Barry Sanders (1) (1938–)

Autor de ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind

Para otros autores llamados Barry Sanders, ver la página de desambiguación.

11 Obras 542 Miembros 3 Reseñas 1 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

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 mostrar más Claremont, California. mostrar menos

Créditos de la imagen: Barry Sanders

Obras de Barry Sanders

Popular Reciente

ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind (1988) 193 copias

A Is for Ox: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age (1994) 136 copias

The Green Zone (2009) 51 copias

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

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

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

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

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

The Craftsman: An anthology (1978) 14 copias

Grove House : a California bungalow goes to college 1 copia

Fourteen ninety two or three (1993) 1 copia

Explorador de obras

Etiquetado

Alfabetización (28) Alfabeto (7) alfabetos (4) animales (5) Arquitectura (4) Arts and Crafts (4) arts and crafts (3) Ciencias sociales (5) communication theory (3) Crítica social (5) Cultura (5) Cultura popular (4) cultural criticism (3) Educación (17) Escritura (5) Filosofía (10) Historia (27) Humor (5) Lectura (8) Lenguaje (13) Lingüística (14) Literatura (6) media studies (3) medio ambiente (5) Medio de comunicación de masas (4) Mitología (4) Naturaleza (4) No ficción (17) Oficina (6) oral communication (3) osos (4) Política (5) Por leer (11) Psicología (9) Retórica (4) Risa (3) Sociedad (5) Sociología (3) Tecnología (10) Violencia (4)

Traducción de etiquetas en funcionamiento

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico: Sanders, Barry
Fecha de nacimiento: 1938-10-27
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA

Miembros

Reseñas

A Is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the… por 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."

Denunciada

GwG | Jan 12, 2011 |

The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism por 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.… (más)