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| Feed |
| Anderson, M. T. |
| (Fiction)In an Orwellian future, most people have computer feeds in their heads which entertain and distract them. |
| Teen Fiction ANDERSON |
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| In this sign |
| Greenberg, Joanne |
| If you learn to sign before you learn to speak; if all your family and friends sign, how do you interact with the spoken word? (Fiction) |
| Adult Fiction GREENBERG |
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| The age of missing information |
| McKibben, Bill |
| The author of "The End of Nature" asks an intriguing question: Which provides more "information," 103 cable channels showering viewers with beguiling factoids--or a weekend in the woods? |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 791.45013 M |
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| Songs of the gorilla nation : my journey through autism |
| Prince-Hughes, Dawn, 1964- |
| Prince-Hughes has Asperger's Syndrom, a form of autism, and is unable to form emotional connections with others -- until she learns about emotions by observing gorilla behavior. Her interactions with primates who sign cause her to question the lines we draw between apes and ourselves. |
| Adult Nonfiction Book 921 P3465 |
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| The alphabet versus the goddess : the conflict between word and image |
| Shlain, Leonard |
| Shlain theorizes that literacy hyperdevelops the left brain, leading cultures to undervalue the right brain and to become more violent. He presents a lot of evidence to support his speculation, while admitting that correlation does not necessarily mean causality. He perceives a cultural shift as we now live in the world of images. |
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How have our media affected us? Marshall McLuhan famously said, "the medium is the message." Do methods of communication actively shape society? Here are books looking at an historical range of media.
