Download or read book Objects of Time written by K. Birth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.