Edmonton,Canada Journalist Carl Honore is best known for his advocacy of the Slow Movement. His book dissects our speed-obsessed society.

He describes the history of our increasingly breathless relationship with time and tackles the consequences and conundrum of living in this accelerated culture of our own creation. Honoré in his book details our perennial love affair with efficiency and speed in a perfect plend of anecdotal reportage, history, and intellectual inquiry. It is the first comprehensive look at the worldwide slow movements making their way into the mainstream – in offices, factories, neighborhoods, kitchens, hospitals, concert halls, bedrooms, gyms, and schools.

He prescribes that we find our inner Tortoise.