leisure

Presents the argument that being busy and overwhelmed in modern life is physically affecting our human bodies, even brain sizes. Offers advice on how to slow down and make time for leisure activities in order to rest and recharge.

"This book asks whether working mothers in America -- or anywhere -- can ever find true leisure time. Or are our brains, our partners, our culture, our bosses, making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contained time," in which we are in frantic life management mode until we are sound asleep?"--.

Traces the history of yoga in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present, describing its transformation into a multi-billion dollar industry and its influence in twenty-first-century America.

Discusses the concept of "going green" and the many different ways to live a green lifestyle, including reducing energy use, buying food locally, and engaging in responsible tourism.

Simple text and photographs describe how leisure and recreational activities in the twenty-first century differ from those in the past.

Contains over 140 articles that provide information about leisure and recreational activities engaged in by Americans from the colonial era to the early twenty-first century; arranged alphabetically from A to L, with photographs and bibliographies.

Explores the ways children and youth spent their time at various points in history, describing play, child labor, and slavery.