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Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself by Tom Hodgkinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Drawing on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers, on medieval calendars and manorial records and, as ever, on Tom's own honestly recounted and frequently imperfect attempts to travel the road to self-sufficiency, Brave Old World is designed to give us all hope. Why, he asks, shouldn't ...Show more
How to Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: General
Have you ever wondered why you bother to go to work? Why so much of consumer culture is crap? Whether there might be a better, freer, happier way to live our lives? If so, this book is for you. Following up his cult bestseller "How To Be Idle", Tom Hodgkinson takes us on an inspirational journey towards ...Show more
How to Be Idle (With added idleness, 2005) by Tom Hodgkinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them, but here, at last, is a book that can help. From Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler, comes How To Be Idle, an antidote to the work-obsessed culture which puts so many obstacles between ourselve ...Show more
How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Have you ever wondered why you bother to go to work? Why so much of consumer culture is crap? Whether there might be a better, freer, happier way to live our lives? If so, this book is for you. Following up his cult bestseller "How To Be Idle", Tom Hodgkinson takes us on an inspirational journey towards ...Show more
The Book of Idle Pleasures by Tom Hodgkinson; Dan Kieran
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
"The Book of Idle Pleasures is a restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and hassled. An antidote to our non-stop culture, it is a welcome compedium of timeless delights. The book lists and reflects on 75 simple pastimes and proves that the best things in life really are free- lighting fires, ...Show more
The Idle Parent by Tom Hodgkinson
$40.00 NZD
Category: General
In "The Idle Parent" Tom Hodgkinson provides a revolutionary and wholly sensible approach to childcare, based on the idea of D.H. Lawrence and many others that the best thing we can do for children is to leave them alone. Of course, this doesn't mean that we should completely neglect them, but rather th ...Show more
The Idle Parent: Why Less Means More When Raising Kids by Tom Hodgkinson
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
The Idle Parent is Tom Hodgkinson's radical parenting remedy against stifled, mollycoddled children. Modern life is wrecking childhood. Why can't we just leave our kids alone? If you've ever wondered why so many of today's children are unhappy, spoilt, stressed and selfish, then the answers and the re ...Show more
The Idler Diary 2009 by Tom Hodgkinson
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This a diary like no other. With appointment pages interspersed with things to do, recipes, drawings, arcana, poems and other pearls of wisdom - the "Idler Diary" will help you gently float down river in 2009. Illustrated in glorious technicolour by the Idler's crack team of artists and cartoonists and ...Show more
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