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Title: Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Re-Reading the Canon) by John P. Robinson, Geoffrey Godbey ISBN: 0-271-01970-0 Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Slowing down life's pace is necessary: here's how and why!
Comment: I have been preparing lectures on stress management and came upon the work of the authors' Use of Time Project which has tracked Americans expenditures of time over decades. This book has caused me to re-think all of my assumptions, and fits in beautifully with some of the brand new books coming out in the wellness field, including Dean Ornish's Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy and Paul Pearsall's The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, To Work and To Play. Time for Life shows, in methodical yet eloquent thoroughness, that the sense of hurry sickness and time famine is illusory and unnecessary: we in fact have ENOUGH time and money to be happy, yet we think we do not. The final chapter is worth the price of the book: called Brother, can you spare some time? it points out that the pace of life is a political issue, and that the commercialization of leisure can be critiqued and questioned, that while most of us lead lives of unbelievable privilege, happiness eludes us. This does not have to be the case. This is a scholarly book, yet accessible to the lay reader, particularly if you skip around some. The cross cultural stuff is fascinating (eg., Japanese people work longer hours yet don't feel the time famine like Americans do.) It is well worth the careful reading this important topic warrants. I am indebted to Mr. Robinson and Godbey for this expression of their life's work. I am deeply grateful, in fact.
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Title: Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor ISBN: 046505434X Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life by Joe Robinson ISBN: 0399528504 Publisher: Perigee Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Creative Whack Pack by Roger Von Oech ISBN: 0880793589 Publisher: U.S. Games Systems Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Call of the Mall : The Author of Why We Buy on the Geography of Shopping by Paco Underhill ISBN: 0743235916 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds by Howard Gardner ISBN: 1578517095 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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