University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
The Dysfunctional Workplace
Theory, Stories, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This book explores an aspect of organizational life that is at times difficult to acknowledge and often painful to recall. Stories invite reflection and the development of greater understanding of organizational dynamics. This fresh scholarship provides a theoretical framework for discussion. Throughout...
Teaching in the Terrordome
Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Only 50 percent of kids growing up in poverty will earn a high school diploma. Just one in ten will graduate college. Compelled by these troubling statistics, Heather Kirn Lanier joined Teach For America (TFA), a program that thrusts eager but inexperienced college graduates into America’s most...
If You Were Only White
The Life of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
If You Were Only White explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever—an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country. Leroy “Satchel”...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George...
"We Met in Paris"
Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. European biographies of Yourcenar have often disparaged Frick and her relationship with Yourcenar,...
The Vanishing Newspaper [2nd Ed]
Saving Journalism in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Five years ago in The Vanishing Newspaper, Philip Meyer offered the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. Now he has updated this groundbreaking volume,...
The Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney and the American Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt." Watts digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche-his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment...
Choosing Truman
The Democratic Convention of 1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2000
As Franklin D. Roosevelt's health deteriorated in the months leading up to the Democratic National Convention of 1944, Democratic leaders confronted a dire situation. Given the inevitability of the president's death during a fourth term, the choice of a running mate for FDR was of profound importance....
Before Journalism Schools
How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Randall Sumpter questions the dominant notion that reporters entering the field in the late nineteenth century relied on an informal apprenticeship system to learn the rules of journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more than fifty reporters, he argues that cub reporters could and did access...
by Lisa L. Ossian
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
To many rural Iowans, the stock market crash on New York’s Wall Street in October 1929 seemed an event far removed from their lives, even though the effects of the crash became all too real throughout the state. From 1929 to 1933, the enthusiastic faith that most Iowans had in Iowan President...
by James Landers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Today, monthly issues of Cosmopolitan magazine scream out to readers from checkout counters and newsstands. With bright covers and bold, sexy headlines, this famous periodical targets young, single women aspiring to become the quintessential “Cosmo girl.” Cosmopolitan is known for its vivacious...
Capturing the News
Three Decades of Reporting Crisis and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Anthony Collings found himself in his share of difficult situations in his thirty-four years as a newsman. Like being captured by AK-47–toting Syrians in Lebanon in 1981 while looking for missiles that threatened a new outbreak of hostilities with Israel, or being “detained” by the KGB in Moscow...
Guillaume
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Broadway, Hollywood, and television star Robert Guillaume. Ten months after suffering a stroke, Guillaume—perhaps best known as television’s Benson—began this autobiography with award-winning author and collaborator David Ritz.
The book...
Black Chicago's First Century
1833-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements...