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This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent. Her book, anything but boring, gives us new insight into the cultural usefulness—and deep interest—of boredom as a state of mind.

LA based brand PLEASURES create clothing that evokes emotion, channels nostalgia and embraces an alternative lifestyle. The Boredom Cardigan is anything but boring - crafted from soft fabric woven into a distinct pattern with a textured handfeel. To finish, the brand's logo is subtlely embroidered on the sleeve. 100% Polyester, V-Neckline, Button Down Closure, 2 Patch Pockets, Embroidered Branding, Pleasures. Pleasures Men's Boredom Cardigan in Brown, Size Small

LA based brand PLEASURES create clothing that evokes emotion, channels nostalgia and embraces an alternative lifestyle. The Boredom Cardigan is anything but boring - crafted from soft fabric woven into a distinct pattern with a textured handfeel. To finish, the brand's logo is subtlely embroidered on the sleeve. 100% Polyester, V-Neckline, Button Down Closure, 2 Patch Pockets, Embroidered Branding, Pleasures. Pleasures Men's Boredom Cardigan in Brown, Size Medium

LA based brand PLEASURES create clothing that evokes emotion, channels nostalgia and embraces an alternative lifestyle. The Boredom Cardigan is anything but boring - crafted from soft fabric woven into a distinct pattern with a textured handfeel. To finish, the brand's logo is subtlely embroidered on the sleeve. 100% Polyester, V-Neckline, Button Down Closure, 2 Patch Pockets, Embroidered Branding, Pleasures. Pleasures Men's Boredom Cardigan in Brown, Size Large

LA based brand PLEASURES create clothing that evokes emotion, channels nostalgia and embraces an alternative lifestyle. The Boredom Cardigan is anything but boring - crafted from soft fabric woven into a distinct pattern with a textured handfeel. To finish, the brand's logo is subtlely embroidered on the sleeve. 100% Polyester, V-Neckline, Button Down Closure, 2 Patch Pockets, Embroidered Branding, Pleasures. Pleasures Men's Boredom Cardigan in Brown, Size X-Large

A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In 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 boredom—what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers—spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature.Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.

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This third volume in the Haruhi Suzumiya series is a collection of four exciting short stories that chronologically take place before The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya.The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya:In her latest attempt to give the S.O.S. Brigade more public exposure, Haruhi signs the group up for the city-wide baseball tournament. Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody:It's like Back To the Future! In order to prevent an impending disaster, Mikuru takes Kyon back in time, where he meets Haruhi as a seventh grader. Mysterique Sign:The computer club president at school mysteriously disappears, and it's up to the S.O.S. Brigade to get to the bottom of it!Remote Island Syndrome:It's vacation time when a relative of Itsuki's invites the S.O.S. Brigade to stay at his island villa. But then a dead body turns up, and Haruhi and the gang get mixed up in a thrilling murder mystery.

Experience the Iraq War through the journal and letters of a Marine who fought in Fallujah from March to October 2004. Initially written as a private journal without any thought of publication, Boredom by Day, Death by Night details Sgt. Seth Conner's most personal, intimate, and revealing thoughts on his experiences with the war. Join Sgt. Conner as he struggles to handle the anticipation of first combat; accept the loss of friends to horrific deaths; cope with the aftermath of witnessing grotesque tragedies; withstand the constant fear of mortar shells; survive combat while still completing his mission; reconcile his faith with the realities of war; deal with criticism from the home front; and readjust to life at home.

In 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 boredom—what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers—spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature.Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.

If you ever have to stifle a yawn while teaching the same old thing in the same old ways, just imagine how your students feel. If you’re bored, they are too!No matter how great a teacher you are, there will be days when you are short on time, resources, energy, or ideas. When your lesson plan simply says, “See Page 47” (Yawn!), you know it’s time to shake things up with Boredom Busters!Educator Katie Powell packs a wealth of lesson twists, games, and activities into Boredom Busters. The Worksheet Busters, Lecture Busters, and Homework Busters she shares work for all grade levels to create engaging, memorable, meaningful learning experiences for your students.Imagine your students’ response when you tell them to fold their worksheet into a paper airplane, answer questions on colorful balls, or unfurl a giant board game across the floor.Curious?Your students will be too. And they’ll want to come back for more!“Love, love, love this book by Katie Powell! As someone who uses brain research as the foundation of all I do, I can tell you that Katie hits the nail on the head with this one.” —LaVonna Roth, creator and founder of Ignite Your S.H.I.N.E.®“Boredom Busters is literally a treasure trove of ideas and activities to help any teacher stay engaged with students, even when the coffee maker is on the fritz!” —Marlena Gross-Taylor, founder of @EduGladiators, author, and speaker“Boredom Busters is a creative masterpiece!” —Phyllis Fagell, author of Middle School Matters and Washington Post contributor“Boredom Busters is a dynamic playbook of teaching strategies that can add life, rigor, and relevance to any lesson plan with minimal prep and zero added cost.” —John Meehan, author of EDrenaline Rush

In 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 boredom—what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers—spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature.Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.

