Embracing the Ordinary : Lessons from the Champions of Everyday Life By Foley, Michael Publisher : Simon & Schuster Ltd Published Date : 2012/09 Binding : Paperback ISBN : 9781849839129 BookWeb Price : A$ 29.98 Kinokuniya Card Member Price : A$ 26.98 Availability Status : Our fulfillment centre has the item in stock. Usually dispatches within 3 working days. Language : English

 
  PART I The Significance of the Insignificant
    1 All Aboard the Orient Express!               3  (13)
    2 The High Priests of Low Life                 16 (17)
  PART II The Holy Trinity of Re-enchantment
    3 Losing the Plot: The Imaginative Vision      33 (16)
    4 Getting the Joke: The Comic Vision           49 (22)
    5 Consecrating the Commonplace: The            71 (26)
    Spiritual Vision
  PART III What We Say and What We Do
    6 The Opera of Everyday Speech                 97 (17)
    7 The Masquerade of Everyday Behaviour         114(21)
  PART IV The Everyday Self
    8 The Miracle of Consciousness and Memory      135(20)
    9 The Madness of Status and Snobbery           155(19)
    10 The Weirdness of Love and Sex               174(21)
  PART V The Everyday Environment
    11 The City                                    195(27)
    12 The Office                                  222(25)
    13 Home                                        247(32)
  PART VI The Centre for the Appreciation of
  Everyday Life
    14 The Centre for the Appreciation of          279(18)
    Everyday Life
Acknowledgements                                   297(2)
Notes                                              299(18)
Index                                              317