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016124
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New York, Vintage Books, 1994.
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xiii, 178pRed spine
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From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions between children and adults. But now these divisions are eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into poprular entertainment and pitches both news and advertising at the intellectual level of ten-year-olds.
Informative, alarming, and aphorisitc, The Disappearance of Childhood is a triumph of history and prophecy.
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9780679751663 Pb.
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| I00795 | 305.23/POS | Main | On Shelf | General | Teacher Resource |
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016114
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New York, Vintage Books, 1993.
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x, 222pBlack and White Spine
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With characteristic wit and candour, Neil Postman launches a trenchant and harrowing warning against the tyranny of machines over man in the late twentieth century. n this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.
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9780679745402 Pb.
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| I00790 | 303.483/POS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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