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• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 02 June 1998

The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an

• Publisher : Penguin UK
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• Release Date : 05 December 2013

These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts

• Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
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• Release Date : 01 May 2009

A luminous translation of the classic Buddhist poem

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 07 April 2020

"For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the

• Publisher : Good Press
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• Release Date : 10 July 2023

"An apology for idlers, and other essays" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics &

• Publisher : Penguin UK
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• Release Date : 26 February 2015

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...' Moonlight,

• Publisher : Penguin UK
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• Release Date : 07 June 2007

How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle. As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has

• Publisher : Unwin Hyman
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• Release Date : 02 June 1976

Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of "In Praise of Idleness," a collection of essays in which he