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No LOGO: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
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Naomi Klein
Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, mall-rat memoir, and journalistic expose, this book uncovers the sins of corporations run amok and explains why some of the most revered consumer brands are finding themselves on the wrong end of a spray-can, a computer hack, or an international anti-corporate campaign.
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Ogilvy on Advertising
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David Ogilvy
A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called " the most sought after wizard in the business" . 223 photos.
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Personal History
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Katharine Graham (Read by)
The autobiography of the Washington socialite, power broker, and publisher of the Washington Post.
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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
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Bernard Goldberg
"Bias" blows the whistle on bias in the news including Bernard Goldberg's own network, CBS, and its chief guru, Dan Rather. Breaking ranks and naming names, the Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking and entertainment wins over hard news every time.
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Visual Explanations
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Edward R. Tufte, Bonnie Scranton (Illustrator), Dmitry Krasny (Illustrator)
Riveting ideas on presenting better information design. Few would disagree: Life in the information age can be overwhelming. Through computers, the Internet, the media, and even our daily newspapers, we are awash in a seemingly endless stream of charts, maps, infographics, diagrams, and data. "Visual Explanations," the latest book by Edward R. ...
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American Cinema/American Culture
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John Belton
Developed to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse American Cinema , and written under the aegis of The New York Center for Visual History, this text offers a fascinating look at the interplay between the movie industry and mass culture in America. Ideal for film appreciation and film and culture courses found in Cinema Studies, English, ...
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Edward S Herman, Professor Noam Chomsky
First published in 1988 and never out of print, this seminal analysis of how the media serve corporations that control and finance them is being reissued with a new Introduction by the authors.
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Media & Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication
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Richard Campbell
Media and Culture is the groundbreaking introduction to mass communication that uses a unique critical approach and cultural perspective to help students understand the powerful dynamics of the mass media. Now available in an annual update--this year, an update of the Third Edition--Media and Culture is the most current text available and remains ...
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The Media of Mass Communication
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John Vivian
By exclusive arrangement with 'The Washington Post', Allyn & Bacon brings you the fourth edition of this successful anthology of articles on the media, organized to parallel Vivian's new edition.
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Powers That Be
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam charts the development of four media powers--CBS, Time magazine, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He shows how each affects American life and opinion through its pervasive influence, and how some of these organizations have become directly involved in politics.
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know Is Wrong
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John Stossel
Stossel--award-winning journalist and anchor of ABCUs newsmagazine "20/20"--reveals the myths, lies, and downright stupidity clogging media outlets on all sides of the spectrum in this "New York Times" bestseller bursting with facts, sharp insights, and plain old common sense.
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Media/Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media
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Shirley Biagi
Consistently praised for its engaging writing style, currency, and visual appeal, MEDIA/IMPACT introduces students to today's converged mass mediaaits industries and support industries, as well as the legal, ethical, social, global, and technological issues that accompany them. Emphasizing the impact of the media on individuals and society, Biagi ...
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Age of American Unreason
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Susan Jacoby
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--the addiction to infotainment, from television to the Web, which has resulted in a lazy and credulous public.
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Hidden Persuaders
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Vance Packard
"One of the best books around for demystifying the deliberately mysterious arts of advertising."--Salon "Fascinating, entertaining and thought-stimulating."--The New York Times Book Review "A brisk, authoritative and frightening report on how manufacturers, fundraisers and politicians are attempting to turn the American mind into a kind of ...
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Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
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Susan Douglas
A humorous and provocative look at the portrayal of women in American popular culture since the 1950s, and the unexpected effects such images have had on women's real lives. The author argues that many cultural artifacts provide insight into present-day controversies of women's roles in the family and workplace. 16 pages of photos.
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The medium is the massage
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Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, Uso pervasive are they in their personal, political, ...
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Human Communication: The Basic Course
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Joseph A DeVito
KEY BENEFIT: Covering a wide range of topics, including public speaking, small group communication, organizational communication, and interpersonal communication, one of the primary key benefits of this text is the student's acquisition of communication knowledge and skills in these areas, which are discussed and applied to real-world experiences. ...
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Regarding the Pain of Others
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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag looks at the depiction of the cruelties of modern life on the evening news, along with the media's role in shaping the viewer's perception of events. As, thanks to television, atrocity becomes commonplace, does the viewer become anesthetized to it? Does it lead to greater violence? How exactly are people affected by their inability to ...
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Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
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John Allen Paulos
Paulos takes the reader through the pages of an imaginary newspaper and explains the mathematics of politics, sports, greed, sex, and relationships. The book clarifies such concepts as probability and randomness in order to show the fallacies behind many stories on crime, health risks, and other social obsessions.
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The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industial Complex
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Maureen Orth
From Hollywood to murder trials to the corridors of politics, "Vanity Fair's" National Magazine Award-winner Maureen Orth pulls back the curtain on the world of headlines, delivering the portrait of our sometimes shocking, sometimes heartbreaking Age of Celebrity.
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Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media...
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John Stossel
John Stossel, the progenitor of the "in your face" style of consumer advocacy on television news, turns his investigative eye on the Federal Government, discussing incompetencies in the FDA and other agencies. Stossel traces his rise from cub reporter to 20/20 co-anchor, and along the way his realization that defending the "little guy" by going ...
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Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture
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Stanley J Baran
This text emphasizes the view that media audiences can take more active roles as media consumers and have a deeper understanding of the influence the media has in both shaping and reflecting culture. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media ...
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Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader
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Dr. Gail Dines (Editor), Jean McMahon Humez (Editor)
"This fine collection of perspectives and information will fill a major gap and help to push communication study in an urgently needed direction. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty alike have much to gain from this text." --John Downing, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas, Austin "This is a well-conceived and ...
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100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: (And Al Franken Is #37)
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Bernard Goldberg
From the bestselling author of "Bias" comes another hard-hitting bombshell that lists 100 people who are turning America into a more selfish, rude, cynical, and less decent and civil place. In a series of short, punchy, sometimes funny but always insightful chapters, Goldberg introduces those culprits and the various poisons each spreads.
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
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Daniel J Boorstin
The author introduces the seminal concept of "pseudo-events"--such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are staged solely for publicity--and redefines celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". The result is an essential resource that distinguishes the deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
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