Nicholas Mirzoeff

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Social Studies

The diverse essays collected here constitute an exploration of the emerging interdisciplinary field of visual culture, and examine why modern and postmodern culture place such a premium on rendering experience in visual form.

The Visual Culture Reader

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Barack. Obama

Bruce Springsteen

Pages and binding in excellent condition. Never read. Slight mark in right front corner. First edition. First printing.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Born in the USA

"This work originally published as an eight-episode series podcast, Renegades: Born in the USA, in 2021"--Colophon.

Renegades

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Chuck D

Yusuf Jah

Spike Lee

Very minor bend in upper right front, but otherwise excellent. Spine intact and no marks on any pages.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Rap, Race, and Reality

A national bestseller, "Fight the Power" is an autobiography/treatise from Chuck D, the creative force behind Public Enemy, a founding father of Rap, and one of the music scene's most political and controversial figures. Photos.

Fight the Power

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Marc Smith

Minor wear on front cover but spine and pages in excellent condition with zero markings on the pages.

Computer Science

This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyses its relationship to real communities lived out in today's societies. Issues such as race, gender, power, economics and ethics in cyberspace are grouped under four main sections and discussed by leading experts: * identity * social order and control * community structure and dynamics * collective action. This topical new book displays how the idea of community is being challenged and rewritten by the increasing power and range of cyberspace. As new societies and relationships are formed in this virtual landscape, we now have to consider the potential consequences this may have on our own community and societies. Clearly and concisely written with a wide range of international examples, this edited volume is an essential introduction to the sociology of the internet. It will appeal to students and professionals, and to those concerned about the changing relationships between information technology and a society which is fast becoming divided between those on-line and those not.

Communities in Cyberspace

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Lee Rainie

Barry Wellman

Minor creases on the top of the dust jacket but pages are perfect with zero markings.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The New Social Operating System

Looks at the way of life enabled by online social networking and mobile devices, arguing that the large, loose social circles of networked individuals allow greater opportunities and greater freedom from small-scale, tightly-knit groups.

Networked

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Amy C. Kimme

Perfect copy of this significant book on wireless technologies and composition. 

A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers and Researchers

Focuses on wireless and mobile technologies in the field of rhetoric and composition. This book offers rhetoric and composition teachers, scholars, and administrators a range of practical and theoretical insights on wireless and mobile technologies. It serves as a resource for theoretical explorations on wireless and mobile technology use.

Going Wireless

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William J. Mitchell

Perfect condition of this classic and important book on the impact of information technology on our daily lives. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Cyborg Self and the Networked City

The author of City of Bits and e-topia finishes his trilogy with a survey of the "cybernetic" consequences of Internet and wireless technology, exploring the ways in which modern technology is extending the human body and mind. (Technology)

Me++

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Pat Harrigan

Classic book on gaming I used to look to when I taught video game classes. Pages and spine in perfect condition. Zero page markings. 

Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media

Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media." Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story—something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, artists, and scholars examine the different ways in which these two elements work together in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), computer games, board games, card games, electronic literature, political simulations, locative media, massively multiplayer games, and other forms that invite and structure play. Second Person—so called because in these games and playable media it is "you" who plays the roles, "you" for whom the story is being told—first considers tabletop games ranging from Dungeons & Dragons and other RPGs with an explicit social component to Kim Newman's Choose Your Own Adventure-style novel Life's Lottery and its more traditional author-reader interaction. Contributors then examine computer-based playable structures that are designed for solo interaction—for the singular "you"—including the mainstream hit Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the genre-defining independent production Façade. Finally, contributors look at the intersection of the social spaces of play and the real world, considering, among other topics, the virtual communities of such Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) as World of Warcraft and the political uses of digital gaming and role-playing techniques (as in The Howard Dean for Iowa Game, the first U.S. presidential campaign game). In engaging essays that range in tone from the informal to the technical, these writers offer a variety of approaches for the examination of an emerging field that includes works as diverse as George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series and the classic Infocom game Planetfall. Appendixes contain three fully-playable tabletop RPGs that demonstrate some of the variations possible in the form.

