Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491256Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491256http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491204Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491204http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490658Description: Wired contributing editor Frank Rose introduces readers to the people who are reshaping media for a two-way world--people like Will Wright (The Sims), James Cameron (Avatar), Damon Lindelof (Lost), and dozens of others whose ideas are changing how we play, how we chill, and even how we think.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490658http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491033Description: The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems--and this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. In this lecture, professor Harry Brod offers a unique take on the problem of sexual assault, one that complicates the issue even as it clarifies the bottom-line principle that consent must always be explicitly granted, never simply assumed. This lecture ranges from the meanings of "yes" and "no" to the indeterminacy of silence to the way alcohol affects our ethical responsibilities. Brod proposes a model of sexual interaction that is most erotic precisely when it is most thoughtful and empathetic.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491033http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490657Description: "There are three twenty-four-hour financial networks. All their slogans are like, áWe know what's going on on Wall Street.' But then you turn it on during the crisis, and they're like, áWe don't know what's going on.' It'd be like turning on the Weather Channel in a hurricane and they're just doing this: [shuddering] áWhy am I wet?! What's happening to me? And it's so windy!'" -Jon Stewart.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490657http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491255Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491255http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491203Description: Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-sentence? Will raising bilingual children confuse and delay their learning of any language? In this book, the author, an international authority on bilingualism, son of an English mother and a French father, explores the many facets of bilingualism. He draws on research, interviews, autobiographies, and the engaging examples of bilingual authors. He describes the various strategies, some useful, some not, used by parents raising bilingual children, explains how children easily pick up and forget languages, and considers how bilingualism affects the experience and expression of emotions, thoughts, and dreams. This book shows that speaking two or more languages is not a sign of intelligence, evasiveness, cultural alienation, or political disloyalty. For millions of people, it is simply a way of navigating the complexities of life.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491203http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490656Description: From Moyer's third PBS series, this text represents an unparalleled entree into the debates, the intellectual and cultural currents, and above all the fascinating people that have so powerfully shaped modern times.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490656http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491036Description: From the tea parties to healthcare and climate change, America's conservative citizens revolted against President Obama's reform agenda. But just how real were the roots of this supposedly grassroots uprising? Was it, in fact, an example of 'astroturfing', which is the practice of manufacturing citizens groups for the purpose of delivering corporate messages? Curious to find out, Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham went undercover to investigate. What he found was astroturfing on a scale greater than he could have imagined. This film offers a look at how corporate elites are exploiting the anxieties of ordinary Americans.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491036http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491254Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491254http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491253Description: As the visual component of contemporary media has overtaken the verbal, visual reportage has established a unique and extremely significant role in today's culture. Author Julianne Newton has prepared this comprehensive analysis of the role of visual reportage as a critical player in the evolution of our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world. The Burden of Visual Truth offers a first assessment of the role of visual journalism within the context of the complex, cross-disciplinary pool of literature and ideas required for comprehensive analysis.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491253http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490655Description: This book reviews the complicated challenge facing journalism, tracing its 19th-century community-oriented origins and documenting the vast expansion of the news business via blogs and other Internet-enabled outlets, user-generated content, and news-like alternatives. The author argues that a radical shift in mindset - striving to meet each individual's demands for what he wants to know - will be necessary to save journalism.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490655http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490654Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490654http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490653Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490653http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491252Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491252http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503936Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503936http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491251Description: This book sets out to explore how hate comes alive in language and actions by examining the nature and persuasive functions of hate in American society. Hate speech may be used for many purposes and have different intended consequences. It may be directed to intimidate an out-group, or to influence the behavior of in-group members. But how does this language function? What does it accomplish? The answers to these questions are addressed by an examination of the communicative messages produced by those with hateful minds. Beginning with an examination of the organized hate movement, the book provides a critique of racist discourse used to recruit and socialize new members, construct enemies, promote valued identities, and encourage ethnoviolence. The book also examines the strategic manipulation of hatred in our everyday lives by politicians, political operatives, and media personalities. Providing a comprehensive overview of hate speech, the book ends by describing the desirable features of an anti-hate discourse that promotes respect for social differences.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491251http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491250Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491250http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490652Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490652http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491249Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491249http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491248Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491248http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489648Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489648http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498820Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498820http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491247Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491247http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491202Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491202http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491201Description: Rhetoric is among the most ancient academic disciplines, and we all use it every day whether expertly or not. This book is a lively set of lessons on the subject. It is about rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying old and powerful principles--repetition and variety, suspense and relief, concealment and surprise, the creation of expectations and then the satisfaction or frustration of them--to the composition of a simple sentence or a complete paragraph. