The wave
Record details
- 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.
Content descriptions
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. |
Search for related items by subject
Genre: | Electronic books. |
Other Formats and Editions
Electronic resources
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.