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DISTRACTED: THE EROSION OF ATTENTION AND THE COMING DARK AGE
《资讯爆炸時代早已失去的专著力》 |
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| by MAGGIE JACKSON, FOREWORD BY BILL MCKIBBEN | |||||||||
| 页数：320 定价：25.95 美元 上传日期：2008-1-8 | |||||||||
| 中文概要: | 在這資訊爆炸時代，對於出現的大量資訊通常只能大略瀏覽。資訊常常是多到來不及吸收，現代人早已失去了對事物的專著能力。正因為不再擁有對事物深入的專著力，使得科學工藝在各方面迅速成長的同時，現代社會卻進入了黑暗時期，文化變得扁平而淺薄。作者從許多面向來探討專著力對於社會發展的重要性以及現代人失去專著力將會面臨各種不良後果產生。 美國首屈一指的環境作家Bill Mckibben (《大自然的終點》The End of Nature,1989)着序推薦。 |
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| 英文概要: | Foreword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben Reader. 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 rescheduled a dozen times, then punctuated when they do occur with pings and beeps and more multitasking. Welcome to the land of distraction. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. In this new world, something is amiss. And that something is--attention. Journey with Maggie Jackson as she explores the many ways in which we are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained attention-the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress. In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its erosion, she introduces us to scientists, cartographers, marketers, educators, wired teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph age, and roboticists building smart machines to comfort and care for us. She takes us from the nineteenth-century roots of our mobile, virtual multitasking ways into a darkening future of snippets, glimpses, skimming, McThinking, and mistrust. Taking us beyond Blink and Faster, Jackson makes it clear that if we continue down this road of scattered attention spans and widespread societal ADD, we will be in danger of squandering and devaluing the essence of humanity, and our technological age could ultimately slip into cultural decline. But we are just as capable of igniting a renaissance of attention by strengthening our varied powers of focus and perception, the keys to judgment, memory, morality, and happiness. She describes some of the exciting new scientific research that shows how these skills can be nurtured. Distraction is unique in being simultaneously an original exposé of the multifaceted nature of attention, an engaging and often surprising portrait of postmodern life, and a compelling roadmap for cultivating sustained focus and nurturing a more enriched and literate society. Pull over, hit the pause button, silence the ringer, and prepare to encounter our land of distraction--this may be your first, and maybe your last, chance to really fathom it. |
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| 作者介绍 | Maggie Jackson (New York, NY) is an award-winning author and journalist who is a contributing columnist at The Boston Sunday Globe. A former foreign correspondent and national columnist for the Associated Press, she has been interviewed on National Public Radio and has contributed to the New York Times, Working Mother, and many other national publications. She is the author of What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age and has been interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor, on television, and on dozens of other radio shows. Maggie Jackson是《波士頓周日環球報》（The Boston Sunday Globe）專欄作家。替《紐約時報》(New York Times)等多家媒體撰寫文章。前一本作品為What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age. Maggie Jackson是《波士頓周日環球報》（The Boston Sunday Globe）專欄作家。替《紐約時報》(New York Times)等多家媒體撰寫文章。前一本作品為What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age |
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获奖情况介绍：In this richly detailed and passionately argued book, Jackson (What’s Happening to Home?) warns that modern society’s inability to focus heralds an impending Dark Age—an era historically characterized by the decline of a civilization amid abundance and technological advancement. Jackson posits that “our near-religious allegiance to a constant state of motion” and addiction to multitasking are “eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention—the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress” and stunting society’s ability to “comprehend what’s relevant and permanent.” The author provides a lively historical survey of attention, drawing upon philosophy, the impact of scientific innovations and her own experiences to investigate the possible genetic and psychological roots of distraction. While Jackson cites modern virtual life (the social network Facebook and online interactive game Second Life), her research is largely mired in the previous century, and she draws weak parallels between romance via telegraph and online dating, and supernatural spiritualism and a newfound desire to reconnect. Despite the detours (a cultural history of the fork?), Jackson has produced a well-rounded and well-researched account of the travails facing an ADD society and how to reinvigorate a “renaissance of attention.”