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Neil Postman
ISBN:9780143036531
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 affairs. In this eloquent...more details Format:Paperback Pages:184
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Neil Postman
ISBN:9780375701276
The future can only be built upon the past, and in the past are great thinkers and some great thoughts waiting to be rediscovered. As this century winds down and a natural summing up takes place...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Neil Postman
ISBN:9780679750314
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 earlier generations. Instead...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Neil Postman;Steve Powers
ISBN:9780143113775
A scathing and prescient look at television newsanow updated for the new tech-savvy generation Television news: genuine information or entertainment fodder? Fifteen years ago...more details Format:Paperback Pages:178
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Philip Marchand;Neil Postman
ISBN:9780262631860
When communications thinker Marshall McLuhan gave us the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village," he was ahead of his time. Now...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Donald N Wood;Neil Postman
ISBN:9780275956615
Our society's institutional infrastructures -- our democratic political system, economic structures, legal practices, and educational establishment -- were all created as intellectual outgrowths of the Enlightenment...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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N Postman;Neil N Postman PostmanPostman
ISBN:9780385290098
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world....more details Format:Paperback Pages:240