Bøker av Sharon Beder

A kangaroo joey loses her mother in a tragic accident and has to adapt to a strange and alien human world before she can reach maturity and find freedom with other kangaroos. This is a children's picture book with large colour photos. It is the true story of an orphaned kangaroo joey. The story engages readers with its rhyming elements and kangaroo theme, which gives it a sense of fun and will captivate the young reader. The inquisitive Nellie-Roo and her foster brother Petrie will engage readers. The language throughout the book is accessible and dynamic.

This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.*BR**BR*Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children's play into a commercial opportunity and taking advantage of childish anxieties.*BR**BR*She presents an alarming picture of how a child's social development - through education, health care and nutrition - has become an ordered conveyor belt of consumerist conditioning. Focusing on education in particular, she also shows how 'difficult' children are taught from an early age that pharmaceuticals can be used to discipline them or to make them 'happy'.

Want a globalized and homogenized world of conflict, poverty and massive environmental degradation run by a corporate oligarchy that wipes its feet on democracy? Or a democratic world, where poverty is history, companies work for people and clean water is a right, not a privilege you pay for? This book shows that it's time to fight for the world.