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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...
Finding Your Voice: Reclaiming Personal Power Through Communication
Finding Your Voice is an enlightening practical guide to personal development and communication: it is also much more. This is a book which offers a political and philosophical vision that...
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...
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs - 'The first new Beatles story in
'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN 'Ian Leslie has done the impossible, and breathed new life into...
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...
Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture
Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural catagories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre:...
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...
Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of
"Sociomedia" continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in "Text, Context, and HyperText" and "The Society of Text". It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social...
Codebreaker
This book reveals the complexity and near unparalleled ingenuity of the code makers' craft. From the simplest beginnings to the remarkable, recent advances in quantum cryptography, codes and ciphers have...
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"One of those life-changing reads that makes you see-or, in this case, hear-the whole world differently." -Megan Angelo, author of Followers "At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and...
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...
Making Groups Work: Rethinking practice
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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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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 Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham
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A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and powerful enemy of the deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to...
The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day
Author: Mikael KrogerusFormat: Hardback, 114mm x 182mm, 220g, 208 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018The authors of the international bestseller The Decision Book teach us how to communicate better...
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
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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...