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  • The Medium and the Magician

    Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952

    by Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Few twentieth-century artists are renowned in such a variety of media as Orson Welles. Well known for his work in film and theater as director, actor, and writer, Welles's influence in the field of radio has often been overlooked for the more glamorous entertainment of his movies. The Medium and the Magician is a comprehensive review of Welles's radio career, devoted to assessing his radio ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Titanic Century

    Media, Myth, and the Making of a Cultural Icon

    by Paul Heyer ...
    This book presents a revealing look at our 100-year fascination with the Titanic disaster and the various media that have been involved in reporting, preserving, and immortalizing the event.The Titanic's fate is still very much in our collective consciousness. A catastrophe that was unimaginable at the time, now 100 years later it continues to provide lessons that we have not yet fully absorbed. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Communication in History

    Stone Age Symbols to Social Media

    Edited by Peter Urquhart, Paul Heyer ...
    This updated eighth edition provides a thorough and engaging history of communication and media through a collection of essential, field-defining essays.The collection reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and enabling social change. Contributions from a wide range of voices offer instructors the opportunity to customize their courses while challenging students to ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Harold Innis's History of Communications

    Paper and Printing—Antiquity to Early Modernity

    Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    For decades, media historians have heard of Harold Innis’s unpublished manuscript exploring the history of communications—but very few have had an opportunity to see it. In this volume, editors and Innis scholars William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer make widely accessible, for the first time, three core chapters from the legendary Innis manuscript.Here, Innis (1894-1952) examines ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Harold Innis Reflects

    Memoir and WWI Writings/Correspondence

    Edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, Paul Heyer ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Offering fresh insight into the early life of Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), this volume makes available a number of previously unpublished writings from the renowned Canadian economic historian and media scholar.Part I, Innis’s autobiographical memoir, chronicles his farm-based family background, early education, military service during World War I, and the beginnings of what would become a ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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    Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

    by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska ...
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

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  • Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

    Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

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  • Understanding Media

    The Extensions of Man

    by Marshall McLuhan ...
    When first published, Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century. This edition of McLuhan’s best-known book both enhances its accessibility to a general audience and provides the full critical apparatus necessary for scholars. In Terrence Gordon’s own words, McLuhan is in full ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Toronto Book of the Dead

    by Adam Bunch ...
    Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.If these streets could talk…With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable TitleA Publishers Weekly Top 10 book of 2026“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • How The Scots Invented Canada

    by Ken McGoogan ...
    Canadians of Scottish descent, who today total over 4.7 million, have never made up more than 16 per cent of Canada’s population. Yet they have supplied thirteen of twenty-two Canadian prime ministers, and have made proportionate contributions in exploration, education, banking, military service, railroading, invention, literature, you name it.Award-winning author Ken McGoogan has written a vivid, ... Read more

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  • The Story of Stories

    The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art

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    An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling.Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to ... Read more

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