Time

Name: Time
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ISBN: 9780312427276

ISBN-10: 0312427271

ISBN-13: 9780312427276

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Authors: Eva Hoffman

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Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series Time has always been the great Given, the element which establishes the governing facts of human fate and which cannot be circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But these days we are tampering with Time in ways that affect how we live, the textures of our experience, and our very sense of what it is to be human. What is the nature of Time in our time? Why is it that, even as we live longer than ever before, we feel that we have ever less time? What effects do the hyper-fast technologies--computers, video games,…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 10/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Eva Hoffman was born in Krakow, Poland and eventually emigrated to Canda with her family. She received a Ph. D. from Harvard University. She taught literature and was the editor of the New York Times Book Review. Hoffman is the author of such books as Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1989) and Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (1997).