The Disappearance of Childhood
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 194
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Informative, alarming, and aphorisitc, The Disappearance of Childhood is a triumph of history and prophecy.
The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 304
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan.
On Chapel Sands
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 320
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
For many years, while raising her in draconian isolation and protectiveness, they also hid the fact that she’d been adopted, and that shortly after the kidnapping, her name was changed from Grace to Betty. “Both page-turning and richly ...
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 250
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 123
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved!
Technopoly
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 240
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
A tool for fighting back against the tools that run our lives." —Dallas Morning News The story of our society's transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by ...
The End of Education
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 225
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning.
Key Concepts in Childhood Studies
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 162
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
A great place to start further studies." - Kathryn Peckham, Chichester University This book has already proved itself as a market leader in Childhood Studies. All of the strengths of the First Edition have been retained.
Childhood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 188
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves.
Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Explains how to reduce ridiculous communication so that verbal behavior will not be an excessive burden.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 200
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
