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Synopsis
The best-selling author of Chaos and Genius presents an intriguing study of the human fascination with time from a psychological, biological, and cultural perspective tracing the development of measuring time and exploring ways in which we try to stretch our allotted time. 150,000 first printing. Tour.
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About the Author
James Gleick is the author of <b>Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman</b> (available from Vintage Books) and <b>Chaos: Making a New Science</b>, both of which were National Book Award nominees. He lives in New York.
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your watches. <br>We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond. This is the heyday of speed.<br>If one quality defines our modern, technocratic age, it is acceleration. We are making haste. Our computers, our movies, our sex lives, our prayers -- they all run faster now than ever before. And the more we fill our lives with time-saving devices and time-saving strategies, the more rushed we feel.<br>In <b>Faster</b>, James Gleick explores nothing less than the human condition at the turn of the millennium. He shines a light of enterprising and analytical reporting -- as well as sly wit -- on the newest paradoxes of time. His journey takes us through the bunkers and trenches of a war we barely knew we were fighting: to the atomic clocks of the Directorate of Time, to the waiting rooms that focus our impatience, to the film production studios that test the high-speed limits of our perception, to the air-traffic command centers that give time pressure new meaning.<br>We have become a quick
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