Author: John GeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Enemies of Leisure
Author: John GeryStrangers to the City
Author: Michael CaseyPublisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1557254605
Category : Benedictines
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Australian monk Michael Casey shares teachings applying ancient beliefs to contemporary life.
Recreation
Author: The Playground
Author: Leisure and Pleasure
Author: Caroline DaleyPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 177558108X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This exploration of an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history examines the human body at leisure in the years 1900&–1960. This book studies bodybuilding, especially the famous strongman Eugen Sandow; growing ideas about fitness, health, and exercise; the rise of beauty contests; the culture of the beach and the pool; nudism; and children's play and the appearance of playgrounds. The central aim is to explore how bodies—men's, women's and children's—were shaped and displayed through various leisure pursuits in 20th-century New Zealand.
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Author: Michel de MontaignePublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513128353
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays and letters by Michel de Montaigne. Originally published in French as Essais (1580), this edition was translated by English poet Charles Cotton in the late-17th century and republished by William Carew Hazlitt, the grandson of renowned English essayist and critic William Hazlitt. “No man living is more free from this passion [of sorrow] than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom, virtue, and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise!” In his masterful essays, Michel de Montaigne eschews the typical distancing required of the authorial voice in order to investigate public matters through a personal lens. As the subject of his own musings, he provides both a stirring self-portrait and an invaluable new voice that will resonate throughout Western literature. Unlike the Enlightenment thinkers who would follow in his footsteps, Montaigne is skeptical of the possibility of human certainty and takes an ethical stand against the European colonial project in the Americas and elsewhere. At times serious, at others tongue-in-cheek, his wide-ranging topics include conscience, politics, sorrow, solitude, fear, friendship, war, and poetry. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne were written at a crossroads in human history—between Renaissance and Enlightenment, Catholicism and Protestantism, Montaigne argues that to look outward requires we first look within, and that the quest for happiness requires us to accept what we cannot know. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essays of Michel de Montaigne is a classic of French philosophy reimagined for modern readers.
Proceedings of the [first] Second National Conference on Outdoor Recreation, Held in ... Washington, D.C. ... 1924-1926 ...
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Author: South Dakota Review
Author: The Chronicles of Froissart
Author: Jean FroissartPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Leisure Theory
Author: C. RojekPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505112
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure. It demonstrates how power relations influence leisure choices and introduces students to the primary functions and regulative mechanisms of leisure, providing a thought provoking account of the central problems confronting students of leisure today. Written with the needs of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in mind, the book will quickly be recognized as the bible for Leisure Theory.