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A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths

A Sideways Look at Time

By Jay Griffiths

By Jay Griffiths

By Jay Griffiths

By Jay Griffiths

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Category: History | Science

Category: History | Science

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Mar 08, 2004 | ISBN 9781585423064

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Mar 08, 2004 | ISBN 9781440650017

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    About A Sideways Look at Time

    A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives.

    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.

    About A Sideways Look at Time

    A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives.

    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.

    About Jay Griffiths

    Jay Griffiths’ 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.

    About Jay Griffiths

    Jay Griffiths’ 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.

    Product Details

    Category: History | Science

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by TarcherPerigee
    Mar 08, 2004 | 416 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781585423064

    Category: History | Science

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by TarcherPerigee
    Mar 08, 2004 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781440650017

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    “An exercise indeed in Dharma, Poetry, and Philosophy.”
    —Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

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    Table Of Contents

    A Sideways Look at TimeIntroduction

    1. Pips and Oceans and the Now

    2. F.Fwd. The Trouser-Arrow of Speed

    3. Mythical Lizards, Bacchus’s Bins and Mining the Past

    4. Bottoms Up! Mischief Nights and Millennium Days

    5. Wreaking Good Havoc—A Time of Women

    6. Wet Round Time and Dry Linear Time

    7. The Power and the Glory

    8. Life’s Too Short

    9. Progress is a Four-Letter Word

    10. A Teflon Tomorrow

    11. Natoure

    12. Tootle Pip

    13. Wild Time

    Bibliography Sources & Suggestions for Further Reading

    Index

    Acknowledgments

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