Comfort : an atlas for the body and soul
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
128.4/HOOVER,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First Riverhead trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION
ix, 292 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781594485480 (alk. paper), 1594485488 (alk. paper), 1594485488 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The roots of comfort. The human story of comfort ; The anatomy of comfort ; American comfort -- Complicating comfort. When comfort goes bad ; Home alone ; A comfortable living -- Way beyond Easy Street: real-life comforts. The comfort of company ; Comfort in crisis ; Spiritual comfort and a God for grown-ups ; Practical comfort
Comfort is a universal human need. Hoover explores what comfort means-- and how it means different things to different people. He delves into the psychological, emotional, and spiritual facets of comfort and offers ways to rediscover it