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Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards
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Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova ( Brain...
Stamp of Australia Pbk C the Story of Our Post--from Second Fleet to
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The story of Australia's postal services now two hundred years old is the story of Australia itself. At first, a small huddle of colonists awaited letters from England, which most...
Resisting Big Tech: The Personalized is Political
How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial "intelligence" prompt how we think? Engaging these and similar...
Critique of Information
This penetrating book raises questions about how power operates in contemporary society. It explains how the speed of information flows has eroded the separate space needed for critical reflection. It...
Making Groups Work: Rethinking practice
Most of us work in them, most of us live in them. Some are complex, some are simple. Some meet only once while others last for decades. Whatever form they...
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use...
Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era
Hypertext, E-mail, word processing: electronic technologies have revolutionized textual practices. How does language on screen work differently from language on the page? What new literacy skills are needed and how...
How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of
"In a world stupefied by quick fixes and easy answers, Elizabeth Weingarten delivers a smart and urgent wake-up call."-Daniel H. Pink "An interesting, insightful, and surprisingly reassuring read."-Adam Grant, #1...
How the World Was One: Turbulent History of Global Communications
The book titled How the World Was One: Turbulent History of Global Communications by the author Arthur C. Clarke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Sound in between: Voice, Space, Performance
Essays on the relationship between voice, space and performance, alternate with the minimalist poetry of scripts like Cooee Song, and end with a staccato sequence of sayings and sarcasms. This...
Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy
New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up...
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe
An epic history of the birth of news in Europe 'Highly ambitious and impressive ... a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement News moves. It is...
He Says, She Says: Closing the Communication Gap between the Sexes
The author first became interested in sex differences in speech when she coached Dustin Hoffman for his role in the film "Tootsie". In this book she aims to help those...
Television Culture
A comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske analyzes both the economic and cultural aspects of television and investigates it in terms of both theory and text based criticism.
Proof: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
As much an investigation as an exhibition, Proof questions how consensus is formed. From weapons of mass destruction to children overboard, the testimony of vision is no small matter in...
The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance
In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. A "gifted thought leader who offers the medicine much needed in our culture today", Africa Brooke says...
Speak for Yourself: A Practical Guide to Speaking with Confidence
A self-help guide on how to speak with confidence, published alongside a BBC Radio 4 series. Aimed at people who need to give presentations, make speeches, or regularly address any...
The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day
The authors of the international bestseller The Decision Book teach us how to communicate better at work and in everyday life The internationally bestselling duo Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tsch...
The Communication Superhighway: Social and Economic Change in the
The communication superhighway, or the information superhighway as it is often more limitingly called, does not exist. It is an idea, the conceptualisation of which will largely shape its final...
You're All Talk: why we are what we speak
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Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves
A Harvard professor shows how we can become better talkers - and why effective conversation will help us all thrive Conversation is at the heart of our relationships and our...
What is a Child?: Popular Images of Childhood
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Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it
The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not...
Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters
Author: Emanuel Deutschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication. Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders....