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Hold On
The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting
AvPeter Toohey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
493 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" (OED) than it is about describing how we experience waiting. Waiting can embrace things like hesitation and curiosity, dithering and procrastination, hunting and being hunted, fearing and being feared, dread and illness, courting and parenting, anticipation and excitement, curiosity, listening to and even performing music, being religious, being happy or unhappy, being bored and being boring. They're all explored here. Waiting is also characterized by brain chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. They can radically alter the way we register the passing of time. Waiting is also the experience that may characterize most interpersonal relations--mismanage it at your own risk. Hold On contains advice on how to cope with waiting-how to live better-but its main aim is to show how important the experience of waiting is, in popular and highbrow culture, and, sometimes, in history. Detouring into psychology, neurology, ethology, philosophy, film, literature, and especially art, Peter Toohey's illuminates in unexpected ways one of the most common of human experiences. After reading his book, you'll never wait the same way again.
Hold On
The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
224 kr
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What do you do when you''re not asleep and when you''re not eating? You''re most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" (OED) than it is about describing how we experience waiting. Waiting can embrace things like hesitation and curiosity, dithering and procrastination, hunting and being hunted, fearing and being feared, dread and illness, courting and parenting, anticipation and excitement, curiosity, listening to and even performing music, being religious, being happy or unhappy, being bored and being boring. They''re all explored here. Waiting is also characterized by brain chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. They can radically alter the way we register the passing of time. Waiting is also the experience that may characterize most interpersonal relations--mismanage it at your own risk.Hold On contains advice on how to cope with waiting-how to live better-but its main aim is to show how important the experience of waiting is, in popular and highbrow culture, and, sometimes, in history. Detouring into psychology, neurology, ethology, philosophy, film, literature, and especially art, Peter Toohey''s illuminates in unexpected ways one of the most common of human experiences. After reading his book, you''ll never wait the same way again.
Hold On
The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
224 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
What do you do when you''re not asleep and when you''re not eating? You''re most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by your doctor. Hold On is less about how to manage all that "staying where one is until a particular time or event" (OED) than it is about describing how we experience waiting. Waiting can embrace things like hesitation and curiosity, dithering and procrastination, hunting and being hunted, fearing and being feared, dread and illness, courting and parenting, anticipation and excitement, curiosity, listening to and even performing music, being religious, being happy or unhappy, being bored and being boring. They''re all explored here. Waiting is also characterized by brain chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine. They can radically alter the way we register the passing of time. Waiting is also the experience that may characterize most interpersonal relations--mismanage it at your own risk.Hold On contains advice on how to cope with waiting-how to live better-but its main aim is to show how important the experience of waiting is, in popular and highbrow culture, and, sometimes, in history. Detouring into psychology, neurology, ethology, philosophy, film, literature, and especially art, Peter Toohey''s illuminates in unexpected ways one of the most common of human experiences. After reading his book, you''ll never wait the same way again.
Boredom
A Lively History
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
255 kr
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A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourishIn 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. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Durer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature. Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.
Boredom
A Lively History
AvPeter Toohey
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
139 kr
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A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourishIn 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. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature.Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.
Jealousy
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
208 kr
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Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today’s materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy—the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of the sometimes droll, sometimes deadly consequences of sexual jealousy, Peter Toohey argues in this charmingly provocative book that jealousy is much more than the destructive emotion it is commonly assumed to be. It helps as much as it harms. Examining the meaning, history, and value of jealousy, Toohey places the emotion at the core of modern culture, creativity, and civilization—not merely the sexual relationship. His eclectic approach weaves together psychology, art and literature, neuroscience, anthropology, and a host of other disciplines to offer fresh and intriguing contemporary perspectives on violence, the family, the workplace, animal behavior, and psychopathology. Ranging from the streets of London to Pacific islands, and from the classical world to today, this is an elegant, smart, and beautifully illustrated defense of a not-always-deadly sin.
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
AvPeter Toohey
Inbunden, Engelska, 1992
2 850 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
AvPeter Toohey
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
2 850 kr
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Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
AvMark Golden,Peter Toohey
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
735 kr
