Computer Organization and Architecture

Computer Organization and Architecture

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Computer Organization and Architecture

Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

‘Be the best you can be’ urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self.

Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self

Culture-on-Demand

Culture-on-Demand

This highly original, thought-provoking book written by a pioneer of communication studies is the first to analyze the post 9/11 world in terms of global media and popular culture.

Culture-on-Demand

Personal Finance

Personal Finance

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Personal Finance

Rhythmanalysis

Rhythmanalysis

Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms — both biological and social — Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the city. In doing so he shows how a non-linear conception of time and history balanced his famous rethinking of the question of space. This volume also includes his earlier essays on ‘The Rhythmanaly.

Rhythmanalysis

The Language of Newspapers

The Language of Newspapers

This book charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeeth century to the present day. It extends work done on the language of the media to include an historical perspective, adding to wider contemporary debates about the social impact of the media.

The Language of Newspapers

Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming

In this pioneering work of social criticism, Kalle Lasn, the publisher of Adbusters magazine, lays the foundation for the most significant social movement of the next 20 years. Culture jammers are a global network of media activists waging a protracted war against the mass media and against the consumerism that is overtaking America and the world. In Culture Jam, Lasn assesses the current situation, discusses whether spontaneity and individuality can be restored, explores, possibilities for renewal, and offers a glimpse of what could happen if citizens band together to fight.

Culture Jamming

The Great Brain Suck

The Great Brain Suck

More and more information is pumped into our media-saturated world every day, yet Americans seem to know less and less. In a society where who you are is defined by what you buy, and where we prefer to experience reality by watching it on TV, Eugene Halton argues something has clearly gone wrong.

The Great Brain Suck

The Advertising Handbook

The Advertising Handbook

The Advertising Handbook is a critical introduction to the practices and perspectives of the advertising industry. Sean Brierley explores the structures of the profession and examines the roles of all those involved in advertising including businesses, agencies, consultancies and media owners.

The Advertising Handbook

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

A thoughtful exploration of the role of graphic design today, The Fundamentals of Graphic Design offers a unique overview of a challenging and dynamic profession. From new media to marketing, from package design and print design to typography, opportunities in graphic design are everywhere. This book discusses both the familiar aspects of graphic-design jobs, such as art directing, copyright issues, and web design, and the broader implications of graphic design, including social responsibility, the art world, and the future. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design is an ideal guide to anyone starting out or seeking a place in the world of graphic design.

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance

Principles of Risk Management and Insurance

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Principles of Risk Management and Insurance

Empires of Vision

Empires of Vision

Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpts focus on the paintings, maps, geographical surveys, postcards, photographs, and other media that comprise the visual milieu of colonization, struggles for decolonization, and the lingering effects of empire. Taken together, they demonstrate that an appreciation of the role of visual experience is necessary for understanding the functioning of hegemonic imperial power and the ways that the colonized subjects spoke, and looked, back at their imperial rulers. Empires of Vision also makes a vital point about the complexity of image culture in the modern world: We must comprehend how regimes of visuality emerged globally, not only in the metropole but also in relation to the putative margins of a world that increasingly came to question the very distinction between center and periphery.

Empires of Vision

Technologies of Inclusive Well-Being

Technologies of Inclusive Well-Being

This book is the first single volume that brings together the topics of serious games, alternative realities, and play therapy. The focus is on the use of digital media for the therapeutic benefit and well-being of a wide range of peoplespanning those with special needs to the elderly to entire urban neighborhoods. This book brings together these topics to demonstrate the increasing trans/inter/multi-disciplinary initiatives apparent today in science, medicine, and academic researchinterdisciplinary initiative that are already profoundly impacting society.

Technologies of Inclusive Well-Being

Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginners Guide

Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginners Guide

Written in a friendly, Beginner’s Guide format, showing the user how to use the digital media aspects of Matlab (image, video, sound) in a practical, tutorial-based style.This is great for novice programmers in any language who would like to use Matlab as a tool for their image and video processing needs, and also comes in handy for photographers or video editors with even less programming experience wanting to find an all-in-one tool for their tasks.

Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginners Guide

Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Mac! Whether you’ve just decided to switch from , or you’ve been using a , for awhile and want to take advantage of all its bells and whistles, Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the perfect guidebook to Mac land.,

You probably already know that Macs were made for media. There’s iPhoto for organizing, editing, and sharing your digital photos; iMovie to let you become a moviemaker; iDVD for preserving that movie and playing your favorites; and of course, iTunes for managing your music.

Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Multimedia Semantics: Metadata, Analysis and Interaction

Multimedia Semantics: Metadata, Analysis and Interaction

This book explains, collects and reports on the latest research results that aim at narrowing the so-called multimedia ‘Semantic Gap": the large disparity between descriptions of multimedia content that can be computed automatically, and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in user queries and human interpretations of audiovisual media.

Multimedia Semantics: Metadata, Analysis and Interaction