Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2008
334 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 1992
162 kr
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191 kr
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A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today''s world.From the Trade Paperback edition.- E-bokEngelska, 2011
150 kr
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In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning. - E-bokEngelska, 2011
137 kr
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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 today−and 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. - E-bokEngelska, 2011
183 kr
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At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary society, provides for us a source of guidance and inspiration. In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century he revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future -- ideas that formed our nation and that we would do well to embrace anew.He turns our attention to Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Kant, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, and to their then-radical thinking about inductive science, religious and political freedom, popular education, rational commerce, the nation-state, progress, and happiness.Postman calls for a future connected to traditions that provide sane authority and meaningful purpose -- as opposed to an overreliance on technology and an increasing disregard for the lessons of history. And he argues passionately for specific new guidelines in the education of our children, with renewed emphasis on developing the intellect as successfully as we are developing a computer-driven world.Witty, provocative, and brilliantly reasoned, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is Neil Postman''s most radical, and most commonsensical, book yet.From the Hardcover edition. - E-bokEngelska, 2011
70 kr
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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.From the Trade Paperback edition. - E-bokEngelska, 2011
70 kr
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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 truth.From the Trade Paperback edition. - Häftad, Engelska, 1971
219 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 1993
242 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 1996
227 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2005
141 kr
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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 media is more relevant than ever."It''s unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNNOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.“A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World - LjudbokEngelska, 2007
193 kr
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In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how “entertainment values” have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television. And because television is a visual medium, whose images are most pleasurably apprehended when they are fast-moving and dynamic, discourse on television has little tolerance for argument, hypothesis, or explanation. Postman argues that public discourse—the advancing of arguments in logical order for the public good, once a hallmark of American culture—is being converted from exposition and explanation to entertainment.
- LjudbokEngelska, 2007
193 kr
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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 today—and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.
Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman 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 popular entertainment and pitches both news and advertising at the intellectual level of ten-year olds. Informative, alarming, and aphoristic, The Disappearance of Childhood is a triumph of history and prophecy.
- LjudbokEngelska, 2012
234 kr
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, privacy, intelligence, and truth, as they are redefined to fit the requirements of the technological thought-world.
- Häftad, Tyska, 1987
175 kr
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- Häftad, Svenska, 1998
163 kr
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Med sin nya bok När skolans klocka klämtar vill Neil Postman förskjuta utbildningsdiskussionens tyngdpunkt från frågan om lämpliga undervisningsmetoder till frågan om själva meningen med utbildningen. Från medel till mål. Skolan har i dag, menar Postman, i allt för hög grad förfallit till mekanisk inlärning och förlorat lärandets inneboende värde ur sikte. Målsättningen med När skolans klocka klämtar är att återupprätta detta värde, hjälpa skolan att återvinna sin mening: en känsla av tolerans och respekt för lärandet och kunskapen. För att kunna göra detta använder sig Postman av berättelsens kategori. Människan skapar sig ständigt ett förflutet och en framtid med berättelsens hjälp, menar han. Utan berättelsen förlorar livet sin mening. Om livet saknar mening har kunskapstillägnelsen inget syfte. Och utan syfte blir skolan en förvaringsplats och inte en plats för aktiva deltagare. Syftet med berättelsen är att göra världen meningsfull, inte att beskriva den vetenskapligt. Berättelsens sanningsvärde ligger i dess konsekvenser. Det viktiga är att den ger en känsla av personlig identitet och gemensamt liv, en grund för moraliskt uppförande och en förklaring av det okända. Neil Postman har ett tjugotal böcker om bl a utbildning, teknik- och medieutvecklingen bakom sig, varav flera finns på svenska. Han har själv arbetat som grundskolelärare och är i dag professor i Kultur och kommunikation vid New York University.
