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Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. ""You have the right to be lazy,"" writes Wasserstein. ""You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move."" Readers will find out the importance of Lethargiosis--the process of eliminating energy and drive, the vital first step in becoming a sloth. To help you attain the perfect state of indolent bliss, the book offers a wealth of self-help aids. Readers

General ethics --- Laziness --- Indolence --- Sloth --- Deadly sins --- Personality --- Laziness - Humor

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This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume Lectura Dantis, contains expert, focused commentary on the Purgatorio by thirty-three international scholars, each of whom presents to the nonspecialist reader one of the cantos of the transitional middle cantica of Dante's unique Christian epic. The cast of characters is as colorful as before, although this time most of them are headed for salvation. The canto-by-canto commentary allows each contributor his or her individual voice and results in a deeper, richer awareness of Dante's timeless aspirations and achievements.

Italian literature. --- Ottovolante (Group of writers) --- Dante Alighieri, --- allegory. --- avarice. --- beatrice. --- cantos. --- christian epic. --- christianity. --- dante. --- divine comedy. --- divine destiny. --- earthly paradise. --- envy. --- ethical choices. --- excommunicates. --- free will. --- good vs evil. --- human love. --- lectura dantis. --- love. --- lust. --- lute maker. --- mount of purgatory. --- poetry and politics. --- purgatorio. --- purgatory. --- religion. --- repentance. --- revenge. --- ritual. --- saints and sinners. --- salvation. --- seven deadly sins. --- sloth. --- sordello. --- spiritual growth. --- spiritual. --- valley of the rulers. --- virgil.

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When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. 'The Laziness Myth' challenges the widespread premise that hard work determines success by tracing the titular 'laziness myth,' a persistent narrative that disguises the systems and structures that produce inequalities while blaming unemployment and other social ills on the so-called laziness of particular class, racial, and ethnic groups. Jeske offers evidence of the laziness myth's harsh consequences, as well as insights into how to challenge it with other South African narratives of a good life.

Work --- Work ethic. --- Well-being. --- Unemployment --- Unemployed --- Quality of life. --- Laziness. --- Happiness. --- Blacks --- Happiness --- Quality of life --- Well-being --- Laziness --- Work ethic --- Ethic, Work --- Ethics --- Indolence --- Sloth --- Deadly sins --- Personality --- Work, Psychology of --- Joblessness --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Full employment policies --- Labor supply --- Manpower policy --- Underemployment --- Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Persons --- Welfare (Personal well-being) --- Wellbeing --- Health --- Wealth --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Gladness --- Emotions --- Cheerfulness --- Contentment --- Pleasure --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Attitudes. --- Employment. --- Social aspects --- Employment --- South Africa. --- Africa, South --- Industry (Psychology) --- Method of work --- Work, Method of --- Human behavior --- Labor --- Occupations --- the good life, causes of unemployment, racism in the workplace, unemployment in south africa, neoliberal entrepreneurial narrative. --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black people