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- catalog abstract ""In a tour of our workaholic society, where summers at the seashore have been supplanted by the long weekend, Gini draws on studies of Americans' vacation habits as well as interviews, personal stories, and the wry observations of philosophers, writers, and sociologists from Aristotle to Mark Twain to Thorstein Veblen." "Without true leisure, Gini says, we are diminished as individuals and as a society. Even if we love our jobs, find creativity, success, and pleasure in our work, we also crave, desire, and need not to work. The Importance of Being Lazy is our road map for learning how to play, doze, gaze, amble, and goof off without guilt."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12852266.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In a tour of our workaholic society, where summers at the seashore have been supplanted by the long weekend, Gini draws on studies of Americans' vacation habits as well as interviews, personal stories, and the wry observations of philosophers, writers, and sociologists from Aristotle to Mark Twain to Thorstein Veblen." "Without true leisure, Gini says, we are diminished as individuals and as a society. Even if we love our jobs, find creativity, success, and pleasure in our work, we also crave, desire, and need not to work. The Importance of Being Lazy is our road map for learning how to play, doze, gaze, amble, and goof off without guilt."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: The project and the problem -- The other side of leisure: work, damn it! -- Leisure and culture: the importance of being lazy -- Vacations and traveling -- Minivacations: the weekend -- Shopping as leisure and play -- Sports and play -- The ultimate vacation: retirement -- Epilogue: Sabbath as metaphor.".
- catalog extent "ix, 182 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415938791".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : London : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "394.26 21".
- catalog subject "Leisure United States.".
- catalog subject "Vacations.".
- catalog subject "Work United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The project and the problem -- The other side of leisure: work, damn it! -- Leisure and culture: the importance of being lazy -- Vacations and traveling -- Minivacations: the weekend -- Shopping as leisure and play -- Sports and play -- The ultimate vacation: retirement -- Epilogue: Sabbath as metaphor.".
- catalog title "Importance of being lazy : in praise of play, leisure, and vacations / Al Gini.".
- catalog type "text".