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Reading Packet

Required

• “A Slowdown That May Slow Us Down”/New York Times
• "A Theory of Human Motivation"
• "A Well-Being Manifesto for a Flourishing Society"
• “Bally's founder Don Wildman speeds up at 76”/Los Angeles Time
• "Bring Back the Sabbath" - Shulevitz
• "Do-Over!" (Chapter One)/Hemley
• "Endangered Species: Play and Creativity" Consuming Kids, Chapter 4 - Linn
• "Extravagant Gesture: Nature, Design, and Transformation of Human Industry, The" - McDonough and Braungart
• “Is Your Job Killing You? How Work Influences Longevity”
• "Leisure Needs and Motives" - Iso-Ahola
• "Life in the Slow Lane" - Contreras
• "Man's Search for Meaning"/Viktor Frankl (Excerpt)
• "Meeting the 'Chocolate Slaves'" - Hawksley
• "Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon" - Huizinga
• "On Advertising: Sut Jhally vs. James Twitchell"
•  Overscheduled Kids, Underconnected Families - Doherty & Carlson &
    Enough -- The Time Cost of Stuff - Robin
•  Overworked American, The - Chapter 2 - Schor
• "Play as an Organizing Principle" Clinical Evidence and Personal Observations" - Brown
•  Playboy interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
• "Play’s the Thing" - Furlow
•  Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man - Russell
• "Social Play Behavior: Cooperation, Fairness, Trust, and the Evolution of Morality" - Bekoff
•  "Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents-The Mystery Inside John Lennon" /Gilmore
• "The Best Medicine - Children's Hospital's Wallis Davies" - Sebold
• "The Checker King" - Kelley & Gould
• “The Happiness Professor”/AARP
• "Waiting for the Weekend" Chapter 5 - Rybczynski
• "Why Grudman was so keen" - Nelson and Cohen
• "Why Play = Learning: A Challenge for Parents and Educators" - Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, and Singer

Optional

• “Collecting Change: A quest to find self on the other side of the world” (On Campus 319)
• "Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital" - Putnam
• "In the Beginning: Missing Pages in Our Photo Album of the Infant Universe"
• "Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation" - Fitzsimmons

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