--Publisher’s Weekly "This is an important book. I found it to be a harrowing documentation of our modern world’s descent into fragmentation, self alienation, and emptiness - brought on, to a large extent, by communication technologies that distract us, dislocate us, and destroy our inner lives. Others have commented on these issues, but I have never seen them gathered together and documented as completely as Maggie Jackson has done."--ALAN LIGHTMAN, MIT professor and author of the bestselling Einstein’s Dreams and National Book Award finalist The Diagnosis NPR ’s Diane Rehm Show "Distraction and Democracy" http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/06/10.php#20324 "Shifting Careers" blog in the New York Times Business section guest blogged by Maggie Jackson. Subject: "Attention Must Be Paid." See http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/attention-must-be-paid/ - One of the most emailed stories three days running this week. Business Week two-page adapted article from the book this week. Videocast has been posted at Business Week online: http://feedroom.businessweek.com/index.jsp fr_story=ae4dbb951778d0efab8a20de484ab16c78dc8e11 Story ran in June 23 issue. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089055162244.htm The New York Post review: http://www.nypost.com/seven/06082008/postopinion/postopbooks/distracted_114470.htm |
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| 分类： 科学 古生物学 伦敦书展2008 | 图书代码：09651007B18280 | ||||||||
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GRAVE SECRETS OF DINOSAURS: SOFT TISSUES AND HARD SCIENCE | ||||||||
| by PHILLIP MANNING | |||||||||
| 页数：316 定价：28 美元 上传日期：2007-12-3 | |||||||||
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| 英文概要: | Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip Manning presents the most astonishing dinosaur fossil excavations of the past 100 years—including the recent discovery of a remarkably intact dinosaur mummy in the Badlands of North Dakota. Bone structure is just the beginning of our knowledge today, thanks to amazing digs like these. Drawing on new breakthroughs and cutting-edge techniques of analysis, Dr. Manning takes us on a thrilling, globe-spanning tour of dinosaur mummy finds—from the first such excavation in 1908 to a baby dinosaur unearthed in 1980, from a dino with a heart in South Dakota to titanosaur embryos in Argentina. And he discusses his own groundbreaking analysis of "Dakota," discovered by Tyler Lyson. Using state-of-the-art technology to scan and analyse this remarkable discovery, National Geographic and Dr. Manning create an incredibly lifelike portrait of Dakota. The knowledge to be gained from this exceedingly rare find, and those that came before it, will intrigue dinosaur-loving readers of all ages. |
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| 作者介绍 | Dr. Phillip Manning teaches vertebrate paleontology and evolution at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. He has built an international reputation for his work on dinosaur trackways and biomechanics, with extensive field experience at Jurassic and Cretaceous sites in North and South America and the British Isles. He is recognized for his leading role in engaging the public’s interest in the wonders of science. | ||||||||
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MAKING THE ROUNDS WITH OSCAR
《(ROUNDING WITH OSCAR: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A CAT ON AGING AND DYING)從預知死亡的貓身上學到如何面對老化與死亡的重要人生課題》 |
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繁体版权已售出 | 中文概要: | David Dosa是位老人醫學專家也是布朗大學醫學助理教授，他的貓Oscar乍看之下平凡無奇，卻有著極為特別的能力。Oscar能夠知道哪個人今天即將去世，並陪伴在臨終病人身旁，伴隨他們度過人生最後一段時間。David將Oscar成功預測25位安養所病人死亡的事蹟發表在《新英格蘭醫學期刊》上時，這篇文章引起極大迴響， Oscar頓時聲名大噪，許多人透過Yahoo, MSN等網路下在這篇文章，全球各大媒體(包括CNN、衛報等)也爭相報導這隻神奇的貓。 隨著Oscar的話題，原本被視為禁忌卻重要的老化及死亡問題得以被廣泛討論與正視。此書不僅是描述Oscar的神奇事蹟，David Dosa這位醫學專家以更深沉謙卑的心，透過觀察Osacr得到更多關於臨終與慢性病病患照護的新觀點與啟發。(VC) |
