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Childhood Lost: How American Culture Is Failing Our Kids (Childhood in America)
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children. From children developing surprising physical maturity and sexual awareness at younger and younger ages, to those estranged when television and computer screens replace family time, and those warped by national junk food/fast food habits bringing an explosion of obesity and diabetes among boys and girls, this book takes a harsh look at...more
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 20
Feature: ... ISBN13: 9780596800901; Condition: NEW; Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. ...more
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2010-01-14 Summary: Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 20 ... //Make// is a quarterly magazine that focuses on serious Do-It-Yourself projects and targets DIYers, builders, crafters, and other creative sorts. The Winter 2009 issue's main feature is an interview with Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters. This issue, among other projects, features a hydrogen-oxygen bottle rocket, an Autophenakistoscope, a marble adding machine, and so much more. All of these projects are accompanied with detailed instruction and large full color photos to guide even the most building ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-12-11 Summary: More good stuff ... I've gotten every issue of make so far, and this one is just as good as the others. The editorials about the decline of basic tech skills helped clarify my unorganized thoughts on the decline of the lower orders of tech. We are raising a generation of theorists who lack the hands on tinkering skills needed to test their own theories, and discover new ones. The rubber band powered toy car launcher is such a great project for parents and kids to try together. *WARNING: general complaint follows* My only gripe about Make ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Get ready for the coolest issue of MAKE. Our special kids issue is filled with exciting and fun projects to make your weekend or science fair a blast. Hydrogen rockets, catapults, electric animals, chemical batteries, flying bird automatons, and more await you in the pages of MAKE: Volume 20! MAKE continues to be a leader in the tech DIY movement due to its uncanny instinct to engage the curiosity, vitality, and passion of the growing community of Makers -- DIY enthusiasts, hobbyist engineers/designers,...more
The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-11-11 Summary: The Kid of Coney Island - bio of the builder of the NY Hippodrome. ... The book is well researched and written. I would liked to have seen more details on the great Hippodrome, it's stage machinery, rigging, tank for water ballets, lighting, dimensions and so on. The book took far too long to be delivered. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-10-19 Summary: Fred Thompson habitue of Coney Island Restaurants ... As a lifelong resident of Coney Island,and the author of a recently published memoir entitled Remembrance of a Restaurant,or a Decameron of Dining,I share the deserved enthusiasm of all reviews for this life of remarkable showman,Fred Thompson. Unlike other reviews, mine is more intimate. Fred Thompson was an habitue of the finest restaurants of the period like Ravenhall's,Villepique's,Beau Rivage,and my parents notable landmark restaurant called Villa Joe's.A Little Bit of Naples in Coney Island.It was razed by urban ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-09-11 Summary: The Rise of the New Leisure Class ... Fred Thompson was the "kid" (he was in his early twenties when he built Luna Park in Coney Island) who first recognized that the American middle class in the early 20th century was ripe for amusement and fun, ready to embrace consumption, fun and leisure as a moral system. Here he is given his due as a great innovator (inventor of the theme park), and a great showman (Broadway producer of mega-extravaganzas). Woody Register's highly readable and extremely insightful book is not just about Fred Thompson (of which there ...more
[4] Rating: 4 Date: 2001-09-07 Summary: From Side Show to Broadway ... The mysterious Fredrick Thompson left little biographical information in his wake, but Woody Register has taken the scant evidence and woven it into a revealing narritive of the man who made Coney Island famous. This book cchronicles an even more important story as well, the concepts of leisure and amusements in the 20th century. The theme park, theatrical spectacular, Vegas showroom and Broadway all own a debt to Fred Thompson's inner child. This book is a must for anyone serious about the business of fun. ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells Thompson's remarkable story and examines the transformation of commerce and entertainment as American society moved into an era of mass marketing and large-scale corporate enterprise. Getting...more
[2] ... Review | Fred Thompson (1873-1919) was a pioneering entrepreneur who encouraged Americans, especially American men, to have fun and stop feeling guilty about it. He designed and built Luna Park, which in 1903 transformed Coney Island from an area so tawdry it was known as "Sodom by the Sea" into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation. He created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, and filled it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. He moved on to become...more