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Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before? Sara Maitland answers this question by exploring changing attitudes throughout history. Offering experiments and strategies for overturning our fear of solitude, she to helps us to practice it without anxiety and encourages us to see...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xvi, 181 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more deeply into solitude, discovering its full extent and depth. This literary collage documents his multifacted explorations. spending time in remote places, appreciating and making art, practicing meditation and participating...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Walden, Wild, Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, A Book of Silence, A Gift from the Sea and other celebrations of the inner adventure. An utterly engaging dive into our modern ways of retreat -- where we go, why we're drawn, and how it's urgent From pilgrim paths to forest cabins, and from rented hermitages to arts temples and quiet havens for yoga and meditation, In Praise of Retreat explores the pleasures and powers of this ancient practice...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be happy? Americans have had an obsession with "the pursuit of happiness" ever since the Founding Fathers enshrined it-along with life and liberty-as our national birthright. Whether it means the accumulation of wealth or a more vaguely understood notion of self-fulfillment or self-actualization, happiness has been an inevitable, though elusive, goal.
But it is hard to separate "real" happiness from the banal self-help version...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 267 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A soulful polemic that challenges the sacred dogma of the digital age--that the more we connect with others, the happier we are--arguing that as our electronic connectedness grows, we are pulled away from the relationships and experiences that give life texture, depth, and meaning"--
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 267 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A soulful polemic that challenges the sacred dogma of the digital age--that the more we connect with others, the happier we are--arguing that as our electronic connectedness grows, we are pulled away from the relationships and experiences that give life texture, depth, and meaning".-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
143 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A meditation on the role of silence compared to the distracting noises of the modern connected world describes the author's personal experiments during a fifty-day solo walk in Antarctica without radio contact.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
78 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explores what superheroes can teach us about being alone, the ways kids have survived on their own, and how activists in the civil rights movement took a stand against loneliness. Discover what comfort foods, sweatpants, and being kind to each other have to do with loneliness. Based on the podcast of the same name. Readers will learn about loneliness and how being alone can ultimately bring us closer together"--Provided by publisher.
20) Never alone
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
©1986
Physical Desc
xiv, 125 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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