Peter Toohey (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Univers

Hold on

The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What do you do when you're not asleep and not eating? You're most likely waiting - to finish work, to get home, to finish your duties. This book aims to describe how many people experience waiting and how important this is, in popular and highbrow culture and in real life and how we cope with it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780190083618
• ISBN-10: 0190083611
• Artikelnr.: 59827676

Autorenporträt

Peter Toohey is Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary, whose previous books include Boredom and Jealousy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Illustrations
* Prologue
* Chapter 1: "Everyone is just Waiting": Three versions of the
experience of waiting
* Chapter 2: Alan Rabinowitz Encounters A Jaguar. Are some brains
better at waiting than others?
* Chapter 3: Hall Porter Senf's Wife Is in Labor. Childbirth,
friendship, marriage, and waiting.
* Chapter 4: Happiness - is it just a matter of waiting to meet your
double? A chapter on the life and the lore of waiting and of
fulfillment
* Chapter 5: Miles Davis Breaks for A Smoke: The power and the pleasure
in pausing
* Chapter 6: Dithering: A chapter on the strategic advantages of
indecisive waiting.
* Chapter 7: Heaven Can Wait: that empty chair, waiting, and the
beyond.
* Chapter 8: "The Littler Waiting Room." Can you make the best of dread
- and of waiting for approaching death?
* Epilogue
* Acknowledgements
* Notes