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Chargement... Tijd een gebruiksaanwijzing (édition 2007)par Stefan Klein
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity par Stefan Klein
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Stefan Klein è un fisico di formazione, e in effetti la sezione di questo suo libro che racconta di come a partire da Einstein il concetto di tempo sia stato distrutto è molto ben fatta: qualitativa, come giusto sia in quel contesto, ma illuminante. Purtroppo non si può dire lo stesso per il resto del libro. La sensazione che ho avuto leggendolo è stata di una raccolta di dati, con le fonti regolarmente citate in biografia, ma senza un vero collante. Una specie di ricerca da tesi compilativa, insomma, più che un vero libro. Si trovano anche varie ripetizioni dello stesso concetto, come quello della cerimonia giapponese del tè dove il tempo perde volontariamente di significato; il libro è insomma spezzettato, quasi come fosse una raccolta di microsaggi messa insieme senza una rilettura. Anche la traduzione non è il massimo: Libero Sosio è stato meno puntuale e preciso rispetto a quanto ci ha abituato negli anni. ( ) Usually I don't like these guidebooks but this one is very entertaining and saves on obvious or needless advice. The author actually almost takes an ironic position concerning guidebooks, however, not without giving some trivial advice himself. Probably the best way of reading this book is taking it as an entertaining though sketchy textbook about time with its many characteristics. The author has succeeded in writing a witty and scientifically correct book filled with many interesting facts about the perception of time, measuring time, and the physics of time. A cím alapján és elsőre ránézésre is a könyv egy felszínes, ezoterikus izének tűnik, de igazából nem az. Már az jó jel, hogy 20 oldal jegyzet és irodalomjegyzék tartozik hozzá. A szerző, aki egyébként fizikus PhD, tudományos példák sokaságán keresztül szedi össze gondolatait az idő érzékelésének biológiai, pszichológiai oldalairól. Bemutatja az időfogalom változását a történelemben és az egyén személyes történetében. Nem egy használhatatlan időmenedzsment könyv, hanem lehetőség kicsit más szemmel nézni a mindennapokra.
“Do not squander time,” wrote Benjamin Franklin, “for that is the stuff life is made of.” Sage advice, but it begs a question: Why do we experience time in the ways we do? In The Secret Pulse of Time, Stefan Klein shows how our subjective sense of time originates and how we can learn to deal with time more mindfully. The book is divided into three sections. In the first, “Experiencing Time,” Klein explains how we all carry hidden clocks inside our bodies that regulate biological processes In Part II, “Using Time,” Klein addresses a modern malady: The widespread feeling that we don’t have enough time. The final section of the book, “What Time Is,” delves into insights from modern physics—with an emphasis on Einstein’s special theory of relativity
Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have previously realized. Award-winning journalist Stefan Klein-- whose previous book, The Science of Happiness, is a longtime international bestseller--here provides what are essentially "operating instructions" for time. Through a combination of original investigation and reportage, personal revelation, and a commanding presentation of scientific research (among disciplines including brain physiology, social psychology, philosophy, and Einsteinian physics), The Secret Pulse of Time teaches readers not only to better master time but also to understand why they so often fail to do so. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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