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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...
Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions with
The busy person's guide to smarter and quicker thinking You want to make better decisions. You want to be right more of the time professionally and personally. However, being more...
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 Guinness Book of Signs and Symbols
Why do people cross their fingers for good luck? Who first used the V-sign? Why should being put "on the spot" be avoided in Chicago? How did the Turkish flag...
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...
Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes
On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause, a miscommunication between the...
Technospaces
Science and technology have had a profound effect on the way humans perceive space and time. In this book, an international team of authors explore themes of depth and surface,...
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to
We - the users turned creators and distributors of content - are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. We form a new...
Digital Media: Transformations in Human Communication
In this must-have new anthology, top media scholars explore the leading edge of digital media studies to provide a broad, authoritative survey of the study of the field and a...
The Internet and Society
The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.
Reading Digital Culture
Computer technology has transformed many fundamental parts of life: how we work and play, how we communicate and consume, how we create knowledge and learn, even how we understand politics...
Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images
Building on the arguments of her previous books, the author challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Criticism condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, cable television and hypermedia. Believing...
Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the
Explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communication to claims that cyberspace creates new realities. The book...
Simplify: How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed
For the past 40 years Richard Koch has wanted to uncover the simple, elemental, elegant and parsimonious principles that are needed to create great new businesses. To qualify, a principle...
Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may...
Patriot Act: A Lachlan Fox Thriller
Ex-Navy operative Lachlan Fox is now working as an investigative journalist. When a number of European power-brokers are killed he starts to suspect something very big is going on. His...
Life Smiles Back
For many years, faithful readers of America's favorite magazine regularly began each issue of Life by thumbing to the back first to see the Miscellany page, which was designed to...
Revolution 19
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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...
Segelflug durch Wind und Wolken: Das Abenteuerbuch der Segelfliegerei
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Author: Karlson PaulBinding: HardbackPublished: Ullstein Verlag - GERMAN EDITION, 1958Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book offers an exciting exploration of gliding and soaring through the skies....
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
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The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness
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The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day
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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...
Face-to-Face Communication over the Internet: Emotions in a Web of Culture, Language, and Technology
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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....
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
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Author: Daniel Coyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A ground-breaking exploration of how successful groups operate - whether in sport, business or society as a whole - and what...
Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online
Author: Brenda Danet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 436 The Internet is changing the way we communicate. As a 'cross' between letter-writing and conversation, email has altered traditional letter-writing conventions....