Embracing the Ordinary
Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
$32.65
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2013
Summary
It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal, and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity, and glamour. Yet many writers, artists, filmmakers, and photographers have celebrated the ordinary life around them, and many philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists have offered insights into the difficulties and rewards of paying attention to the here and now.
With characteristic wit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849839136 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849839131 |
| Author: | Michael Foley |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 297g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 198mm |
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Michael Foley
Michael Foley was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, but has lived most of his adult life in London, working for twenty-three years as a Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Westminster before retiring in 2007 to concentrate on full-time writing. He has published critically-acclaimed poetry, novels and non-fiction, including The Age of Absurdity (Simon & Schuster 2010), which was a bestseller and has been translated into seven languages.
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