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My busy week / by Hibbert, Clare.(CARDINAL)660626; Raga, Silvia.(CARDINAL)474482;
At the library -- Swimming -- Helping teacher -- At the dentist's -- Home movie -- Pet care -- Going shopping -- Bike ride -- Sunday lunch.
Subjects: Fiction.; Time perception in children; Week; Time;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Way to go, Albert! / by Perle, Ruth Lerner.(CARDINAL)717238;
"Albert the Absent-minded Alligator is repeatedly late and often keeps his friends waiting. With the help of his AlphaPet friends, Albert becomes aware of the passing of time and learns how to tell the hour and half hour by reading the face of a clock."--Prelim.
Subjects: Fiction.; Time perception; Clocks and watches;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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In praise of wasting time / by Lightman, Alan P.,1948-author.; Sun, Dola,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references.A village in Cambodia -- The grid -- The rush and the heave -- Play -- The free-grazing mind -- Downtime and replenishment -- Chronos and kairos -- Half mind.In today's frenzied and wired world, we are obsessed with the idea of not "wasting time." But have we lost the silences and solitude so essential to our inner lives? A great deal of evidence suggests the value in wasting time, of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks, of unplugging from the grid. In this vital investigation of the rush and heave of the modern world, Alan Lightman explores the technological and cultural origins of our time-driven lives. More importantly, he reveals the many values of "wasting time", for replenishing the mind, for creative thought, and for finding and solidifying the inner self. Lightman urges us, as both individuals and as a society, to break free of the idea that not a second is to be wasted and to discover that sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing at all.
Subjects: Creative thinking.; Creative ability.; Divergent thinking.; Time perception.; Time management;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Our busy lives / by Hibbert, Clare,1970-(CARDINAL)349341; Raga, Silvia.(CARDINAL)474482;
Babies -- First steps -- Starting school -- Growing up -- Doing a job -- Getting married -- Moving house -- Growing old -- Remembering life.
Subjects: Fiction.; Time perception in children; Aging; Time;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The invention of tomorrow : a natural history of foresight / by Suddendorf, Thomas,author.(CARDINAL)404065; Redshaw, Jonathan,author.; Bulley, Adam,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Your Private Time Machine -- Creating the Future -- Invent Yourself -- Under the Hood -- Are Other Animals Stuck in Time? -- Discovery of the Fourth Dimension -- Travel Tools -- Our Slice of Time."Apes can do a lot of things that we can, too: they can use tools, tell bigger from smaller, and even say hello. But one thing they can't do is say "see you tomorrow." That's not just because they don't speak English, but because they are unable to imagine reencountering another ape in the future. Humans, of course, can. As Thomas Suddendorf, Jon Redshaw, and Adam Bulley reveal, that represents a truly earth-shattering capacity. In The Invention of Tomorrow, the three cognitive scientists argue that humanity's unique capacity for foresight is the key to our global dominance. Our minds work like time machines, they explain, allowing us to relive past events in order to predict possible futures. Drawing on cutting-edge research from the last decade - including much of the authors' own work - Suddendorf, Redshaw, and Bulley break down the science of foresight, showing us how this fundamental tool evolved and what makes it unique among animal minds. Foresight powers what are essentially private mental time machines that power our species' capacity for innovation, communication, and moral responsibility. Ultimately, the authors offer us a new vision of human progress, one that foregrounds our capacity to think ahead. Even though we sometimes get it wrong, theyargue, human beings are better able to handle future dangers than any creature that has ever existed. The Invention of Tomorrow is a paradigm-shifting exploration of one of humanity's greatest powers, showing how an apparently banal trait has been the key to human ingenuity and culture"--
Subjects: Expectation (Psychology); Cognition.; Forecasting; Time perception.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Tempus fugit, time flies / by Schall, Jan,1952-(CARDINAL)119663; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)171159;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art; Time in art; Time perception;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Right now / by Kherdian, David,author.(CARDINAL)505501; Hogrogian, Nonny,illustrator.(CARDINAL)510013;
"A child considers a range of daily experiences--happy, disappointing, painful, dismaying, and, mostly, hopeful--and emphasizes that the most important one is what is happening right now"--Title page verso.
Subjects: Fiction.; Self-perception; Time perception; Grief; Joy; Children; Children.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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One : a novel / by Bach, Richard.(CARDINAL)128074;
Richard journeys with his wife to a realm where he can meet himself as he'll be twenty years from now, where he can talk face-to-face with the person he was in the past, in parallel lifetimes, and in alternate worlds.
Subjects: Fiction.; Science fiction.; Self-perception; Space and time;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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A geography of time. by Levine, Robert N.(CARDINAL)393452;
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Subjects: Cultural relativism.; Lifestyles.; Time perception; Time;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wrong time rooster / by Parkin, Michael,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)633194;
"Ronnie the rooster arrives at Farmer Tony's farm to help wake up the animals, but something isn't right -- Ronnie just cannot tell the time! The animals band together to help teach Ronnie and soon his COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOs are perfectly on time... mostly!" --3-7 years.
Subjects: Picture books.; Animal fiction.; Roosters; Livestock; Time perception in animals;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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