Time

“Read a few paragraphs and your mind is racing onto other themes, examples and questions. The book can be used in a variety of different ways and the reader is fortunate that Barbara Adam has not lost her gift for bringing a sense of urgency and excitement to the topic.”
Sociology

“An obvious candidate to be the book which anyone should read if they want an overview of the field, but it will also offers fresh insights to those who have already made their own temporal investigations ... it is a delight to me to see the full flowering of such a persistent and imaginative scholar.”
British Journal of Sociology

“This is a very wide-ranging and erudite examination of countless notions of time throughout history. Barbara Adam sets out a whole new agenda for ‘time’ analysis.”
John Urry, University of Lancaster

“In a book grounded in top-notch scholarship, Barbara Adam traces how time has been viewed and lived through history and civilization.”
Ronald Purser, San Francisco State University