Fully revised to reflect today’s media environment, this new edition of Critical Media Studies offers students a comprehensive introduction to the field and demonstrates how to think critically about the power and influence of media in our daily lives....

The Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 is a collection of fourteen Mack Reynolds sci-fi stories. Included are: POTENTIAL ENEMY, DOGFIGHT-1973, OFF COURSE, HAPPY ENDING, UNBORN TOMORROW, SUMMIT, REVOLUTION, COMBAT, MEDAL OF HONOR, I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, GUN FOR HIRE, FREEDOM, SUBVERSIVE, EXPEDITER. ...

THE ODDS WERE RIGHT FOR VICTORYThe problem with computer warfare is that the computer is always logical while the human enemy is not -- or doesn't have to be. And that's what the Betastani enemy were doing -- nothing that the Alphaland computers said they would....

The Boss's reception secretary looked up when Lawrence Woolford entered the anteroom where she presided. "Hello, Larry," she said. "Hear they called your vacation short. Darn shame."The boss apologized, too. "I am sorry to cut short your vacation, Lawrence....

There was a sheet of paper on the seat of his aircushion car. He frowned at it. It couldn't have been there before. He picked it up.It was a mimeographed throw-away....

Reynolds sought to shake his readers' complacent acceptance of Cold War capitalism by depicting a variety of post-capitalist near futures, many of which he envisioned could occur around the year 2000....

"For some forty years critics of the U.S.S.R. have been desiring, predicting, not to mention praying for, its collapse," says Mack Reynolds in this story's preface. "For twenty of these years the author of this story has vaguely wondered what would replace the collapsed Soviet system. A return to Czarism? Oh, come now!...

"Lieutenant, how would you like to capture a Miro class cruiser?"Don laughed nervously. He said, "We've never captured a Kraden ship intact. -- A One Man Scout against a Miro class cruiser?"Demming grunted....

The knock at the door came in the middle of the night, as Josip Pekic had always thought it would. He had been but four years of age when the knock had come that first time and the three large men had given his father a matter of only minutes to dress and accompany them. ...

At least he'd got far enough to wind up with a personal interview. It's one thing doing up an application and seeing it go onto an endless tape and be fed into the maw of a machine and then to receive, in a matter of moments, a neatly printed rejection....

Sometimes the queerly shaped Venusian trees seemed to talk to him, but their voices were soft. They were loyal people.There were four men in the lifeboat that came down from the space-cruiser. Three of them were still in the uniform of the Galactic Guards. ...

Black Man's Burden is a science-fiction novella and the first in a series of near-future stories set in North Africa. The series has been called a notable exception to the indirect treatment of racial issues in 1960s science fiction....

It would, of course, take a trio of Ivory Tower scientists to conceive of tracking down that statistical entity, the Common Man, and testing out an idea on him. And only the Ivory Tower type would predict that egregiously wrongly!...

Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers-the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning.......

Unless you were a member of Category Military, no one on Earth could own a gun. So who was shooting at Joe Mauser? And why?He'd been a mercenary but he'd been thrown out when he saved Field Marshal Cogswell's life. Whose enemies were after him now -- his own, or Cogswell's?...