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491201http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490651Description: "This book studies videogame addiction from a cross-disciplinary approach, bridging the divide between liberal arts academics and clinical researchers. The topic of addiction is examined neutrally, using accepted research in neuroscience, media studies, and developmental psychology, among others, to reveal how today's gamers interact with and become consumed by the virtual worlds of their videogames"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490651http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490650Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490650http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508996Description: In Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin invite the audience to consider women qualified enough to be president and explores reasons why they have been dismissed as presidential contenders. This analysis profiles key presidential contenders including Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Kassebaum, Kathleen Sebelius, Christine Gregoire, Linda Lingle, Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein, and Olympia Snowe. Gender barriers, media coverage, communication style, geography, and other factors are examined to determine why these seemingly qualified, powerful politicos failed to win the White House.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508996http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491246Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491246http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491245Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491245http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490649Description: A comprehensive guide to the study of communication and ethics. It brings together analyses and applications based on recognized ethical theories as well as those outside the traditional domain of ethics but which engage important questions of power, equality, and justice. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490649http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491209Description: "The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication aims to furnish scholars with a consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of the field, its historical inception, logics, terms, and possibilities."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491209http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491208Description: "This groundbreaking collection provides a comprehensive picture of the ethical dimensions of communication in a global setting. Bringing together scholars from around the world, this substantial work examines ethical issues raised by globalization, the practice of journalism, popular culture, and media activities, and provides the most detailed and diverse set of essays ever assembled on this vital topic. The editors, along with a team of international communication and media scholars, provides an authoritative overview of the philosophical and theoretical issues associated with global communication and media ethics, including examinations of feminism, ideology, social responsibility, reporting, metanarratives, blasphemy, development, and glocalism, among many others. In addition, the handbook includes international case studies addressing topics such as reporting, censorship, responsibility, terrorism, disenfranchisement, and guilt. The work includes contributions by several Islamic scholars discussing various facets of that religion's engagement with the public sphere, as well as essays dealing with the religious and cultural factors that complicate efforts to understand our world. Fortner and Fackler's innovative collection is both theoretical and practical, and will raise the ethical bar for both scholars and practitioners in the world of global communication and media"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491208http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491207Description: "This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media. -Recognizes and appreciates valuable traditional approaches and identifies how they can be applied to, and evolve with, the changing media world -Offers diverse perspectives from which being an audience, theorizing audiences, researching audiences, and doing audience research are approached today -Argues that the field works best by identifying particular 'audience problems' and applying the best theories and research methods available to solving them -Includes contributions from some of the most outstanding international scholars in the field"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491207http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491206Description: "Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates. Combines overviews of core ideas with new case study materials and the best of contemporary theorization and research written many of the best known authors in the field. Includes an international line-up of contributors, drawn from the key markets of North and Latin America, Europe, Australasia, and the Far East"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491206http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491205Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491205http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491200Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491200http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477315Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=477315http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491199Description: It's a common belief that the stories we encounter through mass media--whether in video games, action movies, or political comedy skits on Saturday Night Live--are just entertaining fantasies that have no tangible impact on our everyday lives, attitudes, and choices. Not so, says Karen Dill in this lively and provocative book. As much as we may want to deny it, the images, sounds, and narratives that bombard us daily have ample power to alter our realities.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491199http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491244Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491244http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491243Description: By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive. Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V.S. Naipaul's classic novel "A House for Mr. Biswas," Ismat Chughtai's short story "The Quilt," Monica Ali's "Brick Lane," Shyam Selvadurai's "Funny Boy," and Shani Mootoo's "Cereus Blooms at Night," Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta's controversial "Fire" and Mira Nair's "Monsoon Wedding," she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood's strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath's readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491243http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498821Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498821http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490648Description: The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490648http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490647Description: From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490647http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490646Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490646http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496561Description: "For company owners or young managers, Leadership Secrets of the World's Most Successful CEOs gives new ways for making your organization soar, along with all-important tried-and-tested methods of success. In the words of Joe Deitch, CEO of Commonwealth Financial Network: "The leader chooses the course, drives the bus, and keeps his or her eyes, ears, and heart open. For the conscious leader, every act is an opportunity to learn - and improve. In doing so, the journey continues, and the experience becomes richer for all concerned.""--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496561http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491242Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491242http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491241Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491241http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491035Description: "Documentary about the terrible personal reality of rape and sexual violence, and the more complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assault often gets framed and understood in the wider culture"--Container.