Idle Threats Fiona Mckechnie Innovative research methods are explained

Innovative research methods are explained and promising directions for clinical practice with children and families are discussed

surgically dismantling their claims to divinity

all of the ideas have been categorised into three inter-related clusters for ease of use - encompassing ideas for personal development

including the stunning Palenque and the spectacular Guanajuato

to the snaky Lamias and Liliths who haunted nineteenth-century painting and literature

Idle Threats Fiona Mckechnie Innovative research methods are explainedThe 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and "gentlemen of refinement" capturing the imagination of a country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this