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Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for
When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later...
The Smartphone Solution: When and how to give your child a phone
The Essential Self-Help Guide to Your Children Thriving in a Digital Age from Clinical Psychologist and Bestselling Author Dr Martha Deiros Collado 'The book us parents urgently need' Dr Julie...
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, lunches with work...
Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World
'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM ' Logging Off is a life-saving book' Mikaela Loach, author...
No One Wants to See Your D*ck: A Handbook for Survival in the Digital
'One of the most important books you'll read this year ' THE NEW FEMINIST 'A bold, unapologetic exploration of modern relationships, self-image, and the complexities of navigating social media and...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Think you have to accept the status quo? This book will make you think again. YOU have the power the change the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE is a radical...
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War
'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review) 'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post 'Philps has an eye for detail and a...
Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and the Celebrity
UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIME Celebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike. By...
Pixel Flesh: The distortion of the female body in a world obsessed by
?A must read' ROXIE NAFOUSI
Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World
'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM ' Logging Off is a life-saving book' Mikaela Loach, author...
Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World
'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM ' Logging Off is a life-saving book' Mikaela Loach, author...
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness
TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023 A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for fans of Zadie Smith's Feel Free and Jia Tolentino's...
No One Wants to See Your D*ck: A Handbook for Survival in the Digital
'One of the most important books you'll read this year ' THE NEW FEMINIST 'A bold, unapologetic exploration of modern relationships, self-image, and the complexities of navigating social media and...
Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
Danny Sriskandarajah learned the value of citizenship at a young age as the child of Tamil migrants who moved from Sri Lanka to Australia. Arriving in the UK as the...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up...
Backstory: Inside the Business of News
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From Howell Raines and the "New York Times" to Roger Ailes and Fox News, America's most celebrated media journalist dissects the people and institutions shaping media, for good and for...
Pixel Flesh: The distortion of the female body in a world obsessed by
?A must read' ROXIE NAFOUSI
Drawn to Drink: Fifty Years of the Advertising and Illustration of
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Drawn to Drink is a miscellany of illustrations for advertisements, leaflets, posters, articles and books on drinks. Guinness has attracted so much attention from advertising historians that many other brands,...
Court Reporter
From true crime to petty crime - this is the memoir of one of Australia's most experienced court reporters. Longlisted in the True Crime category for the 2019 Davitt and...
Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About
As citizens of capitalist, free-market societies, we tend to celebrate choice and competition. However, in the 21 st century, as we have gained more and more choices, we have also...
Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits From Propaganda
The definitive history of modern newspaper journalism by the highly regarded Guardian columnist Tracing the changing face of British newspapers, Roy Greenslade shows how the way we live has been...
Paris: The Memoir
PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton. Founder. Entrepreneur. Pop Culture Maker....
The New Fashion Rules: Inthefrow
The rules of fashion have changed. The new digital era is all about being seen, liked and inspired. So how do we define ourselves through style? And why has the...
No Words for This
An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. From the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist like her father. He...
Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy is Wrong
Even the faintest whiff of lemon sells cleaning products. Negative messages from politicians win votes. Product placement in films rarely works. Many multi-million pound advertising campaigns are a complete waste...
The Power of One: Blowing the Whistle on Facebook
**Available now: Whistleblower Frances Haugen's searing expose of the internal workings of Facebook revealing the company's struggles to regain control over its platform and to stop the spread of misinformation**...
The BBC: A People's History
'A dramatic tale of innovation and determination' - Guardian In 1922, a tiny group of men and women came together to found the BBC, using what had been a weapon...
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy . Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is...
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our
How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions. A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases...
No Words for This
An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. From the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist like her father. He...
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"Timely... a crucial foundation for building a more empathetic and informed society." - Daniel H. Pink "An important book for those who want to understand... the increasingly complex world." -...
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then...
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new...
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over
Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by a pandemic, global conflict and rapid technological change, their...
Mythbuster: With tons of QUIZZES to test yourself against FAKE NEWS!
Social networks are a breeding ground for fake news and enough scientific research has observed how online content can shape children's opinions and thoughts. This timely book provides young digital...
Flat Earth News
Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession.' When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues,...
And Finally...: Weird and wonderful stories told at the end of the
And Finally ... is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very best '...and finally' segments of...
Must-Have: The Hidden Instincts Behind Everything We Buy
Acclaimed psychologist Geoffrey Miller uses evolutionary psychology to reveal how the dizzying, brand-saturated world of modern consumerism really works. Why do we buy? What is it that governs our choice...
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk and the $44 Billion Fight
On October 28th, hours after completing a $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk Tweeted to his millions of followers 'The bird is freed.' Musk's takeover of Twitter was one...
And Finally...: Weird and wonderful stories told at the end of the
And Finally ... is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very best ...and finally segments of...
Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing'Reading this book might make you wish to set fire to your smartphone, but it might also make you wish to call...
Broadcast Wars: The money, the ego, the power behind your remote
BROADCAST WARS is an explosive look at a tumultuous period (2003-2011) in Australian television as the Nine and Seven networks traded blows, new technologies emerged and old personalities and management...
Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence
From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television...
Digital Encounters
Digital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art. In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter...
Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?: Searching for the Truth on
A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television 'What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing'...
Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These rollicking gabfests ... bring together nearly everyone ... who made the series a creative and cultural landmark' New York Times 'Essential for fans, with...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...