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(Herausg.): Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) New York Public Library, ISBN: 0195166302
Leichte Lagerspuren From Publishers Weekly\nNot as stirring as lust, as satisfactory as gluttony or as maddening as anger, sloth rarely commands the passionate attention that the other six deadly sins do. Thanks to Wasserstein, however, sloth finally gets its due. In a hilarious parody of self-help manuals, she offers a book-inside-a-book how-to guide—Sloth: And How to Get It—on living a happy and guilt-free slothful life. The first step in becoming a sloth is to enter into lethargiosis, a state which breaks the cycle of excess energy and stored dreams. Her guide recommends a two-week course of slowly eliminating activity by counting activity grams and restricting your daily gram intake. She chides overachievers like Shakespeare and offers a sloth mantra: S: Sit instead of stand, L: Let yourself go, O: Open your mouth, T: Toil no more, H: Happiness is within me. Sloths in training will learn the 10 commandments of sloth (Do not wash, Do not clean up), the top 10 lies about sloth (Sloth leads to mental atrophy) as well as strategies for maintaining slothfulness through diet, work (when you have to do it) and sex. Wasserstein's rapid-fire comic prose offers the perfect satire on a culture that continually invents more ways of moving less (television remotes, cell phones) in order to be blissfully slothful. \nCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. \n\nFrom Booklist\nPlaywright and essayist Wasserstein carries forward a truly inspired series--incisive musings on the seven deadly sins by Francine Prose (gluttony), Joseph Epstein (envy), Robert A. F. Thurman (anger), and Simon Blackburn (lust)--by offering a sly, hilarious parody of self-help books. Wasserstein claims to have tried every self-improvement plan known to addled Americans, from the Atkins diet to getting in touch with her inner child, until discovering the solution, Sloth, a treatise she now generously shares with her readers. And what a cleverly subversive send-up this is. Recognizing that life is unfair and that there's not a darn thing you can do about it, the guru of sloth recommends doing nothing. To that end, the sloth advocate offers 5 (10 is just too demanding) commandments--Sit instead of stand. Let yourself go. Open your mouth. Toil no more. Happiness is within me--and a program for achieving absolute indolence, the secret of a stress-free life. Splendidly witty and on target, Wasserstein's droll paean to sloth is best read lying down. Donna Seaman\nCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved , ISBN-13: 9780195166309

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Eric Westman: New Atkins for a New You, Vermilion, März 2010
The classic Atkins Diet gets a 21st century makeover--now more flexible, more effective, and easier to maintain than ever before.

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Ismay Atkins: Time Out Guide Shanghai. (Time Out Shanghai) Random House UK 2006 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 1904978673
With skyscrapers, trendy bars and new hotels sprouting up quicker than you can say 'the new superpower', Shanghai is every inch the city of the moment. Written by local experts, "Time Out Shanghai" is the only companion you'll need when getting to grips with 21st-century China's economic powerhouse. It takes you to shiny malls and cut-price markets, hip restaurants and dumplings joints, luxe spas and no-frills massage parlours - and everything in between. It also covers don't-miss side trips, among them canal towns, gardens and islands. This second edition includes a new chapter tracking the super-quick and -slick urban development of Shanghai, one of the world's fastest-growing cities. Its transformation into China's economic showcase has furnished it with sparkling malls and mind-boggling skyscrapers (the 492-metre-high Shanghai World Financial Centre, due to open in 2007, will be the world's tallest building). "Time Out" provides more useful information than other guidebooks: addresses, phone numbers, opening times, admission prices and transport details are given for every venue listed. In addition, our full-colour street maps pinpoint places of interest, restaurants, cafes, pubs, bars and hotels within the city. Mängelexemplar,

2nd ed. en 256S. 19,30 x 12,70 x 1,27cm

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