Time's Second Arrow, 9781324105480
Hardcover
Medical professionals reveal raw, true stories of life, death, and healing.
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Time's Second Arrow

evolution, order, and a new law of nature

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  • Hardcover

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    22 March 2026

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Summary

In Where It Hurts, more than 60 doctors, nurses, therapists, EMTs, patient advocates, and other medical professionals offer a window into the space between health and illness, life and death as they share stories of difficult patients, life-changing diagnoses, their own failures, and the successes that make everything worth it. What they feel, we feel, in highly relatable, beautifully written essays, poems, and short stories that are by turns conversational, urgent, plain-spoken, spa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781324105480
ISBN-10:1324105488
Author:Robert M. Hazen, Michael L. Wong
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Imprint:WW Norton & Co
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:22 March 2026
Weight:282g
Dimensions:218mm x 147mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

“Time’s Second Arrow… present[s] an audacious hypothesis: that the increasing complexity observable in the history of life, the universe, and everything reflects a fundamental, hitherto unrecognized law of nature…A laudably concise, compelling account of how everything around us came to be.” – Andrew H. Knoll, author of A Brief History of Earth

About The Author

Robert M. Hazen

Robert M. Hazen, a geoscientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, is the author of Symphony in C, among other titles. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Michael L. Wong is a planetary scientist and astrobiologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. He lives in Washington, DC.

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