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What I Wore
Four Seasons, One Closet, Endless Recipes for Personal Style
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A COOKBOOK FOR YOUR CLOSET
Personal style expert Jessica Quirk approaches getting dressed just as you would plan the perfect meal: With a smartly stocked pantry and a few gorgeous “spotlight ingredients,” inspiration comes easily.
In What I Wore, named after her enormously popular...
Spreadable Media
Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized...
Television Drama in Contemporary China
Political, social and cultural phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream...
by Beverly Adam
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Two Lovers is the love story between legendary Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, and the famous singer known as "The Valentino of The Radio," Russ Columbo. Recently divorced from her first husband, William Powell (The Thin Man), Carole attends a performance to hear popular radio star, Russ...
Everything Bad is Good for You
How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted
Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven...
Smart Ball
Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing...
Branded Nation
The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Branding, says James Twitchell, is nothing more than commercial storytelling; brands are the stories that are associated with products. (For example, the special taste of Evian, says Twitchell, is in the brand, not the water.) Branding has become so successful, so ubiquitous that even institutions...
Narcomania
A Journey Through Britain's Drug World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
A timely and gripping investigation of illegal drugs in the UK. Filled with fascinating and shocking case studies gathered over twenty years of investigative reporting, it explodes many of the myths and misconceptions about drug use, and makes a compelling case for a new way forward.
Looking...
Eat the Year
366 Fun and Fabulous Food Holidays to Celebrate Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Everyone loves food.
But did you know that every day is a national food or drink holiday? It's true! There's National Bloody Mary Day, National Cheese Lover's Day, and even National Blueberry Pancake Day-just to name a few.
Based on the popular blog Almanac of Eats, Eat the Year is a...
Weed the People
The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug.
Now the tide has shifted: In 1996 California...
Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand
Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians’ brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality...
Twitter Wit
Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The first authorized Twitter book, Twitter Wit is a collection of the most clever one-liners posted on the massively popular social networking and micro-blogging website. Featuring a foreword by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and tweets from celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen...
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned...
by Chris Anderton, Andrew Dubber, Martin James
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Everyone knows music is big business, but do you really understand how ideas and inspiration become songs, products, downloads, concerts and careers? This textbook guides students to a full understanding of the processes that drive the music industries. More than just an expose or 'how to' guide,...