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Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times. A guide thatexplores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to ourmental wellbeingThe modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefitsand joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it canalso feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper intogreed, despair and agitation. Seldom has the world felt moreprivileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious,panicked and self-absorbedHow to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide tonavigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes thatpresent acute challenges to our mental wellbeing. The book tacklesour relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, ourassumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animalsand the natural world, our admiration for science and technology,our belief in individualism and secularism – and our suspicion ofquiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understandhow we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly intothe history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individualand collective futureThe emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times but also onknowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present.The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilientand sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies andobsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of adisease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filledcureHardback book with 177 colour illustrations throughout | 320 pages