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The Future of Media
Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century
Edited by Robert McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott
Foreword by Bill Moyers
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Co-edited by acclaimed media scholar Robert W. McChesney, the book features chapters by Bill Moyers, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Rep. Bernie Sanders, and Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley, among many others. With the American political landscape dominated by the influence of big business, the timing of The Future of Media could... Read more >
Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century
Edited by Robert McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott
Foreword by Bill Moyers
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Co-edited by acclaimed media scholar Robert W. McChesney, the book features chapters by Bill Moyers, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Rep. Bernie Sanders, and Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley, among many others. With the American political landscape dominated by the influence of big business, the timing of The Future of Media could... Read more >
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Information War
American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11
Written by Nancy Snow
Foreword by Greg Palast
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history, as the Bush administration attempts to increase U.S. dominance by curbing dissent and controlling opinion. Snow lays out the... Read more >
American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11
Written by Nancy Snow
Foreword by Greg Palast
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history, as the Bush administration attempts to increase U.S. dominance by curbing dissent and controlling opinion. Snow lays out the... Read more >
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The Killing Game
Written by Gary Webb
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It... Read more >
Written by Gary Webb
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It... Read more >
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Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass... Read more >
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Written by Noam Chomsky
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass... Read more >
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Microradio & Democracy
(Low) Power to the People
Written by Greg Ruggiero
Foreword by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $5.95
Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism in recent court cases, and the links between the microradio struggle and... Read more >
(Low) Power to the People
Written by Greg Ruggiero
Foreword by Robert W. McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $5.95
Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism in recent court cases, and the links between the microradio struggle and... Read more >
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No Debate
How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
Written by George Farah
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the... Read more >
How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
Written by George Farah
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the... Read more >
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The Oh Really? Factor
Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
Written by Peter Hart and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Foreword by Robert McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
Since emerging from tabloid-television infamy as the former host of Inside Edition, Bill O’Reilly has taken his brand of provocative rhetoric to the next level: from shock-TV to the No Spin Zone. Despite his outspoken support for Bush’s tax cuts and a war with Iraq, and his attacks on everything from... Read more >
Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
Written by Peter Hart and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Foreword by Robert McChesney
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $8.95
Since emerging from tabloid-television infamy as the former host of Inside Edition, Bill O’Reilly has taken his brand of provocative rhetoric to the next level: from shock-TV to the No Spin Zone. Despite his outspoken support for Bush’s tax cuts and a war with Iraq, and his attacks on everything from... Read more >
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Our Media, Not Theirs
The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media
Written by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Foreword by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates... Read more >
The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media
Written by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Foreword by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $9.95
Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational conglomerates... Read more >
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Project Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism
Edited by Peter Phillips
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $10.95
The independent media are arguably more important than ever today, as corporate media’s line reads increasingly like a government press release rather than a free society’s analysis of the day’s important events. But there’s a lot to sort through: Independent newsmagazines and newspapers, local cable-TV access, and independent and microtransmitted radio... Read more >
Edited by Peter Phillips
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $10.95
The independent media are arguably more important than ever today, as corporate media’s line reads increasingly like a government press release rather than a free society’s analysis of the day’s important events. But there’s a lot to sort through: Independent newsmagazines and newspapers, local cable-TV access, and independent and microtransmitted radio... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Propaganda, Inc.
Selling America's Culture to the World
Written by Nancy Snow
Foreword by Herbert I. Schiller
Introduction by Michael Parenti
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
An eye-opening overview of American cultural policy fully updated through the end of the Bush presidency, Propaganda, Inc. reveals how the United States Information Agency became a bureaucracy deeply distrustful of dissent, and one-way in its promotion of American corporate interests overseas.
Nancy Snow spent two years inside the Agency, and here... Read more >
Selling America's Culture to the World
Written by Nancy Snow
Foreword by Herbert I. Schiller
Introduction by Michael Parenti
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $11.95
An eye-opening overview of American cultural policy fully updated through the end of the Bush presidency, Propaganda, Inc. reveals how the United States Information Agency became a bureaucracy deeply distrustful of dissent, and one-way in its promotion of American corporate interests overseas.
Nancy Snow spent two years inside the Agency, and here... Read more >
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trade paperback.
A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense
Written by Normand Baillargeon
Illustrated by Charb
Translated by Andrea Schmidt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon of everyday politics and... Read more >
Written by Normand Baillargeon
Illustrated by Charb
Translated by Andrea Schmidt
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95
What is the relationship between democracy and critical thinking? What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? In A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, historian and educator Normand Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through the spin and jargon of everyday politics and... Read more >
Stories that Changed America
Muckrakers of the 20th Century
Written by Carl Jensen
Foreword by Hugh Downs
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act... Read more >
Muckrakers of the 20th Century
Written by Carl Jensen
Foreword by Hugh Downs
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act... Read more >
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My Pilgrim's Progress
Media Studies, 1950-1998
Written by George W.S. Trow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $11.99
In My Pilgrim's Progress, George W. S. Trow gives us a brilliantly original and provocative look at what's happened to America in our time -- a guided tour of the media, the politics, and the personalities of the last half-century by one of our most persuasive social critics.
