Author: Michael Herr
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: dispatches
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1991-08-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0679735259
ISBN-13: 9780679735250

Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr’s b

Author: Hampton Side
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: frontier, new, dispatches, americana
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2004-04-13
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400033551
ISBN-13: 9781400033553

Harley-Davidson bikers . . . Grand Canyon river rats. . .Mormon archaeologists. . . Spelling bee prodigies…For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture. Reporting for Outside, The New Yorker, and NPR, among other national media, the award-winning journalist has established a reputation not only as a wry observer of the contemporary American scene but also as one of our more inventive and versatile practitioners of narrative non-fiction.In t

Author: Luke Johnso
Publisher: Harriman House
Keywords: capitalist, unrepentant, dispatches, maverick
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-05-21
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1905641400
ISBN-13: 9781905641406

For eight years between 1998 and 2006, Luke Johnson wrote a regular column as "The Maverick" in The "Sunday Telegraph". His short, pithy essays tackled subjects ranging from rich lists to bankrupt companies, from high finance to investment techniques, from philanthropy to trophy wives, bringing a practitioner’s eye to the commercial world and the people in it. "The Maverick" quickly developed a cult following among readers who wanted to understand the blunt truth about investment, entrepreneurs, business history, and corporate life. This book brings together 84 of the best articles, with

Author: Philip Graham
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keywords: lisbon, dispatches, earth, come
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2009-11-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0226305155
ISBN-13: 9780226305158

A dispatch from a foreign land, when crafted by an attentive and skilled writer, can be magical, transmitting pleasure, drama, and seductive strangeness. In The Moon, Come to Earth, Philip Graham offers an expanded edition of a popular series of dispatches originally published on McSweeney’s, an exuberant yet introspective account of a year’s sojourn in Lisbon with his wife and daughter. Casting his attentive gaze on scenes as broad as a citywide arts festival and as small as a single paving stone in a cobbled walk, Graham renders Lisbon from a perspective that varies between wide-eyed an

Author: Tony Jones
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: frontier, emergent, dispatches, christians, new
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0787994715
ISBN-13: 9780787994716

What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about the thinking and practices of adventurous Emergent Christians across the country, he offers an in-depth view of this new "third way" of faith-its origins, its theology, and its views of truth, scripture and interpretation, and the Emergent movement’s hopeful and life-giving sense of co

Author: Tony Jones
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: frontier, emergent, dispatches, christians, new
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 047045539X
ISBN-13: 9780470455395

What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about the thinking and practices of adventurous Emergent Christians across the country, he offers an in-depth view of this new "third way" of faith-its origins, its theology, and its views of truth, scripture and interpretation, and the Emergent movement’s hopeful and life-giving sense of co

Author: Catherine Goldhammer
Publisher: Hudson Street Press
Keywords: nest, empty, dispatches, winging
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-10-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1594630488
ISBN-13: 9781594630484

For every woman on the verge of becoming an empty nester, a wry, insightful chronicle of rediscovering oneself at midlife. In her critically acclaimed first book, Still Life with Chickens, Catherine Goldhammer wrote of the six baby chicks that helped to pull her and her daughter forward, out of one life and into another--leaving the chaos of divorce far behind. Since then, the two have grown into their quirky life together in their rustic New England cottage by the sea, a life that Catherine has come to love. Now, in this wise and lyrical narrative, Catherine finds herself at a new crossroads: