Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent,…
Shelve Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crys…
Shelve The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our mind…
Shelve The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in syste…
The rapid advance of digital technology is reshaping our world and warping our minds. The onslaught of social media and smartphones has brought an appetite f…
Shelve Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age (Gospel Coalition)
First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”—events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to…
Shelve The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designe…
Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence…
Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how…
Một tiểu đội bảy người là bảy số phận, bảy tính cách, bảy tâm trạng, bảy nỗi niềm, bảy làng quê, bảy điểm xuất phát được tập trung về đây có nhiệm vụ trấn giữ một góc Thành cổ. Họ là sinh viên, là kĩ …
Trên tay độc giả là Hồi ký của bà Nguyễn Thị Bình, nguyên Phó Chủ tịch nước, nữ Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao đầu tiên của Việt Nam, Trưởng đoàn đàm phán của Chính phủ Cách mạng Lâm thời miền Nam Việt Nam tại …
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of 2024 • A Washington Post Notable Book • A New York Times Notable Book • The Goodreads Choice Award Nonfiction Book of th…
Shelve The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Anti-intellectualism in American Life was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. It is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portr…
‘What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100’ IRVINE WELSH
A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dange…
Shelve Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “biblical prophet” (Time). Lasch’s identification of narcissism as not only an individual ailment but also…
Shelve The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense o…
Shelve Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retre…
Shelve Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
“A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . With Empire of AI, Hao is fundamentally shaping many people’s p…
Shelve Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
