title: The Book of Time: The Secrets of Time, How it Works and How We Measure It
author:  Adam Hart-Davis 
description: Is it possible to write about time, exploring its historical and scientific origins, without reference to Stephen Hawkings A Brief History of Time (1988)? Well, Hart-Davis gives it a try, attempting to cover a lot of the same ground Hawking does but in a much more user-friendly manner. Designed for the general reader and replete with illustrations (some pages are almost entirely taken up by visuals), the book tackles the concept of time from a variety of perspectives. The author talks about our subjective notions of time (wait time, prison time), the history of timepieces and calendars, the use of time to determine age (through radiometric dating or counting tree rings, for example), and some of the key people through history who helped to develop our modern-day concepts of time (except Hawking, that is). Glossy and slickly donebut without succumbing to superficialitythe book should appeal to readers who are approaching time as a big idea for the first time. --David Pitt
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  Out of Time
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2 Strange Tales
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Milo James Fowler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Preface
  
  Time fascinates us. Even as we are bound by its forward momentum, we dream of
  breaking its shackles and turning back the clock to relive a glorious moment
  or correct a terrible mistake.
  
  For decades, science fiction has asked us what would happen if we were to
  somehow travel into the past, even as hard science has told us that such a
  thing could never be. We are the products of fixed moments in time: glances
  meeting across a crowded room, a sperm cell uniting with an egg. We cannot
  undo what has already been done.
  
  But what if we could? What choices would we make? What power would we wield?
  
  Out of Time collects two previously published “un-timely” tales. In the first,
  “One More Tuesday,” Josef finds himself trapped with only one way out—and a
  life or death decision once he discovers how to free himself. In “Leap Day,”
  Joan experiences a time distortion in her own apartment, and sh