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    The shallows : what the Internet is doing to our brains / Nicholas Carr.

    By: Carr, Nicholas G, 1959- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2011Edition: Norton paperback [edition]Description: viii, 280 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393339758; 0393339750Subject(s): Neuropsychology | Internet -- Physiological effect | Internet -- Psychological aspects | Internet | Psychologie | Effets sur la santé | Aspects psychologiques | Conséquences sociales | Brain | Internet -- Physiological effect | Internet -- Psychological aspectsDDC classification: 612.8 LOC classification: QP360 | .C3667 2011
    Contents:
    Prologue: The watchdog and the thief -- Hal and me -- The vital parts -- On what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself -- Tools of the mind -- The deepening page -- On Lee de Forest and his amazing audion -- A medium of the most general nature -- The very image of a book -- The juggler's brain -- On the buoyancy of IQ scores -- The church of Google -- Search, memory -- On the writing of this book -- A thing like me -- Human elements.
    Awards: Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionSummary: Discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.
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    Discusses the intellectual and cultural consequences of the Internet, and how it may be transforming our neural pathways for the worse.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-260) and index.

    Prologue: The watchdog and the thief -- Hal and me -- The vital parts -- On what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself -- Tools of the mind -- The deepening page -- On Lee de Forest and his amazing audion -- A medium of the most general nature -- The very image of a book -- The juggler's brain -- On the buoyancy of IQ scores -- The church of Google -- Search, memory -- On the writing of this book -- A thing like me -- Human elements.

    Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction

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