The art of stillness : adventures in going nowhere / Pico Iyer ; photography by Eydis Einarsdóttir.
Title:
The art of stillness : adventures in going nowhere / Pico Iyer ; photography by Eydis Einarsdóttir.
ISBN:
9781476784724
9781471138867
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : TED Books/Simon & Schuster, [2014]
Physical Description:
74 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
General Note:
"A TED original."
First presented as a TED Talk.
Featured in the TED Books library.
Contents:
Going nowhere -- Passage to nowhere -- The charting of stillness -- Alone in the dark -- Stillness where it's needed most -- A secular sabbath -- Coming back home.
Summary:
Considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counter-intuitive truth: The more ways people have to connect, the more they seem desperate to unplug. There is even a growing trend toward observing an 'Internet sabbath' every week, turning off online connections from Friday night to Monday morning and reviving those ancient customs known as family meals and conversation.
Added Author:
OCLC Number:
ocn878111608
Availability:
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