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What do you do when you're not asleep and not eating? You're most likely waiting - to finish work, to get home, to finish your duties. This book aims to describe how many people experience waiting and how important this is, in popular and highbrow culture and in real life and how we cope with it.

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Fresh Every Hourdetailing the adventures, comic and pathetic of one Jimmy Martin, - purveyor of publicity, a young gentleman possessingsublime nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition .Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and ot...

Didactic epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects - in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was aimed to instruct and entertain.

Excerpt from Fresh Every Hour: Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, And, Withal, the Heart of a ChildJimmy itched to give out a story concerning the social and business connections of the young soldier, but he had given his word, and being an ex-news paper man, that was sacred. He temporarily forgot about B...

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Shows how boredom is one of our most common and constructive emotions, and an essential part of the human experience.

Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.

An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature

Examining the meaning, history and value of jealousy, Toohey places the emotion at the core of modern culture, creativity and civilization in a charmingly provocative study.

Excerpt from Fresh Every Hour: Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, And, Withal, the Heart of a ChildJimmy itched to give out a story concerning the social and business connections of the young soldier, but he had given his word, and being an ex-news paper man, that was sacred. He temporarily forgot about B...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...