The Book of Festus is a shattered fable. In these poems, every object has a voice; every thing is awake. Festus wakes inside a myth - on a wharf in Halifax, Nova Scotia - and recalls nothing but a bicycle. As he looks for it, he thinks the city's thoughts. Upon a sidewalk over a buried river, he remembers what the city remembers. He steps past a skateboard park to a Mi'kmaq lagoon. He follows 17th century pioneer cattle to a fast food restaurant. A girl he once knew steps out of the fragments. Festus is an anagogic man, loser-hero of the first city, Ur, Halifax. This collection is a city's lucid dream of itself.

A collection of sayings by Festus Haggen, a character on the TV series Gunsmoke, with links to Biblical proverbs and Bible references.

Festus and his cat, Mercury, change their plans for a camping trip when the chickens insist on going along.

Recent years have seen considerable growth in the media in Africa with increases in the number of newspapers and radio and television stations. At the same time there has been an increase in the number of arrests of journalists and broadcasters and various forms of censorship have been introduced. The essays in this volume examine press censorship, past and present, and bring a fresh perspective to the position of the mass media in the African continent.

Mercury the cat tries to cheer up his grouchy old master Festus through elaborate plans to get him to go fishing.

Unable to continue with Christmas preparations because of his injured foot, old man Festus and his cat Mercury face a bleak Christmas until the neighbors come to the rescue.

Media Ethics: Readings on Critical Thinking and Cyber Dynamics highlights the importance of ethical communication and media practices to the preservation of contemporary social constructs and the continued support of human endeavor. The anthology examines the phenomenology of media ethics, critical thinking, digital revolution, social values, and the dynamics of culture and civilization over time. The text is divided into four parts. Part I introduces the overarching concept of ethical principles, featuring readings that define ethics, explain why we need ethics policies and guidelines, and present scenarios where contemporary ethics come into play. In Part II, students read a selection of case studies that explore modern issues in ethics, including crowdfunding, access to the internet, and social media, blogging, and advertising. Part III presents select articles on social media, media ethics, and reputation and brand management. The final part addresses global challenges related to media ethics, including Wikileaks and issues in whistle blowing, phone hack scandals, China's internet search market, and media ethics in Africa. Timely and highly contemporary, Media Ethics is an ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in communication and media ethics. Festus Eribo is a professor of journalism and mass communication at East Carolina University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and M.A. in journalism from St. Petersburg State University, formerly Leningrad State University. Eribo has been a visiting scholar at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. He is an award-winning communication researcher and author/co-editor of six books, including In Search of Greatness: Russia's Communication with Africa and the World, Development and Communication in Africa, and Press Freedom and Communication in Africa.