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"Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today's great information powers -- Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T -- Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. He shows how a battle royal for the Internets's future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out."--Publisher's description.
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c2005
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Does violence in movies, on television and in comic strips and cartoons rot our children's brains and make zombies-or worse, criminals-of adults at the fringes? In this cogent, well-researched book, American pop-culture expert Harold Schechter argues that exactly the opposite is true: a basic human need is given an outlet through violent images in popular media. Moving from an exploration of early broadsheet engravings showing torture and the atrocities...
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2008
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Who were the women who called themselves "Ms." and who were the Material Girls? They weren't specific individuals, but rather symbols that defined perceptions of women during the 1970s through the 1990s. The term Ms. was adopted by feminists--women who believed in equal pay for equal work, freedom from sexual harassment, and equal employment opportunities. The Material Girls wanted all this, but they also wanted to be wild, sexy, and outrageously...