Everything Bad is Good for You : How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter Trade paperbac - 2006
by Johnson, Steven
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From the bestselling author of "Mind Wide Open" comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence.
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Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every dayfrom Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsonshas been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again.
With a new afterword by the author.
Steven Johnson's newest book, Future Perfect, is now available from Riverhead Books.
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- Title Everything Bad is Good for You : How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
- Author Johnson, Steven
- Binding Trade Paperbac
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used: Very good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc, NY
- Date 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # BING811JW124
- ISBN 9781594481949 / 1594481946
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 6.68 x 0.76 in (19.86 x 16.97 x 1.93 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Popular culture, Intellect
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006284419
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.097
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- New York Times, 06/04/2006, Page 44
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