"Falk's book is what Hawking's Brief History should have been."--The Ottawa Citizen
“In this thoroughly readable, broad-sweeping and thought-provoking book, Falk surveys humanity’s attempts to record and understand time, and poses some fascinating questions.” --New Scientist magazine
“An engaging writer who fearlessly tackles potentially brain-freezing topics.” --San Francisco Chronicle
“Falk selects, organizes and interprets a mass of lore for our enlightenment and pleasure. We owe him.”—Scientific American
“Falk is a great writer.”--BBC Focus
“Falk seamlessly combines science with literary and philosophical observations...and digresses to fascinating topics like root notions of past and future, the vagaries of memory and the behavior of birds at breakfast time.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Dan Falk is a riveting writer: his latest book is almost unputdownable. He covers an eclectic range of fascinating topics—from prehistory to the far future. Time is a mysterious commodity: we gain, spend, save, and lose it. But everyone should make enough time to read In Search of Time.” —Martin J. Rees, author of Just Six Numbers and Our Final Hour
PRAISE FOR UNIVERSE ON A T-SHIRT:
“Mixing simple explanation and personal profiles with touches of philosophy and whimsy, T-Shirt gives a highly accessible introduction to some tough and important physics.” —American Scientist
“Crisply written, well researched.” —Sky & Telescope
“[Falk] has a wonderful gift for finding helpful analogies and for writing about science in a way that is accessible without sounding dumbed down.” —Booklist
“Falk endorses the idea that the best hope for a so-called theory of everything is in string theory, a difficult area of science that Falk nevertheless deftly unravels for the uninitiated.” —Science News
“Falk delivers a readable, entertaining, and fresh take on the subject. Most significant, he has achieved something original: more cleverly and cleanly than anything I can recall reading, the book itself unifies the story of the search for unifying principles in science.” —The Globe and Mail
