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Price, Devon

Summary: A social psychologist uncovers the psychological basis of the "laziness lie," which originated with the Puritans and has ultimately created blurred boundaries between work and life with modern technologies and offers advice for not succumbing to societalpressure to "do more."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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Hodgkinson, Tom.

Summary: Presents a whimsical antidote to today's work-obsessed culture, sharing a twenty-four-hour guide to achieving happiness while living leisurely.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 HOD

Lutz, Tom.

Summary: "Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, a chorus of slackers has held the pretensions of hardworking respectability up to scorn. Reviled by many, heroic to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn their way through life and literature while the rest of society sweats....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174 LUT

Jarrow, Gail

Summary: "Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.9 JAR

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