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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 26x22cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Gift inscription to front free endpaper (flyleaf). Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 103 pages. A book of photographs of Adelaide in the 1880s taken by the foremost colonial photographer, Samuel Sweet. Some images are presented alongside their modern-day equivalents.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Everyone is busy.Calendars are full. Inboxes never stop. Meetings multiply. Deadlines pile up. And somehow, very little ever feels finished.In Everyone Is Pretending to Be Busy, Julian Pike examines how urgency became a performance rather than a necessity. He shows how modern work rewards responsiveness over judgment, activity over decisions, and motion over outcomes. The result is a culture where looking busy matters more than doing anything that actually resolves.This is not a productivity system or a guide to working less. It does not promise focus, balance, or efficiency. Instead, it explains why work now generates endless coordination, constant interruption, and a permanent sense of pressure without clarity.With dry, precise humor, Pike exposes the rituals of modern busyness: meetings that justify other meetings, inboxes that function as moral scorecards, and urgency that exists mostly to prove seriousness.The book does not tell you how to escape. It shows why the system works exactly as it does.…