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Television 4 reviews
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Dalkey Archive Press, 2007
hardly working
+ 4.5 out of 5: An everyday, mundane, and delightfully humorous life
+ VERY entertaining
Imagine: you are on sabbatical in Berlin, expecting to begin work on a monograph about the painter Titian. Your family is away on holiday. You've had it with television, and you've decided to give it up. But television is everywhere, as are its cousins: video monitors, surveillance cameras, ...
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The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life 17 reviews
Marie Winn
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002
An enlightening book on the silver screen
+ Shocking Parents with Common Sense
+ you may not want to know this...
While Winn's thought-provoking book focuses on the sociological harms TV can cause, it falls short in other areas, namely, the spiritual and neurological harms of TV. Another book, "Television: Prelude to Chaos" by Frank Poncelet, answered some of these questions I had after reading Winn's book. I ...
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The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV (First Time Books(R))18 reviews
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Random House Books for Young Readers, 1984
The Berenstain magic
+ Too Much TV
+ My kids loved these books
+ Problems with TV?
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Remotely Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives 3 reviews
Aric Sigman
Ebury Press, 2007
Brilliant book
+ Amazing!
+ spellbinding
Very good book. Hopefully, what "Supersize Me" said to Americans regarding our unquestioning consumption of junk food, this book will speak to regarding our unquestioning adoption of TV and other new media.
So-called media experts have been constantly rewarded for trumpeting the latest in ...
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Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter
Roderick P. Hart
Sage Publications, Inc, 1998
Roderick P. Hart’s revised edition of Seducing America is an eye-opening look at how television's format of presenting politics to its viewers has changed the way television-watching citizens act, vote, and feel about politics in this country. While television makes us feel knowledgeable, important, informed, and close to our political representatives, it disguises dissatisfaction with ...
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The Age of Missing Information17 reviews
Bill Mckibben
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006
Disturbing
+ how television has shaped the modern psyche
+ A plea for mental silence
+ Still missing
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Feed 129 reviews
M.T. Anderson
Candlewick, 2004
Feed for thought
+ dystopia from the inside
+ A compelling comment on our future...
+ A Cautionary Tale for the Selfish Generation
+ Great story to the disturbing end
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Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience (Communication Series)5 reviews
Robert William Kubey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990
Landmark work, non-judgmental, empirical...
+ All too true
+ Who watches TV?
+ THE FLOW NETWORK
+ THE FLOW NETWORK
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501 Tv-free Activities For Kids (501 TV-Free Kids)1 review
Penny Warner
Hinkler Books, 2005
All the Kids I know love this book
I bought this book a few years ago on clearance at Walden's. Personally, I wish the activities were more educational, but my kids and the neighborhood kids love it. Everyday, I have kids coming over to look at "The Book". They think this book is about the coolest thing ever. It is easy to use ...
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Broadcast Television Effects in A Remote Community (Lea's Communication Series)
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001
This book reports findings from a major, multidisciplinary study of the impact of broadcast television on the remote island community of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Broadcast television was introduced to the island for the first time in March 1995. This introduction represented a major event on the island, whose only televisual experience had been through video. In the years ...
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Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It15 reviews
Jane M. Healy
Simon & Schuster, 1999
A must read for anyone interested in childhood development or parenting
+ Great insight for educators.
+ CORNELL STUDY SUPPORTS JANE HEALY
+ A Call to Action
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The Assault on Reason341 reviews
Al Gore
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008
Excellent condition
+ Spot-on Analysis, Sometimes Cumbersome Prose
+ A Reminder of What True Democracy is Based Upon
+ Al Gore at his best
+ a well written book on the state of american democracy
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The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid6 reviews
Ellen Currey-Wilson
Algonquin Books, 2007
A humorous look at motherhood and TV
+ A must-read for any "alternative" parents
+ Wish I'd read this book BEFORE I had my kids!
+ So much more than I expected---funny and touching and inspiring
+ Hilarious, Great read.
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What to Do After You Turn Off the TV1 review
Frances Moore Lappe
Ballantine Books, 1985
Having Fun (Without the TV)
I'm sometimes appalled at all the time Americans spend with clicker in hand. I'm as guilty as anyone of vegging out in front of the tube. Television at times becomes a blur of voices, faces, commercials, news and other bits and pieces. If asked to name one "quality" show watched in the past week, ...
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The Plug-in Drug: Television, Children, and the Family; Revised Edition9 reviews
Marie Winn
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1985
Should television be classified as a dangerous drug?
+ The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Family
+ helps in understanding children
+ THROW YOUR TV IN THE TRASH!
+ A book all the parents should read
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Fahrenheit 45110 reviews
Ray Bradbury
HarperVoyager, 2004
a great book of our time
+ Timely now that we're entering into the new dark ages...
+ Written in the basement of the UCLA library
+ True Fiction
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business127 reviews
Neil Postman
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
Judge a book by its cover
+ It's The Today Show-- Starring George Orwell and Aldous Huxley
+ A Good Deal!!
+ Disinformation Means Misleading Information--Misplaced, Irrelevant, Fragmented or Superficial
+ The media is the message again
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365 TV-Free Activities You Can Do With Your Child: Plus 50 All-New Bonus Activities (365)11 reviews
Steven J. Bennett, Ruth Bennett
Adams Media, 2002
Great addition to a family's library
+ Book for the ages
+ Good ways to pass the time
+ By this book!!!
+ TV free
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Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets2 reviews
Barbara Brock
Eastern Washington University Press, 2007
Must-Read Book!
+ A one-of-a-kind look at a draconian yet effective antidote
OK, so the title is a cheap rip-off of the "Must-See TV" mantra that we've been inundated by those purveyors of the electronic medium.
But as someone who has lived outside the box for more than a decade, I appreciate the thoroughness, clarity and thoughtfulness with which Brock writes in "Living ...
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Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community82 reviews
Robert D. Putnam
Simon & Schuster, 2001
A Lonelier Crowd
Robert D. Putnam's BOWLING ALONE provides what is, arguably, the most robust scientific treatment in a single volume of the conversation about friendship and its benefits begun by Aristotle nearly twenty-four centuries ago, a conversation about what has now come to be called "social capital" :
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