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Author : Peter Westcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Review of My crowded solitude written by Peter Westcott and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack McLaren
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book My Crowded Solitude written by Jack McLaren and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Crowded Solitude" is a seaside adventure novel set in the South Pacific. A young man, accustomed to seafaring on the South Seas, decides to embark on an even bigger adventure. Namely to start a coconut farm on the Australian coast of Cape Victory. His plan is to convince some of the natives to help him with the labour for the farm. But when he arrives, there are no natives in sight, and he wonders if his plan will work after all...
Author : Michael Harris
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473535573
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Solitude written by Michael Harris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connection and crowds.’ Daily Mail ‘A compelling study of the subtle ways in which modern life and technologies have transformed our behaviour and sense of self.’ Times Literary Supplement In a world of social media and smartphones, true solitude has become increasingly hard to find. In this timely and important book, award-winning writer Michael Harris reveals why our hyper-connected society makes time alone more crucial than ever. He delves into the latest neuroscience to examine the way innovations like Google Maps and Facebook are eroding our ability to be by ourselves. He tells the stories of the remarkable people – from pioneering computer scientists to great nineteenth-century novelists – who managed to find solitude in the most unexpected of places. And he explores how solitude can bring clarity and creativity to each of our inner lives. Urgent, eloquent and beautifully argued, Solitude might just change the way you think about being alone. ‘Speaks to a long-overdue conversation we still haven’t properly had in our society.’ Vice ‘A timely, elegant provocation to daydream and wander.’ Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall ‘The leading thinker about technology’s corrupting influence on our collective psyche.’ Newsweek ‘A poetic, contemplative journey into the benefits of solo sojourning.’ Elle
Author : Jack McLaren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book My Crowded Solitude written by Jack McLaren and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular account of life on Simpson Bay, West Cape York; Physical appearance of natives; cooking of fish; Myth associated with belief that the spirit must return to sleepers body, other myths; Morality, infanticide, abortion; Corroboree, body decoration; Burial customs in detail; Tooth avulsion of female adolescents; Suckling of dingo pups by women; Basketry, smoke signals, sign language; Tribal conflict, death of mother of illegitimate children; Cooking, subject matter of songs.
Author : Sue Halpern
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787494
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Migrations to Solitude written by Sue Halpern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed—or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a basic right, why are our laws, technology, and lifestyles increasingly chipping it away? These are somong the themes that Sue Halpern eloquently explores in these profoundly original essays. In pursuit of the riddle of solitude, Halpern talks to Trappist monks and secular hermits, corresponds with a prisoner in solitary confinement, and visits and AIDS hospice and a shelter for the homeless places where privacy is the first—and perhaps the most essential—thing to go. This is a book that lends weight to the ideas that have become dangerously abstract in a society of data bases and car faxes, a guide not only ot the routes to solitude but to the selves we discover only when we arrive there.
Author : Jack MacLaren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book My Crowded Solitude written by Jack MacLaren and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book My Crowded Solitude written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Vincent
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509536604
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book A History of Solitude written by David Vincent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted themselves in the absence of company over the last three centuries. He argues that the ambivalent nature of solitude became a prominent concern in the modern era. For intellectuals in the romantic age, solitude gave respite to citizens living in ever more complex modern societies. But while the search for solitude was seen as a symptom of modern life, it was also viewed as a dangerous pathology: a perceived renunciation of the world, which could lead to psychological disorder and anti-social behaviour. Vincent explores the successive attempts of religious authorities and political institutions to manage solitude, taking readers from the monastery to the prisoner’s cell, and explains how western society’s increasing secularism, urbanization and prosperity led to the development of new solitary pastimes at the same time as it made traditional forms of solitary communion, with God and with a pristine nature, impossible. At the dawn of the digital age, solitude has taken on new meanings, as physical isolation and intense sociability have become possible as never before. With the advent of a so-called loneliness epidemic, a proper historical understanding of the natural human desire to disengage from the world is more important than ever. The first full-length account of its subject, A History of Solitude will appeal to a wide general readership.
Author : William J. Peace
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803236813
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Leslie A. White written by William J. Peace and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A. White (1900?1975). Between the early 1940s and mid-1960s, White?s work was widely discussed, and he was among the most frequently cited American anthropologists in the world. After writing several respected ethnographic works about the Pueblo Indians, White broke ranks with anthropologists who favored such cultural histories and began to radically rethink American anthropology. As his political interest in socialism grew, he revitalized the concept of cultural evolution and reinvigorated comparative studies of culture. His strident political beliefs, radical interpretive vision, and often combative nature earned him enemies inside and outside the academy. His trip to the Soviet Union and participation in the Socialist Labor Party brought him to the attention of the FBI during the height of the Cold War, and near-legendary scholarly and political conflicts surrounded him at the University of Michigan. ø Placing White?s life and work in historic context, William J. Peace documents the broad sociopolitical influences that affected his career, including many aspects of White?s life that are largely unknown, such as the reasons he became antagonistic toward Boasian anthropology. In so doing, Peace sheds light on what made White such a colorful figure as well as his enduring contributions to modern anthropology.
Author : May Sarton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497646332
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Journal of a Solitude written by May Sarton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet and author’s “beautiful . . . wise and warm” journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer). “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” —May Sarton May Sarton’s parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her “real” life—not friends, not even love, but writing. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude—both an exhilarating and terrifying state. She likens writing to “cracking open the inner world again,” which sometimes plunges her into depression. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. Sarton’s garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain. Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton’s pilgrimage inward. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.
Author : Bob Kaufman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200769
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness written by Bob Kaufman and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1959 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael John Harris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698150589
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The End of Absence written by Michael John Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reaching for our phones at the bus stop. Or we notice how, midconversation, a fumbling friend dives into the perfect recall of Google. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book, Michael Harris argues that amid all the changes we're experiencing, the most interesting is the end of absence-the loss of lack. The daydreaming silences in our lives are filled; the burning solitudes are extinguished. There's no true "free time" when you carry a smartphone. Today's rarest commodity is the chance to be alone with your thoughts. Michael Harris is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Western Living and Vancouvermagazines. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
Author : Jeremy Hall
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814631850
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Silence, Solitude, Simplicity written by Jeremy Hall and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Jeremy Hall, O.S.B., a member of Saint Benedict's Monastery, lived as a hermit for 20 years. During that time she gained renown as a wellspring of wisdom and gifted retreat leader.
Author : Verena Schiller
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848250258
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)
Download or read book A Simplified Life written by Verena Schiller and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As many people face the prospect of enforced change in their lives as western economies falter, this account of a life of radical simplicity freely chosen offers gentle, life-giving wisdom for our times. A Simplified Life tells the story of what made a young, Cambridge-educated woman embark on a solitary life, literally on the edge of the world with only a simple hut as protection against the elements, and how that experience continues to nourish and enrich her today.
Author : Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307745457
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400095344
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fortress of Solitude written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. "A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." --The New York Times Magazine "One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." --Time
Author : Jack MACLAREN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)
Download or read book My Crowded Solitude ... Seventh Edition, New and Revised, Etc written by Jack MACLAREN and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
