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In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed

In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed


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Are you always in a hurry? Do you spend your days dashing to meet the next deadline, watching the clock when you are supposed to be relaxing? Does your life whiz by in an unsatisfying blur? These days most of us are afraid to slow down in case we get left behind. Equally most of us want to slow down if nothing else to be able to balance our lives more effectively. Today's slowness crusaders do not hate speed in all its forms. What they hate is the pressure to do everything in haste. They want to find a happy medium. This book will be the Small is Beautiful for the 21st century. With a blend of reportage, intellectual inquiry and humour it will help improve peoples lives by showing them how others are recasting their relationship with speed and time.

About the Author :
Carl Honor was born in 1967 and is a freelance journalist based in London. He was written for the MEconomist, Observer, National Post and Houston Chronicle.

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An excellent idea Rush to your bookshop Incredible stuff A friendly and intelligent guide... with a light mix of well-researched historic trivia and contemporary statistics. [Honore's] anecdotes and self-deprecating humour convey the pleasure and reward that he experienced on his slow pilgrimage. The No Logo of its age... strangely enthralling, an epiphany for those of us who have forgotten how to look forward to things or to enjoy the moment when it arrives. A fascinating insight into slowness...a million times more inspiring than any of the mass of self-help books around on downshifting. This is a rare treat to be savoured. - Viv Groskop Well executed and persuasive... I found [In Praise of Slow] not only entertaining, but getting under my skin. - Will Hutton An excellent idea - THE SUNDAY TIMES


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780752856254
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Sub Title: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed
  • Width: 167 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0752856251
  • Publisher Date: 04 May 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Weight: 647 gr


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