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A bold and eye-opening exposé on how power and propaganda distort the news, now more relevant than ever • With an updated introduction“[A] compelling indictment of the news media’s role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy.”—The New York Times Book ReviewRenowned scholars Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky reveal how U.S. news media, far from being independent watchdogs, often function as tools of elite in...

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.Based on a series of case studies—including the media's dichotomous treatmen...

Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation?Manufacturing Consent, the result of Burawoy's research, combines rich ethnographical description with an original Marxist theory of th...

Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself.2018 marks 30 years since the publication of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s ground-breaking book Manufacturing Consent, which lifted the veil over how the mass media operate. ...

Some debts are paid in flesh.When the Cairnwood Bridge collapses in the middle of the night, Maren Alcott loses more than her daily commute. She loses the only thing holding her threadbare life together: routine. Stuck in a dying lumber town, drowning in a dead-end job, and going numb one beige day at a time, she cannot afford the forty-minute detour. So she does something stupid. She crosses through the ravine beneath the bridge on foot.Something is waiting for her down th...

**A searing indictment of Western media that lays bare how the "free press," long tasked with speaking truth to power, instead became a vital part of the machinery that enabled the genocide in Palestine"In this important new work of media criticism, Rad dissects the biases, distortions, and falsehoods by which press institutions conceal the atrocities of empire—as well as delivering a powerful call for accountability, justice, and truth." —Molly Crabapple, author of Here Where ...

In the distant future where hovercars flit between ruined cities, a sexy stranger comes to town. The hardworking cowboy owner of The Only Chance Inn is usually pretty hands-off with customers, but when the enticing stranger turns out to be broke, he offers him his own room. The immediate intimacy they develop is soon rocked by the stranger's otherworldly secret—and the innkeeper's fluid sexuality is put to the ultimate test, with supremely pleasurable results. In these five stories of erot...

**A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the acclaimed novelist (“A virtuoso”—Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo.“Few writers can tackle the bedroom—or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: i...

Certainly she knows what she's in for, doesn't she?!?!5 stories from bestselling author Sylvia Redmond about luscious MILFs who find themselves in some compromising situations. They might be surprised, they may be coerced - but they all end up loving every minute of it!Drunk Wife, Share WifeMy Wife's Strip SearchSurprising BrendaThe Accidental EscortThe Soon To Be Ex-Wife

Two detectives investigate when a coma patient gives birth in this mysterious thriller by the bestselling author of The First Husband.When a coma patient starts to have contractions and gives birth to a baby boy, the child's arrival triggers an investigation into serious sexual assault.Detectives McQuillan and Blalock are handed the case, while the internal hospital team collects information to help with the investigation.When Dr. Angela Crawf...

Dr. Joss McNab needs a wife.As if juggling surgery and being an instructor isn’t enough, she’s recently taken on a more demanding administrative role at the medical school that was named after her legendary father. To make things worse, she’s now required to attend a growing number of galas, fundraisers and conventions.Wouldn’t having a wife—a wife of convenience—help ease the burden that’s threatening to overtake her world?Sarah Young’s heart belongs to painting. M...

A marriage of convenience Regency romance.Caught between her iron-willed father and the powerful, attractive earl.Barbara Cribbage has been sold into marriage by her common-born father, in his bid to attain social status.He is forced into marriage.The Earl of Chatworth weds Babs, in exchange for mortgages he inherited, and his debts of honor, which Mr. Cribbage has fraudulently acquired.She takes a d...