The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction - Hardcover

Matthew B. Crawford is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a fabricator of components for custom motorcycles. His bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, which has been translated into nine languages, has prompted a wide rethinking of education and labor policies in the United States and Europe, leading The Sunday Times to call him "one of the most influential thinkers of our time."

“Both impassioned and profound.” ―Christopher Shea, The Washington Post on Shop Class as Soulcraft

“Recent press coverage has sent word-of-mouth buzz on Shop Class through the roof, but it really is a book whose time, in our culture, has come.” ―Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times on Shop Class as Soulcraft