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TVs of Tomorrow How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs
ISBN: HB: 9780226519975, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produ...
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£30,00
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Excommunication Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
ISBN: PB: 9780226925226, ISBN: HB: 9780226925219, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables
Always connect – that is the imperative of today's media. But what about those moments when media cease to function properly, when messages go beyond the sender and receiver to become excluded from the world of communication itself – those messages t...
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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones
We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...
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£61,00
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Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America
ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...
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£25,00
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Spinning Intelligence Why Intelligence Needs the Media, Why the Media Needs Intelligence
ISBN: PB: 9781850659945, Hurst Publishers, August 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Throughout the twentieth century, especially during wartime and the Cold War, intelligence agents routinely used the media to publish and broadcast material that would deceive external enemies, thwart domestic subversion or sim...
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£17,99
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Articles of Faith Graham Greene's Collected Tablet Journalism, 1936-19
ISBN: HB: 9781904955160, Signal Books, October 2006
164 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! When Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a great Catholic writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted discomfiting themes with a sombre eye. The British Catholic journa...
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