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Download or read book Kids' Stuff written by Gary Cross and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbies(R) and Ninja Turtles(R), Tinkertoys(R) and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils about our values, that Gary Cross explores in Kids' Stuff, a revealing look into the meaning of American toys through this century. Early in the 1900s toys reflected parents' ideas about children and their futures. Erector sets introduced boys to a realm of business and technology, while baby dolls anticipated motherhood and building blocks honed the fine motor skills of the youngest children. Kids' Stuff chronicles the transformation that occurred as the interests and intentions of parents, children, and the toy industry gradually diverged--starting in the 1930s when toymakers, marketing playthings inspired by popular favorites like Shirley Temple and Buck Rogers, began to appeal directly to the young. TV advertising, blockbuster films like Star Wars(R), and Saturday morning cartoons exploited their youthful audience in new and audacious ways. Meanwhile, powerful social and economic forces were transforming the nature of play in American society. Cross offers a richly textured account of a culture in which erector sets and baby dolls are no longer alone in preparing children for the future, and in which the toys that now crowd the racks are as perplexing for parents as they are beguiling for little boys and girls. Whether we want our children to be high achievers in a competitive world or playful and free from the worries of adult life, the toy store confronts us with many choices. What does the endless array of action figures and fashion dolls mean? Are children--or parents--the dupes of the film, television, and toy industries, with their latest fads and fantasies? What does this say about our time, and what does it bode for our future? Tapping a vein of rich cultural history, Kids' Stuff exposes the serious business behind a century of playthings.
Book Synopsis The Digital Is Kid Stuff by : Josef Nguyen
Download or read book The Digital Is Kid Stuff written by Josef Nguyen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America “The children are our future” goes the adage, a proclamation that simultaneously declares both anxiety as well as hope about youth as the next generation. In The Digital Is Kid Stuff, Josef Nguyen interrogates this ambivalence within discussions about today’s “digital generation” and the future of creativity, an ambivalence that toggles between the techno-pessimism that warns against the harm to children of too much screen time and a techno-utopianism that foresees these “digital natives” leading the way to innovation, economic growth, increased democratization, and national prosperity. Nguyen engages cultural histories of childhood, youth, and creativity through chapters that are each anchored to a particular digital media object or practice. Nguyen narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from a young kid playing the island fictions of Minecraft, to an older child learning do-it-yourself skills while reading Make magazine, to a teenager posting selfies on Instagram, to a young adult creative laborer imagining technological innovations using design fiction. Focusing on the constructions and valorizations of creativity, entrepreneurialism, and technological savvy, Nguyen argues that contemporary culture operates to assuage profound anxieties about—and to defuse valid critiques of—both emerging digital technologies and the precarity of employment for “creative laborers” in twenty-first-century neoliberal America.
Download or read book Kid Stuff written by Diane Ravitch and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson, Stacy L. Smith--Martin Morse Wooster "Washington Times"
Download or read book Kid Stuff written by Tom Walmsley and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were falling through time together. Moth was being clubbed by Travis in perpetual night, in foreign landscapes. It was Day One. The sky was blue and Moth was dead. He fought Travis in the ring, in a palace, on a barge. He could see every fight imposed on the fight before, the past getting smaller the closer it got to the bottom of the tunnel. This fight was miles and centuries away from the first. They fought in a dream. Travis had a moustache and Moth was a boy. His hair hung down like Stanley Ketchel's. He killed Travis with one thunderous blow to the temple. Hundreds of men surrounded them in a clearing in the woods without a woman in evidence. He had always known Travis. It's the summer before the Summer of Love in the 1960s. Small-town Ontario. Beer, fights, boredom, sex. Kid stuff. Tom Walmsley's first novel in eleven years is an expansive, visceral narrative that dissects the lives of young teens loitering at the edge of adulthood. Moth and Beryl are teenaged siblings anaesthetized by their emotionally broken family; it is only in the spectacle of feral violence and the unearthliness of sex that they come alive. But they are not alone: in the circle of teens and adults that surrounds them, the brutality of the empty landscape becomes self-evident, leading them all down a path of betrayal, deception, and even murder. With an unwavering eye, Tom Walmsley captures perfectly the essence of small-town kids up to no good, if only because it is the only thing they can know. Ferocious and unabating, Kid Stuff is a bittersweet opera, about a time and place that is both then and now.
Download or read book Kids' Stuff written by Sue Vyner and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series dealing with family issues. Gordon wants to meet his absent father but his mother will not hear of it. A good read too. 9 Yrs+
Download or read book Kids' Stuff written by Linda Foa and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children at Play by : Howard P. Chudacoff
Download or read book Children at Play written by Howard P. Chudacoff and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of play in the U.S. from the point of view of children between six and twelve.
Download or read book Kids' Stuff written by Henry Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling, unnerving journey into those darker recesses of the mind that we all keep well hidden from public view. It's a remarkable novel--spare, uncompromising, deeply felt."--Douglas Kennedy Mark is a practical man; he expresses his feelings in actions rather than words. When his wife tells him that his ex, Kim, has called, he's speechless. He hasn't seen Kim or his daughter, Lily, for over 10 years. When Mark meets Lily, it's not the joyful reunion that he had been hoping for. In Kids' Stuff, Henry Sutton digs deep into the dark heart of middle England and finds it a very scary place indeed. Henry Sutton was born in Norfolk, England, in 1963 and now lives in London, where he works as a literary journalist.
