| The Human Organization of Time: Temporal Realities and Experience Contributor(s): Bluedorn, Allen C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804741077 ISBN-13: 9780804741071 Publisher: Stanford Business Books OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2002 Annotation: " This is a wonderful and important book, full of fascinating information, insights, conjectures, and constructs. Bluedorn forges a compelling, often brilliant, case for the importance of time, and of our roles as current stewards of the temporal commons. The scholarship is impeccable. The book's language-sensitive, evocative, sweeping-is often transcendental. From the Big Bang to the Bolshevik revolution to the puzzles of Deep Time, from the social construction of zero to the theory of relativity, from the clock in the Royal Tower of Charles V to the Atomic Watch, from a time capsule on Omaha Beach to the Vietnam Memorial, from the gates of Trenton State Prison to the gates of Dante's Inferno, from hominids of the Great Rift Valley to zebras of the Serengeti, the book weaves a compelling fabric of temporal threads. Bluedorn has found power and poetry in time." -- Ramon J. Aldag, University of Wisconsin, Madison " The Human Organization of Time is a broad look at how we truly think about time. It unifies the many human patterns of time-scale concepts and gives depth and perspective to a complex field. Thorough and insightful, it will become the standard work." -- Gregory Benford, Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine and author of Deep Time |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Science | Time |
| Dewey: 304.23 |
| LCCN: 2002001375 |
| Series: Stanford Business Books (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.16" W x 9.2" (1.54 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Particularly valuable to those involved in the management and organizational sciences, since much material from those fields informs the discussion, this book considers several answers to the question of the true nature of time. It demonstrates that humanity creates a variety of times and the times affect the experiences of life-as times vary, so does life. |