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  • Accelerate!

    A History of the 1990s

    by James Brooke-Smith, Jack Jack Smyth, Jack Smyth ...
    The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and Francis Fukuyama declared the 'end of history'. Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in which the president of the United States discussed fellatio on network television and the world's most photographed woman died in a car crash ... Read more

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  • Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

    by Rex Murphy ...
    A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man — a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week.Canada’s most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson’s greatness to Bono’s gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter belief in Don Cherry, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Post-Truth

    The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

    by Matthew d'Ancona ...
    Welcome to the Post-Truth era— a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump’s victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants; all have been based on the power to evoke feelings and not facts. So what does it all mean and how can we champion truth in in a time of lies and ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Culture as Weapon

    The Art of Influence in Everyday Life

    by Nato Thompson ...
    One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us.The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

    A Short History of Modern Delusions

    by Francis Wheen ...
    What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Radicals Chasing Utopia

    Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

    by Jamie Bartlett ...
    "It's the hubris of every generation to think that they have arrived at the best way of living. But all the things we now take for granted, all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident, were once derided as dangerous or foolish radical thinking." -- From the PrologueIn Radicals Chasing Utopia, Jamie Bartlett, one of the world's leading thinkers on radical politics and technology, takes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Economic Science Fictions

    Edited by William Davies ...
    Series series Goldsmiths Press / PERC Papers
    An innovative new anthology exploring how science fiction can motivate new approaches to economics.From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley's consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often orbited each other. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Games of Empire

    Global Capitalism and Video Games

    by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Greig de Peuter ...
    Series Book 29 - Electronic Mediations
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment.In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Everything, All the Time, Everywhere

    How We Became Postmodern

    by Stuart Jeffries ...
    A radical new history of a dangerous ideaPost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Documentary Handbook

    by Peter Lee-Wright ...
    Series series Media Practice
    'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today’s exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully participate. The practical advice and wisdom here is second to none.' – Tony Steyger, Principal Lecturer, Southampton Solent University, UKThe Documentary ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Tomorrow: How The Experts Usually Screw Up (Future Forecasting)

    by Jonathan Margolis ...
    A fascinating look at the future, as you’ve never seen it. Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science ... Read more

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  • The Hours Have Lost Their Clock

    The Politics of Nostalgia

    by Grafton Tanner ...
    The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our age. Political leaders promise a return to yesteryear. Old movies are remade and cancelled series are rebooted. Veterans reenact past wars, while the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD