The Utility Of Boredom

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1926743695

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The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes Pdf

Spitball essays on the off-kilter joys, sorrows and wonder of North America's national pastime. A collection of essays for ardent seamheads and casual baseball fans alike, The Utility of Boredom is a book about finding respite and comfort in the order, traditions, and rituals of baseball. From learning about America through ball-diamond visits to the most famous triple play that never happened on Canadian soil, Forbes invites us to witness the adult conversing with the O-Pee-Chee baseball cards of his youth. Tender, insightful, and with the slow heartbreak familiar to anyone who's cheered on a losing team, The Utility of Boredom tells us a thing or two about the sport, and how a seemingly trivial game might help us make sense of our messy lives. "Baseball, like life, is getting flattened out these days, compressed to noisy highlight clips and shrill pontification. This book cures that flattening, reaching with grace and poetry past all the bludgeoning hot takes and arid statistical analyses to the kinds of absurd and beautiful details--a spectacular throw from deep right; a meandering spring training game; a foul grounder bounding up into the stands, right at you--that first made us all fall in love with the sport. If baseball, like heaven, is a mansion with many rooms, the essays in The Utility of Boredom are like a fat set of janitor's keys unlocking the wide open marvels of the game." -- Josh Wilker, Cardboard Gods and Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood "Baseball is a welcome obsession of mine, a comfort. Reading The Utility of Boredom by Andrew Forbes fed that obsession beautifully, warmly. It glows. He writes of baseball as sanctuary, baseball in both general terms and specifics--from the feeling of walking into a ballpark on a summer day to Vin Scully's perfect description of a cloud. He invites us to get on our tiptoes and peek over the fence, smell the grass, hear the crack of the bat. He respects the slow-glory of the game, he loves the game, he's really good at this, and I absolutely trust him with my baseball-heart." -- Leesa Cross-Smith, Every Kiss A War

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1988784662

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The Only Way Is the Steady Way: Essays on Baseball, Ichiro, and How We Watch the Game by Andrew Forbes Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. THE ONLY WAY IS THE STEADY WAY is a baseball memoir in scorecards and baseball cards, a recollection of the game's biggest stars and outlandish personalities, and introspective letters to a legendary player. These essays examine the meaning of baseball across international borders and at all levels of the game--from Little League diamonds to big league ballparks. Parents learn unexpected lessons at t-ball, cheap souvenirs reveal their hidden significance, and baseball's beating heart is exposed through sharply beautiful observations about the history of the game. Forbes locates peace, reassurance, and a way to measure the passage of time with home run bonanzas, old games on YouTube, and especially in the unique career of beloved outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. Just as he did in THE UTILITY OF BOREDOM, Forbes shows us how a summertime distraction might help us to make sense of the world, and how a certain enigmatic Japanese superstar offers a surprising ethos for living. You don't have to love (or even like) baseball to love THE ONLY WAY IS THE STEADY WAY. Forbes' writing about baseball, something he's loved his entire life, transcends statistics, standings, highlight reels, and hype, and captures soul--not the soul of the game, but the soul of fandom. If you do love baseball, or have had any fond feelings about the game at some point in your life, you will find your feelings put into writing in the pages of this book. Baseball may not save the world, but this book will remind you that it does indeed matter.--Brendan Leonard Andrew Forbes's love of baseball is the most honest and difficult kind: clear-eyed, thoughtful, willing to see the flaws along with the beauty. This book is a beauty. Through the lens of Ichiro Suzuki's magnificent career, Forbes examines our potential and our prejudices, helping us see the times that make the game and the game that makes the times.--Scott O'Connor Andrew Forbes writes so well about everything, with such a keen eye for detail and the texture of life, that you can sometimes forget that the occasion for these essays is baseball. And yet, there he always is, like a nimble infielder, with a fresh insight or deft turn on the game. There is no other writer working now whose baseball writing I admire more. This companion to THE UTILITY OF BOREDOM is a true gift.--Mark Kingwell

Author : Lee Anna Maynard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786454730

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Beautiful Boredom by Lee Anna Maynard Pdf

This volume explores boredom as a possible force for good in the Victorian novel. In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72), and Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1881), boredom is an important means through which female characters are able to achieve a greater sense of self-awareness. In her discussion of these works, the author examines both the deleterious and restorative aspects of boredom and shows how this subtle theme has continued to be used by more modern authors.

