The Shallows
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Published on 3. March 2020
320 pages
978-0-393-35800-1 (ISBN)
Description
New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "This is a book to shake up the world.” —Ann Patchett
Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a new afterword that brings the story up to date, with a deep examination of the cognitive and behavioral effects of smartphones and social media.More details
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03/2020
WW Norton & Co
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Nicholas Carr is the author of The Shallows, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and five other acclaimed books. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, he writes for the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oregon.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Prologue The Watchdog and the Thief
- One Hal And Me
- Two The Vital Paths
- a digression on what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself
- Three Tools of the Mind
- Four The Deepening Page
- a digression on lee de forest and his amazing audion
- Five A Medium of the Most General Nature
- Six The Very Image of a Book
- Seven The Jugglerâ?Ts Brain
- a digression on the buoyancy of IQ scores
- Eight The Church of Google
- Nine Search, Memory
- a digression on the writing of this book
- Ten A Thing like Me
- Epilogue Human Elements
- Afterword to the Second Edition The Most Interesting Thing In The World
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Praise for The Shallows
- Also by Nicholas Carr
- Copyright
