In Search Of Time: Journeys Along a Curious Dimension - Rilegato

Dan Falk is a riveting writer: his latest book is almost unputdown-able ... Time is a mysterious commodity: we gain, spend, save and lose it. But everyone should make enough time to read In Search of Time. --Martin J. Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of Just Six Numbers and Our Final Hour

Time has intrigued philosophers and scientists from Aristotle to Newton, from Zeno to Hawking. Falk has fun in his search for time, discussing it with researchers who make some educated guesses ... Falk s tour of time is worth a few hours of our own. --The Times

Falk deals entertainingly with the history of man s attempts to measure time, from the sun rising over Neolithic monuments to today s super-accurate atomic clocks. He discusses cultural differences ... and he describes the difficulties our ancestors faced in making sense of months and years that contain days and fractions of days ... An accessible and entertaining introduction to what is, perhaps, the deepest and most intractable secret of the universe. --Financial Times

Dan Falk has written about science for the New Scientist, Nature and several dailies. He is the winner of the 2002 Canadian Science Writers' Association Science in Society Journalism Award and the 1999 American Institute of Physics' Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy.