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  • How to Think about Information

    by Dan Schiller ...
    It is common wisdom that the U.S. economy has adapted to losses in its manufacturing base because of the booming information sector, with high-paying jobs for everything from wireless networks to video games. We are told we live in the Information Age, in which communications networks and media and information services drive the larger economy. While the Information Age may have looked sunny in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Crossed Wires

    The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet

    by Dan Schiller ...
    A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Information, Power, and Politics

    Technological and Institutional Mediations

    by César Bolaño, Yann Moulier Boutang, Giuseppe Cocco, Maria Eduarda da Mota Rocha, Jonatas Ferreira, Alain Herscovici, Maria Nélida González de Gómez, Sandra Braman, Dan Schiller ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies
    With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge, while at the same time new institutional frameworks can limit one's ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    Crossed Wires

    The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet

    by Dan Schiller ...
    Narrated by Christopher Douyard ...

    Unabridged

    32 hours 19 min

    Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information—within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power.In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on United States ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • American Politics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard M. Valelly ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims and counterclaims, there has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system. This Very Short Introduction gives readers a concise, accessible, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Land of Promise

    An Economic History of the United States

    by Michael Lind ...
    Michael Lind's Land of Promise is "[an] ambitious economic history of the United States . . . rich with details" ( New York Times Book Review).How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus?From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poor People's Movements

    Why They Succeed, How They Fail

    by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward ...
    Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • How Capitalism Saved America

    The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present

    by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ...
    Whether it’s Michael Moore or the New York Times, Hollywood or academia, a growing segment in America is waging a war on capitalism. We hear that greedy plutocrats exploit the American public; that capitalism harms consumers, the working class, and the environment; that the government needs to rein in capitalism; and on and on. Anticapitalist critiques have only grown more fevered in the wake of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Why Unions Matter

    by Michael D. Yates ...
    In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Freedom From the Market

    America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand

    by Mike Konczal ...
    The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom“Mike Konczal [is] one of our most powerful advocates of financial reform‚ [a] heroic critic of austerity‚ and a huge resource for progressives.”—Paul KrugmanHealth insurance, student loan debt, retirement security, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership—these are the issues driving America ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • People Get Ready

    The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

    by Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols ...
    Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour -- or its greatest momentThe consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end of work as we know it will hit at the worst moment imaginable: as capitalism fosters permanent ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • New York Politics: A Tale of Two States

    by Edward V. Schneier, John Brian Murtaugh, Antoinette Pole ...
    Completely revised and updated with extensive new material, this acclaimed book offers an inside look at how influence is wielded in Albany. The authors--an Albany-based political scientist and a former State Assembly member, now joined by an expert on both state politics and political blogging and networking--infuse their discussion of institutions and processes with the drama and significance of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD