""Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older? How and why does time fly? In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest...

The Book of Time is a complete guide to one of the most important, paradoxical and truly mind-bending subjects there is. It explores every aspect of time, including how it works in the natural world and in our bodies, its significance in religion and philosophy, how we measure it and how it has been essential to our scientific understanding of the universe and everything in it.

This guide teaches students how to use clocks and stop watches. Explanations are provided of how these tools can be used to study things, such as a persons heart rate and how fast animals learn. Discussion about how to construct an experiment make it easy for readers to do one themselves and one is provided for them to try.

"[This book] travels through the past and into the future to explore how humans have measured the passage of time."--P. [4] of cover.

"This picture book offers explanations of how to tell time, the difference between digital and analog time and AM and PM"--