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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: The Discovery of Inner Time PART I: EXPERIENCING TIME

CHAPTER 1: TWENTY-FIVE HOURS: What Happens When Nothing Happens

A Hidden Clock How Long Does an Hour Last? The Trouble with Time

CHAPTER 2: OWLS AND LARKS: A Biological Clock Guides Us through the Day

Even Flowers Are Aware of Time Trillions of Clocks The Sun Sets the Internal Clock Why There Are Morning People and Night People When Sex Is Best Why Teenagers Are Night Owls Twilight Gloom Better to Be Well-Heeled and Worn Out than Hale and Hearty Tailor-Made Time

CHAPTER 3: A SENSE OF SECONDS: The Origin of Inner Time

Under the Spell of Boléro Pacemakers in the Brain Time Is Motion Distorted Minutes An Orchestra under the Cranium The Art of Cooking Goulash When the World Begins to Race Country Folk, City Folk

CHAPTER 4: THE LONGEST HOUR: Why Time Races and Crawls

Two Minutes on a Hot Oven The Rhythm of Breath Why Murders Take Forever Time Flies When You're Having Fun Let the Good Times Last

CHAPTER 5: ATOMS OF TIME: How Long Does the Present Last?

Time in a Black Hole A Mosquito Beating Its Wings The Now Is an Illusion Consciousness Lags Behind Mind-Reading Airplanes The Longest Moment

CHAPTER 6: "TWINKIES, GRANOLA": Neglecting the Now

Head in the Clouds Banal Banter Consciousness on Autopilot Three Minutes of Eternity

CHAPTER 7: FROZEN IN TIME: We Are the Architects of Our Memory

Life without Past and Future Several Kinds of Memory How the Present Becomes Memory—and Vice Versa Memory Transforms Us His Own History No Watch, No Calendar\ Retouching Experiences A House of Splinters and Chips

CHAPTER 8: SEVEN YEARS ARE LIKE A MOMENT: Why Life Speeds Up as We Grow Older

Why the Way Back Is Always Shorter Machines that Kill Time "An Hour Is Not Merely an Hour" Crossing theThreshold of the Moment The Teddy Bear Test Pioneers on an Empty Continent Revamping the Brain Short on Time Racing to the Home Stretch Applying the Brakes as We Age Where the Years Do Not Count

PART II: USING TIME

CHAPTER 9: THE ALLURE OF SPEED: How Fast a Pace Can We Endure?

The Three Time Wasters Measuring Device as Moral Barometer The Push for Punctuality Faster! The Race Is On A Journey through Time to Weimar Craving Stimulation The Battle of Life Why We Are No Longer Able to Listen

The Manager of Our Intentions A God with Six Hands The Sluggish Mind Thoughts Adrift Sushi Chef and Fidgety Philip Card Games to Combat Distractibility

CHAPTER 11: RULED BY THE CLOCK: Little Time ≠ Big Stress

What Stress Is The Myth of "Hurry Sickness" When We Lose Our Heads Calm and Controlled Why Managers Don't Get Ulcers Dogged by a Duck A Shortage of Time Is a Matter of Perspective

CHAPTER 12: MASTERS OF OUR TIME: A Matter of Motivation

Pleasure or Pressure? Why We Always Finish Things at the Last Possible Minute That Prickle of Anticipation The Rich Run Themselves Ragged The Hunger for More

PART III: WHAT TIME IS

CHAPTER 13: DISMANTLING THE CLOCK: Is Time Just an Illusion?

A Voyage to Jamaica The Universal Clock Do We Need a Cosmic Time? Thelma, Louise, and the Rocket Why Moving Watches Are Slower If You Travel to the East, You Live Longer Life Is Faster at the Top The Succession of Earlier and Later The Teacup and the Big Bang At the Limits of Physics Transcending Time

EPILOGUE: A NEW CULTURE OF TIME: Six Steps to a More Relaxed Life

Can One "Have" Time? A New Culture of Time First Step: Sovereignty over Time Second Step: Living in Harmony with Your Biological Clock Third Step: Cultivating Leisure Time Fourth Step: Experiencing the Moments Fifth Step: Learning to Concentrate Sixth Step: Setting Your Priorities Taking it Easy

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