Author: Marilyn MebergPublisher: W Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780849937446
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Anecdotes and advice demonstrate the redemptive powers of humor.
Choosing the Amusing
Author: Marilyn MebergPublisher: W Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780849937446
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Anecdotes and advice demonstrate the redemptive powers of humor.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Author: Neil PostmanPublisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.
Amusing Stories
Author: Edward RehatsekPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368130242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Author: Neil PostmanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143036531
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
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.” -CNN Originally 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
Amusing the Million
Author: John F. KassonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429952237
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
The Art of Amusing
Author: Frank BellewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Writer, a Series of Original Essays, Moral and Amusing. By a Gentleman of Massachusetts [Gamaliel Bradford].
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Author: Amusing and Instructive Conversations for Children of Five Years
Author: abbé Gaultier (Aloisius Edouard Camille)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialogues
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Author: William Chambers
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