Lost In Place

Lost In Place

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  • Author: Mark Salzman
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0679767789
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive.


Growing Up Postmodern

Growing Up Postmodern

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  • Author: Ronald Strickland
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 9780742516519
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society worth joining. In postmodernity, Goodman's enlightenment-era vision of social progress has been judged obsolete. For many postmodern critics, subjectivity is formed and expressed not through social investment, but through consumption; the freedom to consume has replaced political empowerment. But the power to consume is distributed very unevenly, and even for the affluent it never fulfills the desire produced by the advertising industry. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.


Growing Up Global

Growing Up Global

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  • Author: Cindi Katz
  • Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN: 0816642095
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 331

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Little Platoons

Little Platoons

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  • Author: Matt Feeney
  • Publisher: Hachette UK
  • ISBN: 1541645588
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

This eye-opening book brilliantly explores the true roots of over-parenting, and makes a case for the vital importance of family life. Parents naturally worry about the future. They want to prepare their children to compete in an uncertain world. But often, argues political philosopher and father of three Matt Feeney, today's worried parents surrender their family's autonomy to gain a leg up in this competition. In the American ideal, family life is a sacred and private sphere, distinct from the outside world. But in our hypercompetitive times, Feeney shows, parents have become increasingly willing to let the inner life of the family be colonized by outside forces that promise better futures for their kids: prestigious preschools, "educational" technologies, youth sports leagues, a multitude of enrichment activities, and -- most of all -- college. A provocative, eye-opening book for any parent who suspects their kids' stuffed schedules are not serving their best interests, Little Platoons calls us to rediscover the distinctive, profound solidarity of family life.


The Dark Side of Innocence

The Dark Side of Innocence

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  • Author: Terri Cheney
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1439176248
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Manic: A Memoir" comes a gripping and eloquent account of the awakening and unfolding of Cheney's bipolar disorder.


Communitas

Communitas

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  • Author: Percival Goodman
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231072984
  • Category : Architecture
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 306

-- Lewis Mumford


Compulsory Mis-education, and The Community of Scholars

Compulsory Mis-education, and The Community of Scholars

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  • Author: Paul Goodman
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Child rearing
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356


The Society I Live in is Mine

The Society I Live in is Mine

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  • Author: Paul Goodman
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : United States
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 202


Children To A Degree

Children To A Degree

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  • Author: Horst Christian
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • ISBN: 9781493734214
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

A World War Two Historical Fiction Novel Based On A True StoryA true story about a young boy growing up under the Third Reich.Karl Veth, the eldest of three children, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930. By the time he was old enough to start school and begin his education, Hitler had established a firm death-grip on the country. Children were fed a steady diet of Nazi propaganda and were often encouraged to turn on their family and friends; however, contrary to popular belief, not all of them bought into it.Karl is an intelligent young boy who strives to excel in his studies, but he questions everything. Dangerous questions during a time when people are closely monitored. Karl's father and grandfather are not blind followers and they have their own opinions about Hitler and his regime. The lessons they teach Karl often contradict what he is taught in school, yet they also inspire him to think on his own and form his own opinions.German law mandates all children must become members of the Hitler Youth and at the age of 10, Karl enters the Jungvolk, the junior branch of the Hitler Youth. He must wade through the propaganda and everything he is taught to decide for himself what is right and what it wrong. Little does he know at the time, many of his grandfather's predictions about the future of the Third Reich will eventually come to pass. The lessons he learns now and the opinions he forms will determine his fate in dangerous times ahead.Books In The Series: Children To A DegreeLoyal To A DegreeTrust To A DegreePartners To A Degre


Growing Up Hollywood

Growing Up Hollywood

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  • Author: Rocky Lang
  • Publisher: Hlpi Books
  • ISBN: 9780692266632
  • Category : Children of celebrities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

What really goes on behind the veil of celebrity? Rocky Lang, who grew up in the 90210 as the son of mega-producer and screen disaster master Jennings Lang (Earthquake, the Airport movies and 35 other features), dishes all in his new book, Growing Up Hollywood: Tales from the Son of a Hollywood Mogul. Raised around the likes of Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Walter Matthau and Billy Wilder, Lang serves up-in self-deprecating style-a genuine insider's collection of bizarre, sometimes ribald, often hilarious and always surprising true tales from the rarefied world of Hollywood, such as: * Finding himself a pawn in the brutal creative war between Dustin Hoffman and director Sydney Pollack during the making of the classic comedy Tootsie. ! * Spying on Olivia Newton-John being photographed nude in his family's backyard pool, and the "breast-beating" he endured after getting caught in the act. ! * Discovering the scandal-sheet affair between his dad and screen siren Joan Bennett- along with the truth behind his father getting shot in the crotch by Bennett's husband. ! * Having Steven Spielberg as an "older brother" before and after the famous filmmaker's meteoric rise. ! *Being told by his dad that writer Gore Vidal offered to buy young Rocky for $1 million. ! * Learning his mother had slept with Ronald Reagan, plus the outrageous nickname the future U.S. president had given his own sexual prowess.