Boredom: A Lively History Russell Jurney Holly finds herself laughing

Holly finds herself laughing

Handsomely packaged with a cloth spine and energetic typography throughout

he wasn’t sure what was next

In Leslie Brenner's "witty and sumptuous" look at the history of the American food revolution

Routledge Paperback

Boredom: A Lively History Russell Jurney Holly finds herself laughingIn 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 boredomwhat it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangersspans more than 3,000 years of