Product Description: Last Dream before Morning features a movie Pr agent who, a few years into his job, is implicated in an apparent drug overdose murder in a wealthy household in La. The victim is a young heiress who was his charge in his duties at the studio...read more

Discusses how “new new media” are transforming our culture Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Foursquare, blogging … these and other “new new media“ are used by hundreds of millions worldwide and are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect presidents to how we watch television.  New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations. New new media, as opposed to the traditional “new media” of email and websites, allow and encourage all consumers to become producers, readers to become writers and publishers, viewers to become performers - and have engendered such worldwide movements as The Arab Spring, The Tea Party,  and Occupy Wall Street.  This catalytic feature of contemporary media prompts an entirely new look at how mass media, culture, and industry are undergoing the most profound changes since the advent of the alphabet and the printing press. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Discuss the impact new new media have on our society Understand the mechanics of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and other types of new new media Discover the newest new media - Foursquare, Pinterest, WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Goggle+ Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205912141 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205912148

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Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: From of the author of The Silk Code, winner of the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, comes another intriguing blend of science fiction and hard-boiled police-procedural mystery. The Consciousness Plague is about memory, more particularly, how the loss of memory, in slivers of time deducted from a growing number of individuals, can subtly undermine and play havoc with everything from the investigation of serial stranglings to candlelight dinners...read more

Product Description: “At last we get Paul Levinson's superb forensic sleuth, Phil D'Amato, in a full-length novel. If you know Phil from his previous appearances, I need say no more. If you don't, kick back and enjoy a mystery that spans the ages,” said Jack McDevitt of The Silk Code, the first Phil D'Amato novel...read more

Reading a new Socratic dialogue that reflects a time traveler's argument with the great philosopher that he can escape death by traveling to the future, graduate student Sierra is astonished when the elderly scholar who showed her the document disappears, an event that prompts her search for answers through time with the help of her boyfriend, Max. Reprint.

In a near-future New York City where terrorist attacks abound and skyscrapers are cherished statements of defiance, NYPD forensic detective Dr. Phil D'Amato discovers a technology that is transmitting what animals see and hear to an unknown adversary. Reprint.

A history of mobile communication traces technological advances in phones, cameras, laptops, and more, examining the benefits and challenges of mobile devices as well as their role in the reshaping of journalism, public transportation, relationships, and other areas. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Is planet earth the end of the line, or is space itself the next stop?Cyberspace. It's incredible, taking us to any part of the planet we want to visit. But as Paul Levinson shows in his brilliant new book, when it comes to transport, we're still stuck in the past, preferring to take our bodies with us...read more

The first interstellar space ship is launched from Mars to embark on a risky voyage to the star nearest to Earth and returns to Earth before it left. By the author of The Silk Code. Reprint. (view table of contents)

When one of his friends turns up dead, Phil D'Amato, a forensic investigator for New York City, finds himself caught up in an ingenious biological plot insure immortality, as he races against time to solve the puzzle of the 'Silk Code' before it is too late. A first novel. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The often prophetic social and scientific insights of Marshall McLuhan are laid bare in this biography of the man who coined the phrase 'the medium is the message.' (view table of contents)

Product Description: Acclaimed media theorist and award-winning science-fiction writer Paul Levinson here brings his dual talents to bear on probing the hurtling information revolution, and the way it is transforming our lives. Computers as judges, books programmed to appeal to literally everyone's personal tastes, the civil rights of robots, the extinction of extinction via reclaimed DNA--these and many other cutting-edge themes are explored in the nine short stories and nine essays that comprise this extraordinary collection...read more

Product Description: The Soft Edge is a one-of-a-kind history of the information revolution. In his lucid and direct style, Paul Levinson, historian and philosopher of media and communications, gives us more than just a history of information technologies...read more

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