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Reformatting Politics: Information Technology and Global Civil Society
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders. These new ICTs (the internet, mobile phones, satellite radio and television) have allowed these civil society organizations... more...
The Prince of Frogtown
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin? and continued with Ava?s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson. He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman... more...
In the Hamptons
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Long before the Hamptons became famous for its posh parties, paparazzi, and glitterati, it was a sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms, literary luminaries and local eccentrics. As the editor and publisher of the area?s popular free newspaper, Dan?s Papers , Dan Rattiner, has been covering the daily triumphs, community intrigues, and... more...
The Accidental Pornographer
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 16.50Gavin Griffiths was a fairly straight-laced, newlywed shipping executive when he bought a magazine called The Erotic Review for #1 - not just one copy, the whole business! Little did he know it would soon become the darling of the chattering classes, and a case study in heroic failure. More in the tradition of Tony Young (How to Lose Friends & Alienate... more...
The Social Embeddedness of Media Use
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00From an integrative theoretical perspective, the book looks at how families watch television news in their everyday lives. In three empirical studies, the role of short-term situations and the influence of immediate social surroundings on practices of watching the news is analyzed. Discrete Time Event History Analysis is applied to household diary... more...
The Place of Play
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 29.95A fascinating, eclectic analysis of the changing geographies of play in contemporary society more...
This Just In
Penguin Group US 2004; US$ 14.00Bob Schieffer started his reporting career in Texas when he was barely old enough to buy a beer, joined CBS News in 1969, and became one of the few correspondents ever to have covered all four major Washington beats: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. Over the past four decades, he's seen it all-and now he's sharing... more...
Development Communication in Practice
SAGE India 2009; US$ 29.95This book takes a fresh look at development communication in the Indian context. Charting its international history and discussing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that evolved as part of the phenomenon of globalization, it links the history of Indias development with development communication and discusses the role of media in disseminating... more...
The Erotic Engine
Doubleday Canada 2010; US$ 19.00Pornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture. From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely... more...
The Uncrowned King
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 30.00A lively, unexpected, and impeccably researched piece of popular history, The Uncrowned King reveals how an unheralded young newspaperman from San Francisco arrived in New York and created the most successful daily of his time, pushing the medium to an unprecedented level of influence and excitement, and leading observers to wonder if newspapers... more...









