"Postman uses cogent arguments, sharp needles and gentle humor to challenge readers." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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.
Author : Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
Narrator : Lee Iacocca
Published By : Simon & Schuster
Length : 6 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Social & Economic Economics
Price : $29.95 $17.95
Lee Iacocca does not mince words, and in where have all the leaders gone? he offers his no-nonsense, straight-up assessments of the American politicians most likely to run for president in 2008. View...
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Author : Various
Narrator : Various
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Length : 5 hours
Categories : World Social & Economic
Price : $18.75
Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima. There are many notable events, from the Black Death, and Great Fire of London, to the American Civil War. View...
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Author : D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe
Narrator : Grover Gardner
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Length : 4 hours
Categories : American Pre 1900 Social & Economic Christianity Philosophy
Price : $24.95
A blueprint to preserve and restore our country to its original intent. View...
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Author : Kevin R.C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D
Narrator : Tom Weiner
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 6 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Social & Economic American
Price : $39.95 $14.95
What gives unelected judges the right to decide hot-button issues? Judges say it’s the Constitution. But law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the “constitutional law”... View...
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Author : by A Lady of Distinction
Narrator : Nadia May
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 4 hours
Categories : British Social & Economic Pre 1900
Price : $25.95 $12.95
In the flowery language of its era, this book details English customs and manners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including women's dress, propriety, and beauty aids, with ad... View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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