About this title: We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at the Yahoo headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we tend to communicate even with our most intimate friends and family via instant messaging, email, and fleeting face-to-face moments that are ...
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Description: Very Good. 1591026237 THE BOOK IS NEW AND NEVER READ, HOWEVER THERE IS A TEAR ON THE SPINE AREA OF THE BOOK JACKET. THE INSIDE IS IN GREAT SHAPE. read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fine. 1591026237 THIS IS A HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET. THE BOOK AND DUST JACKET ARE IN FINE/FINE CONDITION, LIKE NEW, NO DEFECTS INSIDE OR OUT. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781591026235ISBN:1591026237
Description: Very Good-Used in Very Good jacket. / 9781591026235. Dj has minimal shelf wear. Dog eared page. Book is clean and tight. Ships with confirming email. 100% money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781591027485ISBN:1591027489
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Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Amhurst, New York
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781591026235ISBN:1591026237
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Publicity info laid in. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Black covers with copper lettering on spine. 327 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2008-06-01
ISBN-13:9781591026235ISBN:1591026237
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9781591026235. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781591026235ISBN:1591026237
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Description: Fine. 1591026237 THE BOOK IS INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE BY THE AUTHOR. THIS IS A HARDCOVER BOOK IN DUST JACKET. THE BOOK AND DUST JACKET ARE IN FINE/FINE CONDITION, LIKE NEW, NO DEFECTS INSIDE OR OUT. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781591026235ISBN:1591026237
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 327 pages. Explores the many ways in which we are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained attention-the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress. this title introduces us to scientists, cartographers, educators, wired teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph age, and roboticists building smart machines to comfort and care for us. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781591026235ISBN:1591026237
Description: Good in Good jacket. DUST JACKET WORN AS IT HAS SERVED IT'S PURPOSE AND PROTECTED THE BOOK, Clean, nice condition, good reading copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781591026235ISBN:1591026237
Description: Good. Cover and pages may have some wear or writing. Binding is tight. We ship daily Monday-Friday. Delivery Confirmation included on all domestic orders. read more
"Lots of little insights, and well-researched, but overall, the book suffers from the very problem it's describing: too much information to make sense of, too little of the author's own thinking. My favorite chapter was six, on the nature of reading and how it changed as our culture went from being primarily oral, to literate, and now to information overload."
"I had high hopes for this book because the premise is a verification of what I experience daily as a high school teacher. Students, and teachers for that matter, cannot seem to maintain proper attention to grasp key concepts. Maggie Jackson sets out to explain why attention is important to memory, which in turn provides all of us with a sense of self, and success in life. However, she delivers a choppy book filled with vignettes of our modern day multitasking but fails to show how this might lead us into a second dark ages, which is spelled out in the subtitle.
Like her thesis, which might provide the book a bit of irony, Jackson herself seems distracted, weaving a text from present life to an historical analysis that is designed to show our progression throughout the centuries. Some chapters are good, for example the enlightening view of the rise and fall of the book and how our reading culture has turned from ink to pixels and from depth to breadth. However her multiple-page history of the fork could have been left on the editing floor.
Overall, the reader finds segments of brilliantly-written prose, but the organization is disjointed, and Jackson falls back on her work as a columnist by incorporating too many direct quotes. Rather than making social commentary that is enlightened and lasting, Jackson produces nothing more than journalism-lite on the continuing erosion of our attention spans, which will not allow us to remember her attempt at cultural prediction."
"Did you know there were novels in the 1880s that wondered if telegraph romances were real? This book starts out fascinating and goes on from there to draw an equally thought-provoking conclusion. It's content is extremely relevant. If you think about thinkers and how they change the times and the times change them, get this book."
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