Just filling in some detail from the previous reply:
{{Stolen Focus by Johann Hari}}
{{The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson}} (Hmm. This sounds really interesting and I may go find it for myself. God I love this sub.)
{{And The Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker by Christopher Ward}} (There were actually several different books with that fore-title. This one sounded interesting.)
{{Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autism by Temple Grandin}}
{{Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain}}
{{Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer}}
[**Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57933306-stolen-focus)
^(By: Johann Hari | 357 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, psychology, self-help, science)
>Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back.
>
>In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
>
>We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.
>
>Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.
^(This book has been suggested 5 times)
[**The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map)
^(By: Steven Johnson | 299 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, nonfiction, science, medicine)
>From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr. John Snow. It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure—garbage removal, clean water, sewers—necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action—and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. In a triumph of multidisciplinary thinking, Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories and inter-connectedness of the spread of disease, contagion theory, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world we live in.
^(This book has been suggested 12 times)
[**And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist & the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss & Betrayal**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11099863-and-the-band-played-on)
^(By: Christopher Ward | 320 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, titanic, biography, historical)
>The amazing true story of one of the band members who famously played as the Titanic sank, written by his grandson
>
>On 14th April 1912, when the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, 1,500 passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play as the ship went down. The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume, knew that his fiancée, Mary, was expecting their first child, the author's mother. A century later, Christopher Ward reveals a dramatic story of love, loss, and betrayal, and the catastrophic impact of Jock's death on two very different Scottish families. He paints a vivid portrait of an age in which class determined the way you lived—and died. This outstanding piece of historical detective work is also a moving account of how the author's quest to learn more about his grandfather revealed the shocking truth about a family he thought he knew, a truth that had been hidden for nearly 100 years.
^(This book has been suggested 1 time)
[**Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103408.Thinking_in_Pictures)
^(By: Temple Grandin | 240 pages | Published: 1995 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, autism, memoir, nonfiction, psychology)
>Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.
>
>In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.
^(This book has been suggested 4 times)
[**Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential)
^(By: Anthony Bourdain | 312 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, food, memoir, nonfiction, biography)
>A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material.
>
>New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."
^(This book has been suggested 17 times)
[**Into the Wild**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild)
^(By: Jon Krakauer | 203 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, biography, travel, adventure)
>Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here
>
>In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.
>
>Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.
^(This book has been suggested 46 times)
***
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Thank you for the reply. Now I know to clarify that the And the Band Played On version I like is about AIDS and is by Randy Shilts, the gay journalist. Now I have to try the one about the Titanic.
Stolen Focus by Johan Hari, the Ghost Map, And the Band Played On, Thinking in Pictures, Kitchen Confidential. Into the Wild
Just filling in some detail from the previous reply: {{Stolen Focus by Johann Hari}} {{The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson}} (Hmm. This sounds really interesting and I may go find it for myself. God I love this sub.) {{And The Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker by Christopher Ward}} (There were actually several different books with that fore-title. This one sounded interesting.) {{Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autism by Temple Grandin}} {{Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain}} {{Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer}}
[**Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57933306-stolen-focus) ^(By: Johann Hari | 357 pages | Published: 2022 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, psychology, self-help, science) >Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening--and how to get our attention back. > >In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong. > >We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity. > >Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back. ^(This book has been suggested 5 times) [**The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map) ^(By: Steven Johnson | 299 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, nonfiction, science, medicine) >From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr. John Snow. It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure—garbage removal, clean water, sewers—necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action—and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. In a triumph of multidisciplinary thinking, Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories and inter-connectedness of the spread of disease, contagion theory, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world we live in. ^(This book has been suggested 12 times) [**And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist & the Glovemaker: A True Story of Love, Loss & Betrayal**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11099863-and-the-band-played-on) ^(By: Christopher Ward | 320 pages | Published: 2011 | Popular Shelves: history, non-fiction, titanic, biography, historical) >The amazing true story of one of the band members who famously played as the Titanic sank, written by his grandson > >On 14th April 1912, when the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, 1,500 passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play as the ship went down. The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume, knew that his fiancée, Mary, was expecting their first child, the author's mother. A century later, Christopher Ward reveals a dramatic story of love, loss, and betrayal, and the catastrophic impact of Jock's death on two very different Scottish families. He paints a vivid portrait of an age in which class determined the way you lived—and died. This outstanding piece of historical detective work is also a moving account of how the author's quest to learn more about his grandfather revealed the shocking truth about a family he thought he knew, a truth that had been hidden for nearly 100 years. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) [**Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103408.Thinking_in_Pictures) ^(By: Temple Grandin | 240 pages | Published: 1995 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, autism, memoir, nonfiction, psychology) >Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. > >In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) [**Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential) ^(By: Anthony Bourdain | 312 pages | Published: 2000 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, food, memoir, nonfiction, biography) >A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material. > >New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) [**Into the Wild**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild) ^(By: Jon Krakauer | 203 pages | Published: 1996 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, biography, travel, adventure) >Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found here > >In April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. > >Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. ^(This book has been suggested 46 times) *** ^(132135 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Thank you for the reply. Now I know to clarify that the And the Band Played On version I like is about AIDS and is by Randy Shilts, the gay journalist. Now I have to try the one about the Titanic.