Books written by Alissa Quart
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Branded: The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers
In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for product; the ...
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Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood
Gifted Tongues (Fine) Glauberman, Naomi Goldwater, Robert Goodwyn, Susan Gortner, Marjoe Gosse, Edmund Gould, Angela Gould, Stephen Jay Great Potential Press Great Talent Hunt Greenough, William Gust-Brey, Karyn Gymboree gymnastics ...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
Through vivid stories, sharp analysis and wit, Quart anatomizes the middle class’s fall while also offering solutions and hope.” — Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed Families today are squeezed on every side—from high ...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
The middle-class American Dream is imploding. Squeezed shows how the high cost of parenthood and our unstable job market got us here and offers surprising solutions for improving our condition.
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Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood
An investigation into the pressures placed on today's gifted children evaluates the long-term consequences of high demands and competitiveness, revealing the truth about current practices in IQ testing, the pitfalls...
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Thoughts and Prayers
“You walk into Thoughts and Prayers like it’s a familiar pop cultural fun house—then you get drawn into one of the mirrors and find you’re actually deep in someplace very real: fleshy, frightening, full of anguished intelligence and ...
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Branded: The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers
In this chilling and thought-provoking expose, Alissa Quart takes us on a tour of the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, introducing us to the disturbingly savvy advertisers who have targeted younger and younger minds and ...
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Branded (Virginia Tech Common Book Ed): The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Branded (Virginia Tech Common Book Ed): The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
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Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels
They include filmmakers crowdsourcing their work, transgender and autistic activists, and Occupy Wall Street’s “alternative bankers.” These people create and package themselves in a practice cultural critic Alissa Quart dubs ...
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Monetized
This book is a remarkable account of a state of yearning for the passing moment in a period of rapid acceleration, a feeling Quart calls "right-now-nostalgia.
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Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels
This deeply reported book shows how and why these groups now gather, organize, and create new communities and economies.
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your ...
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被壓榨的一代: 發薪即破財, 直面高房價,高通膨時代的虐心解讀
被壓榨的一代: 發薪即破財, 直面高房價,高通膨時代的虐心解讀