Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: "Nicholas Carr has written a -- -- Part intellectual history, part popular science, and part cultural criticism, The Shallows sparkles with memorable vignettes?Friedrich Nietzsche wrestling with a typewriter, Sigmund Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplating the thunderous approach of a steam locomotive?even as it plumbs profound questions about the state of our modern psyche. This is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.