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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness. This...
How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes. It...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' *...
How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it...
Media Discourse
The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Norman Fairclough applies to media language his 'critical discourse analysis' framework which...
Murdoch: The Decline of an Empire
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Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its
"Steve Krakauer's new book, Uncovered , is vital reading. It's the best and most perceptive deep dive into legacy media bias out there, from someone who knows where all the...
The News: A User's Manual
Our lives are saturated with news. But how does it affect us? And how should we read it? Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as...
Day Trading Attention: How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World
Author: Gary VaynerchukFormat: Paperback, 189mm x 235mm, 790g, 272 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 New York Times and USA Today Bestseller"One thing I've learned being around Gary for...
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...
Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio
The book titled Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio by the author Donald I. Warren. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
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...
Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back
Author: Chris Stirewalt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Rage revenue-addicted news companies are plagued by shoddy reporting, sensationalism, groupthink, and brain-dead partisan tribalism. Newsrooms rely on emotion-driven blabber to...
The News: A User's Manual
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Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty...
The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News and Information
Is journalism in jeopardy? In a time of technological shifts and the market transformations how can journalists respond? Are we truly post-truth? John Lloyd answers these questions and more in...
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler: BBC R4 Book of the Week
'Pomerantsev is emerging as the pre-eminent war reporter of our time'- Observer From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten...
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for...
After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
During the last two decades of the 20th century, the perception of Italian cinema's prominence within the film industry waned. This decline, in part due to the loss of its...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution
In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach...
The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening
Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion, cultural tastes and preferences, or gender-are nearly as significant as the...
The Age of Grievance
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision." - The Wall Street Journal * "The best prescription for our redemption." - The New York Times *...
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy -
Foreword by Jonathan Haidt, author of THE RIGHTEOUS MIND An invaluable guide to understanding the technology that captures our attention with anger. The original internet was not designed to make...
The Rise of Blue Anon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy
David Harsanyi delves into the mindset of people who think Trump faked his assassination attempt, JD Vance only wants white children born, and Elon Musk is trying to start a...
The Argus: Life and Death of a Newspaper
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All Consuming: The instant Sunday Times bestseller: Why We Eat the Way
The iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat now? Being into food - following and making it, queuing for it and...
Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood
A SHREWD AND TIMELY EXPLORATION OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE PREDICATED ON THE PRIMACY OF YOUTH Have you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like...
Love to Hate: America's Obsession with Hatred and Violence
Why? is the simple, impulsive question we ask when confronted by horrible acts of hatred and violence. Why do students shoot fellow students or employees their coworkers? Why do mothers...
New Media
New Media: An Introduction provides a comprehensive, accessible and timely overview of the major forces shaping new media technologies. It understands the new media not simply as forms of technological...
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling and provocative exploration of why everything we think we know about power is wrong What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the...
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against
'A captivating must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why misogyny is as powerful a force as ever' KATE MANNE, author of Down Girl Cosmetic surgeries at an...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its...
One of the Crowd: A Personal View of Newspapers
In One of the Crowd, Martin Flanagan gathers some of his best early journalism into a sharp, funny and observant portrait of Australia as seen from inside the newspaper world....
The Art of AIDS: From Stigma to Conscience
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The world of arts and literature has not escaped the problem of AIDS. Not only has the disease made itself felt in the lives (and deaths) of artists and their...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States
'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one...
New Power: Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and
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'A vital book. New Power can light a flame bright enough to outshine the glinting fangs and tiki torches' - Russell Brand For most of human history the rules of...
Conspiracies Uncovered: Cover-ups, Hoaxes and Secret Societies
DK's true-crime series voyages into the murky world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories Enter a hidden world of mysteries, scandals, secrets, and lies Perhaps it is human nature to believe...
Floating Lives: the Media of Asian Diasporas: Negotiating Cultural
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A unique examination of media and communication within some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups - the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and Thai communities. Going beyond the conventional cross-cultural studies of...
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...