Get a Life!2 reviews David Burke, Jean Lotus Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1998 Witty + Funny, Witty - and they'v got a point A very good commentary. Every person should read this. It is not a guide.             Television4 reviews Jean-Philippe Toussaint Dalkey Archive Press, 2007 hardly working + 4.5 out of 5: An everyday, mundane, and delightfully humorous life + VERY entertaining Imagine: you are on sabbatical in Berlin, expecting to begin work on a monograph about the painter Titian. Your family is away on holiday. You've had it with television, and you've decided to give it up. But television is everywhere, as are its cousins: video monitors, surveillance cameras, ...             Remotely Controlled: How Television is Damaging Our Lives3 reviews Aric Sigman Ebury Press, 2007 Brilliant book + Amazing! + spellbinding Very good book. Hopefully, what "Supersize Me" said to Americans regarding our unquestioning consumption of junk food, this book will speak to regarding our unquestioning adoption of TV and other new media. So-called media experts have been constantly rewarded for trumpeting the latest in ...             The TV Kid8 reviews Betsy Byars Puffin, 1998 Loved it, still love it... + Unforgettable + The Way I Don't Want To Be! What a shame this book has gotten some bad reviews here--it happens to be one of my favorites! I first read it at age 10 or so, and really liked it then. In fact, I kept my copy all these years (I'm now way more than 10!), and it sits on my shelf with other childhood "classics." I appreciate the ...             Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience (Communication Series)5 reviews Robert William Kubey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990 Landmark work, non-judgmental, empirical... + All too true + Who watches TV? + THE FLOW NETWORK + THE FLOW NETWORK             Living Outside the Box: TV-Free Families Share Their Secrets2 reviews Barbara Brock Eastern Washington University Press, 2007 Must-Read Book! + A one-of-a-kind look at a draconian yet effective antidote OK, so the title is a cheap rip-off of the "Must-See TV" mantra that we've been inundated by those purveyors of the electronic medium. But as someone who has lived outside the box for more than a decade, I appreciate the thoroughness, clarity and thoughtfulness with which Brock writes in "Living ...             501 Tv-free Activities For Kids (501 TV-Free Kids)1 review Penny Warner Hinkler Books, 2005 All the Kids I know love this book I bought this book a few years ago on clearance at Walden's. Personally, I wish the activities were more educational, but my kids and the neighborhood kids love it. Everyday, I have kids coming over to look at "The Book". They think this book is about the coolest thing ever. It is easy to use ...             Fahrenheit 45110 reviews Ray Bradbury HarperVoyager, 2004 a great book of our time + Timely now that we're entering into the new dark ages... + Written in the basement of the UCLA library + True Fiction             The Age of Missing Information17 reviews Bill Mckibben Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 Disturbing + how television has shaped the modern psyche + A plea for mental silence + Still missing             Feed129 reviews M.T. Anderson Candlewick, 2004 Feed for thought + dystopia from the inside + A compelling comment on our future... + A Cautionary Tale for the Selfish Generation + Great story to the disturbing end             What to Do After You Turn Off the TV1 review Frances Moore Lappe Ballantine Books, 1985 Having Fun (Without the TV) I'm sometimes appalled at all the time Americans spend with clicker in hand. I'm as guilty as anyone of vegging out in front of the tube. Television at times becomes a blur of voices, faces, commercials, news and other bits and pieces. If asked to name one "quality" show watched in the past week, ...             Kick the TV Habit: A Simple Program for Changing Your Family's Television Viewing and (more) Steve Bennett, Ruth Bennett Penguin (Non-Classics), 1994 A program for changing family television and video game habits to create a life of quality family time and active learning includes one hundred TV-free activities, a wealth of facts and statistics about TV watching, and resources for further information.             Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community82 reviews Robert D. Putnam Simon & Schuster, 2001 A Lonelier Crowd Robert D. Putnam's BOWLING ALONE provides what is, arguably, the most robust scientific treatment in a single volume of the conversation about friendship and its benefits begun by Aristotle nearly twenty-four centuries ago, a conversation about what has now come to be called "social capital" : ...             Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television65 reviews Jerry Mander Harper Perennial, 1978 Reality TV may be the biggest sham every produced for our viewing pleasure + WOW WOW WOW + Intellectual View Of The Idiot Box + THROW OUT THE IDIOT BOX !!!             The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV (First Time Books(R))18 reviews Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain Random House Books for Young Readers, 1984 The Berenstain magic + Too Much TV + My kids loved these books + Problems with TV?             The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid6 reviews Ellen Currey-Wilson Algonquin Books, 2007 A humorous look at motherhood and TV + A must-read for any "alternative" parents + Wish I'd read this book BEFORE I had my kids! + So much more than I expected---funny and touching and inspiring + Hilarious, Great read.             Broadcast Television Effects in A Remote Community (Lea's Communication Series) Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001 This book reports findings from a major, multidisciplinary study of the impact of broadcast television on the remote island community of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Broadcast television was introduced to the island for the first time in March 1995. This introduction represented a major event on the island, whose only televisual experience had been through video. In the years ...             Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter Roderick P. Hart Sage Publications, Inc, 1998 Roderick P. Hart’s revised edition of Seducing America is an eye-opening look at how television's format of presenting politics to its viewers has changed the way television-watching citizens act, vote, and feel about politics in this country. While television makes us feel knowledgeable, important, informed, and close to our political representatives, it disguises dissatisfaction with ...             The Assault on Reason341 reviews Al Gore Penguin (Non-Classics), 2008 Excellent condition + Spot-on Analysis, Sometimes Cumbersome Prose + A Reminder of What True Democracy is Based Upon + Al Gore at his best + a well written book on the state of american democracy             The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life17 reviews Marie Winn Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002 An enlightening book on the silver screen + Shocking Parents with Common Sense + you may not want to know this... While Winn's thought-provoking book focuses on the sociological harms TV can cause, it falls short in other areas, namely, the spiritual and neurological harms of TV. Another book, "Television: Prelude to Chaos" by Frank Poncelet, answered some of these questions I had after reading Winn's book. I ...