How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposin
How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposin
This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Miloševic Serbia after 2000. The study challenges the view that corruption has always been understood
A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of
A brand new, fast-paced, fully illustrated history of basketball through its flashpoints, innovations, and innovatorsThe third book in the Lyons Press Game Changers sports series answers the questions
This book examines ten major political scandals involving the White House in the past 50 years, revealing how the investigative reporters behind the stories uncovered the hidden truths.
Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this
At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the midst of another scandalous fin de siecle, awash with rumors and revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium expired, the
When personal desire goes beyond moral boundaries in the lives of public figures, a media scandal may not be far behind. But media today can make anyone with the right story a subject for scandal. The
Tapping into the universal desire for 'something sensational to read on the train', this book will be perfect for anyone looking for an irreverent, surprising and sometimes tragic alternative history
The second book in the Game Changers sports series answers the questions: What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, pieces of equipment, controversies, organizational changes, radio an
The first book in the new Lyons Press GAME CHANGERS sports series answers the questions: What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, pieces of equipment, controversies, organizational ch
David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colourful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteenth-century newspaper reporting. The contributors analyse the role of sensational
Child-abuse reports in the media make for ?good stories’ but at what cost? This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult-child power relations
Child-abuse reports in the media make for ?good stories’ but at what cost? This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult-child power relations
Yellow journalism grew in girth and influence in at a rapid clip in America, tracking with the rise of cheap printing and easy distribution of newspapers, tracts and broadsides. Here Sachsman (communi
Famed as a pugnaciously honest leader, Grover Cleveland set the tone for what a politician should do when caught in scandal: “Whatever you say, tell the truth.” But to save himself from career-ending
Mention the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the word "scandal" comes to mind. Within recent history, the association is quite accurate; congressional panels have investigated "abuses,
From Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist and businessman recently convicted of defrauding American Indian tribes and corrupting public officials, to John Peter Zenger, the newspaper publisher whose 1735 trial
Tells the story of how the best college basketball players of the early 1950s adjusted the outcome of the games they played in exchange for money from gamblers and, in doing so, became part of a natio
