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  • Visions of War

    Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyber Age

    by David D. Perlmutter ...
    Visions of War provides a historical survey, an anatomy, an interpretation, and a polemic about the ways human beings have created pictures of battle and conflict from the Stone Age to the Gulf War.From the dawn of time to the present, from the days of mammoth hunting to the era of Scud-busting, pictures of war constitute the most persistent genre of images human beings have created. In fact, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blogwars

    by David D. Perlmutter ...
    Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than the population of Iowa and New Hampshire combined. But how much political impact do bloggers really have? In Blogwars, David D. Perlmutter examines this rapidly burgeoning phenomenon, exploring the degree to which blogs influence--or ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • From Pigeons to News Portals

    Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology

    Edited by David D. Perlmutter, John Maxwell Hamilton ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadcast instantly from a satellite-connected, video-enabled cell phone hanging from their belts. But now that live news coverage is possible from virtually anywhere, is foreign correspondence better? And ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • New Media, Campaigning and the 2008 Facebook Election

    Edited by Thomas J. Johnson, David D. Perlmutter ...
    Some political observers dubbed the 2008 presidential campaign as 'the Facebook Election'. Barack Obama, in particular, employed social media such as blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook to run a 'grassroots-style' campaign. The Obama campaign was keenly aware that voters, particularly the young, are not simply consumers of information, but conduits of information as well. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Political Communication

    The Manship School Guide

    by Robert Mann, Monica Ancu, Robert H. Binstock, Charlie Cook, Louis Day, Thomas Edmonds, Malcom P. Ehrhardt, William B. Fletcher, John Franzen0, Ronald Garay1, Kirby Goidel2, Paul Harang3, Bud Jackson4, Lynda L. Kaid5, Katie Knobloch6, David D. Kurpius7, Lisa Lundy8, Melissa Michelson9, Trevor Parry-Giles0, Sean Reilly1, David Schultz2, Dane Strother3, Gerry Tyson4, Darrell West5, Michael Xenos6, Wayne Parent7 ...
    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter, contributors discuss technological changes in the context of studies and techniques that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Picturing China in the American Press

    The Visual Portrayal of Sino-American Relations in Time Magazine

    by David D. Perlmutter ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Picturing China in the American Press juxtaposes what the ordinary American news reader was shown visually inTime Magazine between 1949 and 1973 with contemporary perspectives on the behind-the-scenes history of the period. Time Magazine is an especially fruitful source for such a visual-historical contrast and comparison because it was China-centric, founded and run by Henry Luce, a man who loved ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED.For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, ... Read more

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  • War

    The New Edition

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    A revised edition of Dyer’s classic book, widely regarded as one of the most compelling analyses of the history of armed conflict.“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be ... Read more

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  • Political Turbulence

    How Social Media Shape Collective Action

    by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, Taha Yasseri ...
    How social media is giving rise to a chaotic new form of politicsAs people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from ... Read more

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  • On China

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    **“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times**In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known ... Read more

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  • War! What Is It Good For?

    Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots

    by Ian Morris ...
    A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society—for the better."War!. . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian ... Read more

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  • The Lucifer Principle

    A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

    by Howard Bloom ...
    "A philosophical look at the history of our species which alternated between fascinating and frightening . . . like reading Dean Koontz or Stephen King." — Rocky Mountain NewsThe Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and ... Read more

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