censorship

Offers a collection of seventy-seven poems, essays, memoirs, and brief histories that document the ways women writers have spoken out about human rights issues, creating global consciousness, and justice.

Reveals the legal processes and corporate practices that are undermining Americans' right to free speech, explaining how fields as diverse as advertising and the media, the workplace, community life, and the environment are being influenced by these practices, and challenges readers to develop a new attitude about censorship and free speech.

Collects the most censored media stories of 2010-11 as identified by Project Censored, including articles on Google's technology being funded in part by the CIA, Obama authorizing international assassination campaigns, suicide death rates are higher than combat deaths in soldiers, and more.

Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.

Defines the First Amendment and offers a balanced overview of the law, legislation, and activism that have shaped these liberties today.

Presents the history of censoring information in the western world and discusses issues, as well as some specific cases, involving obscenity, libel, espionage, pornography, and student rights.

Discusses opposing viewpoints in the ongoing debate over placing limits on television and radio broadcasts, news reporting, school curricula, and public speaking.