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9780816060436 | Checkmark Books, June 1, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.
Product Description: Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles...read more
Hardcover:
9780816082315 | 3 edition (Facts on File, June 1, 2011), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities.
9780816062706 | 2 revised edition (Facts on File, August 1, 2006), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Examines the history and issues surrounding the censorship of works banned for their political content, including 'The Grapes of Wrath' by John Steinbeck, 'The Man Died' by Wole Soyinka, and 'The Politics of Dispossession' by Edward Said.
Product Description: From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, from Internet filters to the v-chip, censorship exercised on behalf of children and adolescents is often based on the assumption that they must be protected from âindecentâ information that might harm their developmentâwhether in art, in literature, or on a Web site...read more
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9780374175450 | Hill & Wang Pub, April 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the history of 'indecency' laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth ranges from Plato's argument for censorship to modern battles over sex education in the schools and violence in the media.
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9780813542218 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, October 1, 2007), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter, from Internet filters to the v-chip, censorship exercised on behalf of children and adolescents is often based on the assumption that they must be protected from âindecentâ information that might harm their developmentâwhether in art, in literature, or on a Web site.
9780809073993 | Hill & Wang Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the history of 'indecency' laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth ranges from Plato's argument for censorship to modern battles over sex education in the schools and violence in the media.
Miscellaneous:
9780813543888 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, March 1, 2007), cover price $16.00
Prebinding:
9781417693191 | Turtleback Books, June 30, 2005, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Presents summary and censorship accounts of books that have been banned throughout history for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons.
The one volume abridgement of the Banned book series highlights books banned for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons
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9780816040599 | Checkmark Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The one volume abridgement of the Banned book series highlights books banned for political, religious, sexual, and social reasons
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9780817255749 | Heinemann/Raintree, August 1, 1999, cover price $32.79 | About this edition: Explains what censorship is and how it has been used in the twentieth century, also presenting arguments both for and against it
Product Description: Gives plot synopses of 105 works of fiction and nonfiction censored for their political content, and details the censorship history of each. Works covered include Black Boy, Gulliver's Travels, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780816033041 | Facts on File, May 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Gives plot synopses of 105 works of fiction and nonfiction censored for their political content, and details the censorship history of each.
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9781556114854 | Reprint edition (Donald I Fine, January 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Recounts the fifty-year espionage campaign waged by U.
Hardcover:
9780688068851 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Traces the FBI's history of treading on the First Amendment with accounts of how the organizaton intimidated writers and hired librarians as spies
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9780813519548 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A prize-winning poet and author of Savage Grace traces the FBI's history of treading on the first amendment with accounts of how the organization intimidated writers and hired librarians as spies.
Looks at censorship in the U.S., and discusses the areas of textbook selection, libel suits, and government secrecy
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9780813515441 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Looks at censorship in the U.
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9780813515458 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Looks at censorship in the U.
Hardcover:
9780810821514 | Scarecrow Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Examines increasing censorship in public schools, describes the objections that lead to censorship, and discusses several case studies
Hardcover:
9780837186856 | Greenwood Pub Group, November 1, 1976, cover price $36.95
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