{"product_id":"how-to-breathe-underwater-field-reports-from-an-age-of-radical-change-paperback","title":"How to Breathe Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris Turner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays and reportage in \u003ci\u003eHow to Breathe Underwater\u003c\/i\u003e offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change--from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian government's attempt to build its own Silicon Valley; from video game design to digital-age tabloid journalism to the artistry of \u003ci\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/i\u003e; and from the fate of the Great Barrier Reef to Cuba's economic limbo after the fall of the Soviet empire. In field reports that survey the rise of the internet in the 1990s, analyze the changing nature of mass culture in the digital age, and provide a multifaceted look at how human industry is shaping the planet's foundations, this collection presents a fractal portrait of a society in rapid flux. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris Turner is the author of four previous books, a nine-time National Magazine Award winner and a sought-after speaker on the rise of the global green economy, as well as a celebrated feature writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and other major publications. His lively and passionate reportage, along with his incisive essays and shrewd cultural criticism, have for the past fifteen years made essential contributions to the debates on our climate, culture, and technology. They are collected here for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHow To Breathe Underwater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Chris Turner is among the best magazine writers on the planet. His writing is so beautiful, wry and well-reported that it's spellbinding. And spellbreaking: He wakes you up, makes you sit upright and look afresh at our culture, our climate, and where we need to go. This is literary nonfiction at its finest.\"--\u003cb\u003eClive Thompson, \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e columnist and author of \u003ci\u003eSmarter Than You Think\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris Turner is the master of long-form journalism in Canada, a smart, funny, and endlessly curious envoy to everywhere. This collection gathers his best work, forging links of meaning in a chain of superb reporting and writing; readers will see many choice pieces and realize, maybe for the first time, that they were all fashioned by the same indefatigable intelligence.--\u003cb\u003eMark Kingwell, the author of \u003ci\u003eA Civil Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhatever you choose to call this kind of stylishly reported, deeply engaged, richly nuanced, gorgeously written nonfiction--saturation reportage, new journalism, longform writing--it without question qualifies as real literature. It's the only kind of journalism that gets remembered, and the only kind that produces real change. Chris Turner has been writing it since he started taking notes.\"--\u003cb\u003eIan Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail feature writer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHRIS TURNER is one of Canada's leading writers and speakers on sustainability and the global cleantech industry. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eThe Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House Canada 2011). He is also the author of the 2007 bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House), a \u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction, the Alberta Literary Award for Nonfiction and the National Business Book Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTurner's first book was the international bestseller \u003ci\u003ePlanet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House 2004). His feature writing has earned seven National Magazine Awards and appeared in \u003ci\u003eFast Company, Time, Utne Reader, The Walrus, The Globe \u0026amp; Mail, Canadian Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. He is a featured blogger at MNN.com. 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