Rethinking Media Coverage
In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the co...
Cultures in Orbit
In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmi...
Signal Traffic
The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life. Essayists confront the multiple and...
Planet TV
From the 1967 live satellite program "Our World" to MTV music videos in Indonesia, from French television in Senegal to the global syndication of African American sitcoms, and from representations of terrorism on German television to the...
Down to Earth
Down to Earth presents the first comprehensive overview of the geopolitical maneuvers, financial investments, technological innovations, and ideological struggles that take place behind the scenes of the satellite industry. Satellite projects that...
Undead TV
When the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer aired in 2003, fans mourned the death of the hit television series. Yet the show has lived on through syndication, global distribution, DVD release, and merchandising, as well as in the memories o...
Media Backends
Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today's media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of...
Media Backends
Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today’s media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media. Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder assemble essays that delve into the evolving politics of the media infrastructural landscape. Throughout, the contributors draw on feminist, queer, and intersectional criticism to engage with infrastructural and industrial issues. This focus reflects a concern about the systemic inequalities that emerge when tech companies and designers fail to address workplace discrimination and algorithmic violence and exclusions. Moving from smart phones to smart dust, the essayists examine topics like artificial intelligence, human-machine communication, and links between digital infrastructures and public service media alongside investigations into the algorithmic backends at Netflix and Spotify,
Mona Lisa
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Star Trek Cats
Captain's log: We have entered a galaxy where beloved illustrator Jenny Parks has conjured an astonishingly vivid homage to the original Star Trek series with an unexpected twist: a cast of cats. Featuring a hilarious new take on iconic characters...
Bloody January
When Detective Harry McCoy arrives at the scene of a double shooting in the middle of a busy Glasgow street, he is sure of one thing. This was not a random act of violence. McCoy must enlist the help of his criminal underworld connections to find out the truth. How long will it be before McCoy himself ends up on the wrong side of the law?
Say Nothing
A normal Wednesday afternoon, and Judge Scott Sampson is preparing to pick up his six-year-old twins from school. His wife Alison texts with a change of plan - she will be collecting them instead. But when Alison arrives home later she is alone, a...
Teach Us to Sit Still
How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our relationships, minds and bodies? What can the simple act of sitting still teach us about ourselves? When Tim Parks fails to ...
Italian Education
How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives, building a fascinatin...
Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order
Examining the impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community, this text argues that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, showing that in occupied areas the activities of busines...
The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses
The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses is a unique anthology of poetry about the natural world. The rich poetic history of grass spans the centuries, from the pastoral poems of ancient Rome to the fields and prairies of the New World. The rapturous idealizations of William Blake's 'echoing green' and William Wordsworth's 'splendour in the grass' stand in vivid contrast to the obliterating greenery on human battlefields in war poems such as John McCrae's 'In Flanders Fields' and Carl Sandburg's 'Grass,' or to the work of contemporary poets--Lucia Perillo, Harryette Mullen, Denise Levertov, and Gary Soto among them--who reflect on an age of environmental crisis. Here is a rich array of poets from around the world, including Virgil, T'ao Ch'ien, Bashō, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Victor Hugo, Christina Rossetti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, Willa Cather, Ingeborg Bachmann, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Tomas Transtr mer, Sherman Alexie, and Derek Walcott, in a
Both of You
In a marriage built on lies, the truth will destroy BOTH OF YOU. 'Absolutely gripping' Richard Osman 'Chilling ? and entirely unputdownable' Lisa Jewell 'Had me gasping at the twist' Ian Rankin 'Ambitious, nail-biting, darkly voyeuristic' Louise C...
Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative
This work is a rare cross-cultural study of one of the most universal dialogic genres: heroic flyting, or the verbal duel in which the heroes, prior to physical combat, make boastful claims that must be backed up through action in the arena of pub...
Mr Geography
Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life. After years of their secret affair, they stepped out together on top of ...
Sista Akten
Tommy Jump är en arbetslös skådespelare. Men FBI kontaktar honom och erbjuder honom hans livs roll att under falskt namn spela en dömd fånge i ett federalt fängelse för att kunna bli vän med en annan fånge, den vanärade bankdirektören Mitchell Dupree, som vet var dokument som kan krossa en hänsynslös knarkkartell finns gömda men som vägrar att avslöja var de finns.Kvinnorna i Tommys liv, hans fästmö och hans mor, säger att han är galen som ens reflekterar över att åta sig rollen. Kartellen har på kort tid lyckats dominera den amerikanska marknaden för metadon, något den inte har gjort med silkesvantarna på. Men Tommys skådespelarkarriär har gått i stå och FBI erbjuder honom ett minimum av 150 000 dollar för sex månaders arbete vare sig han får tag i dokumenten eller inte.Under sitt nya namn placeras Tommy på ett lågsäkerhetsfängelse och inleder arbetet med att komma Dupree nära. Tommy inser snart att han underskattat både svårigheterna med sitt uppdrag och kartellens skräckinjagande resurser. FBI är inte ensamma om att leta efter dokumenten, och spelar inte Tommy sin roll perfekt kan uppdraget mycket väl bli hans sista akt. Den här romanen är definitivt inte författarens sista akt, och den ger ytterligare substans åt den prestige och de lovord och kommit Parks till del. - Associated Press Här är Parks lättare till sinnes och fokuserar på skarpt tecknade personer och vass dialog, perfekt för dem som vill ha sin spänning humoristisk snarare än blodig. - Library JournalPrisvinnare Brad Parks presenterar en övertygande och mycket underhållande thriller som lever tack vare trovärdiga personer och som undviker schabloner. - Sun-SentinelSista akten är fullmatad av överraskningar och har smarta och tuffa kvinnliga centralgestalter som står till tjänst med den intelligens och våghalsighet som möjliggör det lyckliga slutet. - Virginia Pilot Brad Parks romaner har översatts till femton språk och vunnit internationellt gensvar, inte minst högsta beröm från kritiker och inte minst hittills fem priser till årets bästa kriminalroman. Han tog sin universitetsexamen vid Dartmouth College och var tidigare reporter vid Washington Post. Numera är han författare på heltid och är bosatt i Virginia tillsammans med sin fru och två barn i skolåldern.