Waiting for the Weekend: Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance, Home: A Short History of an Idea, The Most Beautiful House in the World - Softcover

 
9786131136962: Waiting for the Weekend: Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance, Home: A Short History of an Idea, The Most Beautiful House in the World
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ISBN 10: 6131136963 ISBN 13: 9786131136962
Publisher: Betascript Publishing, 2010

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Waiting for the Weekend is a book published in 1991 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.In Waiting for the Weekend, Rybczynski recounts the evolution of the seven-day week, which came into being with the Babylonian calendar, and the later, more modern, development of the two-day weekend. In so doing, he tells the history of leisure and time off; starting first with taboo" days, market days, public festivals and holy days and how, with the coming of the Industrial Revolution the practice of "keeping Saint Monday", that is, staying home from work, evolved into the modern weekend. "

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Waiting for the Weekend is a book published in 1991 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.In Waiting for the Weekend, Rybczynski recounts the evolution of the seven-day week, which came into being with the Babylonian calendar, and the later, more modern, development of the two-day weekend. In so doing, he tells the history of leisure and time off; starting first with taboo" days, market days, public festivals and holy days and how, with the coming of the Industrial Revolution the practice of "keeping Saint Monday", that is, staying home from work, evolved into the modern weekend. "

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Publisher
Betascript Publishing
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
6131136963
ISBN 13 
9786131136962
Binding
Tapa blanda
Number of pages
94
Editor
Surhone Lambert M, Timpledon Miriam T, Marseken Susan F

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