Thief of Time

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552154261
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
Time isn't a toy to be played with. It's bigger than all of us. It exists outside the artificial and arbitrary divisions into which humankind has presumptuously shoehorned it. It needs to elastic. To understand truly, you have to see time as the most important resource we have. You mess with it at your peril.

The Thief of Time

Author: John Boyne
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312378042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
In this carefully crafted novel, Boyne juxtaposes history and the buzz of the modern world, weaving together portraits of 1920s Hollywood, the French Revolution, the Wall Street Crash, and other landmark events into one man's story of murder, love, and redemption.

The Thief of Time

Author: Chrisoula Andreou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199704066
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? It has been described as imprudent, irrational, inconsistent, and even immoral, but there has been no sustained philosophical debate concerning the topic. This edited volume starts in on the task of integrating the problem of procrastination into philosophical inquiry. The focus is on exploring procrastination in relation to agency, rationality, and ethics-topics that philosophy is well-suited to address. Theoretically and empirically informed analyses are developed and applied with the aim of shedding light on a vexing practical problem that generates a great deal of frustration, regret, and harm. Some of the key questions that are addressed include the following: How can we analyze procrastination in a way that does justice to both its voluntary and its self-defeating dimensions? What kind of practical failing is procrastination? Is it a form of weakness of will? Is it the product of fragmented agency? Is it a vice? Given the nature of procrastination, what are the most promising coping strategies?

Other Minds

Author: John Wisdom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258668525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description

Thief Of Time

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1804990418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.

Thief of Time

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061808598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
"Philosophical humor of the highest order." — Kirkus Reviews Time itself is threatened — and it's up to the History Monks to save it in Sir Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series. Everybody wants more time. Which is why, on Discworld, only the experts can manage it—the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where busy denizens lament never having enough of it. While everyone talks about slowing down, one young horologist is about to do the unthinkable. He's going to stop. Well, stop time, that is, by building the world's first truly accurate clock. Which means esteemed History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd have to put on some speed to stop the timepiece before it starts. For if the Perfect Clock starts ticking, time—as we know it—will end. And then the trouble will really begin . . . The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Thief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series.

Thief of Time

Author: Capt Sp Meek
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612100759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13

Book Description
The teller turned to the stacked pile of bills. They were gone! And no one had been near!

The Thief of Time

Author: Chrisoula Andreou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199826641
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Thief of Time

Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708994030
Category : Discworld (Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
The phenomenal 20 million copy bestselling author and king of satirical fiction delivers another ingenious novel. In this Terry Pratchett worldwide bestselling series Discworld is a topsy-turvy, magical place, carried serenely through the Universe on the back of the Great Turtle. In the comic tradition of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide...

The Thief of Another Time

Author: Michael E Tessier
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059545562X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
"Luck always runs in sets of threes. It can be good luck or it can be bad luck, but luck always runs in sets of three." This exciting sequel follows the continuing adventures of Jon and Sara Kline, now apprentice time travelers. An unexplained burp in the timeline sends the two time travelers back on a mission to find out why history changed. Within their mini-adventure, they discover the gateway man. He is a time traveler from the future with a superior time machine. The man has totally evil intentions. He is stealing objects from the past without regard for the consequences to history. Consequently, Jon and Sara's history is flip-flopping from bad to worse. Two time machines are one too many and the duo's time traveling career depend upon stopping the gateway man. The exciting conclusion is literally out of this world.