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  • Book Wars

    The Digital Revolution in Publishing

    by John B. Thompson ...
    This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book publishing industry collided with the great technological revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks, Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of technological disruption in one of our most important and successful creative industries ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

    A Fugitive Slave Narrative of Twenty-Five Years in Bondage, Escape, and the Struggle for Freedom

    by John Thompson ...
    The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave is an important example of the antebellum slave narrative, presenting enslavement not as an abstraction but as a system experienced through coercion, surveillance, family disruption, and the persistent denial of personhood. In a direct, testimonial style, Thompson recounts the conditions that shaped his bondage and the struggle through which he sought ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Merchants of Culture

    The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

    by John B. Thompson ...
    "All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change."-Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & CompanyFor nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the industry faces a combination of economic pressures and technological change that is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Stilt Jack

    by John Thompson ...
    Series series A List
    The much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reservoir

    A Novel

    by John Milliken Thompson ...
    On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. The case attracts local attention, and an eccentric group of men collaborate to solve the crime. Detective Jack Wren lurks in the shadows, weaseling his way ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - First Grade

    First Grade

    by John Thompson ...
    (Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Books in the Digital Age

    The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States

    by John B. Thompson ...
    The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future?This is the first ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    by John B. Thompson ...
    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Sandy

    by John B. Thompson ...
    Hurricane Sandy . . . Meet Hurricane Sandy!The hurricane may have hit New York City in 2012, but the melodrama is all Southern, straight from the banks of the Mississippi, in John B. Thompson’s 1953 pulp classic, Sandy. Blackbird Books is pleased to reissue Sandy as an eBook-only special, donating all proceeds to hurricane relief.So get your copy of this classic from the golden age of pulps, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Political Scandal

    Power and Visability in the Media Age

    by John B. Thompson ...
    Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair, scandals have come to play a central role in politics and in the shaping of public debate. What are the characteristics of political scandals and why have they come to assume such prominence today? What are the social and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Media and Modernity

    A Social Theory of the Media

    by John B. Thompson ...
    This wide-ranging and innovative book develops an original theory of the media and their impact on the modern world, from the emergence of printing to the most recent developments in the media industries. ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Seven Years From Tomorrow

    by John L. Thompson ...
    A speculative mystery of second chances, fate, and everything left to lose.When fifty-three-year-old Jack Soladay learns he has eighteen months to live, he must confront a lifetime of regrets filled with poor choices, failed relationships, lost opportunities, and the family he abandoned.After one last night of drinking, Jack gives his remaining cash to a homeless man, believing it a trivial act of ... Read more

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