Author: Patrick Winn File Type: epub Reads like a thriller you cant put down - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, *Buzzfeed News* Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics, animals and people and the staggering human toll that is being steadily ignored by the West. From Myanmars anarchic hills to the swamplands of Vietnam, jihadis are being pitted against brothel workers, pet thieves against vigilantes and meth barons against Christian vice squads. Hello, Shadowlands takes a deep plunge into crime rings both large and small. It also examines how Chinas rise and Americas decline is creating new opportunities for transnational syndicates to thrive. Focusing on human stories on both sides of this crime wave, the acclaimed Bangkok-based broadcaster and journalist Patrick Winn intimately profiles the men and women of the region who are forced to make agonizing choices in the absence of law. **Review In Hello, Shadowlands, Patrick Winn writes in a vibrant, readable style, uses years of hardcore field reporting and adds thought-provoking analysis to expose a side of global crime that we all need to better understand. His vivid descriptions take you deep into surreal and at times heartbreaking worlds but he also steps away to give wider meaning to these tales and their place in the economic and political systems. Anyone who wants to make sense of the dark side of modern global capitalism needs to read it. - Ioan Grillo, author of El Narco and *Gangster Warlords* Drawing on a decade of on-the-ground reporting in Southeast Asia, Patrick Winn gives us a rare window into the subterranean depths of the regions $100 billion organized crime underworld. Winn takes us from the narco-empires of Myanmars war-torn north to the slums of Manila, where crime rings peddle phony birth control elixirs to desperate young women. Hello, Shadowlands is a sweeping work of investigative journalism that reads like a thriller you cant put down. Winns reporting on the men and women who run the regions underworld is both sensitive and incisive. He demonstrates how the breakneck economic growth that has lifted so many fortunes in Southeast Asia has also set the stage for a new golden age of drug trafficking - aided by corruption, despotism and the absence of law. Hello, Shadowlands is a quintessential read for anyone who wants to understand the dark side of Southeast Asias economic gains. - Megha Rajagopalan, China bureau chief, *Buzzfeed News* Avoiding both sensationalism and moralizing, Patrick Winn takes his reader with somber elegance into Southeast Asias criminal underworld - and from more interesting perspectives than the usual drug dealers and traffickers. Here is a world as rich, contradictory and strange as any that one could think of. - Lawrence Osborne, author of *Beautiful Animals and Bangkok Days* Through a gripping narrative, Patrick Winn takes the reader on first-hand tour of Southeast Asias underworld - from the meth dens of Myanmars rugged Kachin State to Manilas fetid slums where Dutertes drug war has killed thousands, all the way to Central Vietnam where village mobs have murdered drug-addicted dog meat thieves. As Southeast Asias villages empty and its cities swell, the region seems caught in a bitter struggle between the powerful syndicates who control the $31 billion methamphetamine traffic and desperate citizen vigilantes who are determined to break the drugs grip by any means necessary. Through vivid character portraits and deft anecdotes, Winn offers the reader an intimate, indelible portrait of a major world region in the throes of serious social change. - Alfred W. McCoy, author of *The Politics of Heroin CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade* Brilliantly crafted and thrilling to read. This is a page turner with soul - an evocative tour through places that are too often ignored. - Tom Vitale, director of *Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown* About the Author Patrick Winn is an award-winning American journalist who covers crime in Southeast Asia. His work has appeared on NBC News, The Atlantic, the BBC and other outlets. Currently the Asia correspondent for Public Radio International, each week Winns voice is heard by millions on NPR stations. Since 2008, he has lived in Bangkok and reported almost exclusively on Southeast Asia.

Author: Karen Schroeder Sorensen File Type: pdf Carl Sagans Cosmos inspires audiences to look at the universe with new eyes and to appreciate humanitys importance in it. Sagans deft use of rhetorical strategy creates an experience that pushes beyond the limits of a mere educational program to reveal a mythic adventure. Although Sagan contributed much to the field of science as well as to public understanding of it, Cosmos remains his signature brand. Cosmos and the Rhetoric of Popular Science builds on Thomas M. Lessls observations regarding Cosmos connection to the mythic and science fiction. It delves deeply into Sagans rhetorical construction of the program in order to understand what elements contributed to its mythos. **Review span s new book is important for social reasons. It is also valuable to scholars of communication, rhetoric, and the hard sciences. In this volume she explores ways in which science is popularized while retaining its integrity. Her focal object of study, the Cosmos series, is an excellent example of the popularized communication of scientific knowledge. This will be indispensable in every library. (Barry Brummett, University of Texas at Austin) In a deft analysis, Schroeder Sorensen explores the cultural impact that the PBS series, Cosmos, has enjoyedand continues to enjoywith American audiences. As Schroeder Sorenson shows, much of the series success rests in Sagans carefully-constructed image as scientist, Odyssean space explorer, and trusted companion. In analyzing Sagans ethos, Schroder Sorensen offers readers a useful toolkit for further explorations of science and its intersections with popular culture. (James S. Baumlin, Distinguished Professor, Missouri State University) This book offers a much-needed contribution to the rhetoric of science by elaborating on concepts that often go unexplored (or at least underexplored), most particularly mythos and storytelling. Where much work in rhetoric of science focuses on logos and persuasion, or on pathos and identification, Schroeder Sorensen shows how Sagan evoked various powerful mythsfrom blockbuster films to Christianityto foster public television viewers feelings of identification with science and scientists. By approaching the question of identification via mythos, Schroeder Sorensen offers new ways to understand the epideictic function through which science popularization builds communities. (Sarah Perrault, University of California, Davis, Ph.D.) A rhetorical analyst is primarily concerned with how a text means. Professors Sorensens treatment of this matter in her analysis of the popular science miniseries Cosmos A Personal Voyage is impressive. Sorenson lends a skillful eye to the way the miniseries became and remains a rhetorically vibrant and mesmerizing narrative of our civilization and its status in the ever-expanding universe. Students of rhetoric will receive a valuable education as they read Sorensens book. Highly recommended. (Michael J. Hyde, university distinguished professor of communication ethics, Wake Forest University) About the Author Karen Schroeder Sorensen is assistant professor and coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Winona State University.