Time travel / (Record no. 11314)
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fixed length control field | 01295pam a22001691i 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9780375715204 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
Original cataloging agency | StDuBDS |
Language of cataloging | eng |
Transcribing agency | StDuBDS |
Modifying agency | Uk |
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 530.11 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
Personal name | Gleick, James, |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Time travel / |
Statement of responsibility, etc | James Gleick. |
Remainder of title | a history |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | New York |
Name of publisher | Pantheon Books |
Year of publication | 2016 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | 336 p. |
Other physical details | ill. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | 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. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Space and time |
Form subdivision | Popular works |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Time travel |
Form subdivision | Popular works |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Books |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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DIS Library | DIS Library | New Titles | 25/11/2016 | 530.11 Gleick | MH008092 | Books |