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  • Merchants of Culture

    The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

    by John B. Thompson ...
    "All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change."-Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & CompanyFor nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces a combination of economic pressures and technological change that is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Book Wars

    The Digital Revolution in Publishing

    by John B. Thompson ...
    This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Merchants of Culture

    The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

    by John B. Thompson ...
    These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice

    by Terry L. (Lea) Koenig, John B. Thompson, Richard (Rick) N. Spano ...
    Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice offers an in-depth exploration of human behavior theory and helps students connect each theory to social work practice. Instead of following the traditional lifespan approach, the book introduces key theories and shows how they apply to case examples across different life stages. With insights from years in social work practice, Terry Koenig, John ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Books in the Digital Age

    The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States

    by John B. Thompson ...
    The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future?This is the first ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Sandy

    by John B. Thompson ...
    Hurricane Sandy . . . Meet Hurricane Sandy! The hurricane may have hit New York City in 2012, but the melodrama is all Southern, straight from the banks of the Mississippi, in John B. Thompson’s 1953 pulp classic, Sandy. Blackbird Books is pleased to reissue Sandy as an eBook-only special, donating all proceeds to hurricane relief. So get your copy of this classic from the golden age of pulps, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Political Scandal

    Power and Visability in the Media Age

    by John B. Thompson ...
    Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, scandals have come to play a central role in politics and in the shaping of public debate. What are the characteristics of political scandals and why have they come to assume such prominence today? What are the social and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    by John B. Thompson ...
    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Media and Modernity

    A Social Theory of the Media

    by John B. Thompson ...
    This wide-ranging and innovative book develops an original theory of the media and their impact on the modern world, from the emergence of printing to the most recent developments in the media industries. ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences

    Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

    by Paul Ricoeur, John B. Thompson ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and issues, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice

    by Terry L. (Lea) Koenig, Richard (Rick) N. Spano, John B. Thompson ...
    Human Behavior Theory for Social Work Practice provides an in-depth examination of human behavior theories and helps students apply each theory to social work practice. Authors Terry Koenig, Rick Spano, and John Thompson cover a broad spectrum of theories—including ecological, psychological, and sociopolitical—before applying them to a wide range of case examples that represent different stages ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

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  • New Keywords

    A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

    Edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris ...
    Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised ... Read more

    $39.00 USD