1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002932060203316

Titolo

Il convoglio d'oro / Vladimir Bukovskij ... [et al.] ; [traduzione di Daniela Gatti]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Spirali/Vel, 1994

ISBN

88-7770-391-1

Descrizione fisica

273 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Romanzi ; 79

Disciplina

891.7344

Collocazione

VIII.1.A. 862

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456369603321

Autore

Menzies Heather <1949->

Titolo

No time [[electronic resource] ] : stress and the crisis of modern life / / Heather Menzies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, B.C., : Douglas & McIntyre

[Berkeley, CA], : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, c2005

ISBN

1-282-69647-5

9786612696473

1-926685-74-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Part I: Individuals : trashing the body and the mind through stress and overwork. Building an environment in motion -- Stressed out and dreamless -- Workaholics and chronic fatigue. Part II: Institutions : living in an attention-deficit culture. Virtual worlds and deserting the real -- Nurses and health care -- Minding the common welfare. Part III: Society : bringing a crisis of accountability and meaning home to roost. Children's time and attention deficit disorder -- Drawing students into society's conversations -- Civic dialogue and noisy silence. Part IV: Renewal : reclaiming a feeling for ourselves. Take your time -- Time for dialogue and democracy.

Sommario/riassunto

Everyone agrees: there aren't enough hours in the day. But what happened to the promise that technology would provide more leisure time? Instead, everyone is working harder and longer than they did 15 years ago, squeezed and scattered and stressed to the point of burnout. Coping with the dizzying pace of a society drowning in information overload, it's a wonder anyone functions normally.Building on the success of Whose Brave New World? and Fastforward and Out of Control, Heather Menzies takes readers on a sobering tour of this troubling phenomenon, highlightin