Time For Things
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Time For Things
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Author : Stephen D. Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Time For Things written by Stephen D. Rosenberg and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans have come to prefer consumption to leisure. Productivity has increased steadily since the mid-twentieth century, yet Americans today work roughly as much as they did then: forty hours per week. We have witnessed, during this same period, relentless growth in consumption. This pattern represents a striking departure from the preceding century, when working hours fell precipitously. It also contradicts standard economic theory, which tells us that increasing consumption yields diminishing marginal utility, and empirical research, which shows that work is a significant source of discontent. So why do we continue to trade our time for more stuff? Time for Things offers a novel explanation for this puzzle. Stephen Rosenberg argues that, during the twentieth century, workers began to construe consumer goods as stores of potential free time to rationalize the exchange of their labor for a wage. For example, when a worker exchanges his labor for an automobile, he acquires a duration of free activity that can be held in reserve, counterbalancing the unfree activity represented by work. This understanding of commodities as repositories of hypothetical utility was made possible, Rosenberg suggests, by the advent of durable consumer goods—cars, washing machines, refrigerators—as well as warranties, brands, chain stores, and product-testing magazines, which assured workers that the goods they purchased would not be subject to rapid obsolescence. This theory clarifies perplexing aspects of behavior under industrial capitalism—the urgency to spend earnings on things, the preference to own rather than rent consumer goods—as well as a variety of historical developments, including the coincident rise of mass consumption and the legitimation of wage labor.
Objects Of Time
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Author : K. Birth
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-10
Objects Of Time written by K. Birth and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Social Science categories.
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
Objects Of Time
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Author : K. Birth
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-10-10
Objects Of Time written by K. Birth and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Social Science categories.
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.
Time Space And Things
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Author : B. K. Ridley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-03-31
Time Space And Things written by B. K. Ridley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03-31 with Science categories.
Brian Ridley's book sets out to survey in simple, non-mathematical terms what physics has to say about the fundamental structure of the universe.
99 Things To Do
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Author : M. H. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Compendium Publishing & Communications
Release Date : 2013-10
99 Things To Do written by M. H. Clark and has been published by Compendium Publishing & Communications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Self-Help categories.
Our everyday routines can be so all-encompassing that we often forget to make room for anything else. With 99 simple, creative ideas of things to do when you have the time, this whimsically illustrated book is designed to help you remember what matters to you.
Four Thousand Weeks
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Author : Oliver Burkeman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Four Thousand Weeks written by Oliver Burkeman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Self-Help categories.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.
Time Kills All Things
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Author : Ethan Renoe
language : en
Publisher: Ethan Renoe
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Time Kills All Things written by Ethan Renoe and has been published by Ethan Renoe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Religion categories.
Time kills all things, but it also heals all things. Somewhere in the midst of those two--healing and dying--is where this book lives. There is healing in the process of dying. We get sick, we get better, but we will inevitably one day die. Millions are killed in a genocide, but like a gash in your skin, the world comes together to heal that wound. There is pain and then forgiveness. The world is a big place. These essays are struggles to explore the way the world works, and as a consequence, how we should operate within it. How do we heal others? Ourselves? How do we die well? How does time make all things beautiful?These pieces were written between 2012-2019 with a personal, poetic energy which just might help you navigate your own way through this foggy terrarium we call earth.
A Time For All Things
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Author : Kaley Whitlock
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2018-08-03
A Time For All Things written by Kaley Whitlock and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-03 with Fiction categories.
Written in simplicity, A Time for All Things is about Bane, a color-blind ex-boxer who was just released from prison for assault. When he gets to his halfway house in El Paso, he is faced with problems he doesnt want to face. He lost so many things in his life that this time, it is a delicate issue of standing on principles or risking going back to prison. In his conflict at the halfway house, he meets the lovely Luna, a woman who has laughter like the wind. It is being with her that gives him the confidence he needs to make a final decision on how to handle the problems he is faced with.
Notable Things Of Our Own Time
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Author : John Timbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Notable Things Of Our Own Time written by John Timbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
A Time For All Things
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Author : Craig Alan Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019-12-09
A Time For All Things written by Craig Alan Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Lake Charles: 1908-1926 Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. September 23, 1996 KLM Flight 287 rolled to a seamless stop on the tarmac, and settled on its wheels under the translucent Moscow sky. A contingent of American heart surgeons and support staff blinked and stretched. Their leader was famous for dozing off as soon as the wheels were up on any flight of length, and more than one of his retinue had mimicked that feat on this last leg of their journey from Houston via Amsterdam. This was not the first sojourn to Russia for their Chief - that had been back in 1958, when the country had another name and quite another polity. Many other visits had followed, accompanied by accolades and fetes, mostly with a Cold War political undertone he neither shared nor acknowledged. By nature he was fond of reflecting on change and history, and he did not miss the significance of returning to this place, the both of them now so different, in a position to alter the life path of a man who, himself, was responsible for much of this country's metamorphosis. The President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, was suffering from congestive heart failure and severe coronary artery disease. The situation was grave; he was not expected to live without open-heart surgery - coronary bypass - but it was not clear that he could survive the procedure itself. The leading Russian heart surgeons and cardiologists had asked this Houston team to come to Moscow to assess the risks and provide recommendations as to how to proceed. In the geopolitically-charged climate of the immediate post-Cold War period, bringing in a coterie of Americans as consultants on the medical care of the most powerful man in Russia provoked all manner of responses on both sides of the Atlantic. The world's major news organizations focused on the story, covering every aspect. This fuss was of little consequence to the team from Texas, however. They were there to do a job, and their very presence in the Russian capital was as much of a validation as any that they were the most qualified group in the world for the task"--