Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873270
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Robinson, Stacy L. Smith--Martin Morse Wooster "Washington Times"
Kid Stuff
Author: Tom Walmsley
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 9781551521534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 9781551521534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Kid Stuff
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873270
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Robinson, Stacy L. Smith--Martin Morse Wooster "Washington Times"
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801873270
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Robinson, Stacy L. Smith--Martin Morse Wooster "Washington Times"
The Digital Is Kid Stuff
Author: Josef Nguyen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452966214
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452966214
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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.
Kid Stuff
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Amazing Kidstuff Pocket Guide
Author:
Publisher: Leisure Arts
ISBN: 1464703914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Publisher: Leisure Arts
ISBN: 1464703914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!
Author: Holly Homer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1624140572
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Shares engaging and educational activities, games, and crafts to keep children of all ages entertained, including such amusements as making water bottle bangles, mixing homemade sidewalk chalk, and having a catapult competition.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1624140572
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Shares engaging and educational activities, games, and crafts to keep children of all ages entertained, including such amusements as making water bottle bangles, mixing homemade sidewalk chalk, and having a catapult competition.
Kids' Stuff
Author: Henry Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
With daughters like this who wants to be a dad?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
With daughters like this who wants to be a dad?
Mind Candy
Author: Lawrence Watt-Evans
Publisher: Wildside Press
ISBN: 1434443191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Over the years, in a variety of venues, Lawrence Watt-Evans has turned his sharp, analytical, and slightly crazed mind to everything from weaponized poetry to why the Enterprise doesn't have seatbelts, and everyone from Jane Austen to Buffy Summers. Collected for the first time are twenty-three of these essays, discussing icons of comic books, television, novels, movies, and much more!
Publisher: Wildside Press
ISBN: 1434443191
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Over the years, in a variety of venues, Lawrence Watt-Evans has turned his sharp, analytical, and slightly crazed mind to everything from weaponized poetry to why the Enterprise doesn't have seatbelts, and everyone from Jane Austen to Buffy Summers. Collected for the first time are twenty-three of these essays, discussing icons of comic books, television, novels, movies, and much more!
Creating Cool Kid Stuff
Author: Creative Publishing International
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 9781589230156
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
ISBN: 9781589230156
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
The Kid
Author: Dan Savage
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101219483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of a society enormously uneasy with gay adoption, makes for an edgy, entertaining, and illuminating read. When Dan and his boyfriend are finally presented with an infant badly in need of parenting, they find themselves caught up in a drama that extends well beyond the confines of their immediate world. A story about confronting homophobia, falling in love, getting older, and getting a little bit smarter, The Kid is a book about the very human desire to have a family.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101219483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of a society enormously uneasy with gay adoption, makes for an edgy, entertaining, and illuminating read. When Dan and his boyfriend are finally presented with an infant badly in need of parenting, they find themselves caught up in a drama that extends well beyond the confines of their immediate world. A story about confronting homophobia, falling in love, getting older, and getting a little bit smarter, The Kid is a book about the very human desire to have a family.