Political aspects
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Author:Khosravi, ShahramSummary: -
Author:Bauman, ZygmuntSummary: -
Author:Abujidi, NurhanSummary:Exploring the way urbicide is used to un/re-make Palestine, as well as how it is employed as a tool of spatial dispossession and control, this book examines contemporary political violence and destruction in the context of colonial...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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Author:Chomsky, NoamSummary: -
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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Author:Summary: - Author:Ross, Steven JosephSummary:
The little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
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Author:Butler, JudithSummary:"In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to...
- Author:Hooks, BellSummary:
"What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness,...
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Author:Summary:Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging seeks to unsettle the assumption that inclusion equals justice. The contributors detail how the fight for acceptance engenders complicity in a system...
- Author:Bafilemba, Fidel, Prendergast, JohnSummary:
Includes a PDF of photographs.
- Author:Goodman, AmySummary:
Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media’s lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the “experts” who, in Goodman’s words, “know so little about so much,...
- Author:Gordon, Todd, Webber, Jeffery R.Summary:
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the...
- Author:Briggle, AdamSummary:
From the front lines of the fracking debate, a "field philosopher" explores one of our most divisive technologies. When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years...
