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  • The Graded Motor Imagery Handbook

    by Lorimer Moseley, David Butler, Timothy Beames ...
    A handbook arising from the last two decades of neuroscience, clinical trials and clinical reasoning science is here for both clinicians and pain sufferers.Can you name any of the naturally occuring pain killers in your brain?What has the ability to recognise our lefts from our rights got to do with healing?How can a mirror be therapeutic?What are 'mirror neurones' and how can we use them to treat ... Read more

    $18.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pathways of Power

    The Dynamics of National Policymaking

    by Timothy J. Conlan, Paul L. Posner, David R. Beam ...
    Series series American Governance and Public Policy series
    While civics textbooks describe an idealized model of “how a bill becomes law;” journalists often emphasize special interest lobbying and generous campaign contributions to Congress; and other textbooks describe common stages through which all policies progress, these approaches fail to convey—much less explain—the tremendous diversity in political processes that shape specific policies in ... Read more

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  • The American Journalist in the 21st Century

    U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium

    by David H. Weaver, Randal A. Beam, Bonnie J. Brownlee, Paul S. Voakes, G. Cleveland Wilhoit ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    An authoritative and detailed illustration of the state of journalistic practice in the United States today, The American Journalist in the 21st Century sheds light on the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of print, broadcast, and Internet journalists at the beginning of the 21st century. Providing results from telephone surveys of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition

    What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
    The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice isweave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Post-Truth

    by Lee McIntyre ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    We are living in a world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts—and where feelings have more weight than evidence. But how did we get here?In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Elements of Journalism

    What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

    by Tom Rosenstiel, Bill Kovach ...
    In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures that advertisers and new technologies were putting on newsrooms around the country. But, more than ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • News

    The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition

    by W. Lance Bennett ...
    Can real news survive in an era of social media and spin? An updated edition of the "smart, provocative introduction to media and American politics."—Paul Freedman, author of Campaign Advertising and American DemocracyFor over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field—it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news ... Read more

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  • The Ideas Industry

    How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    The public intellectual has a long and storied history. Previously, the public intellectual was always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought leader. Equipped with one big idea, thought leaders focus their energies on TED talks rather than highbrow periodicals. In contrast ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • Informing the News

    by Thomas E. Patterson ...
    As the journalist Walter Lippmann noted nearly a century ago, democracy falters “if there is no steady supply of trustworthy and relevant news.” Today’s journalists are not providing it. Too often, reporters give equal weight to facts and biased opinion, stir up small controversies, and substitute infotainment for real news. Even when they get the facts rights, they often misjudge the context in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

    The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    by Craig Aaron, Eric Alterman, C. Edwin Baker, Yochai Benkler, Michael J. Copps, Michael Schudson, Thomas Frank, Todd Gitlin, Chris Hedges, Janine Jackson, Pamela Newkirk, John Nichols, Clay Shirkey, David Simon, Paul Starr, Leonard Downie ...
    Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." — Library JournalThe sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Censored 2012

    The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2010-11

    Edited by Mickey Huff, Project Censored ...
    Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation’s oldest news-monitoring group—a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff—has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news ... Read more

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  • The Outrage Industry

    Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility

    by Jeffrey M. Berry, Sarah Sobieraj ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who advocated for insurance coverage of contraceptives, "wants to be paid to have sex." Over the next few days, Limbaugh attacked Fluke personally, often in crude terms, while a powerful backlash grew, led by organizations such as the National Organization for Women. But perhaps what ... Read more

    $33.29 USD