Time (chronology), time systems & standards books

"This is the biography of an idea, and the remarkable story of the man who created—and then convinced the world...  Read More >>

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The experience of time in families can both permeate all activities but nevertheless be hidden. The papers in this...  Read More >>

This book traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origin until it reached, in the tenth century CE,...  Read More >>

Calendars and the celebration of feasts and holidays form an important part of religious and national movements...  Read More >>

Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control...  Read More >>

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If you lie awake worrying about the overnight transition from December 31, 1 b.c., to January 1, a.d. 1 (there is...  Read More >>

Involves thousands of man-hours of effort to create, takes a blueprint style approach to a Historical Reference...  Read More >>

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In a fascinating and unique study Perkins links the declining status of magical practices to a social history of...  Read More >>

In a fascinating and unique study Perkins links the declining status of magical practices to a social history of...  Read More >>

This anthology provides an overview of the concept of time in the Western philosophic tradition. Using writings...  Read More >>

A specialist study of the principles of Athenian time-reckoning. Pritchett looks at the devising and manipulation...  Read More >>

"This is an exploration of the history that underpins our familiar Western calendar. In the traditions of almanacs...  Read More >>

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Examining the relationship between social action and the future, this book interrogates the metaphors and practices...  Read More >>

How much do animals matter morally? Can we keep considering them as second class beings, to be used merely for our...  Read More >>

This book traces the development of the Jewish calendar from its origin until it reached, in the tenth century CE,...  Read More >>

Presents what may well be the first fully integrated theory of time  Read More >>

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"Gleick examines the phenomenon of ""hurry sickness"" that has taken hold of today's society through cell phones,...  Read More >>

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