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Out of My Skull

The Psychology of Boredom

By: James Danckert,John D. Eastwood

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Out of My Skull

The Psychology of Boredom

By: James Danckert,John D. Eastwood

A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year A Guardian “Best Book about Ideas” of the Year No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom and how to listen to what it is telling you, so you can live a more engaged life. We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn’t bad for us. It’s just that we do a bad job of heeding its guidance. When we’re bored, our minds are telling us that whatever we are doing isn’t working—we’re failing to satisfy our basic psychological need to be engaged and effective. Too many of us respond poorly. We become prone to accidents, risky activities, loneliness, and ennui, and we waste ever more time on technological distractions. But, Danckert and Eastwood argue, we can let boredom have the opposite effect, motivating the change we need. The latest research suggests that an adaptive approach to boredom will help us avoid its troubling effects and, through its reminder to become aware and involved, might lead us to live fuller lives. Out of My Skull combines scientific findings with everyday observations to explain an experience we’d like to ignore, but from which we have a lot to learn. Boredom evolved to help us. It’s time we gave it a chance.

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Harvard University Press

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0674984676

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9780674984677

The Science and Art of Renaissance Music

By: James Haar

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The Science and Art of Renaissance Music

By: James Haar

As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century's views of early music. In this collection, the same subject is seen from several angles, and thus gives a rich context for further exploration. Haar was one of the first to recognize the value of cultural study. His work also reminds us that the close study of the music itself is equally important. The articles contained in this book show the author's conviction that a good way to address large problems is to begin by focusing on small ones. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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408

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Princeton University Press

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1400864712

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9781400864713

Handbook of Literature for the Flute

A List of Graded Method Materials, Solos, and Ensemble Music for the Flute

By: James Pellerite

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Handbook of Literature for the Flute

A List of Graded Method Materials, Solos, and Ensemble Music for the Flute

By: James Pellerite

Revised 3rd edition. An annotated list of solos, graded method materials, reference reading, flute ensembles, music for alto flute, piccolo and bass flute. Over 3,500 entries, representing more than 1,700 composers and authors. Used throughout the world by flutists, artists, teachers, libraries and music dealers.

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438

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Alfred Music

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1457427974

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9781457427978

Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions

Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia

By: James Dow

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Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions

Programmed Plunder in Italy and Yugoslavia

By: James Dow

How the Nazis co-opted folklore to serve their vision of the German Reich.

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279

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299316505

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9780299316501

Violence, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

By: James L. Knoll IV

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Violence, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

By: James L. Knoll IV

This issue of Psychiatric Clinics, edited by Dr. James Knoll, is dedicated to violence and the psychological ramifications of violence in a wide array of situations. Subjects covered include, but are not limited to, violence by parents against children; gender and violence; lone wolf terrorists; inpatient violence; neuroimaging violence; workplace violence; gun violence; the military perspective on violence; homicides; suicides; sex offender risk and management; and psychopharmacology.

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201

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323477712

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9780323477710

True Faith And Allegiance

The Burden of Military Ethics

By: James H. Toner

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True Faith And Allegiance

The Burden of Military Ethics

By: James H. Toner

James H. Toner is professor of international relations and military ethics at the U.S. Air War College and author of Morals Under the Gun.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813145929

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9780813145921

Out of My Skull

The Psychology of Boredom

By: James Danckert,John D. Eastwood

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By: James Danckert,John D. Eastwood

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Harvard University Press

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James Drake

By: Steven Henry Madoff,Jimmy Santiago Baca,Cormac McCarthy

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James Drake

By: Steven Henry Madoff,Jimmy Santiago Baca,Cormac McCarthy

An internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been honored with inclusion in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, James Drake has explored political, social, and universal themes through the media of sculpture, video, installation, photography, and drawing. James Drake, the first monograph devoted to the artist, surveys thirty-five years of Drake’s work up to 2007. Many of the works reproduced in James Drake reflect the artist’s preoccupation with borders. Some have to do with the political border between the United States and Mexico and the inherent social and psychological tensions of people living in its extreme and unique environment. Other works explore the internal boundaries that people experience as a result of attitudes, prejudices, power, control, and arrogance. Jimmy Santiago Baca’s narrative poem Huitzilopochtli, a personal response to Drake’s work, provides a verbal counterpart to the artist’s theme of border-crossing. Another prominent subject in Drake’s work is the relationship of people and animals—in particular, the animality that always lurks in human behavior. In his essay “Between Animality and Man,” critic Steven Henry Madoff traces this subject through Drake’s work and shows how Drake uses it to contrast the forces of intellect and instinct, light and darkness. Interspersed among the color plates are quotations from writers as varied as Cormac McCarthy and Dante. Also accompanying the plates and essays is an introduction by Bruce W. Ferguson, a nationally known art curator, educator, and critic, that places Drake’s work in an art historical context. Lists of James Drake’s works, exhibitions, public collections, and awards, as well as a bibliography of works about Drake, complete this first retrospective of the oeuvre of this major, socially concerned artist, who always “tries to make work as exciting, powerful, and thought-provoking as possible.”

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University of Texas Press

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0292718608

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9780292718609

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Out of My Skull

Out of My Skull

The Science and Art of Renaissance Music

The Science and Art of Renaissance Music

Handbook of Literature for the Flute

Handbook of Literature for the Flute

Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions

Heinrich Himmler's Cultural Commissions

Violence, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Violence, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

True Faith And Allegiance

True Faith And Allegiance

Out of My Skull

Out of My Skull

James Drake

James Drake

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