Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Television

Written by Joe Nazzaro

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale: December 1, 2002
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-84023-383-4 (1-84023-383-4)

Writers and producers from some of television's most popular science fiction and fantasy shows talk candidly about how they started out, their inspirations and influences, and the reality of creating the incredible and impossible on a daily basis, in a collection of fascinating, in-depth interviews. Read more >

Being Digital

Written by Nicholas Negroponte

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76290-4 (0-679-76290-6)

Being Digital is both a guide to the present state of our rapidly changing digital age and a map for the future--how our lives will be shaped and enhanced by computer-related technology.  Negroponte--Wired Magazine columnist and founding director of the MIT Media Lab--describes how advancements in computer technology and telecommunications will transform... Read more >

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
My Encounters with Extraordinary People
Written by Susan Orlean

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75863-8 (0-375-75863-1)

Acclaimed New Yorker writer Susan Orlean and author of The Orchid Thief is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles. Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subjects—from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a typical... Read more >

Out of Order
An incisive and boldly original critique of the news media's domination of America's political process
Written by Thomas E. Patterson

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 2, 1994
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75510-4 (0-679-75510-1)

In this pointed examination of how Americans elect their presidents, Patterson—professor of political science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University—faults a system that relies upon the news media as chief intermediary between voter and candidate. Because the values of journalism are at odds with the values of politics, Patterson argues... Read more >

Seven Steps on the Writer's Path
The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment
Written by Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-45110-1 (0-345-45110-4)

The blank page, the impossible deadline, the rush of inspiration: There is no profession more maddening or more rewarding than being a writer. Yet surprisingly, all writers pass through the same sequence of stages in the course of their careers. It was this remarkable insight that inspired veteran authors Nancy Pickard... Read more >

Spunk & Bite
A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style
Written by Arthur Plotnik

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Random House Reference
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72227-1 (0-375-72227-0)

When too tightly leashed, writing chokes and loses its vitality. Although the rules of composition popularized in William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White’s Elements of Style have been de rigueur for decades, they won’t exactly set your writing free.

To the rescue comes Spunk & Bite, a guide to bold and... Read more >

Is Journalism Worth Dying For?
Final Dispatches
Written by Anna Politkovskaya
Translated by Arch Tait

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-40-0 (1-935554-40-9)

A collection of final dispatches by the famed journalist, including the first translation of the work that may have led to her murder

Anna Politkovskaya won international fame for her courageous reporting. Is Journalism Worth Dying For? is a long-awaited collection of her final writing.

Beginning with a brief introduction by the author... Read more >

Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Written by Neil Postman

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74540-2 (0-679-74540-8)

Postman examines the American fixation with technology and argues that the United States is in danger of becoming a  technopoly,  a system in which technology of every kind is cheerfully granted sovereignty over social institutions and national life, and becomes self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent.  Postman traces the historical movement of technology from being a... Read more >

Life Stories
Profiles from The New Yorker
Written by David Remnick

Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 15, 2001
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75751-8 (0-375-75751-1)

One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of... Read more >

Wonderful Town
New York Stories from The New Yorker
Written by David Remnick

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75752-5 (0-375-75752-X)

New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular... Read more >

Zen and Now
On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Written by Mark Richardson

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-39069-1 (0-307-39069-1)

Part travelogue, part meditation on an author and his work, Zen and Now is a tribute to a beloved American book and the landscape that inspired it.

Since it was first published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has become a modern classic, a beautifully constructed blend... Read more >

In the Place of Justice
A Story of Punishment and Redemption
Written by Wilbert Rideau

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27730-5 (0-307-27730-5)

Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph.

After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. He spent several years on... Read more >

Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film

Written by Brian J. Robb

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
On Sale: July 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-84023-968-3 (1-84023-968-9)

From Blade Runner to A Scanner Darkly, via Total Recall, Screamers, Impostor, Paycheck and Minority Report, the legacy of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick has revolutionized Hollywood.

Counterfeit Worlds is the definitive history of all the adaptations of Dick's work, not only the films but also TV series, radio plays... Read more >

Media Virus!

Written by Douglas Rushkoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 6, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-39774-4 (0-345-39774-6)

Media Virus examines the ways in which popular media manipulate those exposed to them, and are manipulated by those who know how to tap into their power. Rushkoff shows that where there's a wavelength, there's a way to "infect" those on it--from the subtly, but intentionally, subversive signals broadcast by... Read more >

Untruth
Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong
Written by Robert J. Samuelson

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: AtRandom
On Sale: March 6, 2001
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9164-2 (0-8129-9164-8)

In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation—popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of... Read more >

Slam Dunks and No-Brainers
Pop Language in Your Life, the Media, and Like . . . Whatever
Written by Leslie Savan

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70242-6 (0-375-70242-3)

A marvelously original and informative book about the ever-changing American language that offers surprising insights into why we talk the way we talk.

With dazzling wit and acuity, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan dissects contemporary language to discover what our most popular idioms reveal about America today. She traces the... Read more >

The New Digital Age
Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
Written by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-95713-9 (0-307-95713-6)

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.

Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders... Read more >

The Art of the Handwritten Note
A Guide to Reclaiming Civilized Communication
Written by Margaret Shepherd

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: January 22, 2002
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0745-3 (0-7679-0745-0)

The Art of the Handwritten Note gives thorough instruction to students who are adept at typing away at a forgiving computer, but who are daunted with the prospect of hand-writting notes. From overcoming illegible penmanship to mastering the challenge of keeping straight margins, avoiding smeared ink, and choosing stationery that is... Read more >

SEND
Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better
Written by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27599-8 (0-307-27599-X)

Send—the classic guide to email—has become indispensable for students navigating the impersonal, and at times overwhelming, world of electronic communication. Filled with real-life email success (and horror) stories and a wealth of useful and entertaining examples, Send dissects all the major minefields and pitfalls of email. It provides clear rules for... Read more >

Against the Machine
How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters
Written by Lee Siegel

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52266-3 (0-385-52266-5)

From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the... Read more >

Back to Our Future
How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
Written by David Sirota

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-51878-1 (0-345-51878-0)

Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past.

In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes... Read more >

Who Stole the American Dream?

Written by Hedrick Smith

Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6966-8 (1-4000-6966-1)

To read the author's essay about Who Stole the American Dream? go to http://tinyurl.com/b78df7e.

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.

In his bestselling The Russians,... Read more >

Free Speech in an Open Society

Written by Rodney A. Smolla

Format: Trade Paperback, 444 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74213-5 (0-679-74213-1)

This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in American jurisprudence.

“Intellectually venturesome. . . .”—The New York Times Book Review

“A clear-headed guide through difficult terrain... Well-written, firm in its... Read more >

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto
Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Written by Robert David Steele
Foreword by Howard Bloom

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: EVOLVER EDITIONS
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-443-1 (1-58394-443-5)

What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the... Read more >

Griftopia
Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Written by Matt Taibbi

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52995-2 (0-385-52995-3)

The dramatic story behind the most audacious power grab in American history

The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The stunning rise, fall, and rescue of Wall Street in the bubble-and-bailout era was the coming-out party for the network of looters who sit at the nexus of American... Read more >