Julian Holt (29 results)

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Reprint of the William Morrow 1965 edition with a new Preface. [8], 351, [1] pages. Paperback: H 21cm x L 13.75cm. Glossy paper covers; some curling towards front cover's fore-edge. Interior leaves are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. ISBN 0306804697.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 166 pages. 5.25x0.38x8.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Da Capo Press Edition/First Printing. Softcover. 352 pages. One of the few accounts of the 1960s civil rights movement by a participant. An undiscovered classic that is a powerful, distressing, yet hopeful book. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Something has changed about the way people think. Not in human intelligence - the brain navigating the modern world is the same instrument that produced Newton, Socrates, and every verified breakthrough in human understanding. What has changed is the environment that brain must now navigate. And that environment was not designed with your cognitive health in mind.In 2011, Americans consumed five times more information every day than they did in 1986. The platforms delivering that information were not built to inform. They were built to capture attention and sell it to advertisers. Every design choice - the infinite scroll, the notification system, the algorithmic feed, the variable reward schedule - was optimized to maximize time on platform by keeping the brain in a state of fast emotional reaction rather than slow deliberate reasoning. The result is an information environment that exploits the same cognitive shortcuts evolution built into the human brain, at a scale and precision that no previous era of human history approached.The Thinking Crisis documents exactly how this happened and exactly what it is doing to collective reasoning. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, media criticism, and political theory, this book builds a complete structural account of the forces working against genuine independent thought in the modern world - from the attention economy's business model to the educational system's prioritization of memorization over inquiry, from the algorithmic amplification of outrage to the institutional interests that profit from a less critically engaged public.The philosophers saw this coming. Socrates died for insisting on the examined life. Neil Postman warned in 1985 that entertainment culture was dissolving the conditions for serious public argument. Hannah Arendt documented how the failure to think - the surrender of genuine reasoning to institutional role and received opinion - produces a specific and dangerous moral vulnerability. Marshall McLuhan spent his career establishing that the medium shapes the mind regardless of what the medium says. Their frameworks, combined with decades of verified research on attention, memory, cognitive bias, and the design of digital platforms, produce an account of the thinking crisis that is structural rather than moralistic - that locates the problem not in individual failure but in the architecture of systems designed to produce it.This is not a self-help book. It does not promise transformation through habit change. It is a documented philosophical and empirical examination of why thinking clearly has become harder, what that means, and what the examined life - practiced deliberately, against the consistent pressure of a world that profits from its abandonment - actually requires.The thinking crisis is real. Its causes are structural. And understanding those causes clearly is itself the first act of resistance.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xiv, 328 pp. ; LCCN: 60-11266 ; dark green cloth with gold lettering, in a black and gray dustjacket ; ex-lib ; library stamps and marks ; spine label on dustjacket ; foxing of text ; grease pencil mark on front ep ; Contents: The nature of TAT stories as cognitive products : a psychoanalytic approach / Robert Holt -- A substitutive-defensive conception of apperceptive fantasy / Richard Lazarus -- Thematic apperception in a nationwide sample survey / Joseph Veroff -- The influence of drive aro usal and the conflict upon fantasy behavior / Seymour Feshbach -- Psycho-logic : a personality approach to patterns of thinking / Edwin Shneidman -- Stylistic variables in fantasy behavior : the ascription of affect states to social stimuli / Jerome Kagan -- The role of the stimulus in the manifestation of fantasy / Bernard Murstein -- A theoretical and research reappraisal of stimulus factors in the TAT / Douglas Kenny ; VG/VG. Book.…

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Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Pyramid Books #112, 1954. Paperback Original. Cover Art by Julian Paul, Fine, bright, tight copy. Written by Janice Holt Giles, who was noted primarily for her historical novels set in Kentucky, under the pseudonym of John Garth. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Paul, Julian (illustrator). Vintage Paperback.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Something has changed about the way people think. Not in human intelligence - the brain navigating the modern world is the same instrument that produced Newton, Socrates, and every verified breakthrough in human understanding. What has changed is the environment that brain must now navigate. And that environment was not designed with your cognitive health in mind.In 2011, Americans consumed five times more information every day than they did in 1986. The platforms delivering that information were not built to inform. They were built to capture attention and sell it to advertisers. Every design choice - the infinite scroll, the notification system, the algorithmic feed, the variable reward schedule - was optimized to maximize time on platform by keeping the brain in a state of fast emotional reaction rather than slow deliberate reasoning. The result is an information environment that exploits the same cognitive shortcuts evolution built into the human brain, at a scale and precision that no previous era of human history approached.The Thinking Crisis documents exactly how this happened and exactly what it is doing to collective reasoning. