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Slow Ways was created by Dan Raven-Ellison and is supported by Ordnance Survey.Raven-Ellison hoped that the website would allow walkers to rediscover unused footpaths, walk in place of driving or taking public transport, and engage with slower travel between locations. [3]
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman.The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
The book was listed by Jake Kerridge in The Telegraph as one of "The 20 best spy novels of all time." [12] The book was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year. [13] On the social cataloging website Goodreads, Slow Horses holds an average rating of 4.01/5 stars from 54,500 reviews. [14]
Slough House is a series of spy novels by the British author Mick Herron.Herron began writing the first volume, Slow Horses, in 2008, and published it in 2010. The series follows River Cartwright and his colleagues, a group of humiliated MI5 agents, who have been relegated to paper pushing jobs.
Carl Honoré (born 29 December 1967 in Scotland) is a Canadian journalist who wrote the internationally best-selling book In Praise of Slow (2004) about the Slow Movement. In 2008, he came out with a new book, Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting , [ 1 ] which promotes a more relaxed and more hands-off ...
A new book series launched in May 2010 by Bradt Travel Guides explicitly espouses slow travel ideas with volumes that focus very much on local communities within a tightly defined area, often advocating the use of public transport along the way. Titles include Bus-pass Britain, Slow Norfolk and Suffolk, Slow Devon and Exmoor, Slow Cotswolds ...
Slow living is a lifestyle which encourages a slower approach to aspects of everyday life, [1] involving completing tasks at a leisurely pace. [2] The origins of this lifestyle are linked to the Italian slow food movement, which emphasised traditional food production techniques in response to the emerging popularity of fast food during the ...
Slow Horses is a British spy thriller television series based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron. The first series, Slow Horses , premiered on Apple TV+ on 1 April 2022. The second series, Dead Lions , premiered on 2 December 2022.