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ISBN
1416576746
EAN
9781416576747
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Paperback / softback
Release Title
The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your ...
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Freeman, John
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1416576746
ISBN-13
9781416576747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
81837403

Product Key Features

Book Title
Tyranny of E-Mail : the Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Business Communication / General, Communication Studies, Social Aspects, Sociology / General, System Administration / Email Administration, Social History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author
John Freeman
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Trade
Reviews
"[Freeman] brings the reader a fresh, intelligent look at email's infiltration into and influence over every aspect of 21st century life. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail serves as an engaging reality check."—The Daily Beast, "[Freeman] brings the reader a fresh, intelligent look at email's infiltration into and influence over every aspect of 21st century life. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail serves as an engaging reality check."-The Daily Beast, "We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences. John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how we have gotten here'. Freeman knows his history, and he offers an engaging account of the evolution of correspondence."—Bookforum, "[Freeman] brings the reader a fresh, intelligent look at email's infiltration into and influence over every aspect of 21st century life. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail serves as an engaging reality check."--The Daily Beast, "A book with a title this bold and provocative . . . requires an airtight and compelling case to back it up. To keep us reading, the book must also inform and entertain. John Freeman . . . delivers on all counts."- The Oregonian, "We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences. John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how we have gotten here.... Freeman knows his history, and he offers an engaging account of the evolution of correspondence."-- Bookforum, "A book with a title this bold and provocative . . . requires an airtight and compelling case to back it up. To keep us reading, the book must also inform and entertain. John Freeman . . . delivers on all counts."—The Oregonian, "A book with a title this bold and provocative . . . requires an airtight and compelling case to back it up. To keep us reading, the book must also inform and entertain. John Freeman . . . delivers on all counts."-- The Oregonian, "Freeman offers up fascinating trivia . . . [and] makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity."—The New Yorker, "Freeman offers up fascinating trivia . . . [and] makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity."- The New Yorker, "An elegant self-help book. . . . Freeman uses lush prose and invokes examples from great literature to make his points. He comes at things not from a giddy utopian perspective that permeates most writing about technology but from a humanist one. It makes the book refreshing and powerful."—Boston Globe, “An elegant self-help book. . . . Freeman uses lush prose and invokes examples from great literature to make his points. He comes at things not from a giddy utopian perspective that permeates most writing about technology but from a humanist one. It makes the book refreshing and powerful.â€� Boston Globe, "Freeman offers up fascinating trivia . . . [and] makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity."-- The New Yorker, "We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences. John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how we have gotten here…. Freeman knows his history, and he offers an engaging account of the evolution of correspondence."- Bookforum, “We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences. John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how we have gotten here&. Freeman knows his history, and he offers an engaging account of the evolution of correspondence.â€� Bookforum, “Freeman offers up fascinating trivia . . . [and] makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity.â€� The New Yorker, "An elegant self-help book. . . . Freeman uses lush prose and invokes examples from great literature to make his points. He comes at things not from a giddy utopian perspective that permeates most writing about technology but from a humanist one. It makes the book refreshing and powerful."- Boston Globe, “A book with a title this bold and provocative . . . requires an airtight and compelling case to back it up. To keep us reading, the book must also inform and entertain. John Freeman . . . delivers on all counts.â€� The Oregonian, "[Freeman] brings the reader a fresh, intelligent look at email's infiltration into and influence over every aspect of 21st century life. . . . The Tyranny of E-mail serves as an engaging reality check."The Daily Beast, "An elegant self-help book. . . . Freeman uses lush prose and invokes examples from great literature to make his points. He comes at things not from a giddy utopian perspective that permeates most writing about technology but from a humanist one. It makes the book refreshing and powerful."-- Boston Globe, "We live in a culture devoted to technology, and yet most of us cannot find the time to consider its history or its consequences. John Freeman has made the time, and has thought carefully about how we have gotten here.... Freeman knows his history, and he offers an engaging account of the evolution of correspondence."- Bookforum
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Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
303.48/33
Synopsis
There's no question that e-mail is an incredible phenomenon that represents a kind of cultural and technological advancement. The first e-mail was sent less than forty years ago; by 2011, there will be 3.2 billion e-mail users. The average corporate worker now receives upwards of two hundred e-mails per day. The flood of messages is ceaseless and follows us everywhere. In The Tyranny of E-mail , John Freeman takes an entertaining look at the unrelenting nature of correspondence through the ages. Put down your smart phone and consider the consequences. As the toll of e-mail mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation and separating us in an unending and lonely battle with the overfull inbox, John Freeman--one of America's preeminent literary critics--enters a plea for communication that is more selective and nuanced and, above all, more sociable.
LC Classification Number
HE7551

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