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  <title><![CDATA[The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;&amp;#8226; &lt;b&gt;Popular science at its very best:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;The Secret Pulse of Time&lt;/i&gt; spans a wide array of disciplines &amp;#8212; brain physiology, social psychology, philosophy, and Einsteinian physics, among many other realms &amp;#8212; all with the goal of answering fundamental questions about time: Why does time fly when we are happy? Why do minutes pass so slowly when we are waiting impatiently? How can we truly appreciate the present moment despite leading overextended lives?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#8226; &lt;b&gt;Something we've never had before:&lt;/b&gt; &amp;#8220;operating instructions&amp;#8221; showing us how best and most efficiently to understand and use time: Award-winning science writer Stefan Klein brings a journalist's eye for detail to illuminate the highways and byways of time &amp;#8212; always with the goal of guiding us to better master time (and to understand why we so often fail to do so). Woven into his narrative are dozens of ways to do just this, including: how to not lose your head when a deadline is quickly approaching; how the present becomes a memory, and vice versa; how to attune to your inner clock for more productive, satisfying days; and how to prevent each day's fast tempo from having a detrimental effect on your overall enjoyment of life.&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[stephan klein, acclaimed german science writer,  last looked at the nature of happiness and now focuses on time ---and do i ever love freeing myself from the tyranny of the clock! an ounce of gold is not worth a minute of time, as the chinese proverb goes<br/><br/> he looks at the physics of  the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26627112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written by a German dude. A little bit too involved and not enough entertaining. But I did learn about why when I wake up I feel a dreadful feeling of death in my soul.  It's because my seratonin levels are way down and don't activate until I get up and move around. If any of you fell suicidal in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74944915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Earth 2100: Should we be reading &amp; doing some things differently?  Reading alongsit The Secret...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I made it about a quarter way through this and the combination of translation, typos and maximum renewals reached at the library, caused me to put it down.  Some interesting ideas and I'm hoping later editions will be better edited.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was enjoying this, and can you believe it: I ran out of time!  It had to go back to the library, but I will get it out again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[excellent excellent read-- the topic lends itself to such a range, from relativity to neurology. ]]></body>
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