Suggests that, because parents are now more concerned with preparing children for life rather than protecting them from it, the concept of childhood has drastically changed

Children without Childhood: Growing Up Too Fast in the World of Sex and Drugs

Winn, Marie

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Based on interviews with families, teachers and child specialists, this study examines television's impact on children. The book addresses the question - how does the passive act of watching television affect the developing child's relationship with the real world? This revised edition includes material on video games and computers, as well as a new chapter, "Television and the school". This work aims to help parents and educators re-examine their attitudes towards television and become aware of its dangers.

The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Family

Parenting & Relationships

Viking Press

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Unplugging the Plug-in Drug

Humor & Entertainment

Television

How does the passive act of watching television and other electronic media-regardless of their content-affect a developing child's relationship to the real world? Focusing on this crucial question, Marie Winn takes a compelling look at television's impact on children and the family. Winn's classic study has been extensively updated to address the new media landscape, including new sections on: computers, video games, the VCR, the V-Chip and other control devices, TV programming for babies, television and physical health, and gaining control of your TV.

The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life

Teen & Young Adult

Central Park in the Dark explores a natural world that flourishes in the midst of a crowded and mechanized city. These exuberant essays lead the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and other denizens of the park's trees and swamps and thickets. Alongside a cadre of amateur and expert naturalists, Marie Winn reveals a world that lies hidden in the dark between the bright lights and traffic of Fifth Avenue and Central Park West.

Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Picador

Love and loss, life and death, among the nighttime creatures of the city that never sleeps Like her bestseller Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn’s Central Park in the Dark explores a once-hidden world in a series of interlocking narratives about the extraordinary denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. Her beguiling account of a city’s lakes and woodlands at night takes the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal active beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers, and sleeping robins among them), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and slugs (in all their unexpected poetical randiness). Winn does not neglect her famous protagonists Pale Male and Lola, the hawks that captivated readers years ago, but this time she adds an exciting narrative about thirty-eight screech owls in Central Park and their lives, loves, and tragedies there. An eye-popping amount of natural history is packed into this entertaining book—on bird physiology, spiders, sunsets, dragonflies, meteor showers, and the nature of darkness. But the human drama is never forgotten, for Central Park at night boasts a floating population not only of lovers, dog walkers, and policemen but of regulars young and old who, like Winn, hope to unlock the secrets of urban nature. These “night people” are drawn into a peculiar kind of intimacy. While exploring the astonishing variety of wildlife in the city park, they end up revealing more of their inner lives than they expected.

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

CHILDREN W/OUT CHILDHD

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pantheon

Plug in Drug

BANTAM BOOKS

Very Good copy in a Very Good dust wrapper of "...a frightening picture of a society dominated by television; of children with poor verbal skills, an inability to concentrate, and a disinclination to read; of parents who are "hooked" on using television as a sedative for their preschool children."Very Good dust wrapper with very slight shelf wear. Jacket designed by Judith Michael has an illustration of a television plugged into a socket. Author photograph on back flap by Janet Malcolm has the author sitting on a chair grasping a mug with both hands. Slight puckering along bottom edge on the front. Light grey boards with dark grey spine has crisp, bright white lettering. The "V" and "I" in Viking have not been colored white on the spine. Tight, bright, clean text with no marks. 231 pages. "First published in 1977 by The Viking Press."18 chapters with 4 parts. Parts: "The Television Experience"; "Television and the Child";"Television and the Family" and "No Television." Chapters include:"Television Addition,";"Television and Reading";"How Parents Survived before Television," and "Giving Up Television for Good." Includes an Afterword, Notes and Index. From back dust wrapper:"Marie Winn's superb dissection of this permanent house guest and what it's done to us will have people talking and you thinking. No, this is not another study of program content. For starters Winn contends that it's not what we watch, it's the fact that we watch at all.Have you thought about television as babysitter, in relation to drugs, SAT scores, family relationships, general behavior? Ms. Winn.effectively sees to it that you do in this landmark book." -- Publishers Weekly" From the front flap: 'The Plug-In Drug presents a powerful challenge for parents and educators to re-examine their attitudes toward television and become aware of its dangers, especially for the most vulnerable members of our population..."

The Plug-in Drug

Viking Adult

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Children without Childhood: Growing Up Too Fast in the World of Sex and Drugs

The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Family

Unplugging the Plug-in Drug

The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life

Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife

CHILDREN W/OUT CHILDHD

Plug in Drug

Plug in Drug

The Plug-in Drug