Internet

Praeger Security International, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition AS NEW. 188 pages; 6 x 9.5 inches. Organizations with computer networks, Web sites, and employees carrying laptops and Blackberries face an array of security challenges. Among other things, they need to keep unauthorized people out of the network, thwart Web site hackers, and keep data safe from prying eyes or criminal hands. This book provides a high-level overview of these challenges and more. Alexander gives the reader a 360-degree look at data security: What to be worried about; what to look for; the tradeoffs among cost, efficiency, and speed; what different technologies can and can't do; and how to make sure technical professionals are keeping their eyes on the right ball. Best of all, it conveys information in an understandable way. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Greenwood Press, 2007. Two hardcover volumes, not issued with DJs. First edition As New in publisher's shrink wrap. 672 pages in two volumes; 7.5 x 10.5 inches. There are many controversial aspects of today's media system, and this captivating encyclopedia examines the most significant topics currently being debated. Arranged alphabetically, approximately 100 entries cover background, definitions, notable programs, significant media events and their historical significance, and important future trends. Issues from sexuality to sensationalism, from surveillance to tabloid news, are covered here in an incisive and informative manner. Entries contain an array of thoughtful perspectives on current controversies, and allow readers to formulate their own conclusions. Also included are further reading sources. FREE SHIPPING, insurance and tracking within the US by Priority Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Avenue A / Razorfish, 2007. Perfect-bound stiff wraps. Near Fine with bumped tips. 100 pages; color photos, illustrations, charts and graphs through out; 6.5 x 9 inches. A primer on online marketing from one of the largest interactive marketing and technology services agencies in the world. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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The MIT Press, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition AS NEW. 464 pages; 7 x 9.5 inches. In Digital Media and Democracy, leading scholars in media and communication studies, media activists, journalists, and artists explore the contradiction at the heart of the relationship between truth and power today: the fact that the radical democratization of knowledge and multiplication of sources and voices made possible by digital media coexists with the blatant falsification of information by political and corporate powers. The contributors discuss broad questions of media and politics, offer nuanced analyses of change in journalism, and undertake detailed examinations of the use of Web-based media in shaping political and social movements. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Vintage, 2008. Trade paperback original. First edition As New. 368 pages; 6 x 8 inches. Sarah Boxer, a former New York Times reporter and critic, travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Revealing and deceptive, grand and niggling, worldly and parochial, these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild, wild Web. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Oxford University Press, 2009. Cloth bound hardback in dust jacket. First edition. Fine with light bumps to two tips in a dj with light wear along the edges. 608 pages; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. We live in the midst of a revolution in communication technologies that affects the way in which people feel, think, and behave. The mass media (including web-based media) has become the space where political and business power strategies are played out; power now lies in the hands of those who understand or control communication. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Chronicle Books / Upper Deck Authenticated, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New in publisher's shrink wrap with a bump to two boards. 288 pages; over 300 color illustrations; 11.5 x 9.5 inches. The first collection of the best paintings and drawings created by the world's top fantasy artists for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. More than 300 dramatic visions of Azeroth come to life from such acclaimed talents as Samwise Didier, Todd McFarlane, Greg Staples, Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai, Marcelo Vignali, Todd Lockwood, and others. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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The MIT Press, 2008. Trade paperback. First edition As New. 320 pages; b&w maps, charts and graphs; 6 x 9 inches. Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information--often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion--that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of this accelerating trend. Reports on Internet content regulation in forty different countries follow 6 essays, with each country profile outlining the types of content blocked by category and documenting key findings. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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The MIT Press, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition. AS NEW. 680 pages; 7.5 x 9.5 inches. The impact of global electronic networks on contemporary world affairs has been transformative. Less noted has been the importance of global governance arrangements. This volume assesses some of the key international institutions pertaining to global telecommunications regulation and standardization, radio frequency spectrum, satellite systems, trade in services, electronic commerce, intellectual property, traditional mass media and Internet content, cybercrime, privacy protection, and development. Each chapter ends with a set of policy recommendations. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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The MIT Press, 2007. Trade Paperback. First English language edition. AS NEW. 264 pages; 6 x 9 inches. In The Internet Imaginaire, Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet--the social imagination that envisioned a technological utopia in the birth of a new technology. By examining in detail the discourses surrounding the development of the Internet in the United States in the 1990s, Flichy shows how an entire society began a new technological era. The metaphorical "information superhighway" became a technical utopia that informed a technological program. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Free Press, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New 256 pages; 5.5 x 8 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. Propelled in large part by the transforming effect of the Web, journalism is undergoing dramatic changes, with ordinary people starting to provide high-quality reporting and new institutions arising to provide opportunities to citizen and professional journalists. Scott Gant's timely and important book places these changes in their historic and legal contexts, and persuasively argues that we need to rethink how rights and privileges for journalists are allocated in our society. