Media Studies

Naomi S. BaronHardback, 292 pages9781503643949   What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us?  Explosive developments in artificial...

Megan GarberHardback, 304 pages9780063415690   An eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizen...

Evan FrissPaperback, 416 pages9780593299944   An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cult...

Jamal J. EliasHardback, 232 pages9781512828696   A collection of essays that examines literature in seven languages from across the Islamic world a...

James GearyPaperback, 320 pages9780226838601   Celebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is a...

Naomi S. BaronPaperback, 344 pages9781503643574   How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing   Would you read this book if a computer...

Katarzyna BartoszynskaPaperback, 100 pages9781958846148   A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read.   In this e...

Hwang Bo-reumShanna Tan (Translation)Hardback, 240 pages9781526692801   53 Ways to Get Closer to Books   From the internationally bestselling autho...

Gary R. BuntPaperback, 328 pages9781350418301   This book examines how Islam is digitally mediated at a time of technological change, enhanced digi...

Robert DiYanniPaperback, 240 pages9780691206776   How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literature   We ar...

Andrea DworkinPaperback, 336 pages9780241735947   Pornography, Andrea Dworkin argued in this landmark work, is about power: the power of owning, of...

Neil PostmanPaperback, 224 pages9780679734215   Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology and Education   In a series of feisty and ultimately...

Doris Behrens-Abouseif Hardback 9789004387003   This book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the...

Abul Faraj Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Nadim Bayard Dodge (tr.) 9781871031621   The Catalog (Kitab al-fihrist) by Ibn al-Nadim (d. 995 AD) is an index of...

Katherine RundellHardback, 80 pages9781526610072   ... Even Though You Are So Old and Wise   A pocket-sized, unmissable essay on the importance of ...

James Patterson, Matt EversmannPaperback, 352 pages9781538758984   True Stories of the Magic of Reading   This "celebration of the world of books" ...

Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew PettegreePaperback, 528 pages9781788163439   Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, buil...

Emma SmithPaperback, 352 pages9780141991931   A History of Books and their Readers   Most of what we say about books is really about the words insi...

Nicholas MirzoeffPaperback, 352 pages9780141977409   Since the rise of the internet and personal computers, we have seen an exponential increase in...

Jaron LanierPaperback, 240 pages9780141049113   Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. Social networks replaced individ...

Zygmunt Bauman, Riccardo MazzeoPaperback, 180 pages9781509502691   In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issu...

Kevin HarveyPaperback, 240 pages9781472583604   Bibliotherapy and the Transforming Power of Reading   The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the tra...

Noam Chomsky Paperback 9781583225363  

Josephine GreywoodePaperback, 160 pages9781802060959   Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adven...