Rented World (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: good. Used book that is clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Your attention was never free. It was leased - and you never saw the bill.You pick up your phone for a minute and surface an hour later, tired, wired, and strangely behind. You are not weak, and you are not broken. You are the softest counterparty in the largest market on earth: the market for human attention, where your evenings are auctioned by the second and you are paid less than the price of an egg.Rented Minds is the calm, unsparing owner's manual for that market - and the practical playbook for walking out of it.No villains. No conspiracy. No throwing your phone in a lake. Drawing on the oldest books we have - Plato and Aristotle, Franklin and Adam Smith, Mill, Kierkegaard, and the Stoics - alongside the modern science of reward, attention, and belonging, Dr. Sullivan J. Ryan shows how a trillion-dollar machine grew up around a brain that had no time to adjust, and why nobody is driving it. Then he hands you the tools: - The Attention Audit - one week of honest counting that ends the fog for good- The Four Tests - spot a hope-seller, a fake guru, or an empty course in ninety seconds- The Trust Portfolio - whom to believe when anyone can print a credential- The Residue Test - tell real participation from the engineered feeling of it- The Freedom Number - the boring, unbreakable path to money no one can sell you- The Standing Table - how ordinary people rebuild real connection in an age that rents the fake kindYou'll learn why outrage rises in your feed like a crop yield, why the loneliest customers are sold intimacy by subscription, why gurus rent Lamborghinis, and why the exits are all unlocked. And you'll finish with something rare in this genre: a thirty-day plan, a clear head, and your hours back.Your mind was never theirs. This book is how the lease ends.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. [260 x 200mm]. Curated by Philip Monk (who wrote the Foreword). Essay by Sally McKay. Short story by Sheila Heti. Essay by R.M. Vaughan. Short story by Derek McCormack. Inscribed and dated with locale by Philip Monk. Inscribed and dated with locale by Lisa Kiss, the designer of the catalogue [this was her first book design]. Good provenance, more information available on request. Fore-edge curled but overall a very good clean copy. Signed by Author(s).…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book is about the art of expression, and about what happens when an entire civilization begins to lose it. The art of expression comes with the struggle and resistance to find the right words and flow to express yourself, your ideas, your thought.What happens when the resistance disappears? That is the question this book will try to answer.Something is shifting beneath us. It is not loud. There is no alarm sounding. The shift feels, if anything, like relief, like being handed a better tool for a hard job. Artificial intelligence can now write our emails, draft our reports, structure our arguments, and generate our social media posts. It can compose wedding speeches and condolence letters. It can rephrase our half-formed thoughts into polished paragraphs in seconds. For many people, this is simply progress. The mental labor of communication, the searching, the struggling, the deleting and rewriting, has been lifted. The machine handles it now.But here is what almost no one is talking about, that mental labor was not a bug. It was the training.Every time you sat with a blank page and forced yourself to find the right word, not a good word, the right word, you were building something inside your mind. Every time you caught yourself midsentence and restructured your thought because you could see the listener's confusion, you were honing a cognitive skill that no app can replicate. Every time you failed to say what you meant and lay awake that night replaying the conversation, figuring out what you should have said, you were getting better. Slowly, imperfectly, painfully, but better.That process has a name, though we rarely use it. It is called 'cognitive load'. And cognitive load, in the domain of communication, is not an obstacle to be eliminated. It is the resistance that builds the muscle. Without resistance we will weaken our muscles of expression.We will discuss this complex area in this book.Not with panic, not with nostalgia for some imagined golden age of human conversation. I have no interest in arguing that we should throw away our tools. I am interested in something more precise and more urgent, understanding exactly what we are losing, mapping the mechanisms of that loss, and asking whether we can still do something about it before the loss becomes invisible, which is to say, before we forget we ever had the thing we are losing. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…