Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology (Record no. 297111)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241341131
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 303.4833 NEW-D
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Cal Newport
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Business
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 284 pages ; 22 cm.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Foundations: A lopsided arms race -- Digital minimalism -- The digital declutter -- Practices: Spend time alone -- Don't click "like" -- Reclaim leisure -- Join the attention resistance.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The urge to pick up our phones every few minutes has become a nervous twitch that shatters our time into shards too small to be present. Our addiction to tech leaves us feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this timely book, professor Cal Newport shows us how to pair back digital distractions and live better with less technology. Introducing us to digital minimalists -- the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones or obsessively document everything they eat -- Newport reveals how to live more intentionally in our tech-saturated world. By following a thirty-day 'digital declutter' process, you'll learn to: · Rethink your relationship with social media · Prioritize 'high bandwidth' conversations over low quality text chains · Rediscover the pleasures of the offline world Take back control from your devices and become a digital minimalist.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Information technology -- Social aspects. Internet addiction. Social media addiction.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 28/06/2019   303.4833 NEW-D DCB3761 28/06/2019 28/06/2019 Book