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<p> Falk displays a deft touch with both temporal history and experimentation. - Toronto Star <p> In this thoroughly readable, broad-sweeping and thought-provoking book, Falk surveys humanity's attempts to record and understand time, and poses some fascinating questions. - New Scientist magazine<p> An engaging writer who fearlessly tackles potentially brain-freezing topics. - San Francisco Chronicle <p> Falk's book is what Hawking's Brief History should have been. -- Ottawa Citizen <br> Dan Falk is a riveting writer: his latest book is almost unputdownable. He covers an eclectic range of fascinating topics--from prehistory to the far future. Time is a mysterious commodity: we gain, spend, save, and lose it. But everyone should make enough time to read In Search of Time. --Martin J. Rees, author of Just Six Numbers and Our Final Hour <p> Falk seamlessly combines science with literary and philosophical observations ('Chaucer had no notion of the length of a minute;

<p>&#8220;Falk displays a deft touch with both temporal history and experimentation.&#8221; &#8211; Toronto Star <p>&#8220;In this thoroughly readable, broad-sweeping and thought-provoking book, Falk surveys humanity&#8217;s attempts to record and understand time, and poses some fascinating questions.&#8221; &#8211; New Scientist magazine<p>&#8220;An engaging writer who fearlessly tackles potentially brain-freezing topics.&#8221; &#8211; San Francisco Chronicle <p> Falk's book is what Hawking's Brief History should have been. &#8212; Ottawa Citizen <br> &#8220;Dan Falk is a riveting writer: his latest book is almost unputdownable. He covers an eclectic range of fascinating topics&#8212;from prehistory to the far future. Time is a mysterious commodity: we gain, spend, save, and lose it. But everyone should make enough time to read In Search of Time .&#8221;&#8212;Martin J. Rees, author of Just Six Numbers and Our Final Hour <p>&#8220;Falk seamlessly combines science with

Falk's book is what Hawking's Brief History should have been. --The Ottawa Citizen<p> Dan Falk is a riveting writer: his latest book is almost unputdownable. He covers an eclectic range of fascinating topics--from prehistory to the far future. Time is a mysterious commodity: we gain, spend, save, and lose it. But everyone should make enough time to read In Search of Time. --Martin J. Rees, author of Just Six Numbers and Our Final Hour <p>PRAISE FOR UNIVERSE ON A T-SHIRT: <br> Mixing simple explanation and personal profiles with touches of philosophy and whimsy, T-Shirt gives a highly accessible introduction to some tough and important physics. --American Scientist<br> Crisply written, well researched. --Sky & Telescope<br> [Falk] has a wonderful gift for finding helpful analogies and for writing about science in a way that is accessible without sounding dumbed down. --Booklist<br> Falk endorses the idea that the best hope for a so-called theory of everything is in string theory, a difficult area of science that Falk nevertheless deftly unravels for the uninitiated. --Science News<br> Falk delivers a readable, entertaining, and fresh take on the subject. Most significant, he has achieved something original: more cleverly and cleanly than anything I can recall reading, the book itself unifies the story of the search for unifying principles in science. --The Globe and Mail

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