TY - BOOK AU - Postman,Neil TI - Amusing ourselves to death: public discourse in the age of show business SN - 014303653X PY - 2006/// CY - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. PB - Penguin Books KW - Mass media KW - Influence KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index; Introduction to the Twentieth anniversary edition -- In 1985 -- Foreword -- The medium is the metaphor -- Media as epistemology -- Typographic America -- The typographic mind -- The peek-a-boo world -- The age of show business -- "Now...this" -- Shuttle off to Bethlehem -- Reach out and elect someone -- Teaching as an amusing activity -- The Huxleyan warning ER -