Ebook: Time: The Familiar Stranger

"The substance of this book derives from over three decades of research in the interdisciplinary study of time. This is a new field of scientific and humanistic undertaking that I like to describe as the work of “timesmiths.” For it consists of the mental hammering out, from theoretical and experimental material, the novel shapes of our understanding of time."

The culmination of 30 years' work, this book examines classical and contemporary theories and conceptions of time. Fraser explores an expansive range of topics: the origins of the universe, the history of timekeeping devices, the biology of ageing and death, human perception of time, dreaming vs waking reality, expectation and memory, scientists' exploration of time in the physical world, and the ways in which technological rhythms control our lives.