A Watched Pot: How We Experience Time - Softcover

Flaherty, Michael G.

 
9780814726860: A Watched Pot: How We Experience Time
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814726860 ISBN 13: 9780814726860
Verlag: New York University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Time, it has been said, is the enemy. In an era of harried lives, time seems increasingly precious as hours and days telescope and our lives often seem to be flitting past. And yet, at other times, the minutes drag on, each tick of the clock excruciatingly drawn out. What explains this seeming paradox?
Based upon a full decade's empirical research, Michael G. Flaherty's new book offers remarkable insights on this most universal human experience. Flaherty surveys hundreds of individuals of all ages in an attempt to ascertain how such phenomena as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock, and novelty influence our perception of time. Their stories make for intriguing reading, by turns familiar and exotic, mundane and dramatic, horrific and funny.
A qualitative and quantitative tour de force, A Watched Pot presents what may well be the first fully integrated theory of time and will be of interest to scientists, humanists, social scientists and the educated public alike.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Flaherty is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Verlag
New York University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814726860
ISBN 13 
9780814726860
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
190
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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