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Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern societal and institutional structures, originated in the Enlightenment. Rather, the authors and contributors argue, there are many continuities and marked similarities between the classical and the modern world. Mark Golden and Peter Toohey have assembled a lively cast of contributors who analyse and argue about classical culture, its understandings of philosophy, friendship, the human body, sexuality and historiography
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
AvPeter Toohey
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 032 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
AvPeter Toohey
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
983 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
AvMark Golden,Peter Toohey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
2 891 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then the subjects were transformed, first by Sir Kenneth Dover, then by Michel Foucault.This book charts and illustrates the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once hidden aspect of the ancient world. In doing so it sheds light on fascinating and curious aspects of ancient lives and thought.
Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
AvMark Golden,Peter Toohey
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
658 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then the subjects were transformed, first by Sir Kenneth Dover, then by Michel Foucault.This book charts and illustrates the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once hidden aspect of the ancient world. In doing so it sheds light on fascinating and curious aspects of ancient lives and thought.
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
AvPeter Toohey,Mark Golden
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020
768 kr
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Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern societal and institutional structures, originated in the Enlightenment. Rather, the authors and contributors argue, there are many continuities and marked similarities between the classical and the modern world. Mark Golden and Peter Toohey have assembled a lively cast of contributors who analyse and argue about classical culture, its understandings of philosophy, friendship, the human body, sexuality and historiography
Inventing Ancient Culture
Historicism, periodization and the ancient world
AvPeter Toohey,Mark Golden
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
768 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity, by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore, it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self, of modern societal and institutional structures, originated in the Enlightenment. Rather, the authors and contributors argue, there are many continuities and marked similarities between the classical and the modern world. Mark Golden and Peter Toohey have assembled a lively cast of contributors who analyse and argue about classical culture, its understandings of philosophy, friendship, the human body, sexuality and historiography
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
Engelska, 2003
1 208 kr
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Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.
Reading Epic
An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2003
1 208 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
Engelska, 2013
1 030 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic''Toohey''s erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.'' - JACT Review
Epic Lessons
An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
AvPeter Toohey
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013
1 022 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain.Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic''Toohey''s erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.'' - JACT Review
Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
AvMark Golden,Peter Toohey
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
466 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 350 CE, A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World covers sexual practices, feelings, and ideas from the time of Homer to the transformation of the Roman Empire.A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.
Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
AvMark Golden,Peter Toohey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 586 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 350 CE, A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World covers sexual practices, feelings, and ideas from the time of Homer to the transformation of the Roman Empire.A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual variations, religious and legal issues, health concerns, popular beliefs about sexuality, prostitution and erotica.
Can Sikintisinin Tarihi
AvPeter Toohey,Sema Utkueri
Häftad, Turkiska, 2026
128 kr
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Bu kitap, size sikintinizdan kurtulmayi vaat eden bir kisisel gelisim re?etesi ya da harekete ge?menizi ?neren bir motivasyon rehberi degil. Aksine; sanat, edebiyat, felsefe ve n?robilimi ustalikla harmanlayarak, basit sikinti ile varolussal melankoli arasindaki o ince ?izgiyi isaret eden, entelekt?el bir dedektiflik ?alismasidir. Peter Toohey, modern yasamin davetsiz misafiri muamelesi g?ren can sikintisini sanik sandalyesinden kaldiriyor. Orta?ag kesislerinin h?cresinden modern bekleme salonlarina, Albrecht D?rer'in meleklerinden Oblomov'un hirkasina, oradan Orhan Pamuk'un Istanbul'una uzanan bu yolculukta provokatif bir tez sunuyor: Can sikintisi bir hastalik degil, zihnin degisime duydugu bir hayatta kalma d?rt?s?d?r. Eger can sikintisinin sadece bir bosluk degil, ayni zamanda yaraticiligin kapisini aralayan bir olasilik oldugunu kesfetmeye hazirsaniz, elinizdeki kaynak tam size g?re. Zamanin yavasladigi o gri b?lgeye renkli, sasirtici ve entelekt?el bir bakis. Bu kitap a?ik bir zihni canli tutacak g?zel bilgilerle dolu. -Alain de Botton, The Times

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Peter Toohey – författare

Hold On

Hold On

Hold On

Boredom

Boredom

Jealousy

Reading Epic

Epic Lessons

Inventing Ancient Culture

Reading Epic

Epic Lessons

Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

Inventing Ancient Culture

Inventing Ancient Culture

Reading Epic

Reading Epic

Epic Lessons

Epic Lessons

Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World

Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World

Can Sikintisinin Tarihi

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