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Timekeepers / by Garfield, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)265193;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-335) and index.Introduction: Very, very early or very, very late -- The accident of time. Leaving the ground ; The shortness of life and how to live it -- How the French messed up the calendar -- The invention of the timetable. The fastest thing you ever did see ; Was ever tyranny more monstrous? -- The Beet goes on. The way to play the Ninth ; Just how long should a CD be? ; Revolver -- How much talking is too much talking?. In the time of Moses ; Talking it over -- Movie time. How you get to the clock ; Oncoming train -- Horology part one: How to make a watch. A very difficult floor ; Just what is it about the Swiss? -- Roger Bannister goes round and round -- Vietnam. Napalm. Girl. The split second ; 'I am Muybridge and this is a message from my wife' -- The day shift. We will crush, squash, slaughter Yamaha! ; The boss from hell -- Horology part two: How to sell the time. Vasco da Gama special edition ; Welcome to Baselworld ; Uh-oh ; In which we name the guilty man ; The most valuable watch on the planet -- Time tactics that work!. The berry season ; The lean email simple system -- Life is short, art is long. The clock is a clock ; White people are crazy -- Slowing down the world. A place where time stands still ; Living Frenchly ; Faster food -- The British Museum and the story of us. The book of hours ; Doomed and marooned ; Those who feel differently -- Epilogue: Humility watch."Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling stories in this book explore our obsessions with time. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A moment of war is frozen forever. The timetable arrives by steam train. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister becomes stuck in the same four minutes forever. A British watchmaker competes with mighty Switzerland. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks. Timekeepers is a vivid exploration of the ways we have perceived, contained and saved time over the last 250 years, narrated in Simon Garfield's typically inventive and entertaining style. As managing time becomes one of the greatest challenges we face in our lives, this multi-layered history helps us understand it in a sparkling new light."--Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Time.; Time perception.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Human hours : poems / by Barnett, Catherine,1960-author.(CARDINAL)800636;
The amenities -- En route -- An apprehension -- The light from across the fields -- The skin of the face is that which stays most naked, most destitute -- Forensics -- Epistemology -- Still life -- Landscape with borrowed contours -- Lyric and narrative time at Caf©♭ Loup -- Accursed Questions, i -- Appeal to numbers -- Comic morning -- Id©♭e fixe -- Essay on An essay concerning human understanding -- Son in August -- Lore -- The necessary preoccupations -- The art of the security question -- O Esperanza! -- Accursed questions, ii -- The humanities -- Calamity Jane on Etsy after the 2016 election -- Another Divine comedy -- Let facts be submitted to a candid wind -- Metaphor on the Crosstown -- Summons -- The sky flashes -- Origin story -- Central Park -- Accursed questions, iii -- Pain scale -- In the studio at end of day -- 433 Eros -- Uncertainty principle at the Atrium Bar -- Uncertainty principle at dawn -- Beckett on the Jumbotron -- Prayer for the lost among us -- The material world -- Eternal recurrance -- Accursed questions, iv -- Amor fati."Catherine Barnett's tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are "accursed," that are limited--and unanswered--by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow--or at least measure--time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover's breaths; by remembering a father's space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. Human Hours pulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition."--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Lyric poetry.; Poetry.; Time perception;
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Felt time : the psychology of how we perceive time / by Wittmann, Marc,author.(CARDINAL)536403; Butler, Erik,1971-translator.(CARDINAL)498627;
Includes bibliographical references.Temporal shortsightedness: on being able to wait -- Looking for the rhythm of the brain -- In the moment: three seconds of presence -- Internal clocks: what we "need" time for -- Life, happiness, and the ultimate time limit -- Winning and losing time: the self and temporality -- Body time: how the sense of time arises.
Subjects: Time perception.; Time;
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The time paradox : the new psychology of time that will change your life / by Zimbardo, Philip G.(CARDINAL)346543; Boyd, John(John Nathan)(CARDINAL)427825;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-339) and index.Why time matters -- Time : a retrospective on time perspectives -- The past : how you see yesterday through the lens of today -- The present : an instant for all that is real -- The future: tomorrow through the lens of today -- The transcendental future : new time after death -- Time, your body & your health : more than your biological clock is ticking -- The course of time : life choices and money in balancing the present and the future -- Love and happiness -- Business, politics, and your time -- Resetting your psychological clock : developing your ideal time perspective -- Out of time : making your time matter.Reveals how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you, interacting to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies.
