Research Catalog

Title

No time : stress and the crisis of modern life / Heather Menzies.

Author

Menzies, Heather, 1949-

Publication

Vancouver ; Berkely : Douglas & McIntyre, c2005.

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Details

Description

xi, 291 p. : ports.; 22 cm.

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.

Subject

Technology > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

155365045X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005041323

OCLC

57575555

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library