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Better Off is the story of their real-life experiment to see whether our cell phones, wide-screen TVs, and SUVs have made life easier -- or whether life would be preferable without them. This smart, funny, and enlightening book mingles scientific analysis with the human story to demonstrate how a world free of technological excess can shrink stress -- and waistlines -- and expand happiness, health, and leisure.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Better Off is the story of their real-life experiment to see whether our cell phones, wide-screen TVs, and SUVs have made life easier -- or whether life would be preferable without them. This smart, funny, and enlightening book mingles scientific analysis with the human story to demonstrate how a world free of technological excess can shrink stress -- and waistlines -- and expand happiness, health, and leisure.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Eric Brende has degrees from Yale, Washburn University, and MIT, and has received a Citation of Excellence from the National Science Foundation and a graduate fellowship from the Mellon Foundation in the Humanities. At the insistence of his editor, he now has an e-mail account at the local library but continues to minimize modern technology for himself and his family. Eric and Mary Brende have recently relocated to an old-town section in St. Louis, where Eric makes his living as a rickshaw driver and a soap maker.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780060570057 |
ISBN-10: | 0060570059 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Brende, Eric |
Hersteller: | Harper Perennial |
Maße: | 203 x 133 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Eric Brende |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.08.2005 |
Gewicht: | 0,346 kg |
Eric Brende has degrees from Yale, Washburn University, and MIT, and has received a Citation of Excellence from the National Science Foundation and a graduate fellowship from the Mellon Foundation in the Humanities. At the insistence of his editor, he now has an e-mail account at the local library but continues to minimize modern technology for himself and his family. Eric and Mary Brende have recently relocated to an old-town section in St. Louis, where Eric makes his living as a rickshaw driver and a soap maker.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Technik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780060570057 |
ISBN-10: | 0060570059 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Brende, Eric |
Hersteller: | Harper Perennial |
Maße: | 203 x 133 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Eric Brende |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.08.2005 |
Gewicht: | 0,346 kg |