Out of Time

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Before Time Had Numbers
2. Chapter Two - Sundials and Star Charts
3. Chapter Three - The Sacred Wheel
4. Chapter Four - Seven Days of Madness
5. Chapter Five - The Empire Clocks In
6. Chapter Six - Jesus Breaks the Clock
7. Chapter Seven - The Pope and the Leap
8. Chapter Eight - Clocks, Minutes, and Mechanical Madness
9. Chapter Nine - Time Zones and Train Wrecks
10. Chapter Ten - Daylight Saving: The Dumbest Good Idea
11. Chapter Eleven - The Atomic Lie
12. Chapter Twelve - The Calendar as Power
13. Chapter Thirteen - Other Ways to Count
14. Chapter Fourteen - The Truth About Time

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Before Time Had Numbers BEFORE PEOPLE EVER counted hours, they felt them. Time wasn’t some external thing. It was in your bones. In the way your stomach growled when you were hungry. In the ache behind your eyes when night dragged on too long. There were no calendars or watches or “what time is it?” Just is it light out?, is it cold yet?, do we need to move? This was prehistoric time. Not a schedule or a clock, more like a vibe. A rhythm you could feel but couldn’t quite hold. You didn’t check the time; you lived inside it. You slept when it was dark. You moved when the herds did. You planted when the ice gave way to dirt. There were no alarms or deadlines. The world itself was...