The Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for public service is awarded to news organizations for reporting that moves readers, provokes change, and advances the journalistic profession. This book goes behind the scenes to explain the mechanisms and effects of these groundbreaking works. This one-hundred-year history follows all types of reporting: environmental, business, disaster coverage, and more.--

In this biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers a look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Bix shows what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. Influenced by an unusual combination of the Japanese imperial tradition and a modern scientific worldview, the young emperor...

Dramatic, prize-winning photographs from 1942 to the 1970's illuminate small everyday human happenings and make important historical events come alive again.

The definitive, contemporary reference on literature and literary criticism in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. Covers a wide range of terms, most centered in literature, but extending into other areas, such as film, radio, TV, printing, linguistics and literary theory, music, graphic...

Contains a chronological survey of Pulitzer Prize winning photographs from the first in 1942 to 2015 and the streets of Ferguson, Illinois. Text by Hal Buell gives background of the photographer and the story.