, and animals.
  11. The Elements of Style
    Resource Type: Book
  12. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
    Resource Type: Book
  13. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
  14. Good Writing and Speaking
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  15. Harper's English Grammar
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
  16. How to Make Your Words Work
    A practical guide to type layout and design

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  17. Hugo's German Simplified
    An Easy and Rapid Self-Instructor

    Resource Type: Book
  18. Knowledge of Language
    Its Nature, Origin and Use

    Resource Type: Book
  19. Less Than Words Can Say
    The Underground Grammarian

    Resource Type: Book
  20. Literature & Language Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to literature and language in the Sources directory for the media.
  21. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  22. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  23. Made in America
    An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  24. The Meaning of Everything
    The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  25. A Natural History of Latin
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Latin is the most influential language in the world. It supports the European Romance languages, English, the Roman Catholic Church, and most of the vocabulary in science-technology, law and culture.
  26. The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye’s Demolition of Derrida
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi psychiatry journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
  27. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Modern English Usage is interesting and informative, and never dry.
  28. Orwell
    The War Broadcasts

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  29. The Oxford Companion to the English Language
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    An encyclopedia of English everywhere, everytime.
  30. The Oxford Companion to the English Language
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  31. The Oxford Companion to the Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  32. Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    These entries tell the story behind words, names and sayings. The range is from short definitions to more detailed accounts.
  33. The Phenomenology of Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
  34. Politics and the English Language
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1946
    In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
  35. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  36. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  37. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
    The Russell Lectures

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    These lectures explore Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
  38. Professionally Speaking
    Getting Ahead in Business and Life Through Effective Communicating

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  39. Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
  40. Public Speaking Phrases
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  41. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
  42. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    The left’s sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  43. Speaking and Language
    Defence of Poetry

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Goodman writes, "I do not think there can be a rule for the appropriate use of formal or vernacular language...The best is to try for a vernacular that molds itself to what is going on and to use it critically".
  44. The Story of English
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  45. The Story of Language
    The Classic Account by a World-Famous Linguist of Humanity's Most Important Invention

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The author explores the origin and development of language from the first sounds spoken to the many languages used today.
  46. Talk Talk Talk
    An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  47. The price of one lie is the loss of many truths (TM)
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Does a 4000-year-old law harm us today? You bet it does. Names coming out of that law are in our language today and are being used everyday.
  48. Understanding Media
    The Extensions of Man

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
  49. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  50. Useful Phrases 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  51. War, Peace and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
  52. Word for Word
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    The authors try to explain the differences between word usages. Here are about 3000 examples that are confusing because they look alike, sound alike, or seem alike.
  53. Word Myths
    Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  54. Words that count women in (book review)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
  55. Words that Count Women In - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1993
    Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
  56. Words, words, words...
    Diemer, Ulli

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.

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