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Explore the Stories Behind the Legends In the mid-1970s, Misty Knight burst onto the pages of Marvel Comics. Before Storm, Shuri, or Riri, Misty opened the doors of comics as Marvel’s first Black woman super hero. A detective and martial artist with a bionic arm that gives her heroic strength...

For young journalists and activists, a first-of-its-kind guidebook to movement journalism that sparks social change and transforms news media for the bette Amid the shrinking of local news outlets, the rise of exploitative social media platforms, and the numbing effect of mainstream news cycles...

Power rarely sits with one person alone. Behind every iconic CEO, cultural figure or global influencer is a small, trusted circle shaping decisions, managing crises and steering influence behind the scenes. This book lifts the curtain on those figures: the fixers, advisors and powerbrokers who...

When fame rewrites your life in real time, what’s real, what’s a lie, and what’s just good television? Vanderpump Rules proved that reality TV doesn’t just observe chaos; it creates it. As influencer culture evolved alongside the show, Stassi, Scheana, Jax, Katie, Kristen, the Toms, and...

Relive reality TV’s golden age with Please Do Not Swear, the explosive oral history of a decade that redefined celebrity and reshaped pop culture. From the groundbreaking early days of Big Brother to the rise of ‘living soaps’ like The Only Way is Essex, culture critic Louis Staples takes...

Blending personal narrative with critical analysis, Big Tech Dynasties reckons with the place of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon in modern life. It argues that while each company may be a product of platform capitalism, each is also historically familiar; Big Tech is familiar because...

Horror Podcasting argues that podcasting, as an aural medium, is about the mind. Horror is an inward-style of storytelling, and yet the reception of the podcast can be an embodied form of listening. This intersection creates conditions for a subject/listener collapse (which results in immersion)...

In late 2022, the Twitter Files began to reveal an extensive network involving government, NGOs, think tanks, academic departments, foundations, Big Tech, and more collaborating to suppress free speech on the internet. That network came to be known as the Censorship-Industrial Complex. From Covid-19 to Russia and the 2016 elections to the Hunter Biden laptop and beyond, the terms “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation” have flooded the public sphere and been weaponized to justify speech controls and censorship.

David Ogilvy is 'The Father of Advertising' and in this new format of his seminal classic, he teaches you how to sell anything. 'The most sought-after wizard in the advertising business.' Times Magazine From the most successful advertising executive of all time comes the definitve guide to the...

A clear-eyed examination of why modern media lost public trust—and what it will take to earn it back. Social networks tore apart a media industry that had taken two hundred years to build, swapping broadsheets and broadcasts for algorithms and addiction feeds. Now what? The media is in chaos...

From the creators of the hit podcast of the same name, Who Killed JFK? unravels a tangled web of evidence—including recently declassified documents, rare interview transcripts, and existing expert research—and presents the definitive analysis of the Kennedy assassination. Since the fateful...

The first complete history of the world’s most notorious secret society – and its bizarre and dangerous afterlife that we’re still reckoning with today. On 1 May 1776 a radical young professor named Adam Weishaupt founded a secret society with the aim of infiltrating and overturning the...

Bloomsbury presents Never Logged Out, written and read by Ria Chopra. One day we logged on to the internet, and then we never logged out. On 15 August 1995, India officially logged on to the internet. If you’re a young Indian today, you come from a generation that used to dream of the endless...

Thorbjörn Larssons liv präglades av strider. Ränkspelet mot tidningsägare och interna konkurrenter. Kraftmätningarna med politiker och medierivaler som Jan Stenbeck och Bo Strömstedt. Mot den ständiga ärkefienden Expressen. Mot det egna mörkret. Detta är den fängslande biografin om...

In Why Fauci MUST Rot in Prison, Peter Navarro prosecutes the man he calls the Godfather of the Pandemic—arguing that Fauci's institute funded dangerous gain-of-function coronavirus research in Wuhan, failed to police the work, and then helped bury the lab-leak story to save his reputation and institution. Lockdowns. School closures. Mandatory masks. Hydroxychloroquine hysteria. Forced vaccination. Universal boosters. Myocarditis. Natural immunity ignored. Pregnancy uncertainties.

In Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William McCarthy presents a groundbreaking study centered on the history of Disneyland and Disney theme park enthusiasts. Focusing on two unexplored yet interconnected phenomena—the dynamic relationship between the...

In the era of ubiquitous computing and the Internet of things, is it still possible to go, or be, offline? Can we still find a more embedded, autonomous, and attentive way of being, away from the constant distraction of our phones and screens? Or is it time to reconcile ourselves to a future...

How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us? We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists and creators … yet they can also...

The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2016-2020) is a harbinger of a changing internet, and thus a changing culture. The amorphous and seemingly pervasive presence of the Remilia Corporation and the hyperstition it has produced stems from the apparition of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, her philosophies having been translated and organized so as to guide listeners through a labyrinth of online terminalism that has now bled deep into our everyday lives.