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#GuyCode The Secret to Success in a Digital World
ISBN: HB: 9781921024603, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2018
192 pp., 19.8x19.3 cm
GUYCODE speaks to Mr Millennials everywhere – the switched on social media generation who are lacking essential social skills for the real world. Helping develop the confidence needed to become the best version of yourself, this book enables the read...
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£14,99
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Digital Middle East State and Society in the Information Age
ISBN: PB: 9781849049054, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In recent years, the Middle East's information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalising on the opportunities offered by new information technologies,...
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£25,00
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TVs of Tomorrow How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs
ISBN: HB: 9780226519975, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produ...
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Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...
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£12,99
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Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...
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£19,00
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What Philosophy Wants from Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...
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£67,50
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Gogo Breeze Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech
ISBN: PB: 9780226498935, ISBN: HB: 9780226498768, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy ove...
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Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226500904, ISBN: HB: 9780226500874, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 2 line drawings
If you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media – such as painting, or...
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New Television The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre
ISBN: PB: 9780226503950, ISBN: HB: 9780226503813, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappe...
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£68,00
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300218176, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...
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