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1988784255

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Lands and Forests by Andrew Forbes Pdf

Fiction. Escaping government-sanctioned flooding, obsessing over camera-equipped drones, violently mourning a lost brother, discovering a new passion in fencing, watching a wildfire consume a whole town: the stories in LANDS AND FORESTS survey the emotional landscapes of women and men whose lives, though rooted deeply in the land and their small communities, are still rocked by great cultural change. These are raw, honest character studies reminiscent of the work of Alexander MacLeod and Lisa Moore, but with a style and energy all their own. "Full of quiet tension and a cast of fully-realized characters that feel like they could step off the page, Andrew Forbes's LANDS AND FORESTS shows us what the short story was made to do: delight us, surprise us, and prompt us to more fully recognize ourselves."--Johanna Skibsrud "Warning: There are floods and fires in here. And life and death struggles. And long journeys. And near misses. The weather, like love, is always uncertain. But there is no need to fear. Andrew Forbes will get us through. He knows the way. These stories are elemental, wise, and beautiful."--Alexander MacLeod "In this superbly stark, brooding collection, disillusioned men and women struggle along, the potential for grandeur in their futures long since faded. And yet there is still awe amid their resignation--for the beauty in the world, and sometimes for each other. With LANDS AND FORESTS, Andrew Forbes digs beneath stunning, wild landscapes to find all of the unhappiness buried there, unearthing life's cruel disappointments and splaying them out on the dirt one by one. These are bleak, sharp, ruthless stories, and I loved them."--Jessica Westhead "This is a breath taking collection--in that it is literally hard to breathe while you read these stories, such is their power, insight, and ability to expertly mine the secret vein of sorrow that runs below every ordinary, extraordinary life. Forbes' stories manage to be gritty and elegant at the same time, rendered with Munro-esque mastery and restraint."--Grace O'Connell

Author : Reinhard Pekrun,Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136512636

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International Handbook of Emotions in Education by Reinhard Pekrun,Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia Pdf

For more than a decade, there has been growing interest and research on the pivotal role of emotions in educational settings. This ground-breaking handbook is the first to highlight this emerging field of research and to describe in detail the ways in which emotions affect learning and instruction in the classroom as well as students’ and teachers’ development and well-being. Informed by research from a number of related fields, the handbook includes four sections. Section I focuses on fundamental principles of emotion, including the interplay among emotion, cognition, and motivation, the regulation of emotion, and emotional intelligence. Section II examines emotions and emotion regulation in classroom settings, addressing specific emotions (enjoyment, interest, curiosity, pride, anxiety, confusion, shame, and boredom) as well as social-emotional learning programs. Section III highlights research on emotions in academic content domains (mathematics, science, and reading/writing), contextual factors (classroom, family, and culture), and teacher emotions. The final section examines the various methodological approaches to studying emotions in educational settings. With work from leading international experts across disciplines, this book synthesizes the latest research on emotions in education.

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1926743547

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What You Need by Andrew Forbes Pdf

Fiction. Short Fiction. Loyalties collide with long-buried love, a man builds a nuclear bomb in his garage, and children walk up walls. The stories in WHAT YOU NEED beautifully recount the rawness of human experience. Andrew Forbes's characters struggle to escape the things that hold them in their all-too-ordinary lives, falling victim to fate, to one another, and to self- sabotage. These are stories about failure and yearning, yet they remind us of the humour and humanity in even the worst decision. "WHAT YOU NEED is an excellent book, and arguably the debut of the year insofar as short fiction is concerned. Every character is fully realized and three- dimensional; every story sparkles with granular detail and the kind of profound emotional insight that only comes with having lived the difficult passage between the expectations of youth and the ambiguities of adulthood. The book is full of wit, and, despite its subject matter, laugh-out- loud funny in places."--The Fiddlehead

Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226768538

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Boredom by Patricia Meyer Spacks Pdf

This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent. Her book, anything but boring, gives us new insight into the cultural usefulness—and deep interest—of boredom as a state of mind.

