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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
Category: Humour
In this delightful addition to Tom Hodgkinson's much-loved series of guides for the free-spirited, the author takes us on a leisurely tour of husbandry and self-sufficiency throughout the calendar year, from chopping wood in January to mowing meadows in July and brewing beer in October. Drawing on the w ...Show more
Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Humour
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
Business For Bohemians by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Business
Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a bit of a faff? Fear not: help is at hand. In Business for Bohemians, Tom Hodgkinson combines practical advice with laugh-out-loud anecdote to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of us who a ...Show more
Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Business
Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a bit of a faff? Fear not: help is at hand. In Business for Bohemians, Tom Hodgkinson combines practical advice with laugh-out-loud anecdote to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of us who a ...Show more
Diy Manual with Cd Rom Updated Edition by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Home Interiors
This edition includes material on energy-saving DIY, information on assessing and improving your home's energy efficiency rating, government grants available for energy-saving improvements, and much more.
How to Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Humour
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: A Loafer's Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Philosophy and Religion
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living: bei ...Show more
How to Be Idle (Out of Print) by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Culture
This edition is Out of Print (July 2005)
How to Be Idle (With added idleness, 2005) by Tom Hodgkinson
Category: Humour
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
Category: Self Help
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 IDLER by Hodgkinson Tom
Category: Fiction
We are all agreed that there's a lot to complain about in contemporary society. Boredom, exploitation, an explosion of legislation and interference with our everyday freedoms: central government and big business seem to make life more difficult with each month that passes. But do we really need to take ...Show more
The Book of Idle Pleasures by Tom Hodgkinson; Dan Kieran
Category: Humour
"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