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Buy, buy baby : how consumer culture manipulates parents and harms young minds / Susan Gregory Thomas.
Lippincott Library HF5415.32 .T46 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Susan Gregory.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child consumers.
- Advertising and children.
- 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
- Online:
- Publisher description
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