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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780190625894 | ISBN 10: 0190625899
3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from TV commercials, magazine and newspaper print ads, radio commercials, pop-up ads on gaming apps, to pre-roll on YouTube videos and native advertising on ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781590565100 | ISBN 10: 159056510x
How does someone become a piece of meat? Carol J. Adams answers this question in this provocative book by finding hidden meanings in the culture around us. � From advertisements to T-shirts, from billboards to menus, from matchbook covers to com ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335650 | ISBN 10: 0745335659
First published in 2001, Propaganda & The Public Mind constitutes a series of discussions with the journalist David Barsamian and is the perfect complement to Chomsky’s major works of media study such as Manufacturing Consent and Necessary llusions. ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847428493 | ISBN 10: 1847428495
Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper’s longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. Drawing on four decades of top-level Whitehall brie ... more
View book details£1.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141393063 | ISBN 10: 0141393068
'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745331850 | ISBN 10: 0745331858
The exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines political activism. This book shows the other grave threat to our political freedoms - undercover activities by corporations ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099512684 | ISBN 10: 0099512688
'Finally I was forced to admit that I work in a corrupted profession.' When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847670878 | ISBN 10: 1847670873
In our consumer world, saturated by branded goods, is there any escape from the vice-grip of advertising on all our lives? Neil Boorman, journalist, brand consultant (and recovering brand addict) draws on his vast profession and personal experien ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780978843106 | ISBN 10: 097884310x
Originally published in 1957 and now back in print to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, The Hidden Persuaders is Vance Packard’s pioneering and prescient work revealing how advertisers use psychological methods to tap into our unconscious desires i ... more
View book details£115.00 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415955683 | ISBN 10: 0415955688
There have been numerous works produced in recent years dealing with the era commonly known as McCarthyism. There have been few, if any, however, that detail the evolution of the repressive social climate that nourished the McCarthy age. This work co ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007179640 | ISBN 10: 0007179642
From surreal Japanese theme parks to contrived 'reality' TV programming, from chemically-enhanced fast food to artificially planned corporate communities, we live in a world increasingly distanced from and devoid of spontaneous human contact and act ... more
View book details£27.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780631236221 | ISBN 10: 0631236228
A critical, interdisciplinary and historically informed statement about the rise of mass communication in Western societies and its impact on contemporary life. With a lively and engaging style the author ponders the dominance of the mass-produced m ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780970312594 | ISBN 10: 0970312598
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays (1891-1995) pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he called "engineering of consent". During World War One he was an integral part - along with Walter Lippman ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781585421398 | ISBN 10: 1585421391
The book that unmasks the sneaky and widespread methods industry uses to influence opinion through bogus experts, doctored data and manufactured facts. "A brilliant piece of investigative journalism and a powerful vaccine against the stupefying effe ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780099533115 | ISBN 10: 0099533111
Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite conensus largely structures all facets of the news. They skilfully dissect the w ... more
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