Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Mixing provocative insights and oft-heard criticism, cultural critic Postman ( Conscientious Objections ) defines the U.S. as an emerging "technopoly," a society in which machines and technology are deified to a near-totalitarian degree. Technopoly elevates experts to "priestly" status, whether in economics or in child-rearing; it maintains a bureaucracy to control the flow of information; it likens human beings to computers in reductionist fashion, misapplies statistics in IQ tests and public opinion polls, and uses advertising to "devour the psyches of consumers" through symbolic manipulation. In medicine, technopoly is evident in doctors who aggressively overuse machines and X-rays.
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New Proficiency Gold corresponds to the most recent specifications of the Proficiency exam, provides enjoyable and thorough preparation. Special Exam Focus sections for each paper and new text-based activities for Paper 1, part 1, and Paper 3, parts 1 and 2; regular opportunities for reviewing and testing, with additional photocopiable tests in the Teacher’s Book...
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Practice Tests for the revised CPE 2
Practice Tests for the revised CPE 2. (Student book, Teacher book and Audio)
Proficiency Examination Practice Tests 2 is a set of six complete practice tests written in line with the specifications for the revised Proficiency Examination (introduction December 2002). This set of tests, written by an experienced EFL author, provides comprehensive coverage of the type of language points and individual skills focuses targeted in the examination and, taken together, offers thorough practice in the tasks contained in each of the five papers.
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An illustrated magazine for those who study and teach English published in Russia.. On its pages you find information about English-speaking countries, news, music life, short stories, scripts for plays in school theater productions, poetry contests, the texts of popular songs, crosswords and chaynvordy, psychological tests, logic problem, as well as such serious things as samples of job offered admission to entrance examinations.
