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- File: The shallows by Carr (2011).pdf
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- Type: Book
- Title: The shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains,
- Author: Carr, Nicholas;
- Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company,
- Location: Place of publication not identified,
- Year: 2011
- ISBN: 978-0-393-07936-4
Abstract
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a — — Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes?Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive?even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
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- Keywords: 02 Next; Attention; Brain; Discipline; Electronics; Internet; Neuroscience; Personal Development; Productivity
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