Barry Sanders (1) (1938–)

Auteur de ABC : l'alphabétisation de l'esprit populaire

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11 oeuvres 540 utilisateurs 4 critiques 1 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Barry Sanders has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations for his works A Is for Ox and Alienable Rights, which he coauthored with Francis Adams. Recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant, Sanders retired in 2005 from his post as professor of History of Ideas and English at Pitzer College in afficher plus Claremont, California. afficher moins

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Œuvres de Barry Sanders

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ABC : l'alphabétisation de l'esprit populaire (1988) 191 exemplaires

A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age (1994) 134 exemplaires

The Green Zone (2009) 53 exemplaires

The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature (1985) — Auteur — 38 exemplaires

Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History (1995) 34 exemplaires

The Private Death of Public Discourse (American Society) (1998) 30 exemplaires

A Complex Fate: Gustav Stickley and the Craftsman Movement (1996) 24 exemplaires

Unsuspecting Souls: The Disappearance of the Human Being (2009) 20 exemplaires

The Craftsman: An anthology (1978) 14 exemplaires

Grove House : a California bungalow goes to college 1 exemplaire

Fourteen ninety two or three (1993) 1 exemplaire

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Nom canonique: Sanders, Barry
Date de naissance: 1938-10-27
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA

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A Is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the… par Barry Sanders

A brilliant analysis of why literacy is declining. Sanders identifies orality as the foundation upon which literacy is built. As the fruit of orality dwindles, as narrative awareness and fluency diminish, a new type of human is emerging - whom Sanders calls "post-literates."

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GwG | Jan 12, 2011 |

The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism par Barry Sanders

This is definitely one of those highly depressing, but very eye-opening books that both excite me to read and also make me feel like our world is completely screwed. This book basically lays it all out there - the US military pollutes in absurdly high amounts, and no number of compact fluorescent bulbs installed by environmentally conscious citizens is going to do anything to help our environment if the US keeps on destroying other nations like it's been doing so well for the past few hundred years. I found the biggest absurdity in this book to be the breathtaking amount of oil that's basically wasted in stealing oil from other countries.… (plus d'informations)