Sarah Norgate
Autor de Beyond 9 to 5: Your Life in Time (Maps of the Mind)
Obras de Sarah Norgate
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1970
- Género
- female
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Educación
- University of Hertfordshire (BS, Psychology)
University of Warwick (PhD, Psychology) - Ocupaciones
- psychologist
- Organizaciones
- University of Salford
- Biografía breve
- [from Hachette Australia website]
Sarah Norgate was born in Portsmouth in 1970 and gained her doctorate in Psychology from the University of Warwick. She is a Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the University of Salford. In 2004, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to allow her to study the psychosocial practices used in the care of children diagnosed with eye cancer at Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Toronto Hospital for Sick Children and L'Institut Curie, Paris. Formerly, she was an athlete at Milton Keynes Athletic Club http://www.mkac.org.uk/ and now lives in Manchester.
Miembros
Reseñas
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bragan | Feb 13, 2010 |
bragan | Feb 13, 2010 | Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Miembros
- 25
- Popularidad
- #508,561
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 4
Unfortunately, though, the book sort of got off on the wrong foot with me from the beginning. In the first chapter, Norgate puts forward the central idea that people can and do relate to time in a variety of different ways. It's not entirely clear to me until maybe the last chapter exactly what she means by this in concrete terms, but she starts off promisingly with a discussion of different cultural attitudes toward time. She describes two of them ("clock time" and "event time" cultures) in just enough detail to get a reasonable idea of what those descriptions mean, but then goes on to talk about the third ("timeless time") in a couple of brief, inadequate paragraphs, and the fourth ("harmonic time") in a few vague sentences. I found this quite frustrating, and it's a bit of a pattern throughout the book: some subjects are covered in a good amount of depth, while others are skimmed over so quickly that I almost wonder why she bothered bringing them up at all. The book's structure, with each chapter divided up into sub-sections, some as short as a single paragraph, doesn't help. But I think the real problem is that the book is just too short to do its subject matter anything like full justice. And while I'm nitpicking, I also wish the author had thought twice about her attempts at humor; they seem somewhat out of place and mostly fall flat.
Which isn't to say that this is a bad book. It contains quite a bit of interesting information, including lots of figures and statistics, and Norgate has a global perspective that's commendable. But, still, there just have to be more satisfying treatments of this topic.… (más)