I. Prolegomena -- Metaphysical Presuppositions and the Study of Time -- Levels of Language in Discourse about Time -- II. Physics -- The Third Storm of the Twentieth Century: The Einstein Paradox -- Space-Time Singularities in Cosmology and Black Hole Evaporation -- Beneath Time: Explorations in Quantum Topology -- Thermodynamics, Cosmology, and the Physical Constants -- On Two Fundamental Laws of Nature and the Role of Time in Time-Space Manifold -- The Theory of Space-like Time -- III. Living Clocks -- Biological Clocks and Their Synchronizers -- The Living Clocks of Marine Organisms -- The Measurement of Biological and Social Changes -- IV. Subjective Time -- Time, Memory, and Affect: Experimental Studies of the Subjective Past -- Future Time Perspective and Ego Strength -- V. Past, Present, and Future -- The Objectivity, or Otherwise, of the Present -- Ideas of Beginnings and Endings in Cosmology -- The Past and the Future -- The Boundaries of the Notion of Time -- VI. Society -- Temporal Inventories and Time Structuring in Large Organizations -- The Individual and Society -- City Rhythms -- The Study of Time in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union -- VII. Literature and the Arts -- Fiction: The Language of Time - Thomas Mann and James Joyce -- The Eternal Moment: D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love -- The Changing Iconography of Father Time -- Time in the Musical Consciousness of Old High Civilizations - East and West -- Poiesis: Time and Artistic Discourse -- VIII. Christianity Hinduism, Mithraism -- Time, Space, and Freewill: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence -- The Concept of Time in the Mithraic Mysteries -- Time and Sacrifice - The Sacrifice of Time and the Ritual of Modernity.