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1998 Best Newspaper Writing: Winners: The American Society of Newspaper Editors Competition
1999 Best Newspaper Writing: Winners: The American Society of Newspaper Editors Competition
8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language
A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present
A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory
A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A History of Mass Communication: Six Information Revolutions
A History of Religious Ideas: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
A History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
A History of Religious Ideas: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
A Year With Swollen Appendices
Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture
Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
Advertising Age Handbook of Advertising
Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940
Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R.
Alliance Advantage: The Art of Creating Value Through Partnering
Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
Always Running: LA Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
American Almanac 1996-1997: Statistical Abstract of the United States (Annual)
American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the Twentieth Century
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Americanos / Latino Life in the United States
An All- Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Anatomy of Buzz: How to Create Word-Of-Mouth Marketing
Anchor Essay Annual: The Best of 1997
Anchor Essay Annual: The Best of 1998
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
Apocalypse Wow!: A Memoir for the End of Time
Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan
Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age
The Art of Cause Marketing: How to Use Advertising to Change Personal Behavior and Public Policy
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
The Art of the Essay: The Best of 1999
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground
Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes [E-Book: Microsoft Reader]
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
Bear and His Daughter: Stories
Best American Magazine Writing 2000
Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
Beyond Spin: The Power of Strategic Corporate Journalism
Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise
Black Mischief: Language, Life, Logic, Luck
Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science: A User's Guide to Its Terms
Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology: A User's Guide to Sociolgical Language
Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
The Book of Gossage: A Compilation-Which Includes 'Is There Any Hope for Advertising?'
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Brand Leadership: Building Assets in the Information Society
Brand Spirit: How Cause Related Marketing Builds Brands
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
The Capitalist Philosophers: The Geniuses of Modern Business--Their Lives, Times, and Ideas
The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the Local
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back
Cause Related Marketing: Who Cares Wins
Chambers Dictionary of Etymology
Checklists for Print Media Advertising Planning and Buying
The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy
Closing the Iron Cage: The Scientific Management of Work and Leisure
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual [ABRIDGED]
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
The Clustered World: How We Live, What We Buy, and What It All Means About Who We Are
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Coercion: Why We Listen to What 'They' Say
Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace
Collins German English English German Dictionary
Colossus: The Saga of the American Corporation
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler
Common Interest, Common Good: Creating Value Through Business and Social Sector Partnerships
Communication As Culture: Essays on Media and Society
Complete Idiot Letters: One Man's Hilarious Assault on Corporate America
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
The Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Consumer Value: A Framework for Analysis and Research
The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections
Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking over Our Lives and What We Can Do About It
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914
Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
Culture.com: Building Corporate Culture in the Connected Workplace
Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue
Customers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business Stratgy for the Internet and Beyond
The Dark Is Rising [unabridged]
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
The Decameron: A New Translation
Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising
Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
Diccionario español/inglés - inglés/español: Harper Collins Spanish College
The Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
Divide and Conquer: Target Your Customers Through Market Segmentation
Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised Backgrounds and Sources Criticism
Don't Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today
The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business
Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know
E-brands: Building an Internet Business at Breakneck Speed [E-Book: Microsoft Reader]
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED
The Encarta World English Dictionary
End of Millennium (Castells, Manuel. Information Age, V. 3)
Essentials of Media Planning: A Marketing Viewpoint
Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage
Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, and Act Stupid
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist
Field Guide to the Global Economy
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Futurize Your Enterprise: Business Strategy in the Age of the E-customer
The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press
Global Media: The Missionaries of Global Capitalism
The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys & Encounters 1987-1994
Gonzo Marketing: Winning through Worst Practices
Governing With the News: The News Media As a Political Institution
Gravy Training: Inside the Business of Business Schools
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
The Handbook of Economic Sociology
Harper Collins Robert French College Dictionary
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) [CD unabridged]
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) [CD unabridged]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) [CD unabridged]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) [CD unabridged]
Harvard Business Review on Brand Management
Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking
Harvard Business Review on Change
Harvard Business Review on Corporate Strategy
Harvard Business Review on Effective Communication
Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship
Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management
Harvard Business Review on Leadership
Harvard Business Review on Managing High-Tech Industries
Harvard Business Review on Managing People
Harvard Business Review on Managing Uncertainty
Harvard Business Review on Measuring Corporate Performance
Harvard Business Review on Nonprofits
Harvard Business Review on Strategies for Growth
Harvard Business Review on the Business Value of IT
Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Herodotus: The Histories: New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries
History Atlas of North America
History Atlas of South America
Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside the Music Business.
