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Overview"""Aveni ...explores the interplay of culture and time in this edifying and readable cross-cultural study of timekeeping through the ages."" -The Sciences" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anthony AveniPublisher: University Press of Colorado Imprint: University Press of Colorado Edition: Revised Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.479kg ISBN: 9780870816727ISBN 10: 0870816721 Pages: 350 Publication Date: 02 October 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsA good book on time is a rare thing: it requires history; it requires anthropology; it requires astronomy; and it requires physics... As an anthropologist and astronomer known for his detailed work on the archaeo-astronomy of south and central American cultures, [Aveni] speaks with special authority on the fascinating practices of the Mayan and Aztec cultures and their extraordinary fastidiousness with regard to the marking and meaning of time. But detailed knowledge and good judgement are not sufficient to produce a successful book. Aveni achieves that distinction by virtue of the fact that he also possesses a wonderfully eloquent and engaging prose style that carries the reader through fact after fact that could so easily have ossified into a list of deadly dullness. 'Empires of Time' is one of the best books on a scientific theme for the serious general reader that I have read for some time. -- The Times Higher Education Supplement. """A good book on time is a rare thing: it requires history; it requires anthropology; it requires astronomy; and it requires physics... As an anthropologist and astronomer known for his detailed work on the archaeo-astronomy of south and central American cultures, [Aveni] speaks with special authority on the fascinating practices of the Mayan and Aztec cultures and their extraordinary fastidiousness with regard to the marking and meaning of time. But detailed knowledge and good judgement are not sufficient to produce a successful book. Aveni achieves that distinction by virtue of the fact that he also possesses a wonderfully eloquent and engaging prose style that carries the reader through fact after fact that could so easily have ossified into a list of deadly dullness. 'Empires of Time' is one of the best books on a scientific theme for the serious general reader that I have read for some time."" -- The Times Higher Education Supplement." Author InformationAnthony Aveni is the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropolgy, and Native Amerifan Studies at Colgate University. He has researched and written about Maya Astronomy for more than four decades. He was named a U.S. National Professor of the year and has been awarded the H.B. Nicholson Medal for Excellence in Research in Mesoamerican Studies by Harvard's Peabody Museum. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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