Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)

By: Jenny Odell

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Synopsis: **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand WeeksOur life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that gives us and our planet a brighter future.In Saving Time, Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do Nothing, examines how we got to the point where time became money. Taking inspiration from the pre-industrial, ecological and geological rhythms of our world, she offers us radical new models to live by that make a more humane, more hopeful existence seem possible.Now is our moment to rethink. And if we do, time might just save us.'An inimitable gift' Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror'One of the most important books I've read in my life' Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldSaving Time featured on the New York Times bestseller list 26.3.23

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781473591899
Related ISBNs:: 9781529907438, 9781847926845, 9781529924619, 9781847926852
Publisher:: Random House
Date of Addition:: 12/26/23
Copyrighted By:: Barbara Luck. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Self-Help, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.