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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $0.28
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Laura Penny
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Publisher: Crown
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.3750973
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Publication Date: 2005-07-12
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell—while we’re laughing like fiends. A book like this one.
Your Call Is Important to Us is a manifesto for anyone who’s sick and tired of the twenty-first century’s tidal wave of bullshit. Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, super-sized, consumerized b.s.
Dating the renaissance of bullshit to wartime propaganda, Penny skewers the “corporate bafflegab,” scripted, question-proof political events, toxic faux foodstuffs, and miracle pills that clutter our lives. She spares no one and nothing: not Wal-Mart, where “every rinky-dink chunk of mass-produced bric-a-brac is manufactured expressly for you”; not Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering”; and not the vast pharmaceutical industry, with its “gateway prescription drugs.”
Penny reveals that prisons are the hot new thing in call centers (the federal prison industry bills itself as “the best-kept secret in outsourcing”) and that the Public Relations Society of America has a Code of Ethics Pledge (who knew?). Finally, with devastating precision, she demonstrates how our “all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness” not only alienates us from each other but degrades public discourse, breeds apathy, and makes us just plain stupid.
Your Call Is Important to Us introduces a fearless and utterly disarming new voice in social criticism. It’s an island of clarity in an ocean of ordure.
Laura Penny on Bullshit:
There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin.
The platitudinous pabulum that passes for stirring political rhetoric is bullshit. . . . The committee-crafted persona and the focus-grouped fad and the rule of the polls are straight-up bullshit. The disease hysteria du jour is bullshit, and so is the latest miracle pill. The new product that will change your life is probably just more cheap, plastic bullshit.
“Your call is important to us” has been chosen from a very deep reservoir of bullshit phrases for the title of this book because it best exemplifies the properties native to bullshit. It tries to slather some nice on the result of a simple ratio: your time versus some company’s dough. Like most bullshit, the more times you hear it, the bullshittier it gets. This is why bullshit is best served quickly, with many visuals, in mass quantities, with no questions from the floor.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $2.20
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hubertus F. Jahn
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
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Publication Date: 1998-09
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Reading Level: 229
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Description: "A fascinating cultural history, charting the rise and fall of Russian patriotism during the first few years of the Great War. . . . What we receive is well-reasoned proof, with vivid support, of how popular culture reflected a major change in the concept of patriotism held by Russians from every class."--War, Literature, and the Arts "Illustrated with period prints, posters, and broadsides, Jahn's book is a . . . brilliantly executed study of Russian popular patriotic culture in WW I. [Jahn] trac[es] the evolution of patriotic symbolism in such diverse genres as lubki (popular broadsides), cartoons, postcards, dramatic performances, and cinema." --Choice "Jahn focuses on popular entertainments and cultural production related to the war in the hopes of reconstructing a popular mentalit. . . . His knowledge in these areas is clearly prodigious. . . . [A] valuable and unique contribution to both Russian cultural history and the comparative cultural history of World War I." --American Historical Review "Given the importance of the First World War for understanding Russia's revolutions, historians have spent surprisingly little time examining wartime social and cultural experiences. This [book's] fascinating catalog of wartime cultural productions and artifacts begins to fill in some crucial gaps. . . . This very useful book makes an important contribution to a long-neglected field."--Russian Review
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $39.95
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Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Baruch A. Hazan
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.14
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Publication Date: 1982-01-01
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Reading Level: 250
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $65.00
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Manufacturer: Abbeville Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert Philippe
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Publisher: Abbeville Pr
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.6
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Publication Date: 1982-06
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Reading Level: 334
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $2.99
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Manufacturer: Regnery Pub
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James L. Tyson
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Publisher: Regnery Pub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.430973
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Publication Date: 1981-10
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Reading Level: 284
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Manufacturer: Sutton Pub Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul Lashmar::James Oliver
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Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.14094109045
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Publication Date: 1999-02-01
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Reading Level: 223
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Description: Contains details of the Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD), set up in 1948, including evidence of IRD's hidden hand in domestic politics, overthrowing left-wing governments and assisting Britain's entry into the Common Market. The authors discuss the impact of IRD both domestically and internationally.
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Karal Ann Marling::John Wetenhall
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Edition: First printing.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542528
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Publication Date: 1991-08-01
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Reading Level: 312
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $93.71
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. W. Scribner
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 274.306
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Publication Date: 1994-12-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: R.W. Scribner's pioneering work analyzes the forms of popular propaganda aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the German Reformation and reproduces many of the prints which still survive in Germany. A new Introduction and an additional chapter in this edition advance original interpretations of these illustrations, revealing how visual propaganda both exploited and participated in popular belief and the coarser aspects of popular culture.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $2.71
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Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Alvin A Snyder
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Publisher: Arcade Publishing
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327.12730171709045
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Publication Date: 1995-11-15
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: An expose+a7 of the United States Information Agency by the former director of its Worldnet Television department charges that the Agency spread propaganda and "disinformation" during the eighties in an effort to beat the Soviets at their own game.
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Price: $102.00
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Sale: $81.60
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Garth S. Jowett::Victoria O'Donnell
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Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
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Edition: 4th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.375
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Publication Date: 2005-12-16
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Propaganda and Persuasion, Fourth Edition is the only book of its kind to cover a comprehensive history of propaganda and offer insightful definitions and methods to analyze it. Building on the excellence of the three previous editions, the Fourth Edition has been revised, updated, and expanded. Authors Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O’Donnell provide a remarkable and cogent understanding of persuasion and propaganda, including rhetorical background, cultural studies, and collective memory.
Key Features:
- Offers a comprehensive history of propaganda: Many examples, from ancient times to present day, are provided to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of what propaganda is. Updated research in propaganda and persuasion and the use of propaganda in psychological warfare are also included. New examples to this edition include the global war against terrorism, the 2004 election, and the question of ideological propaganda in a polarized mass media system.
- Encourages a systematic approach to analyzing propaganda: An in-depth look at rhetoric, theory, and methodology helps students analyze propaganda. Original methods of analysis are illustrated through four case studies, three of which have been revised for this edition, to reflect the latest developments.
- Differentiates propaganda from persuasion: Succinct definitions of propaganda and persuasion are given, as well as an original model that illustrates both their commonalities and their differences. A process model is also included to depict how propaganda works in modern society.
Intended Audience:
Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Persuasion and Propaganda; also relevant to many courses in Rhetoric and Mass Communications
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