Political aspects
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Author:Khosravi, ShahramSummary: -
Author:Ramaswamy, VivekSummary:A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism. There's a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every...
- Author:Fletcher, RaquelSummary:
What does diversity mean for the Quebec identity? Who gets to consider themselves a Quebecer? The author, a young journalist who moved to Quebec City from Saskatchewan, has some critical questions for the adopted province she loves. Are...
- Author:O'Neil, CathySummary:
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives-where we...
- Author:Walia, HarshaSummary:
Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism...
- Author:Gottlieb, ScottSummary:
Dr. Scott Gottlieb reveals how COVID-19 was able to trounce America's pandemic preparations. As the pandemic unfolded, he was in regular contact with all the key players in Congress, the Trump administration, and the drug and...
- Author:Atluri, TaraSummary:
Theodor Adorno once remarked that, "... every work of art is an uncommitted crime." This book is a tribute to political artists who deviate from the mainstream and create art that engages with questions of societal oppression...
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Author:Zapruder, AlexandraSummary:Abraham Zapruder didn't know when he began filming President Kennedy's motorcade that his home movie would change not only his family's life but also American culture and history. Now his granddaughter tells the whole story for the...
- Author:Buttigieg, PeteSummary:
Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament—and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust is the...
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Author:Manjoo, FarhadSummary:Why has media punditry overtaken actual news? Manjoo explains how myths pushed by both partisans and marketers attract wide support, portraying that what is true matters less than true enough.
- Author:Wooldridge, Adrian, Micklethwait, JohnSummary:
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western...
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Author:Goodman, AmySummary:The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid," the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis,...
- Author:Mayor, AdrienneSummary:
Mayor delivers an account of Mithradates, the ruthless visionary who began to challenge Rome's power in 120 B.C. Machiavelli praised his military genius. Kings coveted his secret elixir against poison. Poets celebrated his victories,...
- Author:Roiphe, KatieSummary:
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Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the US government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hit man, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin,...
- Author:Early, SteveSummary:
Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and...
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Author:Nesbitt-Larking, Paul W.Summary:"Politics, Society, and the Media" is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy,...
- Author:Poitras, JacquesSummary:
The story of the rise and fall of the Energy East pipeline. The project was to be a monumental undertaking, beginning near Edmonton and stretching over four thousand kilometres, across two hundred First Nation reserves, through Montreal...
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Author:Chomsky, NoamSummary: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.
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Author:Croteau, DavidSummary:Providing a framework for understanding the relationship between media and society, this updated Sixth Edition of Media/Society helps students develop the skills they need to critically evaluate both conventional wisdom and their own...
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