As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical development of audience feedback, the book considers how news media has changed its approach to accommodating audience participation, and explores how audience feedback can serve the needs of bot...

Does the mere sight of a bank statement trigger a knot in your stomach?You aren't lazy, broken, or bad at math; you've simply been sold financial advice designed for robots, not humans.Money Minus Math is your permission slip to stop the shame cycle. Whether you are an Avoider, a Spender, or just someone tired of complex spreadsheets, this guide offers a human-centered path to financial peace. You will learn to build systems that w...

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 ...

She was no ordinary woman. She was beautiful and irresistible. And yet she had a deformity, a mutation, which compelled her to take any man who aroused her, latch onto him with her legs around his face, subdue him with her narcotic secretions, and ride him until his life was taken from him to fill the aching void in her womb. The police would find her eventually, but would that be an end to it?

This riveting suspense thriller explores the special bond between a brother and sister when Richard Baimbridge rushes back to his coastal hometown of Wilmington, NC, to assist with his sister's recovery after she's brutally attacked and crippled investigating the rape of a 13-year-old. Coming face to face with his tormented past and a dark family secret, he fights to stay above the flood of childhood trauma and, serving as his sister's legs, is drawn into the dark underside of this quiet c...

Some people are born lucky, chosen to receive power and riches beyond imagination, but Gongja Kim? He’s a total loser with a completely useless ability: duplicating others’ skills—that is, after they kill him. Gongja’s all but given up…until he witnesses the strongest hunter in the world and his idol, Flame Emperor, committing murder and is slaughtered in cold blood! But who knew his former idol was hiding just the skill he needed to turn his fortune around? Now practically unstoppable, Go...

Blurred Images is a fictional story of Tommy Owens, a Marine Corps decorated sniper from the Vietnam War area.The story begins with his enlistment, initial training, and his assignments with the CIA.Tommy rotates back to the United States after setting several records for the number of kills and the longest kill by a Marine sniper. He accepts work for the CIA as a sniper and gets sent to Iraq, where he loses his sight in an ambush and roadside bomb.After being rotated...

In 1955 Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita, a novel about a older man’s fascination and subsequent involvement with a flirtatious twelve year old girl who is as scheming as she is beautiful. Fiction? Non-Fiction? Fantasy? Reality? Who can say? I guess that every older guy has a secret wish to meet a younger woman who is attracted to him; but not necessarily one that is underage.The most commonly held belief regarding age and romance is that young girls would not ...

I'm telling you this is the most essential, pivotal time of all time. I truly think that things are in motion, that things are being put in order. When you keep going after something and the doors don't open or things don't happen, it's frustrating. What's wrong with you simply going after it and going after it, but nothing seems to open up? Is it necessary for a court ruling to be made? I believe so. I started searching my heart for what God had to say today, and then He started speaking....

His revenge complete, Gongja is finally ready to take on the Tower! Not only is he unkillable, but he keeps racking up skills with each death by monster. Add in the Blade Emperor’s guidance and he quickly reaches the tenth floor, which has yet to be conquered in this timeline—the perfect test to check how much stronger he is now. Will Gongja successfully become the first person to conquer the tenth floor and rewrite history?

Skills, power, prestige—Gongja’s got things he could only dream of in the previous timeline. None of that, however, comes close to the recognition of the great five guild leaders as well as the tentative trust of the strongest hunter in the Tower—all of them people who, despite their constant bickering, clearly care deeply about their fellow hunters and without whom society would crumble. That’s why Gongja’s determined to ensure their safety by singlehandedly paving the way to the twentiet...

The 22nd floor of the tower has been decided on! In a world where martial artists reign supreme, the Demonic Cult, as well as the clans opposing them, has been wiped out due to a mysterious infectious disease. The objective is straightforward: Cure the plague and prevent the end of the world. With two of the best alchemists and a guild master in his party, Gongja is prepared for anything that may come his way—anything, that is, except zombies!