Describe your latest work. When I started working on Plant-Thinking in 2008, I had no idea that the project would turn out to be as broad as it did....
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Rybczynski unfolds the history of leisure by exploring the origins of the week and the observance of the Sabbath--showing that beginning with the industrial revolution, traditions developed that led to the institution of the "weekend".
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