Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.

Looks at the annual cycle of seasons and the way that some plants, animals, and people respond to the changes.

Describes the concept of time and how it has been measured throughout history, using water clocks, sundials, calendars, and atomic vibrations.

"In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the remarkable possibilities of real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. With the fascinating paradoxes of time travel echoing in our minds will we realize that travel into the future might never be possible? Or will we realize there is no...

Learn about the component parts that make up units of time.

Offers advice on how to adjust one's time perspective for greater life fulfillment, explaining how perceptions about time influence major life decisions by causing people to focus inappropriately on the past, instant gratification, and future goals.

SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling stories in this book explore our obsessions with time. An Englishman...

Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from...

It’s high drama: police have identified a time-bomb in a car trunk. Brave Constable Taviner decides to defuse it herself—brave because she has no idea what she’s doing. In a flash, skills coach Ray Roundtree appears to save the day with sure and savvy tips about online research: using search engines effectively, identifying reliable information, sources, and skim-reading.

The story of an embarrassing high school mishap from 1992 that sends the jokers on the road competing in hidden-camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and liberate three of the four Jokers.