Mark Kramer

Wendy Call

Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists. The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: • Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story • Gay Talese on writing about private lives • Malcolm Gladwell on the limits of profiles • Nora Ephron on narrative writing and screenwriters • Alma Guillermoprieto on telling the story and telling the truth • Dozens of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists from the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more . . . The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.

A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University

Telling True Stories

Borscht Belt Boy

Life in Our World's Urban Slums

Dispossessed

Vit Smetana

The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe in the mid-1940s that later became institutionalized in the Warsaw Pact, an organization that was offset by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led by the United States. The fundamental division of Europe persisted for forty years, coming to an end only when Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe dissolved. Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, consists of cutting-edge essays by distinguished experts who discuss the Cold War in Europe from beginning to end, with a particular focus on the countries that were behind the iron curtain. The contributors take account of structural conditions that helped generate the Cold War schism in Europe, but they also ascribe agency to local actors as well as to the superpowers. The chapters dealing with the end of the Cold War in Europe explain not only why it ended but also why the events leading to that outcome occurred almost entirely peacefully.

The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989

Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain

Robert E. Kass

Sonja Grün

Markus Diesmann

Peter J. Thomas

Shun-Ichi Amari

Kensuke Arai

Emery Brown

Casey O. Diekman

Brent Doiron

Uri Eden

Adrienne Fairhall

Grant M. Fiddyment

Tomoki Fukai

Matthew T. Harrison

Moritz Helias

Hiroyuki Nakahara

Jun-nosuke Teramae

Mark Reimers

Jordan Rodu

Horacio G. Rotstein

Eric Shea-Brown

Hideaki Shimazaki

Shigeru Shinomoto

Byron M. Yu

Mathematical and statistical models have played important roles in neuroscience, especially by describing the electrical activity of neurons recorded individually, or collectively across large networks. As the field moves forward rapidly, new challenges are emerging. For maximal effectiveness, those working to advance computational neuroscience will need to appreciate and exploit the complementary strengths of mechanistic theory and the statistical paradigm.

Mathematical and Statistical Perspectives

Computational Neuroscience

Kataryna Wolczuk

George E. Soroka

Tomasz Stępniewski

Sergìj Mikolajovič Plohìj

Thomas F. Remington

Paul. J. D'Anieri

Western Scholarly Perspectives

30 Years on from the Fall of the Soviet Union

Peter Ruggenthaler

Aryo Makko

Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War. The contributors demonstrate the importance of the Soviet Union to the neutral states of Europe during the Cold War and vice versa.

The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe

Armand Bayou Illustrated is a story of a person and a place. A naturalist's chronicle exploring the local ecology and natural history of the Bayou City's most beautifully preserved waterway. It offers a unique perspective into the natural world and its wildlife from someone who has made a life's work of conservation and environmental education. The book is a personal account from childhood through retirement of cumulative knowledge and observations collected over a forty-year period of living, working and playing on the bayou. Mark offers a passionate insight into his personal exploration of the intersection of the inner and outer world. A Life On The Bayou begins with passages which discuss childhood adventures in the surrounding grasslands and waters of his youth, where the curiosity of a naturalist was born. The book details the history, ecology and wildlife of the Armand Bayou Nature Center which is one of the ecological jewels of the American Gulf Coast. Three ecosystems converge within the nature center which are representative of the greater upper Texas coast. Anyone seeking understanding of coastal prairie and bayou ecology will find an easy to read wealth of knowledge.Excerpts from the author's acclaimed blog series are embedded, which include outstanding wildlife photography. Also contained is a User's Guide for visitors who will benefit from a lifetime's experience of when, where and how to enjoy this urban wildness. Spectacular images from award winning wildlife photographer Gary Seloff offer perspectives of wildlife behavior seldom seen by most. Gary's contribution completes the Illustrated component adding rich visuals which compliment the ecological stories told.This book is for anyone seeking to have a deeper understanding of Texas coastal ecology. It's a unique naturalist biographical accounting of beauty, change and intimate connection to place.

Armand Bayou Illustrated A Life On the Bayou

Norman Sims

Collects fifteen essays by masters and new voices in the genre of reportage literature, including memoirs, personal essays, profiles, travel literature, and science and nature writing

A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction

Literary Journalism

Mark Kramer

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