So much for marriage ministries. This book perpetrates the old shepherding movement heresy that "the man is all, the woman is nothing, so keep your place, little woman, and bow to your husband the king!" The Axtell's marriage went down the tubes a number of years ago; the wife wrote her own book during the divorce to confess that their wonderful marriage had been a sham for a long while, and shared how miserable she'd been. She also went into some detail describing the more bizarre aspects of their weird relationship which had centered around as odd spiritual theology that included an old boyfriend. To Boredom and Back and the other books this couple wrote are too wacked out to be taken seriously by any troubled marriage. Take my advice and go elsewhere for spiritual help.

Feeling imaginative? Get ready to bust boredom with art projects! Learn how to make a survival bracelet, create a garden stepping stone, put together a tin can clock, and much more. With clear instructions and helpful photos, busting boredom with art projects has never been more fun.

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Are your students bored in class?  According to research, a majority of American high school students report being bored in class and fewer than 5% claimed that they were rarely bored during a typical day in school. Former journalist and veteran teacher Martha Rush decided this would not do for her Minnesota students. Moving beyond asking open-ended questions and making connections to their own lives, Martha began to engage her government, journalism, and economics classes in meaty discussions, competitions, simulations, and authentic work, like running a newspaper or starting a business. Building on her more than 800 interviews with high school graduates, she offers up strategies in all subject areas for active engagement, moving way beyond traditional passive memorization of information. She describes how to create innovative experiences in your classroom, and shares her own lessons and her students’ work. Beat Boredom will help you join the ranks of teachers who have challenged the status quo and found ways to motivate even the most reluctant learners.

Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi. Through real-life examples, discover how enjoyable activities provide a common experience-a satisfying, often exhilarating, feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning-and under what conditions 'serious' work can also provide this intrinsic enjoyment.

It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it originated, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem to overcome it by any act of will. Lars Svendsen brings together observations from philosophy, literature, psychology, theology, and popular culture, examining boredom's pre-Romantic manifestations in medieval torpor, philosophical musings on boredom from Pascal to Nietzsche, and modern explorations into alienation and transgression by twentieth-century artists from Beckett to Warhol. A witty and entertaining account of our dullest moments and most maddening days, A Philosophy of Boredom will appeal to anyone curious to know what lies beneath the overwhelming inertia of inactivity.

Niger most often comes into the public eye as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men trying, against all odds, to find jobs and fill their time with meaningful occupations. At the heart of Adeline Masquelier’s groundbreaking book is the fada—a space where men gather to escape boredom by talking, playing cards, listening to music, and drinking tea. As a place in which new forms of sociability and belonging are forged outside the unattainable arena of work, the fada has become an integral part of Niger’s urban landscape. By considering the fada as a site of experimentation, Masquelier offers a nuanced depiction of how young men in urban Niger engage in the quest for recognition and reinvent their own masculinity in the absence of conventional avenues to self-realization. In an era when fledgling and advanced economies alike are struggling to support meaningful forms of employment, this book offers a timely glimpse into how to create spaces of stability, respect, and creativity in the face of diminished opportunities and precarity.

In this ground-breaking new book, teacher, counsellor, and philosopher Mark Hawkins reveals a whole new understanding of boredom. Society teaches us that boredom is negative and something to be avoided. In this age of distraction, it is so easy to fill our boredom with work, activities, and quick entertainment. But avoiding boredom prevents us from using it to create a life full of meaning and purpose. Mark gets to the core of why boredom is the most powerful human emotion. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and personal experiences, Mark shows us that boredom can be seen as spaces in time containing pure creative potential available for self and life transformation. Along the way, Mark provides a perspective of boredom that can sometimes be counter-intuitive. For example, why busy people may, in fact, be the most bored, and why filling your boredom with the wrong things can actually create more of it. It’s time to stop distracting yourself from life and start living it. You will learn: What boredom really is Destructive reactions to boredom Why boredom is a powerful form of meditation How to tune in to boredom to improve your life Why boredom is needed in daily life The link between boredom and creativity