Author Description

Ryan Dewey explores curiosity and observation in an account that praises wonder and encourages the reader to interact with the world with a sense of newness. *The Art of War Against Boredom* is an expository essay/personal narrative that embraces multifaceted learning for multifaceted living and demands a new moral imperative to look at familiar things with unfamiliar eyes. The text discusses wonder from an ethnographic perspective, using thick description to explore domains of cognition, society, creativity, the mind and body, algae, cities, and ecological systems.