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Henri Szep's passion for acting is infectious. Here Henri, who is well known for his role as Robert in Mother and Son, lays before the reader thirty years of acting...

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to...

'perhaps the best novel about Northern Ireland life which has yet appeared' Irish Times 'a quiet, compassionate story' New York Times Sarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin's farm...

What will prove to be the lasting impact of New Media on film and television? What kinds of transformations of moving image media are really already under way? The term...

Nowhere has such a fine collection of essays argued so forcefully on the power of film to shape and mediate human experiences of place and environment.-Kenneth E. Foote, The University...

Coverage of the essentials of visual merchandising and the basic methodology of presentation, including design, composition, color, display props and mannequins, lighting, and more. ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER...

The book is a guide to personal development in the context of the teaching profession. To be able to negotiate in such a fast-changing world, people need to be creative,...

As well as an account of Father Radcliffe's life from his childhood and education at Ampleforth to his calling to a life of poverty and religious observance, this book contains...

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,...

On the surface the world we know seems to work pretty well. But scratch the surface and we bleed. Building A Better World is an account filled with clarity, a...

In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. three network system, the rise of multi-channel cable and global satellite delivery, changes...

Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for...

Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. "Groove Tube" is Aniko Bodroghkozy's rebuttal...

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...

Since the early nineteenth century, when entomologists first popularized the unique biological and behavioral characteristics of insects, technological innovators and theorists have proposed insects as templates for a wide range...

Borrowing their title from the hacker term for a program that takes advantage of a flaw in a network system, Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker challenge the widespread assumption...

The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like...

A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity The mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated,...

This book is unique in its critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. Informed by feminist theoretical debates regarding women's new roles,...

Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24-hour news, 24-hour...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. After occupying a central space...

This collection looks at the post-network television industry's heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling-or wired TV-that took place from 2005 to 2010 as the networks responded to the...

Empires of Entertainment integrates legal, regulatory, industrial, and political histories to chronicle the dramatic transformation within the media between 1980 and 1996. As film, broadcast, and cable grew from fundamentally...

Now if I just remembered where I put that original TV play device--the universal remote control . . . Television is a global industry, a medium of representation, an architectural...

In Same Place, More Space, Karl Champley, master carpenter and host of DIY Channel's Wasted Spaces and DIY to the Rescue offers 50 home-improvement projects to maximize space. Readers will...

No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the "AP Stylebook". However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters...

George Landow's "Hypertext" brought together the worlds of literary theory and computer technology to explore the implications of giving readers instant, easy access to a virtual library of sources as...

Study after study shows that fathers set up their daughters for success. Involved fathers-whether or not they live in the same house as their daughters-boost their daughters' academic achievement, promote...

Abstracting Reality considers the relationship between digital technology and culture and their mutual influences on each other.

When Caspar Walsh was three years old his mother rejected him in favour of a boyfriend. His father became his primary carer. But Caspar's father robbed banks. He dealt drugs...

Twenty-seven years after she adopted her baby in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she wants merely to...

Nick Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. Happy in her stable home life as a divorced mother of two, she represents everything the footloose Kaharchek's always avoided....

Featuring 200 vegetarian recipes, this volume seeks to enable the reader to rustle up delicious meals in minutes. There are ideas for quick mid-week meals using fresh or store-cupboard ingredients,...

The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling autobiography Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible truth of the last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson...

The groundbreaking international bestseller, revised and updated with brand new information on combating cancer through diet and lifestyle changes Professor Jane Plant's international bestseller on combating breast cancer through diet...

Essex, the witch hunting county, is especially rich in traditions, legends, dialect and stories. This book explores the origins and meanings of its traditions to create a sense of the...

That gratifying new car smell is actually a manufactured "new car" aroma. The sound of Kellogg's cornflakes crunching in our mouths is created in sound labs. Singapore Airlines has patented...

To successfully establish an emotional bond with the customer, marketers have to access the mind and heart. Put the customer in the right mood, make him feel good and he's...

The Letters of Kenneth Tynan- drama critic, talent snob, intellectual dandy, inveterate campaigner - provide a record of a soul- written between the ages of 11 and 53, they not...

Read on to catch up with more gossip-licious pleasure from the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut with Gossip Girl and has enthralled readers in the juicy sequels, You...

Unable to cope with raising his children alone, Robert Sullivan abandons them to others. However, he has a change of heart and decides to go back for them. But on...

Louise and Ben Hunter have a happy, loving marriage, marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. Working together on the family farm for Ben's father, Ronnie, they watch...