Jet Lag
Christopher J. Lee, "Jet Lag "
English | ISBN: 1501323229 | 2017 | 200 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1501323229 | 2017 | 200 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What exactly is jet lag? And, more importantly, how do we live with jet lag? 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. Yet, as Christopher J. Lee examines, it has much more to tell us about time, technology, and the human body. Taken further, jet lag articulates something essential about the accelerated world we live in. It presents an alternative view of globalization and its discomforting effects at the personal level. Tracing physiological, temporal, technological, and cultural meanings,
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