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Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
New Haven; London: Yale University Press (2020), xviii, 221 pp.
"Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our
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Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture
New Heaven; London: Yale University Press (2020), vi, 209 pp.
"This book highlights innovative nonprofit solutions to expand access to print. 'First Book', for example, offers diverse books to teachers at bargain prices. 'Imagination Library' mails picture books to support early literacy in book deserts. 'Worldreader' promotes mobile reading in developing coun
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Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists & Engineers
New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press (2012), 53 pp.
"Any scientist or engineer who communicates research results will immediately recognize this practical handbook as an indispensable tool. The guide sets out clear strategies and offers abundant examples to assist researchers-even those with no previous design training-with creating effective visual
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Notes on Book Design
New Haven: Yale University Press (2004), xii, 236 pp.
"A lavishly illustrated and instructive volume on book design by one of the giants in the field. In a career spanning more than forty years, Derek Birdsall has achieved renown as a leading book designer in Britain. This practical and inspirational book distils a lifetime’s professional experience.
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Communication in Africa: A Search for Boundaries
New Haven: Yale University Press (1961), xvi, 406 pp.
"A contribution to research on the bases of communication — With the aid of reports and observations, the author analyses the factors involved in communication in Africa — This is a survey of the African press, including primitive methods of communication such as the tom-tom, as well as all the
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Communication and Persuasion: Psychological studies of opinion change
New Haven: Yale University Press (1953), xii, 315 pp.
"After considering in an introductory chapter the nature of changes in opinion and the communication of persuasion, as well as the general methods of communication, the authors examine the results of the many researches carried out into changes of attitude and opinion due to communication — They s
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