| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : portraits |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"Starting with the single observation that no one seems to have time anymore, best-selling author Heather Menzies pulls the connecting threads to unravel the crisis of meaning and accountability threatening to paralyze society today. Seeing a link between various diseases of our times - from stress and depression among adults to attention deficit disorder in kids - Menzies argues that what's happening to people is also happening to institutions and society at large." "Somewhere between the multi-tasking pace and the sea of data divorced from real life, we're losing touch with ourselves and with each other. We're even losing a sense of how to tell when things go wrong and how to take action when they do. Weaving together personal conversations, wide-ranging research and insightful critique, No Time speaks directly to what lies beneath the surface of many issues confronting society today. It also ends on a note of hope by suggesting what we can do to restore balance in our personal lives, renew humanity in our social institutions and create a more human scale of time and space in our social environment."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-282) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Aspect social.
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Société
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Stress.
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Technologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005041323 |
| ISBN |
9781926685748 |
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1926685741 |
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1282696475 |
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9781282696471 |
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9786612696473 |
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6612696478 |
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