Bibliograph

The shallows, what the Internet is doing to our brains, Nicholas Carr

Type

Label

The shallows, what the Internet is doing to our brains, Nicholas Carr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The shallows

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

449865498

Responsibility statement

Nicholas Carr

Sub title

what the Internet is doing to our brains

Summary

Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes<U+2015>Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive<U+2015>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

Target audience

adult

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