دانلود کتاب Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture

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Contents\nIntroduction: Distraction and the Disciplines of Attention\nPart I. From the devil to distraction\nIntroduction\n1 “Wandring or distraction”\n2 “Satan had hidden the very object from my mind”\n3 “Hundreds of thousands have their appetite so depraved”\n4 “My non-compliance would almost always produce much confusion”\n5 “Opium-like listlessness”\n6 “Morbid attention”\n7 “The shell of lethargy”\nPart II. Reform\nIntroduction\n8 “A white man could, if he had paid as much attention”\n9 “The cultivation of attention as a moral duty”\n10 “The heart must be cultivated”\n11 “You might see him looking steadily at something”\n12 “Their nobler faculties lie all undeveloped”\n13 “Subdued and tender”\n14 “If he wanted to kill time”\nPart III. Revival\nIntroduction\n15 “All attention to the last sermon”\n16 “The power of fixed and continuous attention”\n17 “The relations of business and religion”\n18 “My mind was powerfully wrought upon”\n19 “I began to direct my attention to this great object”\n20 “Hear me now, love your heart”\n21 “Read these leaves in the open air”\nPart IV: Devotion\nIntroduction\n22 “Noble sentiments of devotion”\n23 “Savoir attendre”\n24 “The greatest exercise of mind”\n25 “A true sauntering of the eye”\n26 “If we do not guard the mind”\n27 “The valves of her attention”\n28 “Aroma finer than prayer”\nAfterword\nAcknowledgments\nNotes\nIndex\nA NOTE ON THE TYPE