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Overwhelmed Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

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ISBN-10: 0374228442

ISBN-13: 9780374228446

Edition: 2014

Authors: Brigid Schulte

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Can working parents in Americaor anywhereever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed , Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post , asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contaminated time"? Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine : "How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisureover four hours a…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/11/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English