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• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 39,5 Mb
• Release Date : 13 May 1986

Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 34,9 Mb
• Release Date : 27 December 2005

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is

• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• File Size : 40,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 November 2005

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Martin Luther University (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Orality

• Publisher : Workman Publishing
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 16 May 2017

Every week on the public radio show On the Media, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her

• Publisher : Knopf
• File Size : 55,9 Mb
• Release Date : 09 April 2013

A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 41,5 Mb
• Release Date : 08 June 2011

At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 29,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 2011

In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 25,9 Mb
• Release Date : 13 May 1976

Explains how to reduce ridiculous communication so that verbal behavior will not be an excessive burden.

• Publisher : Delta
• File Size : 20,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 November 2009

A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world. Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity “A

• Publisher : Vintage
• File Size : 52,5 Mb
• Release Date : 08 June 2011

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