Second Person

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Nicholas A. Christakis

James H. Fowler

Slight scuffing on the cover dust jacket but hardcover cloth and pages in excellent condition. Zero page markings. 

The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Drs. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. In CONNECTED, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, CONNECTED overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.

Connected

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Jennifer Rowsell

Excellent monograph on literacy in the digital age. Zero page markings.

Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age

In today¿s digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even ¿new¿ literacies, we know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex texts. In Working with Multimodality, Jennifer Rowsell focuses on eight modes: words, images, sounds, movement, animation, hypertext, design and modal learning. Throughout the book each mode is illustrated by cases studies based on the author¿s interviews with thirty people, who have extensive experience working with a mode in their field. From a song writer to a well known ballet dancer, these people all discuss what it means to do multimodality well. This accessible textbook brings the multiple modes together into an integrated theory of multimodality. Step-by-step, beginning with theory then exploring modes and how to work with them, before concluding with how to apply this in an investigation, each stage of working with multimodality is covered. Working with Multimodality will help students and scholars to: ¿ Think about specific modes and how they function ¿ Consider the implications for multimodal meaning-making ¿ Become familiar with conventions and folk knowledge about given modes ¿ Apply this same knowledge to their own production of media texts in classrooms Assuming no prior knowledge about multimodality and its properties, Working with Multimodality is designed to appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in how learning and innovation is different in a digital and media age and is an essential textbook for courses in literacy, new media and multimodality within applied linguistics , education and communication studies.

Working with Multimodality

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Ellen Lupton

Excellent condition of this classic bill on typeface. I like it better than the second edition, to be honest. Duplicate copy I no longer require. 

A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

The organization of letters on a blank sheet--or screen--is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use? How big? How should those letters, words, and paragraphs be aligned, spaced, ordered, shaped, and otherwise manipulated? In this groundbreaking new primer, leading design educator and historian Ellen Lupton provides clear and concise guidance for anyone learning or brushing up on their typographic skills.
Thinking with Type is divided into three sections: letter, text, and grid. Each section begins with an easy-to-grasp essay that reviews historical, technological, and theoretical concepts, and is then followed by a set of practical exercises that bring the material covered to life. Sections conclude with examples of work by leading practitioners that demonstrate creative possibilities (along with some classic no-no's to avoid).

Thinking with Type: a Primer for Deisgners

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This Norton Critical Edition is in excellent condition, with no markings on the page.

With Criticism

The Blithedale Romance

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Book is in excellent condition. Pages are perfect with zero markings. Minor wear to the cover corners. 

New Media and the Forensic Imagination

A new “textual studies” and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem “Agrippa,” Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House. In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage—the hard drive in particular—arguing that understanding the affordances of storage devices is essential to understanding new media. Drawing a distinction between “forensic materiality” and “formal materiality,” Kirschenbaum uses applied computer forensics techniques in his study of new media works. Just as the humanities discipline of textual studies examines books as physical objects and traces different variants of texts, computer forensics encourage us to perceive new media in terms of specific versions, platforms, systems, and devices. Kirschenbaum demonstrates these techniques in media-specific readings of three landmark works of new media and electronic literature, all from the formative era of personal computing: the interactive fiction game Mystery House, Michael Joyce's Afternoon: A Story, and William Gibson's electronic poem “Agrippa.”

Mechanisms

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Noah Wardrip-Fruin

N. Wardrip-Fruin

Book is in excellent condition. Pages are perfect with no marking. Dust jacket intact with only minor wear.

Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies

From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza: how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media.

Expressive Processing

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Louise Erdrich

Minor wear on the spine and right front corner but pages are excellent with no markings.

Newly Revised Edition

The stunning first novel in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, Love Medicine tells the story of two families, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Written in Erdrich's uniquely poetic, powerful style, it is a multi-generational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power that is love medicine.

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