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Nominated for a National Book Award — An Amazon Top New Release — A Library Journal Best Book of 2023
Uncertain: The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Unsure
“Beautiful, inspirational, compelling, and urgently needed.”
“Powerful.”
“Groundbreaking - truly a book for our times.”
In an era of terrifying unpredictability, the swift, sure answer seems just right. We race to address precarity and complexity with neat algorithms, crisp bullet points, or hurried tweets. Who has time to dally in the wilderness of being unsure? How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by not-knowing? Uncertain is about the unsung triumph of doing just that…
Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention
Winner of the 2020 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture
“Distracted concentrates the mind on a real problem of modern life.”
“Influential”
In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Maggie Jackson sounded a prescient warning of a looming crisis: the fragmentation of attention that is eroding our abilities to problem-solve, innovate, and care for one another. Now in this updated edition with an incisive new preface, she offers both a renewed wake-up call and a path forward as we reckon with one of the most pressing problems of our time…
What’s Happening to Home?
Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age
“...a provocative look at work and family that challenges us to examine our lives and find our own solutions. … Highly recommended.”
In our chaotic, high-tech age,the lines between work and home, public and private, are becoming increasingly blurred. In this changing time, Jackson explores the ever-changing role of home in our lives — and sets out to update our idea of home…
