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Neil Postman was University Professor, Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology, and Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Among his twenty books are studies of childhood (The Disappearance of Childhood), public discourse (Amusing Ourselves to Death), education (Teaching as a Subversive Activity and The End of Education), and the impact of technology (Technopoly). His interest in education was long-standing, beginning with his experience as an elementary and secondary school teacher. He died in 2003.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 31, 1993
Price: $14.00
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 merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 15, 1971
Price: $15.00
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $15.00
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, today's schools promote the false "gods" of economic utility, consumerism, or ethnic separatism and resentment. What alternative strategies can we use to... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 2, 1994
Price: $13.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $13.95
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 reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment-from Jefferson's representative democracy to... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 3, 1992
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2009
Price: $15.00
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