Johann Hari Libros

La atención ha entrado en una profunda crisis. ¿Cuáles son los motivos?, ¿quién nos la está robando?, y, más importante aún, ¿cómo podemos recuperar nuestra capacidad de concentración? Un demoledor ensayo que indaga en una de las grandes epidemias del momento y en sus posibles soluciones. -- Según algunos de los últimos estudios publicados, los adolescentes solo son capaces de concentrarse en una tarea durante sesenta y cinco segundos, mientras que los adultos apenas pueden aguantar tres minutos. Como muchos de nosotros, Johann Hari es consciente del peligro que supone la omnipresencia de las pantallas, así como de esa imperiosa necesidad que nos asalta de pasar constantemente de un dispositivo a otro sin levantar la vista. Hoy en día, lograr el estado de concentración necesario para acometer labores intelectualmente complejas y exigentes es casi una quimera. -- Hari decidió entrevistar a los principales expertos en concentración humana para identificar las causas de esta crisis. En El valor de la atención desglosa los doce factores que la generaron -desde nuestra incapacidad de dejar fluir la mente hasta la contaminación en las ciudades-, y denuncia a las poderosas empresas que nos están robando el foco. Además, nos da las herramientas para entender la situación, defendernos y recuperar nuestra capacidad de vivir con atención.

This shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is 'superb journalism and thrilling story-telling' - Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through the theater of this war -- to find out how it began, how it has affected people around the world, and how we can move beyond it. Chasing the Scream is fueled by dramatic personal stories of the people he meets along the way: A transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn who wanted to know who killed her mother, and a mother in Mexico who spent years tracking her daughter's murderer across the desert. A child smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust who helped unlock the scientific secrets of addiction. A doctor who pushed the decriminalization in Portugal of all drugs -- from cannabis to crack. The title itself comes from a formative story of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, sent as a boy to the pharmacy for a neighbor screaming in withdrawal -- an experience which led him to fear drugs without regard to context. Always we come back to the front lines in the U.S., where we instigated the war and exported it around the globe, but where change is also coming

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety. There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why? He had a very personal reason to ask this question. When he was a teenager, he had gone to his doctor and explained that he felt like pain was leaking out of him, and he couldn't control it or understand it. Some of the solutions his doctor offered had given him some relief-but he remained in deep pain. So, as an adult, he went on a forty-thousand-mile journey across the world to interview the leading experts about what causes depression and anxiety, and what solves them. He learned there is scientific evidence for nine different causes of depression and anxiety-and that this knowledge leads to a very different set of solutions: ones that offer real hope.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true - and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. In fact, they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari's journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions - ones that work. It is an epic journey that will change how we think about one of the biggest crises in our culture today. His TED talk - Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong' - has been viewed more than 8 million times and revolutionized the global debate. This book will do the same.

The book explores the alarming decline in our ability to focus, delving into the underlying causes of this issue. The author, known for previous bestsellers, offers insightful analysis and practical solutions to reclaim our attention in a world filled with distractions. It challenges readers to understand the impact of modern life on our cognitive capabilities and encourages a return to deeper engagement with our surroundings.

Part of the experience of being alive in the twenty-first century is the feeling that your attention span is collapsing, along with those of everyone around you including your children. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And most importantly how do we get it back? In Lost Focus, internationally bestselling author Johann Hari sets out on a global investigative journey into our shortening attention spans. He tells us what he learned from spending three months off the internet, reveals the inside story of the war to grab our attention that is waged every day, and explores why those prescribing mood stimulants to 10% of children in schools are getting it so wrong. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with the world's leading experts on attention problems, Lost Focus moves beyond individual solutions towards a collective understanding of a problem facing us all. Only by first solving the attention crisis, Hari argues, can we turn to fixing the issues we care about most and sustain the attention to build a better society

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This amazing book will change your life' Elton John'Brilliant' Matt Haig'Wonderful' Hillary Clinton'A game-changer' Davina McCall'Brilliant for anyone wanting a better understanding of mental health' Zoe BallA radically new way of thinking about mental health. What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true - and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Hari ́s journey took him from a mind-blowing series of experiments in Baltimore, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions - ones that work.

'I learned so much' DAVINA McCALL 'Will help you think more clearly about eating, dieting, health and mental health' JONATHAN HAIDT Over the last decade, an extraordinary scientific breakthrough has taken place. A new kind of drug has arrived on the market, working in an unprecedented way to revolutionise weight loss and dieting. In 2023, Johann Hari began injecting himself with one of the weight loss drugs transforming how we look, feel and live. What began as a personal journey soon took him on an international investigation, tackling some of the most world-changing issues as he asked: Who should be taking these medications? How are they set to change not only the way we think about weight loss, but our economies? What are the benefits – and what are the risks? This is the book to read on the weight loss drugs taking over the world. 'Really important, and very necessary' STEPHEN FRY 'Compassionate, wise and mind-expanding . . . A must read' PHILIPPA PERRY

A deeply personal, expertly researched investigation into the weight loss drugs revolutionising our approach to food from bestseller Johann Hari.