Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction) - Hardcover

Burdick, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410496929 ISBN 13: 9781410496928

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2017

Synopsis

Explores how life is organized around time and its conflicting perceptions, drawing on the author's international travels and research lab visits where he witnessed fascinating time-altering phenomena.

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Alan Burdick offers a fascinating and searching account of how we perceive time s passage. It will change the way you think about the past, and also the present. --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction"

Alan Burdick turns an obsession with the nature of time into a thrilling quest one that brilliantly illuminates a subject that haunts us all. Time may fly bybut at least whilereading these pages it is never wasted. --David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z"

In his lucid, thoughtful, and beautifully written inquiry about time what is it, really? Did we invent it, or does it invent us? Burdick offers nothing less than a new way of reconsidering what it means to be human. --Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees"

Burdick toursthat unsettling passage of existence we call time how our brains process it, how infants first grasp it, how our conversations encode it and returns with a spellbinding, provocative book that will fill you with wonder. --Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don t Get Ulcers"

A marvelous meditation on the subtle mysteries of time. --Olivia Judson, author of Dr. Tatiana s Sex Advice to All Creation"

This book blew my mind. --Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit"

Burdick is like a charming and witty river guide, exploring the tributaries and side-streams along the river of consciousness the science, the history, the literature, the deep and beautiful paradoxes that make us what we are.Why Time Flieswill enhance your experience of what may be, in the end, the most intimate relationship of your li your connection with the passage of time. --Jonathan Weiner, author of Long for this World"

"Alan Burdick offers a fascinating and searching account of how we perceive time's passage. It will change the way you think about the past, and also the present."--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

"Alan Burdick turns an obsession with the nature of time into a thrilling quest--one that brilliantly illuminates a subject that haunts us all. Time may fly by but at least while reading these pages it is never wasted."--David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

"In his lucid, thoughtful, and beautifully written inquiry about time--what is it, really? Did we invent it, or does it invent us?--Burdick offers nothing less than a new way of reconsidering what it means to be human."--Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees

"Burdick tours that unsettling passage of existence we call "time"--how our brains process it, how infants first grasp it, how our conversations encode it--and returns with a spellbinding, provocative book that will fill you with wonder."--Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

"A marvelous meditation on the subtle mysteries of time."--Olivia Judson, author of Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

"This book blew my mind."--Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit

"Burdick is like a charming and witty river guide, exploring the tributaries and side-streams along the river of consciousness--the science, the history, the literature, the deep and beautiful paradoxes that make us what we are. Why Time Flies will enhance your experience of what may be, in the end, the most intimate relationship of your li--your connection with the passage of time."--Jonathan Weiner, author of Long for this World

-Alan Burdick offers a fascinating and searching account of how we perceive time's passage. It will change the way you think about the past, and also the present.---Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

-Alan Burdick turns an obsession with the nature of time into a thrilling quest--one that brilliantly illuminates a subject that haunts us all. Time may fly by but at least while reading these pages it is never wasted.---David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

-In his lucid, thoughtful, and beautifully written inquiry about time--what is it, really? Did we invent it, or does it invent us?--Burdick offers nothing less than a new way of reconsidering what it means to be human.---Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees

-Burdick tours that unsettling passage of existence we call -time---how our brains process it, how infants first grasp it, how our conversations encode it--and returns with a spellbinding, provocative book that will fill you with wonder.---Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

-A marvelous meditation on the subtle mysteries of time.---Olivia Judson, author of Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

-This book blew my mind.---Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit

-Burdick is like a charming and witty river guide, exploring the tributaries and side-streams along the river of consciousness--the science, the history, the literature, the deep and beautiful paradoxes that make us what we are. Why Time Flies will enhance your experience of what may be, in the end, the most intimate relationship of your li--your connection with the passage of time.---Jonathan Weiner, author of Long for this World

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410496929
• ISBN 13: 9781410496928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 557