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New 336 pages; 6 x 9 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. The 2008 presidential campaign will be like none in recent memory: the first campaign in fifty years in which both the Democrats and the Republicans must nominate a new candidate, and the first ever in which the issues of globalization and technology will decide the outcome. Graff represents the people that all the candidates want to engage: young, technologically savvy, concerned about the future. In this far-reaching book, he asks: Will the two major parties seize the moment and run the first campaign of the new era, or will they run the last campaign all over again? FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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The MIT Press, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition. AS NEW. 396 pages; 16 pages of color photos plus text illustrations; 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat brings together new media theorists, game designers, educators, psychologists, and industry professionals to look at how gender intersects with the broader contexts of digital games today: gaming, game industry and design, and serious games. The contributors discuss the rise of massively multiplayer online games and the experience of girl and women players in gaming communities; the still male-dominated gaming industry and the need for different perspectives in game design; and gender concerns related to emerging serious games. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Currency, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New 240 pages; 6 x 8.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of todayÕs new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Offering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR is a wake-up call to each and every one of us. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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MIT Press, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New 320 pages; 6 x 9 inches. Virtual journalist Ludlow was banned from the digital world of The Sims Online for being a bit too good at his job--for reporting in his virtual newspaper 'The Alphaville Herald' on the cyber-brothels, crimes, and strong-arm tactics that had become rife in the game. In 1992, sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson imagined the "Metaverse," a virtual space that we would enter via the Internet and in which we would conduct important parts of our daily lives. According to Ludlow and Wallace, that future is coming sooner than we think. They chronicle its chaotic, exhilarating, frightening birth, including the issue that the mainstream media often ignore: conflicts across the client-server divide over who should write the laws governing virtual worlds. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Cornell University Press, 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. AS NEW. 165 pages; 6 x 8.5 inches. In one of the most notable virtual worlds, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Malaby spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating system they have created. He shows how the workers of a very young but quickly growing company were themselves caught up in ideas about technology, games, and organizations. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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W. W. Norton, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition. AS NEW. 224 pages; 6 x 8.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question throughout: How does history help us understand the vast changes we are now experiencing in the landscape of knowledge? Full of memorable characters, this fresh history succeeds in restoring the strangeness and the significance of the past. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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The MIT Press, 2007. Trade Paperback. First Paperback edition As New 272 pages; 6 x 9 inches. Just as education has promoted democracy and economic growth, the Internet has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Digital citizenship, or the ability to participate in society online, promotes social inclusion. But statistics show that significant segments of the population are still excluded from digital citizenship. Digital Citizenship examines three aspects of participation in society online: economic opportunity, democratic participation, and inclusion in prevailing forms of communication. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover with DJ. First edition AS NEW. 288 pages; 6 x 8.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives. Sunstein shows how people can assimilate aggregated information without succumbing to the dangers of the herd mentality--and when and why the new aggregation techniques are so astoundingly accurate. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Hyperion, 2008. Hardcover with DJ. First edition. AS NEW. 240 pages; chars and graphs; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. Tancer takes us into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the Web, navigate to sites, and search for information--and what all of that says about who we are. He demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way we absorb information and how understanding that change can be used to our advantage in business and in life. Click analyzes the new generation of consumerism, showing how we use the Internet, and how those trends provide a wealth of market research nearly as vast as the Internet itself. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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University Of Chicago Press, 2008. Trade Paperback. AS NEW. 354 pages; 6 x 9 inches. In From Counterculture to Cyberculture Turner details the story of Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network, an influential group of entrepreneurs. Between 1968 and 1998, via such venues as the Whole Earth Catalog, the computer-conferencing system known as WELL, and the launch of Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation and the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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Broadway Books, 2008. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. AS NEW. 464 pages; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Publisher's press release laid in. With access to Murdoch, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the growth of Murdoch's $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles to the reconciliations that seem to only make the family stronger. Wolff offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday as never revealed before. The Man Who Owns the News offers a glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale--and whose family is being groomed to carry on his legacy. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging. more information

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