Search results for “time travel”
What to Do When Your Wife Is More Successful than You: Wise Advice from Tchaikovsky’s Father, 150 Years Ahead of Its Time
“Married happiness is based upon mutual respect, and you would no more permit your wife to be a kind of servant, than she would ask you to be her lackey.”
The Hummingbird Effect: How Galileo Invented Timekeeping and Forever Changed Modern Life
How the invisible hand of the clock powered the Industrial Revolution and sparked the Information Age.
Jeanette Winterson on Time, Language, Reading, and How Art Creates a Sanctified Space for the Human Spirit
“Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don’t accept things for their face value; you don’t have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.”
The Greatest Queer Love Letters of All Time
Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, Allen Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and more.
How Should We Live: History’s Forgotten Wisdom on Love, Time, Family, Empathy, and Other Aspects of the Art of Living
“How to pursue the art of living has become the great quandary of our age… The future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past.”
Our Fraught Relationship with Time, in Clever Minimalist Illustrations
A witty visual meditation on our comical control strategies, the predictability of modern life, and our constant tussle with productivity and presence.
How to Be Alone: An Antidote to One of the Central Anxieties and Greatest Paradoxes of Our Time
“We live in a society which sees high self-esteem as a proof of well-being, but we do not want to be intimate with this admirable and desirable person.”
The Timekeeper: Behind the Scenes of Humanity’s Most Accurate Atomic Clocks, Which Dictate Our Daily Lives
“Time is a coordinate that lets us most simply understand the evolution of the universe.”
Hans Christian Andersen’s Little-Known Sketches: The Beloved Storyteller’s Illustrated Travelogue of Europe
What made Andersen particularly enchanting was his singular gift for noticing and depicting not only the whimsical, but also the wistful.
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