Author : Mark Kingwell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773557932

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Wish I Were Here by Mark Kingwell Pdf

Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the Interface, Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues of screen addiction and the lure of online outrage. Without moralizing, Mark Kingwell takes seriously the possibility that current conditions of life and connection are creating hollowed-out human selves, divorced from their own external world. While scrolling, swiping, and clicking suggest purposeful action, such as choosing and connecting with others, Kingwell argues that repeated flicks of the finger provide merely the shadow of meaning, by reducing us to scattered data fragments, Twitter feeds, Instagram posts, shopping preferences, and text trends captured by algorithms. Written in accessible language that references both classical philosophers and contemporary critics, Wish I Were Here turns to philosophy for a cure to the widespread unease that something is amiss in modern waking life.

Author : Maik Bieleke,Wanja Wolff,Corinna Martarelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040018262

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The Routledge International Handbook of Boredom by Maik Bieleke,Wanja Wolff,Corinna Martarelli Pdf

This comprehensive text is a unique handbook dedicated to research on boredom. The book brings together leading contributors from across three continents and numerous fields to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of boredom, its theoretical underpinnings, its experiential properties, and the applied contexts in which it occurs. Boredom is often viewed as a mental state with little utility, though recent research suggests that it can be a powerful motivator of human behavior that shapes our actions in many ways. The book examines boredom from a range of perspectives and is comprised of three parts. Part I delves into the theoretical approaches to boredom, presenting methods for its measurement, explaining when and why boredom occurs, and scrutinizing the impact it has on our behavior. Part II focuses on the psychological and neural properties of boredom and its associations with a multitude of mental and interpersonal processes, such as self-control, mind-wandering, flow, and aggression. Part III presents boredom in practical contexts like school and work, and sheds light on its role for health-related behaviors, psychosocial well-being, and aesthetic experiences. The book concludes by summarizing the state of boredom research, identifying promising areas for future research, and providing directions for how research on boredom can be advanced. As the authoritative book on boredom, this handbook is an essential resource for students and researchers of psychology, sociology, education, sport science, and computer science.

Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780143127741

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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk Pdf

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Author : Paul H. Lee,Uichin Lee
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832500101

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Adverse Health Consequences of Excessive Smartphone Usage, Volume II by Paul H. Lee,Uichin Lee Pdf

Author : Dr. Vijay Agrawal
Publisher : Indra Publishing house
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788189107017

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Your Time Starts Now by Dr. Vijay Agrawal Pdf

If you intend to succeed in life, it is necessary to become an expert in time management. The art of time management teaches you how to deal with the enormous task of over work without being unhappy or anxious about it.

Author : Gayle L. Macklem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319131207

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Boredom in the Classroom by Gayle L. Macklem Pdf

This brief synthesizes current findings on the many aspects of chronic student boredom, its relationship with negative academic, emotional, and health outcomes, and what professionals can do to best address it. Citing the complexity of this common student emotion, the author spotlights boredom susceptibility during the critical K-12 years. The brief analyzes cognitive and emotional attributes of boredom and identifies emotional skills that can be strengthened to counteract it. In addition, the volume features strategies for educators and school counselors to reduce boredom, both internally and in class. This stimulating volume: Argues that boredom shouldn't be ignored or dismissed as a passing phase. Examines various types of boredom as well as gender and cultural differences. Explores boredom in the contexts of anxiety and depression and in non-school situations. Provides theory on causes of boredom in students. Details how student self-regulation, motivation, and engagement can be improved. Describes specific roles teachers and mental health professionals can play in controlling boredom. Boredom in the Classroom is an essential resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners, clinicians, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, educational psychology, social work, and related disciplines.

Author : Iain McGilchrist
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300245929

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The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist Pdf

A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the ‘rational’ side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master. As he shows, it is the right side which is the more reliable and insightful. Without it, our world would be mechanistic – stripped of depth, colour and value.

Author : Charmine E. J. Härtel,Wilfred J. Zerbe,Neal M. Ashkanasy
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785602207

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New Ways of Studying Emotions in Organizations by Charmine E. J. Härtel,Wilfred J. Zerbe,Neal M. Ashkanasy Pdf

The rapidly growing recognition of the importance of emotions in understanding all aspects of organizational life is facilitating the development of focused areas of scholarship. This volume addresses new ways of looking at emotions within organizational frameworks.