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Buy, buy baby : how consumer culture manipulates parents and harms young minds / Susan Gregory Thomas.

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Lippincott Library HF5415.32 .T46 2007
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
276 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Summary:
In a culture often driven by consumerism and materialism--with many products aimed at ever younger audiences--Thomas exposes the tactics used by corporations to manipulate parents into buying their products and explores the negative effects such a frenetic pace can have on children.
Contents:
  • Learn something new every day
  • "There's a new mom in town"
  • "It's like preschool on TV"
  • A vast and uncontrolled experiment
  • Elmo's world
  • The princess lifestyle
  • Anything to get them to read
  • Developing character in preschool.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-262) and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780618463510
  • 0618463518
OCLC:
71369194
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