Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Thea Halo
Tags: history memoir turkey kurds armenians greeks
Description: This memoir of surviving a death march in the early 1900s in Turkey is both horrifying and...
2007-05-14
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Authors: Anna Politkovskaya Georgi M. Derluguian Alexander Burry Tatiana Tulchinsky
Description: Stunningly good journalism from the murdered Russian writer and an almost too-close look at...
2007-04-30
& 7 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: George Orwell
Tags: history london paris poverty tramps
Description: Orwell remains one of the finest observers of humanity, and a hell of a writer to boot.
2007-04-30
Type: documentary
Status: favorite
Author: Slavenka Drakulic
Tags: women history war revolution poland yugoslavia Croatia hungary communisim Bulgaria
Description: A great personal look at Eastern Europe in the wake of the collapse of Communism. This book...
2007-04-09
Type: documentary
Status: favorite
Author: Dragan Todorovic
Description: Funny, touching and revealing memoir of growing up in Yugoslavia and then surviving as the...
2007-04-09
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: John Marchese
Tags: art music violin luthier
Description: A great, essay-length book about the building of a violin by a modern master.
2007-04-02
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Henry Jenkins
Description: Anyone who wants to understand what's happening with culture in the internet age needs...
2007-03-26
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Tags: movies history, art, family, balkans, music,
Description: Wonderful journalism and essays by a writer in full command of his art.
2007-03-15
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: John V. Pavlik
Tags: web newmedia journalism internet
Description: Written in early 2001, holds up surprisingly well in limning the challenges and opportunities...
2007-03-15
Type: documentary
Status: favorite
Author: Tom Ang
Tags: digital storytelling video, editing,
Description: A great overview of digital videomaking, with plenty of hands-on help.
2007-03-11
Type: documentary
Status: favorite
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Tags: photography photographers
Description: Beautifully written and conceived: a collection of HCB's writings of photography. A must-read...
2007-03-02
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Authors: Herve Fischer Rhonda Mullins
Description: Fischer covers the full gamut of the digital world, as neither a cynic nor a cheerleader. Lots...
2007-02-25
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Padraic Kenney
Tags: history communism central_europe eastern_europe
Description: Good overview of the aftermath of the collapse of commuism in central and eastern Europe. A...
2007-02-17
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Matthew Collin
Tags: revolution music censorship histoy serbia
Description: A great inside look at the role of radio station B-92 and the protest movement that eventually...
2007-02-13
Type: documentary
Status: liked
Author: Elijah Wald
Tags: history america culture music jazz blues
Description: Iconoclastic history of black American pop music and the blues, placing Robert Johnson, finally...
2007-01-14
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