russ rymer jay harris foundation (5 resultados)

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 2005 issue of Mother Jones Magazine edited by Russ Rymer and published by Jay Harris and the Foundation for National Progress out of San Francisco, California. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-1/2" and containing 88 page including front and rear covers (a complete issue). Special Issue: God and Country - Where the Christian Right Is Leading Us. With photographs throughout, Features include: Original Intent by Susan Jacoby ("No matter what the religious right says, the Founding Fathers purposely left God out of the Constitution"); A Nation Under God by John Sugg (on Rousas John Rushdoony and Christian Reconstructionism: "The disciples of R.J. Rushdoony aren't waiting for the end times. They mean to transform the government into Christ's empire on earth"); Professing Faith by Karen Houppert ("Baylor University's faculty is battling over whether Intelligent Design belongs in a Baptist institution of higher learning"); Rendering Unto God by Michael Reynolds ("The National Christian Foundation has discovered a whole new way to collect money from Christians and dispense it to the cause"); Expanding Universe: The Religious Right's Orbits of Influence by Frederick Clarkson; A Higher Frequency by Adam Piore ("In the beginning, the creators of Salem Communications set out to found some Christian radio stations. Oh, what they begat"); When My Light Is Almost Gone, a Photo Essay by Christopher Anderson/Magnum with Text by Debra J. Dickerson ("Can Gulf Coast black churches overcome Katrina's destruction?"); Death Row Conversion by Sara Catania ("Across America, conservative Catholics have decided that defending a 'culture of life' requires opposing the death penalty"). Mailing label to lower edge of front cover; center page detached but present; in edge and corner-worn covers.

Magazine. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the May-June 2005 issue of Mother Jones Magazine edited by Russ Rymer and published by Jay Harris and the Foundation for National Progress out of San Francisco, California. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-1/2" and containing 100 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). With photographs throughout, Features include: A Special Report on Global Warming, Big Money, Junk Science, and the Climate of Denial (with Introduction by Bill McKibben, and the following articles: Some Like It Hot by Chris Mooney ["Forty public policy groups have this in common: They seek to undermine the scientific consensus that humans are causing the earth to overheat. And they all get money from ExxonMobil"]; Snowed by Ross Gelbspan ["Why the 'balanced' media would rather promote paid flaks and fantasy than report the biggest story on earth"]); Medicating Aliah [Gleason] by Rob Waters ("When state mental health officials fall under the influence of Big Pharma, the burden falls on captive patients. Like this 13-year-old girl"); Ghost Children of Big Mango [Mangga Besar], a Photo Essay by James Nachtwey/VII with Text by Philip Gourevitch ("Cut loose from adult society, a band of glue-addicted Indonesian street kids forges its own"); The Middleman by Mark Schapiro ("Asher Karni was 'a genius' in South Africa's military electronics trade. Now he's in jail in Brooklyn, accused of orchestrating a nuclear black market deal"); The Side Effects of Truth by Michael Scherer ("In exposing the deadly threat posed by Vioxx, FDA researcher David Graham was serving the public interest. His bosses had other interests in mind"). Mailing label to lower edge of front cover; closed tears along outer narrow spine fold; corner crease to front cover.

Magazine. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the July-August 2005 issue of Mother Jones Magazine edited by Russ Rymer and published by Jay Harris and the Foundation for National Progress out of San Francisco, California. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-1/2" and containing 100 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). With photographs throughout, Features include: The Unforgiven by Jennifer Gonnerman ("Shelley Hendrickson killed her abusive husband and went to jail. Then an old friend began a campaign to free her - and 10 other women"); The Counselor by Sara Catania ("Patricia Prickett set out to beat the violence and ended up in the belly of the beast, working with the L.A.P.D."); Scrimmage on the Border by Michael Scherer ("Vigilantes and camera crews were amassing in the Arizona desert, but the real standoff was in Washington, as fear of immigration invaded the halls of Congress"); Home Sour Home by Randall Patterson ("When Jordan Fogal's new house turned out to be a lemon, her builders and the Texas authorities thought they could handle things quietly. They didn't know Jordan Fogal"); The Business of Poaching, with Photographs by Patrick Brown and Text by Monika Bauerlein ("Giant pythons, orangutans, exotic pangolins - everything is 'product' in the brutal underworld of the animal trade"); Long Road Home by Alan Light ("Who would produce an album that honors Chicano culture, slams L.A. politics, condemns eminent domain, and has a UFO alien as emcee? Why, Ry Cooder, of course"). Mailing label to lower edge of front cover; covers detached but present; a few small chips along outer fold.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the September-October 2005 issue of Mother Jones Magazine edited by Russ Rymer and published by Jay Harris and the Foundation for National Progress out of San Francisco, California. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-1/2" and containing 96 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). With photographs throughout, Features include: A Guilty Man by Vince Beiser (on Bill Wiseman: "The father of lethal injection would like to atone"); In the Garden of Armageddon by Kurt Pitzer (on Mahdi Obeidi: "They were Iraq's only real WMDs. The U.S. refused to secure them. Now Saddam's nuclear and bioweapons scientists are dispersed and more dangerous than ever"); The Ricochet by Greg Sargent ("How a long-ago violent day in San Francisco may help rid New York City of illegal guns"); Accounting Coup by Julia Whitty ("When banker Elouise Cobell added up the Indian trust money lost, looted, and mismanaged by the U.S. government, the tab came to $176 billion. Now she's here to collect"); Scorched Earth, a Photo Essay by Olivier Jobard/Sipa with Text by Monika Bauerlein (on Darfur, western Sudan: "At the edge of the Sahara, a slow-motion genocide has left millions with desperate lives of blood and sand"); The Fall of a True Believer by Barry Yeoman ("The casino millions. The congressional golf junkets. The Senate investigation. How Jack Abramoff gained the whole world and lost just about everything"). Mailing label to lower edge of front cover.

Magazine. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 2005 issue of Mother Jones Magazine edited by Russ Rymer and published by Jay Harris and the Foundation for National Progress out of San Francisco, California. A left-stapled magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-1/2" and containing 100 pages including front and rear covers (a complete issue). With photographs throughout, Features include: The Ohio Insurgency by David Goodman ("Major Paul Hackett came home from Iraq to launch an assault on a GOP stronghold. Can Democrats follow his lead?"); Respectable Reefer by Gary Greenberg (on Dr. William Notcutt and the James Paget Medical Center in England: "How a pulverized, liquefied, and doctor-prescribed form of marijuana could transform the drug-war landscape"); Sea Change, a Photo Essay by Andrew Testa/Panos with Text by Monika Bauerlein (on the Moken: "They outsmarted the tsunami, but Thailand's 'sea gypsies' could be swept away by an even greater force"); Who Holds the Clicker? by Lauren Slater ("Neuroscientists hope that brain implants can treat intractable mental illness. But can the circuitry of despair be pinpointed? And who would control these brave new minds?"); Left Alone by Garret Keizer ("On the lure of private life in a time of public peril"). Mailing label to lower edge of front cover; center page detached but present; outer covers are corner-creased.