Subjects: Time perception.; Time;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Time warped : unlocking the mysteries of time perception / by Hammond, Claudia,author.(CARDINAL)547867;
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 323-334) and index.
Subjects: Time perception.; Time;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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When : the scientific secrets of perfect timing / by Pink, Daniel H.,author.(CARDINAL)350447;
All of us confront a never-ending stream of "when" decisions. When to change jos. When to schedule a class. When to get serious about a person or a project. Yet we make those decisions haphazardly - based on intuition, hunches, and guesswork. Daniel H. Pink argues this isexactly the wrong approach. We all know that timing is everything,Pink says. But we assume that timing is an art. In When, he makes clear that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology and biology, neuroscience and econom ics, Pink reveals how to best live, work and succeed.--Inside front cover
Subjects: Time; Time perception.;
Available copies: 47 / Total copies: 52
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When : the scientific secrets of perfect timing [sound recording] / by Pink, Daniel H.,author,narrator.(CARDINAL)350447;
Read by the author.Illuminates the scientific factors that shape the hidden patterns of a day and challenge scheduled activities, drawing on research in the disciplines of psychology, biology, and economics to share practical advice and anecdotes for promoting a richer, more engaged life.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Time; Time perception.;
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When [large print] : the scientific secrets of perfect timing / by Pink, Daniel H.,author.(CARDINAL)350447;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-390) and index.Introduction: Captain Turner's decision -- Part one: The day. The hidden pattern of everyday life ; Afternoons and coffee spoons: The power of breaks, the promise of lunch, and the case for a modern siesta -- Part two: Beginnings, endings, and in between. Beginnings: Starting right, starting again, and starting together ; Midpoints: What Hanukkah candles and midlife malaise can teach us about motivation ; Endings: Marathons, chocolates, and the power of poignancy -- Part three: Synching and thinking. Synching fast and slow: The secrets of group thinking ; Thinking in tenses: A few final words.Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. <p> Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married?
Subjects: Large print books.; Time; Time perception.;
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Your brain is a time machine : the neuroscience and physics of time / by Buonomano, Dean,author.(CARDINAL)345006;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-278) and index."In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, brain researcher and best-selling author Dean Buonomano draws on evolutionary biology, physics, and philosophy to present his influential theory of how we tell, and perceive, time. The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological flow and enables 'mental time travel'-simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. The brain was designed to navigate our continuously changing world by predicting what will happen and when. Buonomano combines neuroscience expertise with a far-ranging, multidisciplinary approach. With engaging style, he illuminates such concepts as consciousness, spacetime, and relativity while addressing profound questions that have long occupied scientists and philosophers alike: What is time? Is our sense of time's passage an illusion? Does free will exist, or is the future predetermined? In pursuing the answers, Buonomano reveals as much about the fascinating architecture of the human brain as he does about the intricacies of time itself. This virtuosic work of popular science leads to an astonishing realization: your brain is, at its core, a time machine" --Part I: Brain time -- Flavors of time -- The best time machine you'll ever own -- Day and night -- The sixth sense -- Patterns in time -- Time, neural dynamics, and chaos -- Part II: The physical and mental nature of time -- Keeping time -- Time: what the hell is it? -- The spatialization of time in physics -- The spatialization of time in neuroscience -- Mental time travel -- Consciousness: binding the past and the future.
Subjects: Brain; Time perception.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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What time is this place? by Lynch, Kevin,1918-1984.(CARDINAL)350892;
Bibliography: pages 248-257.Introduction : time and place -- Cities transforming -- The presence of the past -- Alive now -- The future preserved -- The time inside -- Boston time -- Change made visible -- Managing transitions -- Environmental change and social change -- Some policies for changing things.A look at the human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. Time and Place - Timeplace - is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world. Kevin Lynch's book deals with this human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. The center of his interest is on how this innate sense affects the ways we view and change - or conserve, or destroy - our physical environment, especially in the cities.
Subjects: Progress.; Cycles.; Time perception.;
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