Critically acclaimed author Sims sets out to open readers eyes to the miraculous events that occur in the passing of a single day. Equally lucid and charming, Sims draws on an inexhaustible store of scientific, literary, and historical sources.
It's the oldest story on Earth. You relive it every day. So much of our shared daily experience in the world is shaped by the sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle effects of the Earth's spin, its tilt on its axis, the alternation of light and darkness, the waxing and waning of...