CD Audiobook
Time travel : a history / James Gleick.
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H.G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological--the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture--from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735285903
- ISBN: 073528590X
- ISBN: 9780735285880
- ISBN: 0735285888
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, [2016]
- Distributor: [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from web page. Unabridged. Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Rob Shapiro. |
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| Subject: | Space and time > Popular works. Time travel > Popular works. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Co PL - Monrovia Branch | CD 530.11 GLE 7586 (Text) | 78551000637286 | Audio CD | Available | - |
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JAMES GLEICK (around.com) is our leading chronicler of science and technology, the best-selling author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
