Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Contributor(s): Burdick, Alan (Author)

View larger image

ISBN: 1416540288     ISBN-13: 9781416540281
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
OUR PRICE: $18.99  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2018
Qty:
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Time
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
Dewey: 529.2
LCCN: 2016025791
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" L (0.40 lbs) 320 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
"An insightful meditation on the curious nature of time...A highly illuminating intellectual investigation" (Kirkus Reviews) explaining the sometimes contradictory ways we experience time.

"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly?

"Erudite and informative, a joy with many small treasures" (Science), this witty and meditative exploration by award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick--"one of the finest science writers at work today, with an uncanny ability to explain knotty topics, with humanity, and humor" (Publishers Weekly, staff pick, best books of 2016)--takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that "now" actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense of time; and, for one fleeting moment in a neuroscientist's lab, even makes time go backward.

"Why Time Flies captures us. Because it opens up a well of fascinating queries and gives us a glimpse of what has become an ever more deepening mystery for humans: the nature of time" (The New York Times Book Review). This "intellectual adventure renders a hefty topic accessible to the general public" (Richmond Times-Dispatch), is an instant classic, a vivid and intimate examination of the clocks that tick inside us all.


Contributor Bio(s): Burdick, Alan: - Alan Burdick is a staff writer and former senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to Elements, the magazine's science-and-tech blog. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, GQ, Discover, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere. His first book, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club Award for environmental reporting.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!