Everything Bad is Good for You
How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter
-
GET 20% OFF
- Publisher's listprice GBP 11.99
-
5 728 Ft (5 455 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 20% (cc. 1 146 Ft off)
- Discounted price 4 582 Ft (4 364 Ft + 5% VAT)
- Discount is valid until: 31 May 2026
4 582 Ft
Availability
Uncertain availability. Please turn to our customer service.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Publication 6 April 2006
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9780141018683
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 198x130x14 mm
- Weight 194 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Long description:
We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment - but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent.
Steven Johnson puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. He shows that mass culture - The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto - is actually more sophisticated and challenging than ever before.
When we focus on what our minds have to do to process its complex, multilayered messages, it becomes clear that it's not dumbing us down - but smartening us up.
'As witty as Seinfeld and as wise as ER'
New Statesman
'Wonderfully entertaining'
Malcolm Gladwell
'A vital, lucid exploration of the contemporary mediascape'
Time Out
'A guru for Generation Xbox'
Financial Times
'A must-read'
Mark Thompson, former Director-General of the BBC
Steven Johnson is the bestselling author of Mind Wide Open, Where Good Ideas Come From, and Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, named as one of the best books of 2001 by Esquire, The Village Voice, Amazon.com, and Discover Magazine, and a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.
