Hari, Johann

"Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but in the long-term, nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention and to study their scientific findings--and learned that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. . . . Hari shows that if we understand the twelve true causes of this crisis--from the collapse of sustained reading to the disruption of boredom to rising pollution--we, as individuals and as a society, can finally begin to solve it by staging an 'attention rebellion'"--Provided by publisher.

"Johann Hari was finding it much harder to focus than he used to. He found that a life of constantly switching from device to device, from tab to tab, is diminishing and depressing. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but in the long-term, nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention and to study their scientific findings--and learned that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. . . . Hari shows that if we understand the twelve true causes of this crisis--from the collapse of sustained reading to the disruption of boredom to rising pollution--we, as individuals and as a society, can finally begin to solve it by staging an 'attention rebellion'"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses nine causes of depression and anxiety and presents seven different solutions.

Explores the origins, history, and recent developments of the war on drugs, and analyzes its flaws. Discusses the nature of addiction and drug use, and presents first-hand accounts of people on both sides of the front lines of the drug war. Also discusses successful strategies implemented in other countries and possible approaches to tackling the problem of illegal drug use.

The author chronicles the war on drugs through the stories of people from around the world--including a transexual crack dealer in Brooklyn searching for his mother, a teenage hit man in Mexico looking for a way out, and others--over the course of three years.