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Amusing Ourselves to Deathby Neil PostmanISBN 0136006469 (0-13-600646-9)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessby Neil PostmanISBN 014303653X (0-14-303653-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business'Book summary:A brilliant powerful and important book....This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World. [via]
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- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business: ISBN 0140094385 (0-14-009438-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr - Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business: ISBN 0434593001 (0-434-59300-1)
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Futureby Neil PostmanISBN 0375701273 (0-375-70127-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future'Book summary:The problem with the world today, says Neil Postman, is that we've become so caught up in hurtling towards the future that we've lost our societal "narrative," a humane cultural tradition that creates "a sense of purpose and continuity"--in other words, something to believe in. "In order to have an agreeable encounter with the twenty-first century," he asserts, "we will have to take into it some good ideas. And in order to do that, we need to look back to take stock of the good ideas available to us." He finds rich source material in the Enlightenment, the salad days for philosophers such as Goethe, Voltaire, Diderot, Paine, and Jefferson, "the beginnings of much that is worthwhile about the modern world." Yet Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is a call for cultural progress, not regression: "I am not suggesting that we become the eighteenth century," Postman notes, "only that we use it for what it is worth and all it is worth."
Chief among the values Postman cites is the development of the intellect; it plays a part in many of his recommendations, from the cultivation of a healthy skepticism towards overhyped technology to sweeping educational reforms that include replacing grammar instruction with logic and rhetoric and introducing courses on comparative religion and the history of science. He also lashes out at postmodernists who start with the premise that language "is a major factor in producing our perceptions, judgments, knowledge, and institutions" and conclude that language is therefore tenuously connected to reality at best. Enlightenment thinkers knew that language molded perception, he notes, but they also believed that "it is possible to use language to say things about the world that are true" and "to communicate ideas to oneself and to others." Postman is excessively curmudgeonly at times, as in his reference to philosopher Jean Baudrillard as "a Frenchman, of all things," or his remarks on the ancient Athenians: "I know they are the classic example of Dead White Males, but we should probably listen to them anyway." But for anybody with a stake in the culture wars, or who wants to apply the lessons of philosophy to the modern world, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century will make for provocative reading. [via]
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Conscientious Objections: Stirring up Trouble about Language, Technology, and Educationby Neil PostmanISBN 039457270X (0-394-57270-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conscientious Objections: Stirring up Trouble about Language, Technology, and Education'Book summary: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 our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.
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Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk: How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to Do About Itby Neil PostmanISBN 0385281781 (0-385-28178-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Disappearance of Childhoodby Neil PostmanISBN 0385281919 (0-385-28191-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Disappearance of Childhood'Book summary: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 todayand the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.
Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, author of Technopoly, 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. [via]More editions of The Disappearance of Childhood:
How to Watch TV Newsby Neil Postman , Steve PowersISBN 0140132317 (0-14-013231-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Language in Americaby Neil PostmanISBN 0023963506 (0-02-396350-6)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Linguistics: A Revolution in Teachingby Neil PostmanISBN 0385285663 (0-385-28566-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger A Biographyby Neil PostmanISBN 0262631865 (0-262-63186-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy : The Failure of Reason and Responsibility in the Twentieth Centuryby Donald N. Wood, Neil PostmanISBN 0275954218 (0-275-95421-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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School Bookby Neil PostmanISBN 0385288735 (0-385-28873-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Soft Revolutionby Neil PostmanISBN 0440080835 (0-440-08083-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Teaching As a Conserving Activityby Neil PostmanISBN 0385290217 (0-385-29021-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Teaching As a Subversive Activityby Neil PostmanISBN 0385290098 (0-385-29009-8)
Softcover, Delacorte Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teaching As a Subversive Activity'Book summary: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. [via]
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- Teaching As a Subversive Activity: ISBN 0140806067 (0-14-080606-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Teaching As a Subversive Activity: ISBN 0273315781 (0-273-31578-1)
Hardcover, Pitman Publishing - Teaching As a Subversive Activity: ISBN 038529008X (0-385-29008-X)
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Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technologyby Neil PostmanISBN 0394582721 (0-394-58272-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology'Book summary:Neil Postman is one of the most level-headed analysts of education, media, and technology, and in this book he spells out the increasing dependence upon technology, numerical quantification, and misappropriation of "Scientism" to all human affairs. No simple technophobe, Postman argues insightfully and writes with a stylistic flair, profound sense of humor, and love of language increasingly rare in our hastily scribbled e-mail-saturated world. [via]
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