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How to be free / by Tom Hodgkinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Manifesto for livingPublication details: London : Penguin Books, 2007.Description: 340 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780141022024
  • 0141022027
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 646.7 HOD 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ2042
Contents:
1.Banish anxiety: be carefree 2.Break the bonds of boredom 3.The tyranny of bills and the freedom of simplicity 4.Reject career and all its empty promises 5.Get out of the city 6.End class war 7.Cast off your watch 8.Stop competing 9.Escape debt 10.Death to shopping, or fleeing the prison of consumer desire 11.Smash the fetters of fear 12.Forget government 13.Say no to guilt and free your spirit 14.No more housework, or the power of the candle 15.Banish loneliness 16.Submit no more to the machine, use your hands 17.In praise of melancholy 18.Stop moaning, be merry 19.Live mortgage-free: be a happy wanderer 20.The anti-nuclear family 21.Disarm pain 22.Stop worrying about your pension and get a life 23.Sail away form rudeness and towards a new era of courtesy, civility and grace 24.Self-important Puritans must die 25.Live free of the supermarkets 26.The reign of the Ugly is over; long live beauty, quality, fraternity! 27.Depose the tyrant wealth 28.Reject waste; embrace thrift 29.Stop working, start living
Summary: "If you've ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much of consumer culture is crap, then this is the book for you. ... Filled with practical tips as well as inspiring reflections, here you can learn how to throw off your shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, supermarkets, waste and much else besides."--Back cover.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 646.7 HOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 224655

Includes bibliographical references.

1.Banish anxiety: be carefree 2.Break the bonds of boredom 3.The tyranny of bills and the freedom of simplicity 4.Reject career and all its empty promises 5.Get out of the city 6.End class war 7.Cast off your watch 8.Stop competing 9.Escape debt 10.Death to shopping, or fleeing the prison of consumer desire 11.Smash the fetters of fear 12.Forget government 13.Say no to guilt and free your spirit 14.No more housework, or the power of the candle 15.Banish loneliness 16.Submit no more to the machine, use your hands 17.In praise of melancholy 18.Stop moaning, be merry 19.Live mortgage-free: be a happy wanderer 20.The anti-nuclear family 21.Disarm pain 22.Stop worrying about your pension and get a life 23.Sail away form rudeness and towards a new era of courtesy, civility and grace 24.Self-important Puritans must die 25.Live free of the supermarkets 26.The reign of the Ugly is over; long live beauty, quality, fraternity! 27.Depose the tyrant wealth 28.Reject waste; embrace thrift 29.Stop working, start living

"If you've ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much of consumer culture is crap, then this is the book for you. ... Filled with practical tips as well as inspiring reflections, here you can learn how to throw off your shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, supermarkets, waste and much else besides."--Back cover.

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