"The most ambitious, thoughtful and internationally aware assessment to date of the creative economy. Defining creativity as the production of newness in complex, adaptive systems, the authors make the case that together the creative economy, along with other cultural outputs, represent a planet-wide innovation capability which marks an epochal turn in human affairs."– Ian Hargreaves, CBE, Professor of Digital Economy, Cardiff UniversityCreativity, ...

MAGIC TRICKS FOR BEGINNERSHave you ever been keen to learn a few secrets of magic?Would you like to be the life and highlight at the next party?How about creating that air of mystery about you and making others believe you have special powers?Grandparents: Do you want to amaze and then teach your grandchildren some cool tricks?With Easy Magic Tricks by Wolfgang Riebe, you can master 42 easy-to-do magic tricks with ev...

**An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about.**In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay...

BlackBerry Planet is a new tribe of people who simply cannot get along without their favorite device, Research in Motion’s innovative electronic organizer, the BlackBerry. This omnipresent device has gone beyond being the world’s foremost mobile business tool and entered the consumer mainstream as the Swiss Army Knife of smart phones.BlackBerry Planet tells the behind-the-scenes story of how this little device has become the machine that connects the planet. Starting with ...

A feast for western movie fans, this book takes a close look at over 400 of the 2,000 DVDs currently available. In addition to detailed reviews of classics (Abilene Town, The Big Country, Broken Arrow, Curtain Call at Cactus Creek, Destry Rides Again, Down Mexico Way, Fargo Express, Fort Worth, Frontier Marshal, The Gold Rush, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Just Tony, Law and Order, The Miracle Rider, My Darling Clementine, Mystery Mountain, The Oklahoma Kid, The Searchers, South of the Bord...

Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who both ran for Congress in 2008.Rasmus Kleis Nielsen examines how Ame...

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights.In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s largest corporation. It employed thousands of people, including a large number of women who worked as operators and endured very poor pay and working conditions. Joan Rober...

A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ideology and hence to render unconstitutional even narrow restrictions on hate speech. In contrast...

He is the director who turned goth culture into a box office phenomenon. Over the course of his 30+ year career, Tim Burton has managed to create some of the most striking images of outcasts with bawdy fashion sense who live in strange-looking worlds. No director has had quite the same impact on modern cinema like him, and it shows in both his lasting popularity and the imitators who want to make money off of his style. This will also include a look into his collaborations with Danny Elfma...

"A funny thing happened to a kid on the way home from school…he laughed…and suddenly the world didn't such a formidable place, because now he could joke about it." Toni Attell.Learning how to be funny can be a wonderful, magical and uplifting experience for a young person: it sharpens communication skills, builds self–confidence, instills pride in cultural heritage…and that is just the beginning. It can also be an aid in bringing the family unit closer together.Stand-Up Comed...

PRACTICAL, TRIED & TESTED COMPELLING MENTALISMUnlock the Secrets of Mesmerising Mentalism with 20 plus perplexing effects for the serious mentalist.Discover over 20 mind-blowing effects that will elevate your mentalism game to professional levels. "Compelling Mental Magic" is packed with original deceptions and complete routines designed for both stage and close-up performances. These tricks not only mystify but also entertain, all while be...

That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in All the News That's Fit to Sell, economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism--media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities--arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgm...