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Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2004
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".
In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.
by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".
In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.
The Memory Palace
A Book of Lost Interiors
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will...
The Seeds of Life
From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes
Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were...
The Chosen Folks
Jews on the Frontiers of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks brings this rich aspect of the past to light, going beyond single biographies and photographic histories to explore the full evolution of the Jewish experience...
Covering Islam
How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
In this classic work, now updated, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world.
From the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In these six essays--delivered on the BBC as the prestigious Reith Lectures--Edward Said addresses the ways in which the intellectual can best serve society in the light of a heavily compromised media and of special interest groups who are protected at the cost of larger community concerns. Said suggests...
The Politics of Dispossession
The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only...
Tolstoy
The Making of a Novelist
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Tolstoy was not always an old man-not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peacewhen he was thirty five, and AnnaKareninawas finished before he was fifty. By then he had fulfilled his genius and deployed all those elements of his...
Life Unlimited
A Timeless Approach to Aging and Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Is it possible that the death of our physical bodies was never part of a divine plan? Is it possible that the key to unlocking our immortality lies not so much in the realm of science as it does in our own hearts and minds? In Life Unlimited, author Edward Franco examines the attitudes and beliefs...
I Melrose
Edizione integrale
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Il ciclo narrativo contenuto in queste pagine ha destato enorme scalpore nei paesi in cui è apparso. Edward St Aubyn, rampollo di un’antica e nobile famiglia che «viveva in Cornovaglia fin dai tempi della conquista normanna» (Guardian), è stato accostato dalla critica britannica e statunitense...
by Yone Noguchi, Edward Marx
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Yone Noguchi's delightful, groundbreaking essays of the 1920s and 1930s, previously available only in hard-to-obtain periodicals, are collected here for the first time in this Noguchi Project Edition. The 22 essays range across Japanese poetry, No drama, art, autobiography, travel, and international relations. The essays are edited and introduced by Edward Marx.
by Edward Everett Dale
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the fragrance...