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Author Brende, Eric.

Title Better off : flipping the switch on technology / Eric Brende.

Imprint New York : HarperCollins, ©2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  303.483 B75b 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents Cast of neighbors. Prologue. Taking orders. Section I: Planting. Seeds of discontent -- Paring back -- Lightening up -- Artfully answering nature -- The ram -- The missing refrigerator -- The sounds of silence. Section II: Growing. Quickening -- A church meeting -- A barn raising -- The dating game -- Meet the neighbors -- Secrets and politics -- Heatstroke -- Weighing the work. Section III: Harvesting. As the pumpkins turn -- After the fall: even farmers get the blues -- Birth -- Husbandry -- Pulling in the reins -- Closing time -- Outside, and the box. Epilogue: Recipe for a leisurely, laborsaving life.
Summary A graduate working on a program to study the effects of technology on society describes his residence in a Mennonite-type community and recounts how his wife and he experienced health benefits and overall life satisfaction during their stay.
Study Program Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 7.3 13 SD Quiz 86079 English non-fiction.
Subject Brende, Eric.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Psychological aspects.
Simplicity.
Farm life.
Farm life.
Brende, Eric. (OCoLC)fst00502885
Farm life. (OCoLC)fst00921052
Simplicity. (OCoLC)fst01119135
Technology -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145177
Technology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145202
ISBN 0060570040 (acid-free paper)
9780060570040 (acid-free paper)
0060570059
9780060570057

 
    
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