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Busy bodies : why our time-obsessed society keeps us running in place

Title
Busy bodies : why our time-obsessed society keeps us running in place / Lee Burns ; with illustrations by Shinji Isozaki.
Author
Burns, Leland Smith.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, ©1993.

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Description
400 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Argues that Americans are seeking immediate gratification instead of long-term rewards, and suggests that this impatience is leading to hectic, less fulfilling lives.
Subject
  • Time management > United States
  • Lifestyles > United States
  • Lifestyles
  • Time management
  • culture > gestion du temps > mode de vie > Etats-Unis
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-377) and index.
Contents
Machinery of time.-The value of time.-The paradox of the good life.-Rising curtains, falling attendance.-Chaste by time.-Cleanliness, fitness, beautifulness.-Housework.-Undoing others.-Young folks in trouble. Old folks doing well.-The disservicing of America.-Time for the matters of the mind.-Who runs America? -Waste-making haste.-Time future.-Saving these United States of America.
ISBN
  • 0393033627
  • 9780393033625
LCCN
92020593
OCLC
  • ocm26132363
  • 26132363
  • SCSB-8974888
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library