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, media criticism, and political theory, this book builds a complete structural account of the forces working against genuine independent thought in the modern world - from the attention economy's business model to the educational system's prioritization of memorization over inquiry, from the algorithmic amplification of outrage to the institutional interests that profit from a less critically engaged public.The philosophers saw this coming. Socrates died for insisting on the examined life. Neil Postman warned in 1985 that entertainment culture was dissolving the conditions for serious public argument. Hannah Arendt documented how the failure to think - the surrender of genuine reasoning to institutional role and received opinion - produces a specific and dangerous moral vulnerability. Marshall McLuhan spent his career establishing that the medium shapes the mind regardless of what the medium says. Their frameworks, combined with decades of verified research on attention, memory, cognitive bias, and the design of digital platforms, produce an account of the thinking crisis that is structural rather than moralistic - that locates the problem not in individual failure but in the architecture of systems designed to produce it.This is not a self-help book. It does not promise transformation through habit change. It is a documented philosophical and empirical examination of why thinking clearly has become harder, what that means, and what the examined life - practiced deliberately, against the consistent pressure of a world that profits from its abandonment - actually requires.The thinking crisis is real. Its causes are structural. And understanding those causes clearly is itself the first act of resistance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Something has changed about the way people think. Not in human intelligence - the brain navigating the modern world is the same instrument that produced Newton, Socrates, and every verified breakthrough in human understanding. What has changed is the environment that brain must now navigate. And that environment was not designed with your cognitive health in mind.In 2011, Americans consumed five times more information every day than they did in 1986. The platforms delivering that information were not built to inform. They were built to capture attention and sell it to advertisers. Every design choice - the infinite scroll, the notification system, the algorithmic feed, the variable reward schedule - was optimized to maximize time on platform by keeping the brain in a state of fast emotional reaction rather than slow deliberate reasoning. The result is an information environment that exploits the same cognitive shortcuts evolution built into the human brain, at a scale and precision that no previous era of human history approached.The Thinking Crisis documents exactly how this happened and exactly what it is doing to collective reasoning. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, cognitive psychology, media criticism, and political theory, this book builds a complete structural account of the forces working against genuine independent thought in the modern world - from the attention economy's business model to the educational system's prioritization of memorization over inquiry, from the algorithmic amplification of outrage to the institutional interests that profit from a less critically engaged public.The philosophers saw this coming. Socrates died for insisting on the examined life. Neil Postman warned in 1985 that entertainment culture was dissolving the conditions for serious public argument. Hannah Arendt documented how the failure to think - the surrender of genuine reasoning to institutional role and received opinion - produces a specific and dangerous moral vulnerability. Marshall McLuhan spent his career establishing that the medium shapes the mind regardless of what the medium says. Their frameworks, combined with decades of verified research on attention, memory, cognitive bias, and the design of digital platforms, produce an account of the thinking crisis that is structural rather than moralistic - that locates the problem not in individual failure but in the architecture of systems designed to produce it.This is not a self-help book. It does not promise transformation through habit change. It is a documented philosophical and empirical examination of why thinking clearly has become harder, what that means, and what the examined life - practiced deliberately, against the consistent pressure of a world that profits from its abandonment - actually requires.The thinking crisis is real. Its causes are structural. And understanding those causes clearly is itself the first act of resistance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Debates about the digital media economy are at the heart of media and communication studies. An increasingly digitalised and datafied media environment has implications for every aspect of the field, from ownership and production, to distribution and consumption.The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economyoffers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries. It provides an overview of the major areas of debate, and conceptual and methodological frameworks, through chapters written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspective.PART 1: Key ConceptsPART 2: Methodological ApproachesPART 3: Media Industries of the Digital EconomyPART 4: Geographies of the Digital EconomyPART 5: Law, Governance and Policy 672 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Debates about the digital media economy are at the heart of media and communication studies. An increasingly digitalised and datafied media environment has implications for every aspect of the field, from ownership and production, to distribution and consumption. The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economyoffers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries. It provides an overview of the major areas of debate, and conceptual and methodological frameworks, through chapters written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspective. PART 1: Key Concepts PART 2: Methodological Approaches PART 3: Media Industries of the Digital Economy PART 4: Geographies of the Digital Economy PART 5: Law, Governance and Policy.…