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| 作者介绍 | David Dosa, MD, MPH is a geriatrician in Providence, Rhode Island, and an assistant professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The author of ROUNDING WITH OSCAR: Lessons Learned from a Cat on Aging and Dying, David received media attention media worldwide when he discovered Oscar’s uncanny ability to predict when patients would die and wrote about it in an article for The New England Journal of Medicine. Since joining the faculty at Brown, Dr. Dosa has published in the scientific peer reviewed literature in the areas of nursing home quality improvement, delirium, end of life care, and nursing home emergency preparedness. He is also the co-author of the chapter on geriatrics medicine in Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. ROUNDING WITH OSCAR will guide readers toward a better understanding of the complications of aging and offers readers ways to cope during this most difficult phase of life. | ||||||||
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获奖情况介绍：版權已售：8國（Headline/UK, House of Books/Holland, Droemer/Germany, Mondadori/Italy, Hayakawa/Japan, Bertlesmann/Poland, Ediouro/Brazil, and Matar/Israel） 《新英格蘭醫學期刊》The New England Journal of Medicine 2007/7/26 A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat The Guardian, 2007/7/26 The nursing home cat that ’predicts’ death Youtube 關於 Oscar the Cat http://tw.youtube.com/results?search_query=Oscar+the+Cat&search_type=&aq=f 東森新聞 2007/7/26 新鮮世／貓咪預知死亡為病患送終 準確預測25人大限 CNN 2007/7/30When death comes calling, so does Oscar the cat 作者的話： The challenging questions raised in this book require us to understand our own insecurities about getting older and dying. In the epilogue, I will reflect on what I, a trained “expert” in aging, have learned from my interactions with Oscar about the dying experience. I will describe how my practice has changed in caring for elderly residents with chronic debilitating diseases, and the lessons learned regarding end of life care and conclude with important take home messages for readers about growing older and dying gracefully. |
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THE ATLAS OF PAST TIMES | ||||||||
| by JOHN HAYWOOD | |||||||||
| 页数：240 定价：0 美元 上传日期：2007-9-14 | |||||||||
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| 英文概要: | A concise, authoriative account of world history that provides an intriguing insight for the general reader into how civilisations and societies have changed over time.Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 illustrated and photographs as well as specially drawn full-page maps, the book’s coverage extends from the earliest origins of human evolution to the present day, setting the major civilisations of Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a global context and explaining their rise to power, conquests and cultural achievements. | ||||||||
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| 分类： 社科 烹饪美食 历史 地理 | 图书代码：04700007B15790 | ||||||||
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DELIZIA! THE EPIC HISTORY OF THE ITALIANS AND THEIR FOOD | ||||||||
| by JOHN DICKIE | |||||||||
| 页数：416 定价：0 美元 上传日期：2007-8-15 | |||||||||
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| 英文概要: | Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards and olive groves of Tuscany - among sun-weathered peasants, and mammas serving pasta under the pergola Yet this nostalgic fantasy has little to do with the real history of Italian cuisine. Because Italian food is city food. And telling its story means telling the story of the Italians as a people of city dwellers. For a thousand years, Italy’s cities have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. In DELIZIA! the author of the acclaimedCOSA NOSTRAtakes a revelatory historical journey through the flavours of Italy’s cities. From the bustle of Medieval Milan, to the bombast of Fascist Rome; from the pleasure gardens of Renaissance Ferrara, to the putrid alleyways of nineteenth-century Naples. In rich slices of urban life, DELIZIA! shows how violence and intrigue, as well as taste and creativity, went to make the world’s favourite cuisine. With its mix of vivid story-telling, ground-breaking research and shrewd analysis, John Dickie’s DELIZIA! is as appetising as the dishes it describes. | ||||||||
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| 分类： 社科 生活 健康 烹饪美食 历史 地理 | 图书代码：01240007B15461 | ||||||||
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THE TASTE OF CONQUEST: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THREE GREAT CITIES OF SPICE | ||||||||
