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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: 9780307979131 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 030797913X (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource.
  • Edition: 1st Ember ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Ember, c2013.

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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"--t.p. verso.
"The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969"--Foreword.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Social control -- Fiction
Social pressure -- Fiction
Group identity -- Fiction
High school students -- Fiction
High schools -- Fiction
Authoritarianism -- Fiction
Violence -- Fiction
History teachers -- Fiction
Genre: Electronic books.

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