{"product_id":"the-world-beyond-your-head-on-becoming-an-individual-in-an-age-of-distraction-paperback","title":"The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew B. Crawford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his bestselling book \u003ci\u003eShop Class as Soulcraft\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe World Beyond Your Head\u003c\/i\u003e, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft 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 coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, 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 democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew B. Crawford\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a fabricator of components for custom motorcycles. His bestselling book \u003ci\u003eShop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been translated into nine languages, has prompted a wide rethinking of education and labor policies in the United States and Europe, leading \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e to call him one of the most influential thinkers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45336600084582,"sku":"9780374535919","price":27.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Nk5HV2d3Vlk3ZVl1OVBadWxqWEFZUT09.webp?v=1774612163","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-world-beyond-your-head-on-becoming-an-individual-in-an-age-of-distraction-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}