Industry and industrial studies

This comprehensive, informative and witty guide offers expert advice on everything you need to know about the industry.

As the star of the award-winning BBC series The Apprentice, Alan Sugar has won millions of fans who tune in to watch his mix of business wisdom, witty putdowns and ability to cut straight through bullshit.

This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time.

Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters.

The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies.

Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikstr m's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars.

How elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship.

The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the 'god-term' of journalism, 'the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense.

By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age and it still does.

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing.

James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.

Oil pulses through our daily lives.

In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power.

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter.

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism's leading contemporary scholars.

In the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline.

Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies.

There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it.

Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion.

Take control of your wedding planning (and budget) with over 500 easy hacks to help your wedding go as smoothly as possiblefrom preventing wardrobe malfunctions to making an adjustable seating chart.

Offshore Pipelines covers the full scope of pipeline development from pipeline designing, installing, and testing to operating.

Discover how the United States can beat China, Russia, Iran, and ISIS in the coming information-technology wars from the New York Times bestselling author and veteran Washington Times columnist Bill Gertz.

Celebrity chef couple Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos present a cookbook with stunning photographs featuring 100+ Italian-American recipes that incorporate Tuscan flair with classic American dishes inspired by their cooking show and Brooklyn caf.

A simple, step-by-step guide to the major social media platformsFacebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, and moreby former news anchor and media maven Greta Van Susteren.

';A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history' (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified soundLeo Fender and Les Pauland their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built.

The New York Times bestselling author of Napa tells the captivating story of how the Napa Valley region transformed into an extraordinary engine of commerce, glamour, and an outsized version of the American dreamand how it could be lostin ';a strong plea for responsible stewardship of the land' (Kirkus Reviews).

';An engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West years' (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.

This book contains everything you need to know about modern history of dress design, from the corset-free styles of 1920s flappers to the conceptual constructions of modern artists.

You might think your Pokemon are perfect - but evolving them could be even better.

This is the story of one of the most important American newspapermen of the twentieth century.

Suppressed is the book the media would prefer you not read.

This is the story of one of the most important American newspapermen of the twentieth century.

When's the last time you picked up a business book that was so engaging you couldn't put it down?

Discover the nation's capital from behind the scenes.

Seit Jahrtausenden strebt der Mensch nach Fortschritt, Ordnung und Sicherheit.

'A delight - as sweet and bubbly as a glass of champagne' BETH O'LEARY'This is romantic comedy PERFECTION and if you don't read it, you really are missing out' 'The romance, writing style and wit in this book is second to none.

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?

FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY'Literally changed the course of my life' James MurphyWhen someone says, 'You have to know your history.

A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino.

First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape.

Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New YorkerNamed a Top 10 Book of the Year by SlateNamed a Best Book of the Year by VultureA New York Times Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 'Talent is rare, which is why I let out a big yippee reading Andrew Lipstein's Last Resort.

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For almost 30 years as label boss, producer, and talent conductor at XL Recordings, Richard Russell has discovered, shaped and nurtured the artists who have rewritten the musical dictionary of the 21st century, artists like The Prodigy, The White Stripes, Adele, M.

Jen Fain is a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of 1970s New York.

No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than The New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life.

Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life.

As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media.

'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep'Brilliant, concretely realised social history as much as a fabulous odyssey, and I read it in a mad frenzy' Stephen Fry'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard'As delightful as eating a whole box of chocolates, without a trace of weight gain' Telegraph'Heaven' India Knight, Sunday Times***It's 1983.

War Paint is the story of two extraordinary women, Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein, and the legacy they left: a story of feminine vanity and marketing genius.

After discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, Karl Whitney embarks upon a journey to explore the industrial cities of British pop music.