Second-hand Books

The current interest in Zen and the popularity of Buddhism in the West are an understandable reaction to the artificiality and ugliness prevalent in the world today and also to...

Chioce daily devotionals from Our Daily Bread. Seven days of meditation for each of fifty-two different Old and New Testament events. Arranged by event to show God's involvement in human...

It's a beautiful book, and I hope it reaches a million hearts!" (Rev. John Powell, S. J., Author of Unconditional Love) "Emotionally Free is a life-changing book! It has helped...

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Talk to Me thrives on an important late 20th-century cultural development in design: a shift from the centrality...

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...

'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...

Throughout their history, the "Guardian" and the "Observer" have avidly reported the worlds of exploration and adventure travel. In the 19th century, they covered the British and European explorers who...

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...

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...

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...

Who trembles for you when you are sad, hangs his head when you are mad, and drools on you as if you were the most beautiful, brilliant, and tremendously fragrant...

Acclaimed photographer Howard Schatz deftly captures the first wonder, confusion, joy, and frustration that newborn babies experience as they discover the world around them. Their perplexing facial expressions, the light...

52 illustrated essays show readers how to break the rules--and liven up their lives! Ice Cream for Breakfast helps readers capture those moments of self-indulgence that are often gained through...

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...

The exciting New York Times bestselling trilogy concludes with this volume--an exhilarating, page-turning tale that brims with suspense and guarantees a satisfying finale to Charlie Ashanti's whirlwind adventure.