A distinguished broadcast journalist offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at television's coverage of significant news events, including the Iranian revolution, the turmoil in El Salvador, and the problems of Agent Orange and Amerasian children in Vietnam

Bill Kurtis: On Assignment

Kurtis, Bill

Biographies & Memoirs

Rand-McNally

A colorfully illustrated tour of Asia's most sacred locales takes readers through Nepal, India, Cambodia, Thailand, Java, Myanmar, and Bali in search of ancient temples and other sanctified places.

Sacred Places of Asia: Where Every Breath Is a Prayer

Arts & Photography

Ortner, Jon

Sanday, John

Photography & Video

Abbeville Pr

Celebrate the compelling richness of the Kansas landscape with this new collection of photographs from Kansas! Magazine. The 160-page hardcover book also celebrates the life of former Kansas! editor Andrea Glenn.

Forever Kansas!

Kansas City Star Books

Chicago Visions

Stephen, Hung

The Prairie Table Cookbook blends comforting rancher food recipes with a fascinating look at life and food on the historic cattle trails and cowboys of the 19th century. 
There's a prairie fire sweeping across America, one that comes from the people looking for more natural, healthy, and harmonious ways to eat meat from the land. Tallgrass Beef represents a return to "classic" ranching, and produces meat that consistently tastes better and is better for you than grain-fed. 
The Prairie Table Cookbook will immerse readers in the cowboy's world with delicious recipes to sustain any hungry family or famished cowboy. From hearty chilli to Texas Beef tips, scrumptious sourdough biscuits and corn fritters, these modern and classic recipes show range from simple homesteader to the more adventurous modern chef, and include contributions from celebrity chefs such as Charlie Trotter and Rick Baylis.
Accompanied by anecdotes, letters and photographs from the heyday of the Kansas cattle trade, this cookbook will be a staple for any American looking to eat a better kind of beef around a cozy dinner table or glowing campfire.

The Prairie Table Cookbook: 77 Delicious Recipes for Western Prairie Living

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

Sourcebooks

Describes such radio and television news stories as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassinations, and the Challenger explosion

We Interrupt This Broadcast: Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of Princess Diana (book with 2 audio CDs)

Humor & Entertainment

Cronkite,Walter

GARNER, JOE

Radio

Sourcebooks, Inc.

Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice , used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong. There can be no real justice in America until it is abolished. 
 In The Death Penalty on Trial , Kurtis takes readers on his most remarkable investigative journey yet. Together, we revisit murder scenes, study the evidence, and explore the tactical decisions made before and during trials that send innocent people to death row. We examine the eight main reasons why the wrong people are condemned to death, including overzealous and dishonest prosecutors, corrupt policemen, unreliable witnesses and expert witnesses, incompetent defense attorneys, bias judges, and jailhouse informants. We see why the new jewel of forensic science, DNA, is revealing more than innocence and guilt, opening a window into the criminal justice system that could touch off a revolution of reform. Ultimately we come to a remarkable conclusion: The possibility for error in our justice system is simply too great to allow the death penalty to stand as our ultimate punishment.

The Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice

History

Americas

PublicAffairs

Bill Kurtis, anchor of the wildly popular true-crime TV series Cold Case Files and American Justice, used to support the death penalty. But after observing the machinations of the justice system for thirty years, he came to a stunning realization that changed his life: Capital punishment is wrong. There can be no real justice in America until it is abolished.  In The Death Penalty on Trial, Kurtis takes readers on his most remarkable investigative journey yet. Together, we revisit murder scenes, study the evidence, and explore the tactical decisions made before and during trials that send innocent people to death row. We examine the eight main reasons why the wrong people are condemned to death, including overzealous and dishonest prosecutors, corrupt policemen, unreliable witnesses and expert witnesses, incompetent defense attorneys, bias judges, and jailhouse informants. We see why the new jewel of forensic science, DNA, is revealing more than innocence and guilt, opening a window into the criminal justice system that could touch off a revolution of reform. Ultimately we come to a remarkable conclusion: The possibility for error in our justice system is simply too great to allow the death penalty to stand as our ultimate punishment.

Death Penalty on Trial: Crisis in American Justice

True Crime

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