| by MICHAEL KRONDL | |||||||||
| 页数：304 定价：25.95 美元 上传日期：2007-7-19 | |||||||||
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| 英文概要: | Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, a history of the international spice trade focuses on the involvement of three important European cities--Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam--charting the growth of the spice trade in relation to the successive rise--and fall--of the three urban centers. | ||||||||
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| 分类： 社科 人类学 伦敦书展2006 | 图书代码：13008006B02290 | |
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THE GENEROUS MAN: HOW HELPING OTHERS IS THE SEXIEST THING YOU CAN DO | |
| by TOR NORRETRANDERS | ||
| 页数：0 定价：0 美元 上传日期：2006-3-23 | ||
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| 英文概要: | Norretranders is the leading science writer in Scandanavia and his previous book, THE USER ILLUSION, was a bestseller all over the world. This book focuses on an overlooked strand of Darwinian thought: how helping others and being selfless and doing something difficult to impress their potential mates is essential for survival for humans and animals alike. ’A fresh, irreverent take on popular socio-biology - novel and intriguing.’ Publishers Weekly. Sold to: People’s Press Denmark; Aschehoug Norway; Book House Publishing Sweden; Art House Finland; El Paradiso Estonia; Artist House Japan; Rowohlt Germany; Thunders Mouth Press USA. The author has his own website: www.tor.dk | |
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GENTLEMEN | ||||||||
| by KLAS OSTERGREN | |||||||||
| 页数：514 定价：0 美元 上传日期：2005-6-2 | |||||||||
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| 英文概要: | The rights are so far sold: Sweden, Albert Bonniers UK, Canongate (UK & Commonwealth) Netherlands, De Bezige Bij Spain, Mondadori (World Spanish) Norway, Gyldendal Denmark, Tiderne Skifter Germany, Pendo Finland, Tammi France, Flammarion Italy, Neri Pozza China, Anhui Lithuania, Jotema Romania, Niculescu Slovakia, Slovart Portugal, Estampa Latvia, Zvagizne |
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| 分类： 童书 社科 历史 地理 其他语种 ITALIAN | 图书代码：12342005B04119 | ||||||||
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LA BAMBINA DE CHIMEL (THE GIRL FROM CHIMEL) | ||||||||
| by RIGOBERTA MENCHU, DANTE LIANO | |||||||||
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| 英文概要: | In this touching book Rigoberta Menchù - winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 - tells the story of the beauty of her native country, Guatemala: of the wisdom of its people and the immense cultural and traditional heritage which are her roots. A young girl descended from Mayan indians, she remembers the time when her grandfather built a whole new village; recounts memories of the women collecting medicinal herbs in the wood, and of village elders teaching the children how to recognize the spirits which give life to all living things. A simple story which shows how one can draw strength, when suffering life’s slings and arrows, from a happy childhood marked by affection and feelings of unity with the earth. 9/14/05 Alice | ||||||||
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KAFKA | ||||||||
| by NICHOLAS MURRAY | |||||||||
| 页数：429 定价：0 上传日期：2005-5-12 | |||||||||
| 中文概要: | 弗朗茨·卡夫卡1883年7月3日出生在布拉格一讲德语的犹太人家庭，1924年6月3日卒于奥地利首都维也纳。生前卡夫卡可以说是默默无闻，而死后他却一跃成为现代文学的巨匠，人们将他与法国的普鲁斯特和爱尔兰的乔伊斯等名作家并列。美国著名作家奥登认为：“卡夫卡与我们时代的关系最近似于但丁、莎士比亚、歌德与他们时代的关系。”战后许多现代文学流派的产生都深受卡夫卡的影响。法国哲学家、剧作家、小说家萨特和加缪等人都尊卡夫卡为师长。 卡夫卡与父亲的关系在他的几部作品里有所反映。本书作者正是着力写他们父子间不同寻常的关系，为读者揭示不为人知、性格复杂的卡夫卡。 | |||||||
| 英文概要: | This new biography, the first for over twenty years, paints a vivid portrait of the man behind those richly imagined and unforgettable works. It re-examines Kafka’s long and tortured affair with Felice Bauer, which he eventually abandoned in despair; his equally difficult involvement with the passionate Milena Jesenska; and the eventual happiness of his final months with Dora Diamant. Through a sensitive rereading of Kafka’s fiction in view of these experiences, Nicholas Murray sheds fresh light on the work of a modern master. | ||||||||
| 作者介绍 | 作者Nicholas Murray是著名的传记作家，著有： 赫胥黎传 (Aldous Huxley)、安德鲁马维尔传（Andrew Marvell) * 赫胥黎传 (Aldous Huxley)--BA有书。 | ||||||||
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DUELLING WITH THE MONSTER | |
| by MARCUS DU SAUTOY | ||
| 页数：0 定价：0 上传日期：2004-6-17 | ||
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