Christopher J. Lee

Jet Lag

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. It makes the speed and discomfort of globalization tangible on a personal level. Tracing physiological, temporal, technological, and cultural meanings, Christopher J. Lee's Jet Lag ponders our intrinsic human limits in the face of modern innovation,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-2323-2
EAN: 9781501323232
Produktnummer: 28596557
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'504 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 44 b/w illustrations

Über den Autor

Christopher J. Lee is an associate professor of history at Lafayette College, USA. He has published four previous books and travels frequently. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Chronicle of Higher Education, Christian Science Monitor, Africa is a Country, The Point (Chicago), and the Mail & Guardian (South Africa).