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Title: Chomsky on Mis-Education by Noam Chomsky, Donald P. Macedo ISBN: 0-7425-0129-9 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: I like Chomsky, but this book is a swindle
Comment: I should say that I'm a fan of Chomsky's logical approach to political and historical criticism, but I'm afraid the title of this book is misleading. The book claims to be Noam Chomsky's view of education, but only 21 pages (out of 188) focus on Chomsky's ideas regarding education, and even that portion is merely a transcript of an interview in which Chomsky talks for about 16 pages. The rest of the book gives a basic overview of Chomsky's ideas on propaganda. That would be fine if the book was called 'Chomsky on Propaganda, with some notes on Mis-Education', but it isn't.
At a list price of over twenty dollars, I find this book to be overpriced. Chomsky's books are never cheap (and are often beyond the budget of many who might find Chomsky's ideas interesting), but this one is far too expensive considering what the title led me to believe it was.
Rating: 2
Summary: I'm a Chomsky fan, but this book is a swindle
Comment: I should say that I'm a fan of Chomsky's logical approach to political and historical criticism, but I'm afraid the title of this book is misleading. The book claims to be Noam Chomsky's view of education, but only 21 pages (out of 188) focus on Chomsky's ideas regarding education, and even that portion is merely a transcript of an interview in which Chomsky talks for about 16 pages. The rest of the book gives a basic overview of Chomsky's ideas on propaganda. That would be fine if the book was called 'Chomsky on Propaganda, with some notes on Mis-Education', but it isn't.
At a list price of over twenty dollars, I find this book to be overpriced. Chomsky's books are never cheap (and are often beyond the budget of many who might find Chomsky's ideas interesting), but this one is far too expensive considering what the title lead me to believe it was.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply Great
Comment: In On Mis-Education, the noted activist and scholar Noam Chomsky puts forth a well reasoned analysis of the failure of public eduction in America. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that many americans do not even know how many states are in the United States, or even who their senator or even president is (not that the last matters very much). On the contrary these same citizens can tell you countless bits of information on even the most obscure of Hollywood personalities. The failure that this represents, however, is not completely the fault of the people themselves, although they do bear a vurden for their own lack of intellectual curiosity, it is primarily due to the conserted and intense barage of mindless drivel constantly transmited through our media outlests and schools. In this era of information, TV is often seen as the fountain of truth and as the previous review shows, this is not an all too uncommon thing. Fortunately for us, Chomsky lays it all out and exposes how the media shapes what passes for knowledge in today's world, which comes down to a simple equation of profit and cost.
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Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0805074007 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples by Donald A. Grinde, Bruce Elliott Johansen, Howard Zinn ISBN: 1574160052 Publisher: Clear Light Pub Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Power Politics by Arundhati Roy ISBN: 0896086682 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy, Arundhati Roy ISBN: 0375756140 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:Noam Chomsky - Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror? ASIN: B00008AOW1 Publisher: Koch Vision Entertai Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $7.98 |
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