كتاب
Boredom: a lively history
| العنوان: | Boredom: a lively history |
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| المؤلفون: | Toohey, Peter, 1951- |
| بيانات النشر: | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2011. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| وصف مادي: | viii, 211 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Verveling., Boredom -- History., Boredom., Boredom in literature., History. |
| الوصف: | In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience. This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom--what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers--spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world.--From publisher description. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Putting boredom in its place -- Chronic boredom and the company it keeps -- Humans, animals and incarceration -- The disease that wasteth at noonday -- Does boredom have a history? -- The long march back to boredom. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn667990354 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-300-14110-8 0-300-14110-6 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012731368.0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780300141108 0300141106 |
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