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  • Killing with Prejudice

    Institutionalized Racism in American Capital Punishment

    by R.J. Maratea ...
    A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital casesIn 1978 Warren McCleskey, a Black man, killed a white police officer in Georgia. He was convicted by a jury of 11 whites and 1 African American, and was sentenced to death. Although McCleskey’s lawyers were able to prove that Georgia courts applied the death penalty to Blacks who killed whites ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Politics of the Internet

    Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism

    by R.J. Maratea ...
    In The Politics of the Internet: Political Claims-making in Cyberspace and Its Effect on Modern Political Activism, R.J. Maratea examines the Internet’s effect on political claims-making and protest action to show how online technology is helping to shape popular opinion about political issues. The Internet hosts a vast collection of interconnected public cyber-arenas where political claims are ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Social Problems in Popular Culture

    by R. J. Maratea, Brian Monahan ...
    ‘Popular culture’ is more than just a broad term for entertainment and frivolous diversions and is highly relevant to many aspects of society.In this exciting textbook, the authors offer insights into the important, but often overlooked, relationship between popular culture and social problems. Drawing on historical and topical examples, they apply an innovative theoretical framework to examine ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    A Self-Help Book for Societies

    by Tim Urban ...
    From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then, he turned his attention to a new topic: ... Read more

    $22.54 CAD

  • The Death of Expertise

    The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

    by Tom Nichols ...
    Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The View from Flyover Country

    Dispatches from the Forgotten America

    by Sarah Kendzior ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.**"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — KirkusIn 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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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

    $13.99 CAD

  • News Writing and Reporting

    An Introduction to Skills and Theory

    by Bruce Gillespie ...
    News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory is a concise, friendly guide to mastering the fundamentals of journalism practice in Canada. Award-winning Canadian writer and editor Bruce Gillespie demonstrates essential skills - such as conducting interviews, evaluating newsworthiness, developing story ideas, and recognizing legal and ethical issues - which are followed by a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 4th Edition

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
    A timely new edition of the classic journalism text, now featuring updated material on the importance of reporting in the age of media mistrust and fake news—and how journalists can use technology to navigate its challengesMore than two decades ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America’s most influential newspeople and asked them, “What is journalism for?” Through ... Read more

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  • 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

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson LearsA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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

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