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
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Koha item type Books
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    DIS Library DIS Library New Titles 25/11/2016 530.11 Gleick MH008092 Books