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
Idiot Letters: One Man's Relentless Assault on Corporate America
In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave
In Praise of Commercial Culture
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
The Internet Edge: Social, Legal, and Technological Challenges for a Networked World
Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society
The Journalist and the Murderer
Just the Facts: How 'Objectivity' Came to Define American Journalism
Kellogg on Marketing: The Kellogg Marketing Faculty Northwestern University
Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies
Key Concepts in Cultural Theory
Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies
Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
Kinds of Power: A Guide to Its Intelligent Uses
Knowledge and Social Capital, Foundations and Applications
Kotler on Marketing: How to Create, Win, and Dominate Markets
The L. & L. Beancounter's Catalog
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
Landed Gentry: Passions and Personalities Inside America's Propertied Class
The Language of Journalism: Newspaper Culture
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker
Lineland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internet's Pynchon-L@Waste.Org
Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations
Lonely Planet Thailand Travel Atlas
Lonely Planet Thailand's Islands & Beaches
Lonely Planet Thailand: Travel Survival Kit
Lonely Planet Walking in Switzerland
Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Marketing Management: Millennium Edition
Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition
Media and Society: The Production of Culture in the Mass Media
Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan
The Media Monopoly: With a New Preface on the Internet and Telecommunications Cartels
Media Rants: Postpolitics in the Digital Nation
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
Megamedia: How Giant Corporations Dominate Mass Media, Distort Competition, and Endanger Democracy
Merriam-Webster's Manual for Writers and Editors
The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Money & Power: The History of Business
The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'N' Roll Music
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature
Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities
Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules
The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (CD-ROM)
The New York Times 2000 Almanac
News Values: Ideas for an Information Age
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
The Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought
Now or Never: How Companies Must Change Today to Win the Battle for Internet Consumers
Occupational Outlook Handbook 1998-99
One Dimensional Man: Studies in Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
The Open Society: The Crisis of Global Capitalism Reconsidered
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving With Grace
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories
The Oxford Companion to the Year
The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays
Party in a Box: The Story of the Sundance Film Festival
The Penguin History of the World
Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends, and Friends into Customers
Philosophy In the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
Planning Media: Strategy and Imagination
Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids
The Politics of News: The News of Politics
The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America
The Power of Identity: The Information Age - Economy, Society and Culture
The Power of Personal Storytelling: Spinning Tales to Connect With Others
Principles of Marketing with CD
Profiles from Brill's Content [E-Book: Microsoft Reader]
The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-1967
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
The Pursuit of Wealth: The Incredible Story of Money Throughout the Ages
Reading Greek: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises
Reading Latin: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises
Readings: Essays & Literary Entertainments
Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969 (Part One)
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969-1975 (Part Two)
Republic of Denial: Press, Politics, and Public Life
Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
The Rise of the Network Society
The Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917
Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant
The Search for Order 1877-1920
Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television, and Other American Cultures
Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Soap, Sex, and Cigarettes: A Cultural History of American Advertising
The Social Life of Information
Social Marketing: Strategies for Changing Public Behavior
Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers
Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations
The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist 1965-1994
The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition
Timetables of American History
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd Edition
The Treason of the Intellectuals (La Trahison Des Clercs)
Trouble Is My Business (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
The Twentieth Century: History of the World, 1901 to the 2000
The Ultimate Business Library: 50 Books That Shaped Management Thinking
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
Uncertain Guardians: The News Media As a Political Institution
Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915
Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
The Visionary's Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business
Wallbangin': Graffiti and Gangs in L.A
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor
Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age
Webster's Third New International Dictionary
What the People Know: Freedom and the Press
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Wilderness and the American Mind
Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News
The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2000
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400-The Present
The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers