Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.

Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the information age. The communication revolution associated with these technologies is often heralded as the key ...
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Do You Remember TV?: The Book That Takes You Back

By: Michael Gitter, Erika Glazer

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books: April 1999

Seller ID: 12841

ISBN: 0811823059

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

You will never forget the "Brady Bunch" double episode in Hawaii. But do you remember "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway"? Can you recite the Oscar Mayer Wiener jingle or win at "Name That Tune"? Have you seen every "Love Boat "episode with Charo in it? Take a Technicolor journey back to the days when cable and satellite were science fiction and the boob tube had three channels that signed off at 1:00 am to the national anthem. "Do You Remember TV?" resuscitates the most vivid moments of our couch-potato youth with 144 pages crammed full of television tidbits from the late '50s, '60s, '70s, ...
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Feeding Frenzy How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics

By: Sabato

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Free Press: August 1991

Seller ID: 15423

ISBN: 0029276357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

By: Jerry Mander

Price: $13.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial: February 1978

Seller ID: 25970

ISBN: 0688082742

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever.

Weaving personal experiences through meticulous research, the author ranges widely over aspects of television that have rarely been examined and never before joined together, allowing an entirely new, frightening image to emerge. The idea that all technologies...
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Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000 (Halliwell's Film & Video Guide)

By: EDITOR, JOHN WALKER, Leslie Halliwell

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Collins Reference: December 1999

Seller ID: 12798

ISBN: 0062736922

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Classic Guide to More than 23,000 Films

For over twenty years, Halliwell's Film and Video Guide has provided the most comprehensive information available on your favorite films--from the classics of the silver screen to the latest blockbusters, and everything in between. Each entry in this completely revised and expanded edition tells you everything you'd ever want to know about a movie, Including:

Plot synopses and critical evaluations
Cast members, writers, directors, and producers
Quotes from contemporary reviews, alternative...
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I Listen: A Document of Digital Voyeurism

By: Spacewurm

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Incommunicado Press: June 1999

Seller ID: 48909

ISBN: 1888277106

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Laughing Gas

By: Michael Sheldin, David Wallechinsky, Saunie Salyer

Price: $18.95

Publisher: N/A: February 1993

Seller ID: 5906

ISBN: 0914171526

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Accurately details the history of laughing gas through to modern times (including historical ramblings & jest), and delves into the medical side of things -- in a light-hearted manner. Finally, while it never promotes nor condones the use of this fascinating substance and clearly highlights the serious dangers of its consumption, Laughing Gas suggests scientifically based means of ameliorating -- preventing -- the known negative possible effects of its consumption.

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One Nation Under Television: The Rise and Decline of Network TV

By: J. Fred MacDonald

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Pantheon Books: June 1990

Seller ID: 6125

ISBN: 0394580184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America

By: Leslie Knope

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hyperion: October 2011

Seller ID: 260790

ISBN: 1401310648

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Welcome to Pawnee: More Exciting than New York, More Glamorous than Hollywood, Roughly the Same Size as Bismarck, North Dakota

In Pawnee, Leslie Knope (as played by Amy Poehler on NBC's hit show Parks and Recreation) takes readers on a hilarious tour through her hometown, the Midwestern haven known as Pawnee, Indiana. The book chronicles the city's colorful citizens and hopping nightlife, and also explores some of the most hilarious events from its crazy history--like the time the whole town was on fire, its ongoing raccoon infestation, and the cult that took over in the 197...
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Psychedelics

By: Peter Stafford

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Ronin Publishing: June 2003

Seller ID: 5919

ISBN: 0914171186

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Provides a framework for understanding the enormous amount of information available on psychoactive substances. Stafford relays the history, botany, chemistry, physical and mental effects, forms, sources, and preparations of LSD--the most potent and representative of class of drugs called psychedelics. Stafford claims that psychedelics offer surprising benefits to society and he explores the record of promising studies that were truncated in the 1960s, along with a commentary of developments since that time.
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Schlock Value : Hollywood At Its Worst

By: RICHARD ROEPER

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Hyperion Books: February 2005

Seller ID: 12855

ISBN: 1401307698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A hilarious collection of essays, riffs, and lists that celebrate the insanity of Hollywood--for anyone who loves the movies.

Richard Roeper, like the rest of us, adores the movies. In this uproarious, off-beat book, he gives us a whole new set of critical lenses for assessing the movies and the people and the industry that make them. With his characteristic acerbic wit, he weaves short essays with lists that work together to explain where Hollywood succeeds--and where it so often frustrates, disappoints, and fails us. But while Roeper devotes most of the book to mockery a...
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Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell

By: Amy Sohn

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Gallery Books: February 2004

Seller ID: 236753

ISBN: 0743457307

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After six wildly successful and critically acclaimed season, HBO's Sex and the City lowered its curtain with an extraordinary finale befitting its remarkable run. Now Sex and the City, the first true comedy about sex and love from a female point of view (and the show that made cosmopolitans and designer shoes part of every single woman's night out), lives on in this luscious, uniquely entertaining, and one-of-a-kind book.
Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell, the official companion book, celebrates the show with behind-the-scenes stories on all six seasons and original i...
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The Age of Missing Information

By: Bill McKibben

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: June 2006

Seller ID: 25967

ISBN: 081297607X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

"Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message."
----The New York Times

Imagine watching an entire day's worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with newscasts and fluff pieces, game shows and talk shows, ads and infomercials, televangelist pleas and Brady Bunch episodes, McKibben processed twenty-four h...
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The Little Book of Acid

By: Ronin Publishing

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Ronin Publishing: January 1999

Seller ID: 5922

ISBN: 0914171887

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Sopranos: The Book

By: HBO

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Time Inc Home Entertainment: May 2007

Seller ID: 102359

ISBN: 1933821876

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Published to coincide with the airing of the series finale and packed with 200 full-color photos, The Sopranos provides an in-depth look into the details of the show's creation. Includes more than 50 original interviews with the cast, crew, and show producers.
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The twentieth anniversary Playboy reader

By: Hugh M Hefner

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Playboy Press: January 1974

Seller ID: 262876

ISBN: 0872234169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

TV Guide: Fifty Years of Television

By: TV Guide Editors

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Crown: October 2002

Seller ID: 236746

ISBN: 1400046858

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

If you want to know what made America laugh, cry, and sit on the edge of its seat for the past half century, television is the place to look. And if you want to know the history of television, TV Guide is the ultimate source.

Featuring more than 350 full-color and black-and-white photographs from TV Guide's vast archive, TV Guide: 50 Years of Television promises to be a landmark publishing event. From The Howdy Doody Show to The Simpsons, from Lucy Ricardo to Carrie Bradshaw, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, all the most fascinating and unforgettable personalities, shows, and events that have il...
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