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  • The Dumbest Generation

    How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture.For decades, ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

    by John Andrew Rice, William Craig Rice ...
    Series series Southern Classics
    A first-person account of race and class in the Jim Crow SouthJohn Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dumbest Generation Grows Up

    From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous AdultsBack in 2008, Mark Bauerlein was a voice crying in the wilderness. As experts greeted the new generation of “Digital Natives” with extravagant hopes for their high-tech future, he pegged them as the “Dumbest Generation.”Today, their future doesn’t look so bright, and their present is pretty grim. The twenty-somethings who spent their childhoods staring into ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Digital Divide

    Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Pragmatic Mind

    Explorations in the Psychology of Belief

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    Series series New Americanists
    The Pragmatic Mind is a study of the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its overlooked relevance for the neopragmatism of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Stanley Fish, and Cornel West. Arguing that the "original" pragmatists are too-often cited casually and imprecisely as mere precursors to this contemporary group of American intellectuals, Mark Bauerlein explores the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship

    by John Agresto, Peter A. Benoliel, Jeff Bergner, Bruce Cole, E. D. Hirsch, Andrea Radasanu, Lisa Spiller, Jonathan Yonan, Dana Gioia, Mark Bauerlein, Wilfred M. McClay ...
    The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America’s contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Teaching America

    The Case for Civic Education

    by David J. Feith, Seth Andrew, Charles F. Bahmueller, Bruce Cole, Mike Feinberg, Senator Bob Graham, Chris Hand, Frederick M. Hess, Michael Kazin, Senator Jon Kyl, Jay P. Lefkowitz, Peter Levine, Harry Lewis, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Secretary Rod Paige, Charles N. Quigley, Admiral Mike Ratliff, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Jason Ross, Andrew J. Rotherham, Mark Bauerlein, John M. Bridgeland, Alan M. Dershowitz, Eugene W. Hickok, Jr., John R. Thelin, Juan Williams ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz, Juan Williams, Glenn Reynolds, Michael Kazin, Frederick Hess, Andrew Rotherham, Mike Feinberg, Seth Andrew ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    The Dumbest Generation

    How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    Let's take stock of young America. Compared to previous generations, American youth have more schooling (college enrollments have never been higher); more money ($100 a week in disposable income); more leisure time (five hours a day); and more news and information (Internet, The Daily Show, RSS feeds).What do they do with all that time and money? They download, upload, IM, post, chat, and network. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Digital Divide

    Writings For and Against Facebook, Youtube, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot, Xe Sands ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But others are deeply concerned by the eroding of civility online, declining reading habits, withering ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    by Barbara Ehrenreich ...
    Narrated by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    This engrossing piece of undercover reportage is a New York Times best-seller. With nearly a million copies in print, Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    But What If We're Wrong?

    Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    Narrated by Chuck Klosterman, Fiona Hardingham ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 7 min

    New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    To Sell Is Human

    The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

    by Daniel H. Pink ...
    Narrated by Daniel H. Pink ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    **#1 New York Times Business Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller#1 Washington Post bestsellerFrom the bestselling author of Drive: the insightful and pragmatic book that explores the powerful role selling plays in our lives.**According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook