Trends prevailing in the media suggest a seemingly disintegrating concept of media ethics. It is no surprise; being ethical is hard work and, could very well put a person in conflict with prevailing trends. Many of the people cited within the 13 essays of Desperately Seeking Ethics illustrate this-from Socrates and Martin Luther King Jr., who both died for their principles, to reporter David Kidwell of the Miami Herald who chose jail over testifying for the prosecution in a murder...

How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions-and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and the public alike worry that journalism has lost its way, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies is available to provide much-needed, accessible guidance.Its twelve chapters, written ...

In the uncertain days before a young America would be torn apart by a war between the states, a small boy named Morgan Montgomery is orphaned and sent to live with his mothers wealthy relatives. They attend her funeral service and take the nine-year-old to live with them and grow up on their large plantation near Columbia, Tennessee.As he begins to grow into manhood, tensions erupt to the boiling point. And for one frightening year after war breaks out, Morgan remains on the planta...

Ray Gentry loved airplanes from the time he was a boy, watching the old biplanes dusting cotton fields near his home in Tennessee. After college, he became a military pilot, flying in Vietnam, and later took a job as a sprayer pilot in the Mississippi Delta. It was his insatiable love for flying, however, that eventually led him to make a fateful decision with disastrous consequences for himself and those he loved. His compromise to make a one-time flight to Central America would lead him ...

The Good Soldier is a story about the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples—one English, one American—and the growing awareness of American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian façade. It is Dowell’s attitude—his puzzlement, uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration—that makes the book so powerful and mysterious. In Ford’s brilliantly woven tale, nothing is quite what it seems.Despite...

Er stiehlt für Geld. Reine Routine. Bis auf die Leiche ...Charlie Howard ist vieles - erfolgreicher Krimiautor, charmanter Gentleman ... und ein äußerst talentierter Dieb. Seine Auftraggeber sucht er sich normalerweise ganz genau aus, aber dem merkwürdigen Angebot des Amerikaners kann er nicht widerstehen. Zwei völlig wertlose Gipsfiguren soll er stehlen. An zwei unterschiedlichen Orten. In nur einer Nacht. Ein Kinderspiel. Doch dann findet Charlie die Leiche des A...

Ein Trick zu viel - und der Tod mischt mit.Eigentlich wollte sich Charlie Howard, seines Zeichens Buchautor und Meisterdieb, in Las Vegas von seinem letzten Abenteuer erholen. Doch als sich seine charmante Begleiterin Victoria am Roulette-Tisch ein wenig zu gut mit dem aalglatten Illusionskünstler des Casinos versteht, will Charlie dem Möchtegern-David-Copperfield eine Lektion erteilen. Mit geübter Fingerfertigkeit stiehlt er dessen Portemonnaie und schleicht in de...

Er ist Krimiautor und pensionierter Meisterdieb. So war zumindest der Plan ...Charlie Howard, gefeierter Krimiautor und meisterhafter Dieb, hat genug vom Leben auf der Überholspur. Er sehnt sich nach Ruhe und einem ehrbaren Dasein. Deshalb reist er nach Venedig, um sich dort auf die Arbeit an seinem neuen Buch zu konzentrieren. Doch das Schicksal, in Person einer attraktiven jungen Frau mit ebenso geschickten Fingern wie er, durchkreuzt seine Pläne auf perfide Weis...

Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner explains what happens during the course of changing a mind and offers ways to influence that process.Remember that we don’t change our minds overnight, it...

Krimiautor, Dieb, Sündenbock?Charlie Howard - gefeierter Krimiautor bei Tag, brillanter Meisterdieb bei Nacht - genießt gerade den Trubel um seinen neuesten Bestseller, als er ein ungewöhnliches Angebot erhält: Nach einer Lesung bittet ihn einer der Gäste an dessen Wohnungstür seine Einbruchskünste zu demonstrieren. Ein kurioser Gefallen, denkt Charlie - und lässt sich darauf ein. Erst am nächsten Tag erfährt er: Das Apartment gehört einer Frau, und deren Leiche ta...

Howard Zehr is the father of Restorative Justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making Restorative Justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his bestselling, seminal book on the movement. (The original edition has sold more than 110,000 copies.)Restorative Justice, with its emphasis on identifying the justice needs of everyone involved in a crime, is a wor...

What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces have unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These questions lie at the heart of this eagerly awaited new book. Focusing on genetics and journalism-two fields that generate and manipulate information and thus affect our lives in myriad ways-the authors show how in their quest to build meaningful caree...