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  • Conversations with Angela Davis

    Edited by Sharon Lynette Jones ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that garnered national and international attention, she became one of the most recognizable and iconic figures in the twentieth century. An outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, she has written extensively about the intersections between race, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Real Sister

    Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV

    by Jervette R. Ward, Sheena Harris, LaToya Jefferson-James, Alison D. Ligon, Cynthia Davis, Detris Honora Adelabu, Monica Flippin Wynn, Preselfannie E. Whitfield McDaniels, Sharon Lynette Jones, Terry A. Nelson0 ...
    From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women, the critiques of them are arguably problematic in their own way, as the notion of “respectability” has ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Haptics

    by Lynette Jones ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays.Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Haptics

    by Lynette Jones ...
    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays.Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to identify and perceive objects through touch. This is active touch, involving exploration of an object with the hand rather than the passive sensing of a vibration or force on the skin. The development of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy

    by Bill Carter ...
    Bill Carter, executive producer of CNN’s docuseries The Story of Late Night and host of the Behind the Desk: Story of Late Night podcast, details the chaotic transition of The Tonight Show from host Jay Leno to Conan O’Brien—and back again.In 2010, NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show, and handed the reins over to Conan O ... Read more

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  • Mad Men

    The Untold History of Television

    by Kathleen Olmstead ...
    Series series The Untold History of Television
    The Untold History of Television provides a captivating glimpse behind the scenes of the groundbreaking series that have both defined and changed the pop culture landscape.Beloved by fans and critics alike, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner’s intense, clever series about the world of 1960s advertising, followed an intriguing path from script to screen. Flat-out rejected by HBO, the show found a home at AMC ... Read more

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  • Ball of Fire

    The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball

    by Stefan Kanfer ...
    As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queen of the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was a superstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy’s genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life.Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. ... Read more

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  • I, Who: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who Novels

    by Lars Pearson ...
    Series series I, Who
    You've seen the "Doctor Who" TV series --- now experience the original "Doctor Who" novels! This beefy 368-page reference guide (the first in a series) is the only published work that indexes 150 original "Doctor Who" books (the entire "Doctor Who" New and Missing Adventures, plus the BBC Books up through Interference), with story summaries, reviews, top ten lists, a novelist round table and heaps ... Read more

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  • Ban This Filth!

    Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive

    by Ben Thompson ...
    In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association, now Mediawatch-uk.For almost forty ... Read more

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  • Dragon Ball Culture: Volume 2

    Adventure

    by Derek Padula ...
    Series Book 2 - Dragon Ball Culture
    Son Goku’s adventure begins! Join me in Dragon Ball Culture Volume 2, as we travel along with Goku on his epic journey for greater strength.With each step that Goku takes, you’ll discover more of the hidden spirituality and symbolism in Dragon Ball that makes the series so successful. You’ll see how author Akira Toriyama synthesizes Chinese culture, Western technology, and Buddho-Daoist philosophy ... Read more

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  • When Television Was Young

    The Inside Story with Memories by Legends of the Small Screen

    by Ed McMahon, David C. Fisher ...
    When television was young . . .Legendary movie producer Darryl Zanuck declared, "People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.Before 5:30, there were only test patterns. Howdy Doody was the first show of the day.CBS agreed to put I Love Lucy on film only if Desi and Lucy paid part of the production fee. In return, CBS gave them ownership of the shows, including the right to ... Read more

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  • The HBO Effect

    by Dr. Dean J. DeFino ...
    No advertisers to please, no censors to placate, no commercial interruptions every eleven minutes, demanding cliffhangers to draw viewers back after the commercial breaks: HBO has re-written the rules of television; and the result has been nothing short of a cultural ground shift. The HBO Effect details how the fingerprints of HBO are all over contemporary film and television. Their capability to ... Read more

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