Faster
Our Race Against Time
$65.05
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 July 2000
Summary
Time rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit, is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds: the microwave oven. In your hurry sickness, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice. Do you stand at the microwave for that minute and a half Or is that long enough to make a quick call or run in the next room to finish pa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349112923 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349112924 |
| Author: | James Gleick |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 July 2000 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 159mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
It’s an important portrait of an age; a learned, witty, eclectic treatise, and it might even help you to slow down. So don’t hang around- go out and buy it right now.
A bite sized, zippy little book is packed with myriad manifestations of the Need for Speed EXPRESS
A book that you can dip in and out of at will, always coming up with an intriguing fact or statistic SUNDAY TIMES Gleick offers a lot of witty observation that s worth more than a few of your precious minutes FOCUS Reveals the growth of hurry sickness OBSERVER A highly readable dissection of our speed-obsessed age THE FACEAbout The Author
James Gleick
James Gleick was an editor and reporter at the New York Times for ten years. He is the author of GENIUS and also CHAOS, which was nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.
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