{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Book","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/deep-work/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/deep-work/","name":"Deep Work","shortTitle":"Deep Work","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Cal Newport"},"isbn":"9781455586691","numberOfPages":9,"wordCount":4001,"timeRequired":"PT16M","datePublished":"2025-12-18T21:57:18Z","dateModified":"2025-12-18T21:57:52Z","publisher":{"@id":"https://readstacks.com/#organization","@type":"Organization","name":"Read Stacks"},"workExample":[{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/deep-work/introduction-deeo-work/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/deep-work/introduction-deeo-work/","name":"Deeo Work","wordCount":473,"timeRequired":"PT2M","abstract":"Newport opens with the image of Carl Jung building a stone tower retreat at Bollingen, on the shore of Lake Zurich, in the 1920s. 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