decapitations
from backyard discoveries to exotic getaways
Readers will gain a clearer perspective on the borders between the real world and the simulated media world and will become more informed and literate media consumers
Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities
whose fascinating life was shaped by uncommon events and exotic places
The Candy House Condition:New decapitationsThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own Your