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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Crawford, Matthew B., author.     Subjects     Self -- Social aspects.     Individuality -- Social aspects.     Distraction (Psychology)     Mind and body.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Crawford, Matthew B., author.       by title:      The world beyond you...         MARC Display

The world beyond your head : on becoming an individual in an age of distraction / Matthew B. Crawford. by Crawford, Matthew B., author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Subjects Self -- Social aspects.   Individuality -- Social aspects.   Distraction (Psychology)   Mind and body. ISBN:  9780374292980 (hbk.) : 0374292981 (hbk.) Description:  x, 305 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. He examines the intense concentration of ice hockey players and short-order cooks, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craftwork of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the culmination of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature. The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of familiar phenomena, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and even the survival of democracy, this is a book of urgent relevance to comtemporary life."--Front jacket flap.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 155.2 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 155.2 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 155.2 Crawford Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 155.2 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 155.2 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 155.2 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Nonfiction 155.2 Cr Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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