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UNINA9910454686203321 |
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Randall David <1951-> |
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The great reporters [[electronic resource] /] / David Randall |
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London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2005 |
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1-78371-627-4 |
1-84964-458-6 |
1-281-75062-X |
9786611750626 |
1-4356-6240-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Journalists - United States |
Reporters and reporting - United States - History - 19th century |
Reporters and reporting - United States - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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The world of the reporter : how, when and where the job has changed in 150 years -- William Howard Russell : the man who invented war corresponding -- Edna Buchanan, the best crime reporter there's ever been -- A.J. Liebling : the most quotable wit ever by-lined -- George Seldes : a reporter who got up the noses of the high and mighty -- Nellie Bly : the best undercover reporter in history -- Richard Harding Davies : one of the best descriptive reporters ever -- J.A. Macgahan : perpetrator of perhaps the greatest single piece of reporting ever -- James Cameron : the definitive foreign correspondent -- Floyd Gibbons : the supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment -- Hugh Mcilvanney : the best writer ever to apply words to newsprint -- Ernie Pyle : the reporter who never forgot who he was writing for -- Ann Leslie : the most versatile reporter ever -- Meyer Berger : the reporters' reporter. |
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'Entertaining, amusing, even inspirational. Above all, what every good reporter aims to deliver, a great read.' Peter Cole, Professor of |
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Journalism at the University of Sheffield'American newsrooms need to buy this inspiring book by the carton. David Randall's gripping collection of profiles in inky courage demonstrates that our current malaise amounts to ignorance of the perpetual siege of newsrooms by the powerful and the parsimonious. "e;The Great Reporters"e; is rich with the kind of lore that needs to inform the culture of newspaper journalism."e;Dean Miller, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Who are the greatest reporters in history? This unique book is the first to try and answer this question. Author David Randall searched nearly two centuries of newspapers and magazines, consulted editors and journalism experts worldwide, and the result is The Great Reporters - 13 in-depth profiles of the best journalists who ever lived. They include nine Americans and four Britons, ten men and three women, whose lives were full of adventure, wit, and the considerable ingenuity required to bring the story home. Among chapters are those on the reporter who: * Booked himself onto a ship likely to be sunk by the Germans so he could report its torpedoing * Was called out to a multiple shooting, who interviewed 50 witnesses, went back to the office, and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning story of 4,000 words in two and a half hours * Was deemed useless by her teacher but who went on to become the greatest crime reporter in history * Wrote a story that changed the map of Europe * Out-bluffed a top Soviet official to get into Russia so he could cover the appalling famine there * Feigned madness to get herself locked up in an asylum so she could expose its terrible conditions * Was the best ever to apply words to newsprint * Became a national hero in America because he stood up for the little guy and his war reporting told it like it really was * At the age of 63, and after three major operations, went under-cover in Iran so she could report on the regime's repression * Was nearly fired for fouling up his first major assignment, but went on to shock his nation with his courageous war reporting * Wrote faster than anyone who could write better and better than anyone who could write faster * Single-handedly took on the tobacco industry * Said no to William Randolph Hearst Each profile tells of the reporter's life and his or her major stories, how they were obtained, and their impact. Packed with anecdotes, and inspiring accounts of difficulties overcome, the book quotes extensively from each reporter's work. It also includes an essay on the history of reporting, charting the technologies, economics, and attitudes that made it the way it is - from the invention of the telegraph to the Internet. The Great Reporters is not just the story of 13 remarkable people, it is the story of how society's information hunter-gatherers succeed in bringing us all what we need to know. |
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UNINA9910139918503321 |
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Fincham J. R. S |
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Genetic analysis : principles, scope, and objectives / / John R.S. Fincham |
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Oxford ; ; Boston, : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1994 |
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9786612189050 |
9781282189058 |
1282189050 |
9781444313833 |
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9781444313826 |
1444313827 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Genetics - Technique |
Nucleotide sequence |
Gene mapping |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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GENETIC ANALYSIS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: THE EXPANDING SCOPE OF GENETICS; 1: DISSECTING THE GENOME USING NATURAL GENETIC SYSTEMS; The eukaryotic system; Eukaryotes distinguished from prokaryotes; Mitosis and chromosome structure; Alternation of haploid and diploid phases in the sexual cycle; Meiosis and the rules of classical genetics; Meiosis; Single-factor genetic ratios and their explanation; Independent assortment of different allele-pairs; Testing data for fit to theoretical ratios; Linkage groups and the nature of crossovers; Map units and map distance |
Placing Linked genes in sequenceDistinguishing between independent assorment and distant linkage; Mapping centromeres using tetrads; Sex linkage; Segregation and linkage in human genetics; Assigning linkage groups to chromosomes; Genetic analysis of bacteria and bacteriophage; Three modes of gene transfer in bacteria; Time-of-entry mapping in E. coli; Analogy with sexual recombination and |
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segregation; Stable partial diploids - F' plasmids; Bacteriophage lambda - a virus in the chromosome; Bacteriophage T4 - a model recombinational system; Eukaryotic organelle genetics |
Exceptions to the rule of equal results from reciprocal crossesChloroplast variants; Mitochondrial variants; Summary and perspective; Further reading; References; 2: FROM MUTATIONS TO GENES; Defining the gene by mutation and complementation; What is it that the markers mark?; The collection of mutants; Sorting of mutants into complementation groups; An interim definition of the gene; Mapping within the gene; The detection of recombination within genes; Mapping by reference to flanking markers; Recombination frequency; Deletion mapping; The determination by genes of protein structure |
Colinearity of the gene and its encoded protein productBiochemistry of polypeptide synthesis; Not all genes encode proteins; Conclusions; References; 3: THE GENE AS DNA SEQUENCE; Characterization of DNA fragments; Restriction endonucleases; Separating aod sizing DNA fragments; Probing for specific sequences; Making restriction-site maps; Cloning and cloning vectors; Making recombinant DNA molecules; Escherichia coli plasmid vectors; Yeast 2-um plasmid and shuttle vectors; Lambda (l) bacteriophage and cosmid vectors; Yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) |
Screening DNA libraries for functional genesGenomic libraries and cDNA libraries; Gene identification by complementation of mutants; Screening gene libraries with DNA probes; Designing gene-specific probes; Use of cDNA probes; Screening for gene expression; Probing across species or group boundaries; Positional cloning; Confirming the identity of cloned sequences; DNA sequence and open reading frames; Using the clone to disrupt the corresponding gene; Hybridization back to chromosomes; Simultaneous mutagenesis and gene tagging; The principle; Transposon tags; Conclusion; References |
4: THE EVOLVING CONCEPT OF THE GENE |
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Authored by a very eminent geneticist, this text gives students a thorough appreciation of the development and potential of analytical genetic techniques. Beginning with a consideration of both the classical Mendelian and the molecular biological aspects of genetic analysis, the book goes on to discuss progress in three key areas of genetics. Firstly the elucidation of the detailed structure and overall organization of the genome, secondly the way that genetic differences at the molecular level account for heritable variation in populations, and finally an explanation of how the genes control |
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