Soon : an overdue history of procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to you and me / Andrew Santella.

By:

Santella, Andrew

Publisher: New York : Dey St., [2018]Description: 197 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780062491589 (hbk.)
006249158X (hbk.)

Subject(s):

Procrastination

DDC classification:

179.8 23

LOC classification:

BF637 .P76 S26 2018

Contents:

Barnacles -- Madness to defer -- Saints, crows, poets, priests -- A brief history of the to-do list -- On the clock -- Seeds -- Therefore bind me -- Not yet.

Summary: An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of history{u2019}s greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what we{u2019}re supposed to be doing and why we shouldn{u2019}t feel so bad about it.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	BF637 .P76 S26 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001447084

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Barnacles -- Madness to defer -- Saints, crows, poets, priests -- A brief history of the to-do list -- On the clock -- Seeds -- Therefore bind me -- Not yet.

An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of history{u2019}s greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what we{u2019}re supposed to be doing and why we shouldn{u2019}t feel so bad about it.