Jet Lag

by Christopher J. Lee

Book Overview

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

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. But more than that, it is a situation that explains time, technology, and the human body. Jet lag epitomizes the accelerated world we live in. It makes the speed and discomfort of globalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501323229
• ISBN13: 9781501323225
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 6.4"