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The wave

Strasser, Todd (author.).

Summary: When history teacher Ben Ross starts a classroom experiment, with the intention of showing students the processes behind social control in Nazi Germany, things get out of hand and the power of group pressure becomes a frightening reality.

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  • ISBN: 9780307979124 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0307979121 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    138 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Ember edition 2013.
  • Publisher: New York : Ember, 2013.

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General Note:
"The classroom experiment that went too far"--Cover.
"This work is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins based on a short story by Ron Jones"--Title page verso.
"The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969"--Foreword.

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Subject: Social control -- Fiction
Social pressure -- Fiction
Group identity -- Fiction
High school students -- Fiction
High schools -- Fiction
Authoritarianism -- Fiction
Violence -- Fiction
History teachers -- Fiction

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