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491035http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495814Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=495814http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498823Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498823http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491212Description: A branding consultant explains how to craft miniature messages such as headlines, titles, sound bites, brand names, domain names, and slogans that grab attention, communicate effectively, and stick in the mind, focusing each chapter on a particular tool.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491212http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498825Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=498825http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491240Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491240http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491239Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491239http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490645Description: The captivating story of former Wall Street Journal publisher Warren Phillips's rise to the top Newspaperman is at once a fascinating narrative of one man's journey through the newspaper business and an expert analysis of how the news is made.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490645http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491198Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491198http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490721Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490721http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490722Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490722http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491238Description: "Photojournalism and Today's News provides an intelligent and practical look at photojournalism and the newsroom. Langton's book is an essential guide for aspiring photojournalists and young professionals to newsroom culture and how that culture influences photographic assignments, production, and editing. It also explores the relationships formed between photographers and their subjects, and it considers ethical issues, changes brought about by online publications, and visual reportage from Iraq."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491238http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491237Description: Playboy was more than a magazine filled with pictures of nude women and advice on how to mix the perfect martini. Indeed, the magazine's vision of sexual liberation, high living, and "the good life" came to define mainstream images of postwar life. In exploring the history of America's most widely read and influential men's magazine, Elizabeth Fraterrigo hones in on the values, style, and gender formulations put forth in its pages and how they gained widespread currency in American culture. She shows that for Hugh Hefner, the "good life" meant the freedom to choose a lifestyle, and the one he promoted was the "playboy life," in which expensive goods and sexually available women were plentiful, obligations were few, and if one worked hard enough, one could enjoy abundant leisure and consumption. In support of this view, Playboy attacked early marriage, traditional gender arrangements, and sanctions against premarital sex, challenging the conservatism of family-centered postwar society. And despite the magazine's ups and downs, significant features of this "playboy life" have become engrained in American society.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491237http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491236Description: "Why did it happen? Why did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? Instead of an indictment, this book presents an explanation. Crises produce rare opportunities for overcoming the domestic and foreign logjams facing political leaders. But what if the projects used to address the crisis and provide cover for their actions come under serious threat from clandestine opponents? Then the restraints on interrogation can be overwhelmed, leading to informal institutions that allow the official establishment of torture. These ideas are tested using comparative historical narratives drawn from two cases where torture was adopted--the War on Terror and the Stalinist Terror--and one where it was not--the Mexican War. The book concludes with some thoughts about how the United States can avoid the legal establishment of torture in the future"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491236http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491197Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491197http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496504Description: An expansion on the author's argument for literacy in A is for Ox.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496504http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491235Description: "The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the 'happiness duty', the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression sometimes causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including "Mrs. Dalloway", "The Well of Loneliness", "Bend It Like Beckham", and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who are challenged by, and themselves challenge, the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings, she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy." -- Back cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491235http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490723Description: Argues that the growth of social networking and increased openness online is beneficial in the digital age and can lead to increased collaboration and changes in the way people organize, govern, teach, and learn.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490723http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492514Description: The United States is obsessed with virginity from the media to schools to government agencies. The Purity Myth is an important and timely critique of about why this is so, and why it's problematic for girls and women. Analyzing cultural stereotypes and media messages, Jessica Valenti reveals the overt and hidden ways our society links a woman's worth to her sexuality rather than to values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. With intelligence and wit, this film exposes the legal and social punishments that women who dare to have sex endure, while presenting a powerful argument that evaluating girls and women on their sexuality needs to stop.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=492514http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491196Description: "... Range[s] from children's animation to avant-garde performance and queer art to think about ways of being and knowing that stand outside of conventional understandings of success"--Introd.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491196http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493446Description: This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society, from van Gogh's sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. Filled with indelible stories of real people, this book shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegie's birthplace to Harvard Business School, from a Tony Robbins seminar to an evangelical megachurch, the author charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal in the twentieth century and explores its far-reaching effects. She talks to Asian-American students who feel alienated from the brash, backslapping atmosphere of American schools. She questions the dominant values of American business culture, where forced collaboration can stand in the way of innovation, and where the leadership potential of introverts is often overlooked. And she draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to reveal the differences between extroverts and introverts. She introduces us to successful introverts, from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Finally, she offers advice on everything from how to better negotiate differences in introvert-extrovert relationships to how to empower an introverted child to when it makes sense to be a "pretend extrovert." This book has the ability to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how introverts see themselves.