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Time for Life: Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Re-Reading the Canon)
 
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Time for Life: Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time (Re-Reading the Canon) (Paperback)

by Robert D. Putnam (Foreword), John P. Robinson (Author), Geoffrey Godbey (Author)
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  • Paperback: 402 pages
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (30 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0271019700
  • ISBN-13: 978-0271019703
  • Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 15 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A study of the Americans' leisure time, comparing the 1990s to the 1960s. The authors argue that, although many Americans feel increasingly rushed and stressed, they actually have more free time, which they waste in activities like TV. This edition is updated to include 1995-1997 data.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Slowing down life's pace is necessary: here's how and why!, 29 Mar 1999
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I have been preparing lectures on stress management and came upon the work of the authors' Use of Time Project which has tracked Americans expenditures of time over decades. This book has caused me to re-think all of my assumptions, and fits in beautifully with some of the brand new books coming out in the wellness field, including Dean Ornish's Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy and Paul Pearsall's The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, To Work and To Play. Time for Life shows, in methodical yet eloquent thoroughness, that the sense of hurry sickness and time famine is illusory and unnecessary: we in fact have ENOUGH time and money to be happy, yet we think we do not. The final chapter is worth the price of the book: called Brother, can you spare some time? it points out that the pace of life is a political issue, and that the commercialization of leisure can be critiqued and questioned, that while most of us lead lives of unbelievable privilege, happiness eludes us. This does not have to be the case. This is a scholarly book, yet accessible to the lay reader, particularly if you skip around some. The cross cultural stuff is fascinating (eg., Japanese people work longer hours yet don't feel the time famine like Americans do.) It is well worth the careful reading this important topic warrants. I am indebted to Mr. Robinson and Godbey for this expression of their life's work. I am deeply grateful, in fact.
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