Neil Postman, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-74540-2
Mixing provocative insights and cliched criticisms, Postman defines the U.S. as a society in which technology is deified to a near-totalitarian degree. (Apr.)
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Neil Postman, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-75166-3
The author of Technopoly examines the embattled nature of childhood in contemporary American culture. (Aug.)
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Neil Postman, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-75031-4
Claiming that our current educational system teaches students to worship technology and consumerism, Postman argues for more humanistic ""narratives"" as the basis for schools. (Nov.)
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Neil Postman, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (222p) ISBN 978-0-394-58272-6
Mixing provocative insights and oft-heard criticism, cultural critic Postman ( Conscientious Objections ) defines the U.S. as an emerging ``technopoly,'' a society in which machines and technology are deified to a near-totalitarian degree....
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Neil Postman, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (209p) ISBN 978-0-679-43006-3
Because American society operates on the unspoken assumption that schooling is for preparing students for well-paying jobs, our educational system is falling apart, declares Postman (Technopoly), a New York University communications professor. In a...
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Neil Postman, Author Viking Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80454-2
From the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity comes a sustained, withering and thought-provoking attack on television and what it is doing to us. Postman's theme is the decline of the printed word and the ascendancy of the ""tube'' with its...
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Neil Postman, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-40129-9
""I am not suggesting that we become the eighteenth century, only that we use it for what it is worth and for all it is worth,"" Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death; Technopoly) argues in this penetrating, extended essay. Though other periods are...
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Neil Postman, Author, Steve Powers, With Penguin Books $14 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-013231-1
Academic Postman ( Amusing Ourselves to Death ) and television newsman Powers (of Fox Five in New York) offer a brief, helpful analysis of America's most popular news source. In a sober but accessible style, the authors address theoretical issues,...
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