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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><FONT size=3>Booksigning about Going
TV-Free</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT size=3>Barbara Brock of
Spokane, who wrote a book about families who live without television, will
be at BookPeople in Moscow on Saturday, September 8, from 10am until noon
for a booksigning and multi-media presentation about going TV-free.
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT size=3>Brock's book is
entitled “Living Outside the Box: TV-free Families Share Their Secrets.”
The 214-page book was published by Eastern Washington University Press in
2007. Brock, who teaches at Eastern Washington University, documents
the reasons some American families have chosen to eliminate television from
their homes, and also explains how these families have made that change.
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT size=3>Brock, her
husband and their two children have lived without a TV for the last 22
years. </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT size=3>The book focuses
on the results of her national survey of 300 TV-free families. Those families
overwhelmingly reported that they were </FONT><FONT size=3>satisfied with their
decision to be TV-free, Brock said. </FONT><FONT size=3>Ninety percent reported
no regrets in that decision. In addition, about 80 percent stated that their
marriages were stronger without TV in the home and about 70 percent reported
that their children acted better without TV.</FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT size=3>BookPeople is
located at 521 South Main in
downtown Moscow.</FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>