(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241724187)
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The renowned author returns with a timely book about his journeys to three sites of conflict - Dakar, South Carolina, and Palestine - exploring how the stories we tell, and the ones we dont, shape our realitie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Jonathan Cape Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781787334793)
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was stand...Loe edasi...
This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to...Loe edasi...
This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to...Loe edasi...
Two leading thinkers present alternative answers to one of the most difficult and divisive questions of our times: Is free speech under threat?Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, the leading free expression organisation, argues...Loe edasi...
The Russian Constitution guarantees freedom of thought, expression, and information to every citizen, prohibiting propaganda that incites social, racial, or religious hatred, and forbidding censorship. However, the reality in Russia is starkly dif...Loe edasi...
This book encompasses a historical approach to understanding the trends of education censorship. The author examines how we got here, exploring network influences, the inextricable role of the mainstream me...Loe edasi...
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in Ame...Loe edasi...
This book explores the tensions between free expression and regulation in an era of disinformation, surveillance, and digital monopolies. It brings together leading legal scholars, journalists, and media experts to examine the role of free speech...Loe edasi...
Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism.“Question authority,” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase, pla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2025, Calendar, Kirjastus: Workman Calenders, ISBN-13: 9781523530731)
STAND WITH THE BANNED: Dozens of essential literary works have been threatened by censorship in recent years. Stand up for free speech with this new calendar that celebrates the wisdom, lessons, and humor found in these important, impa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035365005)
Taking a sociological approach, this timely book explains the significance, development, and impact of cancel culture. Robert McNamara discusses the popular phenomenon of ‘Karens’ and their male counterparts, often known as ‘Kyles,’ ‘Kevins,’ or ‘Ken...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Belknap Press, ISBN-13: 9780674987319)
Faramerz Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the insoluble challenges of slander and fals...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855801095)
Elucidates the political dynamics that link the Umbrella Movement to the anti-extradition protests and helps explain the key character of the latter movement.Presenting an analytical account of the relational dynamics linking the 201...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477331804)
Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today’s book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529216912)
Society acknowledges whistleblowers as truth-tellers who bring urgent concerns to the public’s attention, but at the same time they are subjected to a host of retaliations including smear campaigns, unemployment, prison and exile.Investigating high p...Loe edasi...
Society acknowledges whistleblowers as truth-tellers who bring urgent concerns to the public’s attention, but at the same time they are subjected to a host of retaliations including smear campaigns, unemployment, prison and exile.Investigating high p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: OR Books, ISBN-13: 9781682196267)
A media scholar critically examines how US establishment media ran interference for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with reporting that called the Flour Massacre “aid-related deaths,” and the Tent Massacre a “tragic mistake.” Over eight months,...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the practice of free speech and its limitations - defamation and hate speech - in the context of Indonesia. Focusing on several legislations, mainly in the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) and the Information and Electronic Transa...Loe edasi...
A searing account of the authoritarian rights attacks to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, gender, sexuality and class....Loe edasi...
An urgent examination of self-silencing culture and the toxic impact of groupthink, by the author of Divergent Mind and founder of The Neurodiversity Project. Nerenberg empowers readers with tools to understand the mind and navigate an inc...Loe edasi...
A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others.Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought...Loe edasi...
There is no such thing as free, unconstrained speech. Laws and constitutions may protect us from the state when we speak our minds. But the state is just one possible constraint. Glenn Loury, one of America’s most outspoken and important intellectual...Loe edasi...
Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Douvan’s Operation Mind is a body of evidence, a prophetic warning, and a call to action about the urgency of doing all we can to prevent thought control in America. In 1952, this meticulously researched pamph...Loe edasi...
Sari: Muensteraner Monographien zur englischen Literatur / Muenster Monographs on English Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631917831)
Did censorship exist before the invention of the printing press and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum? This study examines the attempted suppression of written religious and political dissent in pre-Reformation England, with a focus on legal...Loe edasi...
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie A masterpiece Extraordinary Daily Telegraph A s...Loe edasi...
First published in 1992, Writing and Censorship in Britain explores the issue of censorship, from a range of cultural and literary perspectives, from the Tudor period to the 1990s. Written by some of the leading experts in the field, this c...Loe edasi...
For tens of millions of Americans, Tucker Carlson was long the only voice on cable news providing a counternarrative to establishment Washington and the mainstream press on the most important issues of our time: the Covid-19 vaccine, January 6th, the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526163127)
This work scrutinises British film censorship from a local perspective. Examining different regions and areas, the work of individual councils and their relations with one another and with the BBFC, it offers a broad historical exploration of the int...Loe edasi...
It seems like we can’t talk about anything nowadays… Whether it’s war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying – from online pile-ons and doxing to job loss and, in some cases,...Loe edasi...
