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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from...
2) Time at home
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
127 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The text and 115 color photographs offer inspiration for introducing texture, pattern, form, and color in every living area, from bedrooms and kitchens to home offices and playrooms. The book emphasizes how and when we use the rooms of our homes, combining style and function with personal expression.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society. Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth’s atmosphere,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 432 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists...
5) Old
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A family's tropical beach vacation turns sinister when they discover that they all seem to be aging rapidly.
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