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  • Legal Guide for the Visual Artist

    by Tad Crawford ...
    This classic guide for artists is completely revised and updated to provide an in-depth view of the legal issues facing the visual artist today and provides practical legal guidance for any visual artist involved with creative work. Among the many new topics covered in this comprehensive guide are: detailed coverage of the myriad developments in copyright (including online copyright registration ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • EU Telecommunications Law

    by Andrej Savin ...
    Series series Elgar European Law series
    Providing a comprehensive overview of the current European regulatory framework on telecommunications, this book analyses the 2016 proposal for a European Electronic Communications Code (EECC). The work takes as its basis the 2009 Regulatory Framework on electronic communications and analyses each of its five main directives, comparing them with the changes proposed in the EECC. Key chapters focus ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Colorblind Screen

    Television in Post-Racial America

    The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a “colorblind” racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Guilt by Accusation

    The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

    A Wall Street Journal bestseller! Alan Dershowitz, one of America’s most respected legal scholars and a New York Times bestselling author proves—with incontrovertible evidence—that he is entirely innocent of the sexual misconduct accusations against him, while suggesting a roadmap for how such allegations should be handled in a just society.“Maybe the question isn’t what happened to Alan ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside

    Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside

    by Mac Tatum ...
    Series series Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside
    Mac provides a raw, realistic and comprehensive look inside the nations maximum-security prison system. If you have ever wondered what really goes on on the inside, this is the book for you. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor

    by Glyn Moody ...
    Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels are exploding. Libraries struggle to give access to ebooks and get sued by an increasingly more powerful book industry, while publicly funded research papers get locked up.Walled Culture is the first book providing a compact, non-technical history ... Read more

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  • Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

    A Biography of the First Amendment

    by Anthony Lewis ...
    More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Spreadable Media

    Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture

    Series Book 15 - Postmillennial Pop
    Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Greentown

    Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community

    by Timothy Dumas ...
    The first edition of Greentown helped reopen one of America’s most shameful unsolved murder cases, the savage slaying of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley in an exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, the night before Halloween 1975. Soon after Martha’s body was discovered, attention focused on members of the Skakel family, who lived across the street from the Moxleys. Ethel Skakel and Robert ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • All You Need to Know About the Music Business

    Eleventh Edition

    Dubbed “the industry bible” by the Los Angeles Times, All You Need to Know About the Music Business by veteran music lawyer Donald Passman is the go-to guide for everyone in the music business through ten editions, over thirty years, and over a half a million copies sold. Now with updates explaining why musicians have more power today than ever in history; discussion of the mega-million-dollar ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Justice in the Age of Judgment

    From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age

    From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before. Can the bedrock of “innocent until proven guilty” survive in what acclaimed Seattle attorney and legal analyst Anne Bremner calls the age of judgement?When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Price of Principle

    Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences

    In his fiftieth book, The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most influential legal scholars—explores the implications of the increasing tendency in politics, academia, media, and even the courts of law to punish principle and reward partisan hypocrisy.Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Framed

    Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

    The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword“A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq.The Definitive Story of One of the Most Infamous Murders of the Twentieth Century and the Heartbreaking Miscarriage of Justice That FollowedOn Halloween, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley’s body was found brutally ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Objection!

    How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System

    Court TV host Nancy Grace presents her case in this behind-the-scenes look at the high-profile cases everyone is talking about ancy Grace is a name millions of Americans recognize from her regular appearances on Court TV and Larry King Live. Legions of loyal fans tune in for her opinions on today's high-profile cases and her expert commentary on the challenges facing the American judicial system. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Playing War

    Military Video Games After 9/11

    Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on TerrorNo video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the “military shooter.” Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy’s name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future ... Read more

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  • The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

    This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity-and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation-and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and Ti... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Orienting Hollywood

    A Century of Film Culture between Los Angeles and Bombay

    by Nitin Govil ...
    Series Book 6 - Critical Cultural Communication
    A new understanding of the culturally rich and historic relationship between Hollywood and Bollywood.With American cinema facing intense technological and financial challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional connections between Hollywood and Bombay cinema in the past few years. Many accounts have proclaimed ... Read more

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  • Privacy’s Blueprint

    The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies

    Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect themselves—even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them.In Privacy’s Blueprint, Woodrow ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Guilty of Journalism

    The Political Case against Julian Assange

    **From an acclaimed independent journalist, this carefully-documented analysis of the government’s case against Julian Assange and its implications for press freedom acts as a crucial, compelling guidebook to Assange’s upcoming trial.Guilty of Journalism is a joint production of The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press.**The legal action against Julian Assange is poised to culminate in a trial ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Surveillance Cinema

    Series Book 2 - Postmillennial Pop
    In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema.Catherine ... Read more

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  • Love and Money

    Queers, Class, and Cultural Production

    Series Book 18 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Love and Money argues that we can’t understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, Love and Money offers supple approaches to capturing class experience and class form in and around queerness.Contrary to familiar dismissals, not ... Read more

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  • The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics

    In The Case for Color-Blind Equality in an Age of Identity Politics, Alan Dershowitz—New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—analyzes the current battles over issues of diversity and our rapidly changing ideas about what true diversity is.Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Deciding Communication Law

    Key Cases in Context

    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This clearly written and well-focused volume combines concise decisions of the primary areas of communication law with the foundational case decisions in those domains. Thus, in one volume, students of communication law, constitutional law, political science, and related fields find both the key rulings that define each area of law and a detailed summary of the legal concepts, doctrines, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD