{"product_id":"jet-lag-9781501323225","title":"Jet Lag","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher J. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College, USA. He has published four previous books and travels frequently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee has a gift for making surprising yet apposite associations ... He is best, though, when contemplating the \"global capitalist spectacle\" of airports, with their unifying corporate flags for individual airlines and the ubiquitous brands displayed down polished corridors. * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eIn this beguiling book, Christopher J. Lee opens up the whole panorama of jetting off, arriving, and sleeping it off. From T. S. Eliot to Dalí, from Chaplin to \u003ci\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, he shows how jet lag is the deep dark symptom of modern life's struggle with time.\u003ci\u003e Jet Lag\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and witty meditation on a key secret of modernity. * Enda Duffy, Arnhold Presidential Department Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and author of The Speed Handbook *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJet Lag\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory and compelling meditation on the temporal and affective dislocations of global capitalism. Christopher J. Lee lucidly maps the dissonant incompatibility between human beings and technological acceleration but he also insists on the importance of our imaginative cultural and aesthetic responses to the many systemic derangements of individual experience. * Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USA, and author of 24\/7 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJet Lag\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond the expected, leaving behind the simple science of this curious phenomenon to explore intriguing tangents inspired by the subject. A philosophical musing on the importance of sleep, a short essay exploring our relationship with flying, and even a musing upon jet lag as not only a physical phenomenon but a spiritual one as well…. Lee manages to encompass quite a lot in less than 200 pages, delving into the consequences of modern convenience … \u003ci\u003eJet Lag\u003c\/i\u003e is no mere trivia book or brief primer on the subject; it’s one man pondering the relationship between humanity, gravity, time, and space. Four stars. * Tulsa Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Esperanto of Jet Lag 1. The Romantic Machine  2. Babel's Clock 3. Circadian Rhythm and Blues  4. Heaven Up Here Conclusion: Jet Lag as a Way of Life Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531379679575,"sku":"9781501323225","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501323225.jpg?v=1731882877","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jet-lag-9781501323225","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}