Time is the highest value we have. Time management has become one of the greatest challenges of our era. This book is about our perceptions of and attitudes towards time that have changed over the last 250 years. Simon Garfield, a brilliant British populariser of science, will, in his characteristic inventive and engaging way, talk about trying to measure time, manage it, trade it, film it, portray it, make it eternal, reinvent it and give it new meaning.