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More copies of this ISBN:A Sideways Look at Timeby Jay Griffiths
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths takes readers on an extraordinary tour of time as we have never seen it before.
With this dazzling and defiant work, Griffiths introduces us to dimensions of time that are largely forgotten in our modern lives. She presents an infectious argument for other, more magical times, the diverse cycles of nature, of folktale or carnival, when time is unlimited and on our side. This is a book for those who suspect that there's more to time than clocks. Irresistible and provocative, A Sideways Look at Time could change the way we view time — forever. Review:"Amusing and erudite, fascinating and spirited. Bravo!" The Times Literary Supplement (London) Review:"A wonderful, delightfully humorous polemic against everything wrong with the way we deal with time today." The Independent (London), Books of the Year Review:"An irresistibly provocative and political analysis of time in our personal lives....Her wittily enthusiastic thesis is that time has too long been used as a tool to power: as a manifesto it could cause a revolution." The Times (London), Books of the Year Review:"A Sideways Look at Time does for time what Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance did for philosophy....Passionately written and cogently argued, it's a book you should make time to read."Time Out London Synopsis:A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives. About the AuthorJay Griffiths's writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, the Observer, The Ecologist magazine, and Resurgence magazine, of which she is an associate editor. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Pips and Oceans and the Now 1 2 F.FWD. The Trouser-Arrow of Speed 37 3 Mythical Lizards, Bacchus's Bins and Mining the Past 58 4 Bottoms Up! Mischief Nights and Millennium Days 98 5 Wreaking Good Havoc — A Time of Women 134 6 Wet Round Time and Dry Linear Time 155 7 The Power and the Glory 178 8 Life's too Shor 208 9 Progress is a Four-Letter Word 233 10 A Teflon Tomorrow 258 11 Natoure 294 12 Tootle Pip 319 13 Wild Time 335 Bibliography 365 Index 395 Acknowledgments 403 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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