Book Synopsis The Kids' Stuff Book of Reading and Language Arts for the Middle Grades by : Imogene Forte
Download or read book The Kids' Stuff Book of Reading and Language Arts for the Middle Grades written by Imogene Forte and published by Incentive Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff by : Lori Baird
Download or read book Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff written by Lori Baird and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2002-08-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how to bring all kinds of clutter under control, offering advice on how to stow, organize, clean, and categorize to avoid a messy household space.
Book Synopsis Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques by : Howard G. Rosenthal
Download or read book Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques written by Howard G. Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new edition of this highly popular book, Howard Rosenthal once again brings together a group of prominent therapists who share their insightful, pioneering, and favorite therapeutic techniques. These therapists include such well-known figures as Albert Ellis, Arnold Lazarus, William Glasser, Raymond Corsini, and Allen E. Ivey. Many of the classic entries in the previous edition are once again included, some unaltered and others updated, while several new chapters have been added to reflect the newest advancements in the counseling field. For practitioners wondering what methods to use when working with clients and what they can prescribe for them between sessions, or for those who simply are interested in gaining insight into the thoughts and minds of such eminent therapists, the more than 50 entries in this text are sure to be both highly useful and exciting reads.
Book Synopsis The Stuff of Family Life by : Michelle Janning
Download or read book The Stuff of Family Life written by Michelle Janning and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does putting your smartphone on the dinner table impact your relationships? How does where you place your TV in your home affect your family? The Stuff of Family Life takes readers inside the changing world of families through a unique examination of their stuff. From digital family photo albums to the growing popularity of “man caves,” author Michelle Janning looks at not only what large demographic studies say about family dynamics but also what our lives—and the stuff in them—say about how we relate to each other. The book takes readers through various phases of family life, including dating, marriage, parenting, divorce, and aging, while paying attention to how our choices about our spaces and objects impact our lives. Janning has joked, “I'm not a social scientist who uses large national datasets to illustrate family life; I’m the social scientist who asks people to examine what’s in their underwear drawers to tell stories about their family life.” From underwear drawers to calendars, The Stuff of Family Life offers an illuminating and entertaining look at the complexities of American families today.
Book Synopsis Mrs. Clean Jean's Housekeeping with Kids by : Tara Aronson
Download or read book Mrs. Clean Jean's Housekeeping with Kids written by Tara Aronson and published by books by Tara Aronson. This book was released on 2004-03-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved "San Francisco Chronicle" columnist takes on a subject that parents everywhere will welcome: getting one's children to pitch in around the house.
Author :Creative Publishing International Publisher :Creative Publishing International ISBN 13 :9781589230156 Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Creating Cool Kid Stuff by : Creative Publishing International
Download or read book Creating Cool Kid Stuff written by Creative Publishing International and published by Creative Publishing International. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Cool Kid Stuff offers over twenty toys, games and accessories parents can make to delight children from ages 2 to 10. All projects were kid-tested for "coolness". Directions for every project include step-by-step color photos, complete with any necessary patterns. The projects incorporate easy cutting, painting, and gluing techniques, as well as basic sewing and carpentry skills, so anyone can make these items successfully.
Book Synopsis Decluttering For Dummies by : Jane Stoller
Download or read book Decluttering For Dummies written by Jane Stoller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that cuts through the clutter of decluttering Modern life has produced so much clutter that the thought of packed closets, attics filled with storage bins, and rental units specifically used to store odds and ends produces its own stress. The decluttering movement offers solutions for those interested in reducing the amount of stuff in their life and embrace a more minimalist, tidier lifestyle. Professional organizer Jane Stoller helps you bypass the stress of a tidying project by offering simple, proven methods for organizing every space in your life—even your mind! Build a new mindset for minimalist living Declutter your home, office, and digital life Develop new routines for a tidier life Establish minimalist practices From adopting a decluttering mindset to finding new homes for unwanted items, this is the book you’ll need to keep handy after the big cleanup!
Book Synopsis What's with All That Stuff, Cacjohnson!#@! by : Jamala M. Johnson
Download or read book What's with All That Stuff, Cacjohnson!#@! written by Jamala M. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Empty Nest Chronicles by : Jerry Zezima
Download or read book The Empty Nest Chronicles written by Jerry Zezima and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorist Jerry Zezima has always had an empty head. Now that his two daughters have flown the coop, he and his wife have an empty nest. The girls aren't completely out of the house, of course, because a lot of their stuff is still there. Written with warmth and hilarity, "The Empty Nest Chronicles" is sure to appeal to parents who miss their kids but now have a chance to rediscover each other, to recall what life was like BC (Before Children), and to ask the eternal empty-nester question: Are we having fun yet? Praise for "The Empty Nest Chronicles" " 'The Empty Nest Chronicles' is brimming with laughs." — Bill Geist, "CBS News Sunday Morning" correspondent "Reading 'The Empty Nest Chronicles' is like having a hilarious conversation with the nicest guy you'll ever meet. Self-deprecating, gentle, and really funny." — W. Bruce Cameron, New York Times bestselling author of "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter," "A Dog's Purpose," and "A Dog's Journey"
