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Political Spectrum The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
ISBN: HB: 9780300210507, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government's regulation of the airwaves. Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broad...
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£25,00
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Play All A Bingewatcher's Notebook
ISBN: PB: 9780300229707, Yale University Press, June 2017
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were – and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and...
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£7,99
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Practical Photojournalism A Professional Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781781451175, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2015
260 pp., 24.3x19 cm, photos
Press photography is not just a career – it's a way of life – and photojournalists have a ringside seat on contemporary history. This book explains how to capitalise on that ringside seat. Written by an expert in the field, "Practical Photojournalism...
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£19,99
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Pax Technica How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
ISBN: HB: 9780300199475, Yale University Press, May 2015
344 pp., 21x14 cm
Should we fear or welcome the internet's evolution? The "internet of things" is the rapidly growing network of everyday objects-eyeglasses, cars, thermostats-made smart with sensors and internet addresses. Soon we will live in a pervasive yet invisib...
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£16,99
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Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why
ISBN: PB: 9780226023151, ISBN: HB: 9780226023014, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 53 line illus.
It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician's career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusiv...
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£25,00
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£65,50
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Post-Ethical Society The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular
ISBN: HB: 9780226062495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables
We've all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interroga...
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£39,00
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Power to the People The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974
ISBN: HB: 9780226424354, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
264 pp., 30.4x25.4 cm, 700 colour illus.
Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and...
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£36,00
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