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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't by Nate Silver Publisher Comments Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger — all by the time he was thirty. The New York Times now publishes... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Medium Is the Massage : an Inventory of Effects (96 Edition) by Marshall Mcluhan Publisher Comments 30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments "[A] compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy of the past quarter century."--Walter LaFeber, The New York Times Book... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gender, Race, and Class in Media (3RD 11 Edition) by Gail Dines Publisher Comments Incisive analyses of mass media - including such forms as reality television, social networking sites, dramatic series, sitcoms, advertising, children's media, video games, and pornography - enable this provocative new edition of Gender, Race, and Class... (read more) List Price $103.25 Your price: $81.90 New - Trade Paper
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Mass Media Revolution by J Charles Sterin Publisher Comments Debuting in its first edition Mass Media Revolution is a revolutionary learning and teaching tool designed to reflect the way students experience mass media today. With a storytelling narrative and chapter-specific videos, Mass Media Revolution helps... (read more) List Price $123.80 Your price: $40.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Sports Writing of the Century by David Halberstam Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Halberstam selects the fifty best pieces of sports writing of this century. The Best American Sports Writing of the Century showcases the best sports journalists of the twentieth century, from Jimmy Cannon, Red... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Media Now 2012 Update (7TH 13 - Old Edition) by Joseph Straubhaar Publisher Comments MEDIA NOW empowers you to think critically about the media and its effects on culture by providing a thorough understanding of how media technologies develop, operate, converge, and affect society. MEDIA NOW prepares you for encounters in the expanding... (read more) List Price $200.35 Your price: $133.00 Used - Trade Paper
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True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo Publisher Comments Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they’ve been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments This is an essential introduction to the "propaganda model" of media analysis. Chomsky offers a message of hope, reminding us that resistance is possible, necessary and effective.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect by Bill Kovach Publisher Comments The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read “What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice is weave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam Publisher Comments "Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport." *Walter Clemons Newsweek "A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE." *David Guy Chicago Tribune In The Amateurs, David... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Design of Dissent (05 Edition) by Milton Glaser Publisher Comments Chosen by the Editors at Amazon.com as one of the top 50 Best Books of 2005 - Now in paperback! With the world's economy in a slump, the Middle East's never ending conflict, and the on-going war on terrorism, there is a heightened awareness in the world... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson Publisher Comments Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media-once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic-are often too timid or distracted to identify these... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside Reporting by Tim Harrower Publisher Comments This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland... (read more) List Price $106.25 Your price: $40.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Media and Culture 2011 Update (7TH 11 - Old Edition) by Richard Campbell Publisher Comments The #1 introduction to mass communication text, Media and Culture offers a critical approach to media literacy, a cultural perspective, compelling storytelling, and comprehensive coverage of the media industries to help students understand the... (read more) List Price $98.75 Your price: $67.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside Reporting : a Practical Guide To the Craft of Journalism (07 - Old Edition) by Tim Harrower Publisher Comments This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland... (read more) List Price $90.35 Your price: $61.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, 6th Edition 2009 Update by Richard Campbell and Christopher R. Martin and Bettina Fabos Publisher Comments Breaking the mold of traditional mass communication textbooks, Richard Campbells Media & Culture goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. Campbell uses a unique five-stage critical... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Media/impact - Enhanced Edition (10TH 13 Edition) by Shirley Biagi Publisher Comments From media history to today's rapid-fire changes, MEDIA/IMPACT takes you on a tour of the events, people, and technologies that have shaped and are shaping the industry. Known for its engaging writing style, currency, and visual appeal, this book... (read more) List Price $217.50 Your price: $146.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-first Century by Robert W. McChesney Publisher Comments The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-knowna decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda Publisher Comments The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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