Author : Mark Salzman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1996-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679767789
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.
Author : Cindi Katz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816642095
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Author : Ronald Strickland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780742516519
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.
Author : Matt Feeney
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1541645588
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.
Author : Terri Cheney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439176248
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.
Author : Percival Goodman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780231072984
-- Lewis Mumford
Author : Paul Goodman
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Child rearing
ISBN :
Author : Rocky Lang
Publisher : Hlpi Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Children of celebrities
ISBN : 9780692266632
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.
Author : Nosh Mernacaj
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2021-06-13
Category :
ISBN :
The atrocities of Communism in the aftermath of World War II - all the way up to 1990s, especially the ones in the heart of Europe, are mostly unknown to the western reader. This memoir is a snapshot of Communist Albania from the author's experience. It is based on true events and real people and places.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN :
