How old is the Earth? How fast can you think? How long is a light year and how short is a femtosecond? What does Greenwich Mean Time mean? Can you tell the time with flowers? When did time itself begin? This lighthearted, illustrated miscellany goes a long way to answering some of these questions and also presents a whole range of other amazing facts and figures that reveal the...(展开全部)

[爱尔兰]莉兹·埃弗斯(Liz Evers)，来自爱尔兰都柏林的作家，热衷于整理细碎又有趣的琐事。她有传播学背景，曾学习英国文学，并对电影有着深刻的研究。她之前的作品主要包括《我告诉过你我病了：渴望一个笑容》(I Told You I Was Ill: Dying for a Laugh，2012)等。

This is a book about the meaning of time, what it is, when it has started, how it flows and where to. It examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal.

The traditional association between time and creation is at the heart of science, cosmology, and religion. When scientists began to explore the implications of Einstein's time for the universe as a whole, they discovered that time is elastic, and can be warped by rapid motion or gravitation, that time cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future, nor does time ...(展开全部)

This is a book about the meaning of time, what it is, when it has started, how it flows and where to. It examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal.

The traditional association between time and creation is at the heart of science, cosmology, and religion. When scientists began to explore the implications of Einstein's time for the universe as a whole, they discovered that time is elastic, and can be warped by rapid motion or gravitation, that time cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future, nor does time ...(展开全部)

Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. In a series of arguments and readings, he offers an account of narrative as both anticipation and retrospection, linking fictional time experiments ...(展开全部)

索尔•贝娄 Saul Bellow，1915-2005 美国犹太裔作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。1924年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。1933年，贝娄考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿的西北大学，获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。自1938年以来，当过编辑和记者，并于第二次世界大战期间在海上短期服过役外，他长期在芝加哥等几所大学执教。 索尔•贝娄是唯一一位凭借《奥吉•马奇历险记》《赫索格》《赛姆勒先生的行星》三次获得美国国家图书奖的作家。1975年，凭借小说《洪堡的礼物》获得普利策奖；1976年，获得诺贝尔文学奖。

厄休拉·勒古恩（Ursula K. Le Guin） 1929—2018 美国幻想文学大师、科幻新浪潮运动代表人物，以《地海传奇》《黑暗的左手》等作品闻名于世。 勒古恩一生获奖无数，囊括8次雨果奖、6次星云奖、24次轨迹奖，以及美国国家图书奖、世界奇幻奖等二百余项世界文坛大奖，2016年被《纽约时报》誉为“美国当代最伟大的科幻小说家”。

Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.” On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?” On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even cour...(展开全部)