This new book... Read more >
Media Studies, 1950-1998
Written by George W.S. Trow
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $11.99
In My Pilgrim's Progress, George W. S. Trow gives us a brilliantly original and provocative look at what's happened to America in our time -- a guided tour of the media, the politics, and the personalities of the last half-century by one of our most persuasive social critics.
This new book... Read more >
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Censored 2011
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009#10
Edited by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Kristina Borjesson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009#10
Edited by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips and Project Censored
Illustrated by Khalil Bendib
Introduction by Kristina Borjesson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $19.95
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order... Read more >
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eBook.
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Tears of a Clown
Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
Written by Dana Milbank
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $24.95
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural... Read more >
Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
Written by Dana Milbank
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $24.95
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck.
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that “the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural... Read more >
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The Young and the Digital
What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future
Written by S. Craig Watkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $18.00
What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media M eans for Our Future
Written by S. Craig Watkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $18.00
In The Young and the Digital, S. Craig Watkins skillfully draws from more than 500 surveys and 350 in-depth interviews with young people, parents, and educators to understand how a digital lifestyle is affecting the ways youth learn, play, bond, and communicate. Timely and deeply relevant, the book covers the influence...
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Spinning the Law
Trying Cases in the Court of Public Opinion
Written by Kendall Coffey
Format: Hardcover, 404 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $26.00
High-profile courtroom dramas fascinate our nation, especially when they concern the rich and famous. And while the American public has come to realize that the spin factor is a prime ingredient in political tactics and marketing campaigns, many are unaware of the strategies for shaping public opinion when it comes to... Read more >
Trying Cases in the Court of Public Opinion
Written by Kendall Coffey
Format: Hardcover, 404 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Price: $26.00
High-profile courtroom dramas fascinate our nation, especially when they concern the rich and famous. And while the American public has come to realize that the spin factor is a prime ingredient in political tactics and marketing campaigns, many are unaware of the strategies for shaping public opinion when it comes to... Read more >
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Creeping Failure
How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.95
The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and... Read more >
How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $25.95
The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and... Read more >
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Creeping Failure
How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $13.99
The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and... Read more >
How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $13.99
The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and... Read more >
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Tales of Woe
Written by John Reed
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $20.00
True stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just deserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief.
No lessons of temperance or moderation. No saving grace. No divine intervention. No salvation.
Sin, suffering, redemption. That’s the movie, that’s the front page news, that’s the story... Read more >
Written by John Reed
Format: Hardcover, 204 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $20.00
True stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just deserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief.
No lessons of temperance or moderation. No saving grace. No divine intervention. No salvation.
Sin, suffering, redemption. That’s the movie, that’s the front page news, that’s the story... Read more >
Pornland
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 6, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as “life changing.”
In Pornland—the culmination of... Read more >
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 6, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as “life changing.”
In Pornland—the culmination of... Read more >
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Morning Miracle
Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
Written by Dave Kindred
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $13.99
An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Pulitzer Prize–nominated Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question “Do newspapers still matter?” with a resounding yes.
What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York Times, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington Post. A reporter for more than... Read more >
Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
Written by Dave Kindred
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $13.99
An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Pulitzer Prize–nominated Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question “Do newspapers still matter?” with a resounding yes.
What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York Times, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington Post. A reporter for more than... Read more >
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The New Media Monopoly
A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters
Written by Ben H. Bagdikian
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $26.00
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers... Read more >
A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters
Written by Ben H. Bagdikian
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $26.00
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Pornland
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as "life changing."
In Pornland—the culmination of her... Read more >
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Written by Gail Dines
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $26.95
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She attends industry conferences, interviews producers and performers, and speaks to hundreds of men and women each year about their experience with porn. Students and educators describe her work as "life changing."
In Pornland—the culmination of her... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Understanding Me
Lectures and Interviews
Written by Herbert Marshall Mcluhan
Edited by Stephanie Mcluhan and David Staines
Introduction by Tom Wolfe
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 25, 2010
Price: $
Unbuttoned McLuhan! An intimate exploration of Marshall McLuhan’s ideas in his own words
In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published – often in collaboration with others – a series of books that established his reputation as the pre-eminent seer of the modern age. It was McLuhan who made... Read more >
Lectures and Interviews
Written by Herbert Marshall Mcluhan
Edited by Stephanie Mcluhan and David Staines
Introduction by Tom Wolfe
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 25, 2010
Price: $
Unbuttoned McLuhan! An intimate exploration of Marshall McLuhan’s ideas in his own words
In the last twenty years of his life, Marshall McLuhan published – often in collaboration with others – a series of books that established his reputation as the pre-eminent seer of the modern age. It was McLuhan who made... Read more >
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trade paperback.
