The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology's effect on the mind. "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: as we enjoy the Internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?
Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration yet published of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences. Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative
Story Structure Architect: A Writer's Guide to Building Dramatic Situations and Compelling Characters
With Story Structure Architect, writers discover how to use the classical structures found in all literature since Greek mythology to create unique and successful works. Presented in a fun, 2-color illustrated design, this book: -Walks readers through each step of the structuring process--from identifying characters to weaving in subplots to building conflict -Offers thousands of possible story combinations with its browsable and interactive index format -Features 56 timeless dramatic situations, plus a blank situation template writers can use as they structure their own work
The Ending of Roman Britain explains what Britain was like in the fourth century AD and how this can be understood only in the wider context of the western Roman Empire. The emphasis is on the information to be won from archaeology rather than history, leading to a compelling explanation of the fall of Roman Britain and some novel suggestions about the place of post-Roman population in the formation of England.
Compelling Visuality: The Work of Art in and out of History
Typically, art history is an enterprise of recovery-of searching out the provenance, the original intentions, the physical setting, and historical conditions behind a work of art. The essays in Compelling Visuality address some of the "other" questions that are less frequently asked-and, in doing so, show how much is to be learned and gained by going beyond the traditional approaches of art history.
This series explores comedy, science fiction, reality television, and many other genres, offering a fascinating and entertaining look at the shows that have formed America's real favorite pastime.When you first heard it, you couldn't believe it: Jerry Mathers, from "Leave It to Beaver", had been killed in Vietnam; Mikey, who would eat anything as the Life cereal tyke, had eaten too many Pop Rocks and exploded. How did these outrageous TV legends get started? In the course of this compelling work author Bill Brioux exposes the reality behind the stories that circulate in our culture.
