Novedades

Mysteries of the Ancient World examines some of the most bizarre, surprising and unexplained phenomena of the ancient world. Ranging from cold cases millennia in the making to the sudden, baffling disappearances of entire civilizations to the creation of mysterious monuments, it searches for the truth behind these remarkable stories. With a careful analysis of the various theories that have been used over the years to try and understand these curious occurrences, the author gets to the bottom of what really happened.

For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy — until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Here is a tribute to all that magazines were, from their origins in London and on Ben Franklin’s press; through their boom — enabled by new technologies — as creators of a new media aesthetic and a new mass culture; into their opulent days in advertising-supported conglomerates; and finally to their fall at the hands of the internet.

Discover the secrets to turning your voice into your fortune – How to master the business of voice acting and start a thriving career behind the microphone. Are you overcome with passion when it comes to voice acting? Are you intrigued by the thrill of bringing a character to life but intimidated by the technicalities of setting up a home studio? Many aspiring voice actors fantasize about making it big behind the microphone – bewitched by the flexibility and creativity this career offers. Yet they find themselves trapped in a vortex of uncertainty, overwhelmed by jargon, and daunted by ...

Can you trust what you see or hear in an election year? In a world where artificial intelligence can create perfectly faked videos, mimic anyone’s voice, and flood your feed with personalized propaganda, democracy is facing a new kind of threat. But it’s not just about the tech. It’s about how we respond to it. In this timely and accessible volume, author Carson Jennings breaks down the political impact of AI-generated disinformation, exploring how both conservatives and progressives view the risks, responsibilities, and potential solutions. With balanced insights and a conversational...

We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who’s ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney’s Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless—with deadly results.

The mall near Mat thew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center’s, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero’s zombie opus Dawn of the Dead.