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The Secret World of Doing Nothing

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520945708
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV14 .S437 2010
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Subject: "This is one of those rare books that causes you to rethink all your previous understandings of both time and space, to pay attention to what you have hitherto ignored or belittled. Full of fascinating detail, Ehn and Lofgren's work opens up a whole new field of inquiry."John Gillis, author of Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World "This is a beautifully written and elegant book, deeply thoughtful but accessible to anyone. The Secret World of Doing Nothing is an essential field guide for understanding daily life; a delightful way to find out w.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction GV14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn646788629

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Secret World of Doing Nothing; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Waiting; 2. Routines; 3. Daydreaming; 4. In the Backyards of Modernity?; Appendix: Doing an Ethnography of "Non-events"; Notes; References; Index.

"This is one of those rare books that causes you to rethink all your previous understandings of both time and space, to pay attention to what you have hitherto ignored or belittled. Full of fascinating detail, Ehn and Lofgren's work opens up a whole new field of inquiry."John Gillis, author of Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World "This is a beautifully written and elegant book, deeply thoughtful but accessible to anyone. The Secret World of Doing Nothing is an essential field guide for understanding daily life; a delightful way to find out w.

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