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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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 …
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public …
End Of Education
Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired …
Technopoly
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer …
Television and the Teaching of English
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world. Postman shows us how to …
How to Watch TV News
A scathing and prescient look at television news' now updated for the new tech-savvy generation Television news: genuine information or entertainment fodder? Fifteen years ago, …
Teaching As a Subversive Activity
The author attacks contemporary educational systems based on fear, coercion, and memorization and advocates alternative inquiry and induction methods which equip students to relate …
Conscientious Objections
In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of …
När skolans klocka klämtar
Med sin nya bok När skolans klocka klämtar vill Neil Postman förskjuta utbildningsdiskussionens tyngdpunkt från frågan om lämpliga undervisningsmetoder till frågan om själva …
Disappearance of Childhood
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 …
Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode
Noch sind die Diskussionen, die Neil Postman mit seiner Streitschrift "Das Verschwinden der Kindheit" ausgelöst hat, nicht verstummt, da kündigt ein neues Buch von ihm neuen, …