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493446http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491031Description: Examines popular advertising, films, music and adult entertainment and documents the insights of rape crisis workers and prisoners working against rape. Considers the rape of women in relation to the cultural and social forces that produce rapists and rape victims. Includes interviews with male prisoners against rape, a convicted rapist, rape crisis center workers, and others associated with the problem.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491031http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490644Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490644http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491234Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491234http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491233Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491233http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504163Description: Looks at how brands are using the world's most powerful online celebrities, like bloggers and tweeters, to market products and shows how this same system can be used by the reader to achieve goals.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504163http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491232Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491232http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491231Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491231http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491230Description: Arranged chronologically and told with impassioned detail, She's a rebel charts a half century of women performers from the early R and B singers of the 1950s, to the girl groups, Motown acts, folksingers, and rock chicks of the 1960s, to the punk rebels and pop divas of the 1970s, to the brash all-girl bands, rappers, and riot grrls of the 1980s and 1990s. This expanded ten-year anniversary edition features over 75 photos and includes three all-new chapters on all the major artists of the last decade as well as an insider's look at the music industry and the emerging power of women rock stars.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491230http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491032Description: The number of people that lived through the Second World War and the Holocaust dwindles significantly every day. Shoah--a Hebrew word variously translated as annihilation, cataclysm, chaos, or catastrophe--approached the tragedy of the Holocaust in a new and novel way: no archival footage, no newsreels, no black and white still photographs. There are instead interviews with ordinary people speaking in ordinary voices of days that had become ordinary to them: Jewish survivors, former Nazis, Polish peasants, American scholars, and others. Each person describes details which are woven together to present a Holocaust much larger and much more complicated than a viewer could begin to imagine. It is not a documentary, not journalism, not propaganda, not political. It is an act of witness.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491032http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491229Description: Building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational world ... back cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491229http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503117Description: This work examines how American advertising both mirrors society and creates it. From the first newspaper advertisement in colonial times to today's online viral advertising, the text explores how advertising grew in America, how products and brands were produced and promoted, and how advertisements and agencies reflect and introduce cultural trends and issues. In the second edition, there is now a strong focus on the part played by women in modern advertising, both as consumers and workers in the industry. Discussions have been expanded to include sexuality in advertising, new media, global advertising, and controversial issues. The author has written a new chapter on the last ten years of advertising, what has been called the "Lost Decade," and covers the economics of advertising, the new digital interactive media, and global/international advertising.--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503117http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490643Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490643http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=509007Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=509007http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491228Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491228http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491227Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491227http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491195Description: "Survivor Rhetoric is a collection of original essays that discuss the language of abused women and girls. Written by feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, psychology, law, and criminal justice, the essays examine narratives from diverse sources, including American evangelicals, survivors of child sexual abuse, battered women who have killed their abusive partners, and elite or highly educated women represented in the mainstream media."--Jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491195http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490642Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490642http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491194Description: "Trauma and Recovery is universally recognized as a classic in the field of psychology. In a new afterword written for this edition, Judith Herman describes the controversy that has surrounded her work, the new research that has emerged in the field, and the far-reaching implications that this book has had in trauma situations around the world. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491194http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491226Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491226http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491225Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491225http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503942Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503942http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503943Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503943http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491224Description: Niki Panteli presents an exploration of the world of virtual social networking, revealing how public fascination with this phenomenon has grown & discussing the societal changes that ever more sophisticated networking technologies are enabling.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491224http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491223Description: "This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time. Superheroes addressed include Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Superman, the Invisible Woman and the X-Men, and topics covered include American wars, conflicts, and public policy"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491223http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490641Description: Michael Strangelove provides a broad overview of the world of amateur online videos and the people who make them. He describes how online digital video is both similar to and different from traditional home-movie-making and argues that we are moving into a post-television era characterized by mass participation. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490641http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490640Description: "In response to mounting concerns about the future of the press, an outpouring of lively debate and proposals for alternative models of journalism has exploded across journals of opinion, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Despite this proliferation, a comprehensive overview of this new terrain has been noticeably missing-just what will the world look like without newspapers. Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights offers the first roadmap to this crucially important new debate, in a concise and accessible introduction to the current schools of thought emerging in response to the journalism crisis, with contributions by the leading media analysts writing today"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=490640http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491034Description: "Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, they [Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz] show how so-called 'entertainment' is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence."--Container.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=491034