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Offers a first look at the all-Arab news network and its controversial role in the Arab world.

Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, has emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, and the war waged in Afghanistan. More than a channel reporting the news as it happens, Al-Jazeera (Arabic for "the peninsula") has access to the Arab world and is "scooping" the western media conglomerates. It has emerged as an international relations actor on the world stage with its exclusive access to Osama bin Laden and members of the Taliban. Its reputation has been burnishing quickly through its daily exposure on CNN in the U.S., even as it strives to maintain its independence as an international free press news network. Al-Jazeera sheds light on the background of the Al-Jazeera network, how it started, how it operates, the kinds of programs it broadcasts, its effects on Arab viewers, the reactions of the West and Arab states, its implications for the future of news broadcasting in the Middle East, and its struggle for a free press and public opinion in the Arab world.

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The author models the discussion of each topic in this text on the social scientific process by asking if theories exists to explain personal observations in politics and the media and if there is evidence to support the theories. End-of-chapter Active Learning exercises provide real-world examples of important concepts and ask students to collect and analyze data from various print and electronic media sources.

The text includes an entire chapter on agenda setting-the media's ability to insert issues into public consciousness or increase perceived importance-which illuminates the related concepts of priming and framing.

  • Data Sets from the NES and GSS can be downloaded from the Mass Media and Politics web site.

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Story of a society in which all books are to be burned.

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A narrative account of the author's investigation into the world's economic gap describes her rediscovery of a blue sweater she had given away to Goodwill and found on a child in Rwanda, in a passionate call to action that relates her work as a venture capitalist on behalf of impoverished nations. 40,000 first printing.

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An incisive study of the notorious terrorist organization examines the leadership, ideology, tactics, and finances of Al Qaeda; discusses how the organization trains fighters; and outlines the international response that will be necessary to destroy the organization. Reprint.

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A noted journalist and author of Because They Hate sounds a warning about the global perils of radical Islam, looking at the terrorists among us, how Islam exploits the American legal system and our protection of religion, and the deadly goals of fanatics, and calls for an effective, unified approach to stop its spread. 250,000 first printing.

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Having earned numerous enemies in his more than fifteen years on the front lines of the war on terror, CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted by the influential father of a terrorist who is demanding retribution for his son's death. Reprint.

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Examines the Taliban and its form of Islamic fundamentalism, explains how the organization rose to power, and discusses its impact on Afghanistan and why the country has become a center for international terrorism.

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An undercover operative who has infiltrated al Qaeda, John Wells is trapped between the CIA, which no longer trusts his loyalty to the U.S., and his terrorist associates, when he is sent to America as part of a sleeper cell and become a prime suspect in two bombings in L.A., an attack that is a prelude to a massive offensive that could cost hundreds of lives. A first novel. Reprint.

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Various contributors to this bookhaving been there at the timeanalyze the U.S.-led 1992 "peacemaking" intervention in Somalia and draw lessons for future peacekeeping operations. They consider difficult aspects of peacemaking, such as efforts to rebuild the police, the dynamics of the economy, the relationship between the military and non-governmental organizations, and the performance of allied armies in the joint peacemaking effort. Index. Notes, Bibliography.

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Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive. In an incisive and original study that goes against the grain of much of the current discussion on citizenship, Dorothy J. Solinger challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion.

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A New England boarding school is rocked in the wake of a sex scandal in which participants were caught on videotape, a situation that derails the innocence and best intentions of students, parents, and others in life-shattering ways.

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In an updated edition of her best-selling, landmark study, the sharp social critic and author of Fear of Falling looks underneath the illusion of American prosperity at poverty and hopelessness in America, with a new afterword that offers a revealing look at the continuing plight of the underpaid and how the current economic situation affects them. Reprint.

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