Media & Communications

How advertising works is not a question that has a simple answer. Advertising is a diverse entity and different campaigns work (or fail to work) in a plethora of different ways. Most advertising persuades people to buy things, but how? And who does it...

Across digital and print media, editorial illustrators create visuals to support text and convey ideas, but there is more to these illustrations than meets the eye. Internationally-recognised illustrator and educator Andy Selby takes you through the...

Seasoned designer Debbie Berne presents an accessible introduction to book design for authors, editors, and other book people. Design is central to the appeal, messaging, and usefulness of books, but to most readers, it’s mysterious or even invisible...

Learn graphic design using Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the...

The Online Journalism Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the ever-evolving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities in researching, writing, and storytelling provided by new technologies.In this new edition, Paul Bradshaw...

Deception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research in government archives, collections of private and court papers and documents won by the author in a...

In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the 'euphoric' moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785098Author John PilgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing Ltd

** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **Have you ever seen a competitor get great headlines and thought, 'Hey! Why wasn't that us?'Get insider secrets to find out how to set your business apart and cut through the noise, using media coverageHow to...

"Genuinely touching, wonderfully revealing" NEW YORKERGarlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant...

An invaluable, modern guide to great copywriting, Copy. Righter. shows you how to write in a way that is brand-literate, media-savvy, utterly engaging...and irresistibly persuasive. It will show you how to write great copy in every print and digital...

'Keelin's compelling story is as powerful as the woman she was.' Liz Nugent Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking is a masterpiece. This ranks alongside. How can such a beautifully written, intimate, heartbreaking memoir be so uplifting?' Joe...

An exclusive, insider viewpoint on the "Murdoch Method" from his right-hand man and adviser, Irwin Stelzer.Rupert Murdoch is one of the most notorious and successful businessmen of our age. Now, for the first time, an insider within the Murdoch empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591810032Author Thomas A WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 652g

Develop creative animation and multimedia using Adobe Animate Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more...

Now in its ninth edition, Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sales and co-publications throughout the world.Covering the full range of potential rights, from English-language territorial rights...

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This invaluable fiction writer's guide is the resource you need to start - and, more importantly, finish - that novel that you've been itching to write! Using her tried-and-true methods, writing coach Char arms you with all the knowledge you need to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101970263Author Kory StamperFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

An undisputed classic, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling media studies text offers an unparalleled analysis of the cultural industries. Bringing together a huge range of research, theory and key concepts, David Hesmondhalgh provides an...

This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries represented a hugely significant period in histories of both the British press and the British political system.Drawing...

In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely, it would only be a matter...

Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483735Author Geraldine BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black...

The essential guide to protecting and managing the professional reputation of both yourself and your organization In the volatile landscape of social media and viral news, professional reputations can be wrecked within a matter of hours. Passivity in...

"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrion has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and...

The definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business. You’ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don’t know where to start. In a time when editors are seeking greater flexibility in their work...

There's never been a better time to be an author! Books like the Harry Potter series create a media phenomenon, with people lining up and camping outside bookstores to purchase newly released titles. Yet book sales overall - not just those of...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

The behind-the-scenes story of the world's most notorious and controversial video games company - Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible story behind the phenomenon that changed video games for ever - Grand Theft Auto. Powerful...

THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCHMeet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In...

This is a media writing guide for PR people. The media use one per cent of the material PR people send them. What can we do to increase the hit-rate of the stories we write on behalf of our clients or employers? We need to know exactly what the media...

The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world.The last decade has seen the News industry face unprecedented change. The sometimes-century old institutions...

The ease with which we can choose a typeface today is something we take for granted, but it is possible only because of the tremendous amount of labor of the Bentons. The ease with which we can choose a typeface today from a plethora of options to fit...

'This insightful and superb book takes you to World Cups, to conflicts in war-torn countries, to division in Trump's America... A terrific read.' - Gary LinekerFor over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and...

A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose "As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer." Choice "If you want to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780677545Author Angharad LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

"If you want a book that instructs you about all the technical skills you need to pass the examinations set by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) and embark on a career in journalism, then this is the book for you. It...

The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with...