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  • The Cattle Chronicles: 22 Books to Devour for Anyone Passionate about Livestock

    Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack, The Rustler of Wind River, On the cattle plague, Wells Brothers, etc.

    The Cattle Chronicles: 22 Books to Devour for Anyone Passionate about Livestock is a comprehensive anthology that explores the expansive world of cattle and livestock through various literary lenses. Delving into themes such as pastoral life, agricultural innovation, and human-animal relationships, this collection provides a multifaceted look into the intersection of culture and cattle. With a ... Read more

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  • History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Economic and Environmental Evolution of Illinois' Cattle Industry

    In "History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois," Frank Webster Farley meticulously chronicles the evolution of beef cattle farming in the state, from its nascent stages in the early 19th century to its establishment as a cornerstone of Illinois agriculture. Utilizing a blend of narrative history and economic analysis, Farley explores key developments, including technological advancements and ... Read more

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  • Theories of the Information Society

    by Frank Webster ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding information occupations and the development of the internet convince many that living in an Information Society is the destiny of us all. Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • The Information Society Reader

    Series series Routledge Student Readers
    There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, it cannot be denied that 'informization' has produced vast changes in advanced societies. The Information Society Reader pulls together the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Times of the Technoculture

    From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

    Series series Comedia
    Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Culture and Politics in the Information Age

    A New Politics?

    Edited by Frank Webster ...
    Series series Transnationalism
    This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities. Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements including campaigns on the environment, gender, animal rights and human rights. It combines cutting ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Cowboy Dave

    The Roundup at Rolling River

    by Frank Webster ...
    Narrated by John Rayburn ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    A raging flood in Missouri took the lives of a married couple who barely got their three-year-old son into a cradle that carried him downstream. The parents were drowned. A kind rancher managed to pull the makeshift device to shore and wound up calling the boy Dave and raising the youngster to manhood without a known family name. The savior didn’t officially adopt the boy but they behaved as a ... Read more

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    Ben Hardy’s Flying Machine

    The Power of Imagination

    by Frank Webster ...
    Narrated by John Rayburn ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 39 min

    Do you like to fly? If so, this is a great story that lets you in on the way things were in the early days of aviation, including the excitement and wonder of what it was like in the beginning. It all happens as a young inventor has hopes and dreams of breaking records with the new-fangled means of transportation. Along the way, he encounters not only dangerous weather conditions but also ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Read more

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  • The Information Society

    Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

    by Robert Hassan ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

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  • The Information Society

    Issues and Illusions

    by David Lyon ...
    This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'. Intended as a bridge between the literatures of 'social theory' and the 'social impact of technology', this study exposes the myths surrounding the creation of the information society, discussing technologies such as cable TV and robotics. ... Read more

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