Time (chronology), time systems & standards books

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History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders

History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders...

Author: Gerhard Dohrn-Van Rossu ,  Thomas Dunlap
ISBN: 9780226155111
Format: Paperback
$99.00

In this sweeping study of the organization of time, Dohrn-van Rossum offers fresh insight into the history of the...  Read More >>

Time Reversal: The Arthur Rich Memorial Symposium

Time Reversal: The Arthur Rich Memorial Symposium

Author: M. Skalsey ,  P.H. Bucksbaum
ISBN: 9781563961052
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A collection of essays from various experts who discuss their investigations into time reversal and their projections...  Read More >>

Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards

Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible...

Author: Barbara Adam
ISBN: 9780415162753
Format: Paperback
$98.00

Introducing a unique 'timescape' perspective the author reexamines environmental problems and their cures and provides...  Read More >>

Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards

Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible...

Author: Barbara Adam
ISBN: 9780415162746
Format: Hardback
$322.00

Introducing a unique 'timescape' perspective the author reexamines environmental problems and their cures and provides...  Read More >>

Time as a Metaphor of History: Early India: The Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture

Time as a Metaphor of History: Early India: The Krishna...

Author: Romila Thapar (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
ISBN: 9780195637984
Format: Paperback
$8.95

This essay examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While...  Read More >>

Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar

Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar

Author: Abner Shimony ,  J. Shimony
ISBN: 9780387949352
Format: Hardback
$65.87

A look at history in general and the history of science in particular.  Read More >>

Modern Mathematical Models of Time and Their Applications to Physics and Cosmology: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Tucson, AZ, from 11-13 April 1996

Modern Mathematical Models of Time and Their Applications...

Author: William G. Tifft ,  W.J. Cocke
ISBN: 9780792346630
Format: Hardback
$683.76

The nature of time has long puzzled physicists and philosophers. An international conference was convened in April...  Read More >>

Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form,...

Author: Stuart Sherman
ISBN: 9780226752778
Format: Paperback
$61.95

In this text, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with the 17th-century revolution...  Read More >>

Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1785

Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form,...

Author: Stuart Sherman
ISBN: 9780226752761
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In this text, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged simultaneously with the 17th-century revolution...  Read More >>

Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt

Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt

Author: L. Depuydt
ISBN: 9789068319088
Format: Hardback
$229.68

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Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience

Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience

Author: Helga Nowotny (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich) ,  Neville Plaice
ISBN: 9780745618371
Format: Paperback
$32.95

* A major contribution to the study of time and its relation to modernity* This brilliant study has already become...  Read More >>

Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian: Biblical, Intertestamental and Patristic Studies

Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian: Biblical,...

Author: Roger T. Beckwith
ISBN: 9789004105867
Format: Hardback
$467.28

This text is concerned with problems in Jewish and early Christian thought and practice, within the general areas...  Read More >>

The Illustrated A Brief History of Time: Updated and Expanded Edition

The Illustrated A Brief History of Time: Updated and...

Author: Stephen Hawking
ISBN: 9780553103748
Format: Hardback
$105.60

In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time has established itself as...  Read More >>

Sundials: History, Theory and Practice

Sundials: History, Theory and Practice

Author: Rene R.J. Rohr
ISBN: 9780486291390
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Masterly account of long and colorful history of sundials, with practical instructions for building your own. Formulae,...  Read More >>

About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

Author: Paul Davies
ISBN: 9780140174618
Format: Paperback
$28.44

When Albert Einstein formulated his theory of relativity it brought about a revolution in our understanding of time,...  Read More >>

Taking Our Time: Remaking the Temporal Order

Taking Our Time: Remaking the Temporal Order

Author: Mike Donaldson
ISBN: 9781875560646
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Massive technological change, longer hours of paid work and the loss of evenings and weekends are not increasing...  Read More >>

It's about Time: The Dave Brubeck Story

It's about Time: The Dave Brubeck Story

Author: Fred Hall
ISBN: 9781557284051
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Including an extensive annotated discography, It's About Time is much more than an upbeat examination of the Brubeck...  Read More >>

On the Way to Understanding the Time Phenomenon

On the Way to Understanding the Time Phenomenon

Author: A P Levich ,  A P Levich
ISBN: 9781299667914
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field. The...  Read More >>

Learn to Tell Time

Learn to Tell Time

Author: Pen Notes ,  Harriet Harrison
ISBN: 9780939564132
Format: Undefined
$34.32

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The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia

The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia...

Author: Chris Eade
ISBN: 9789004104372
Format: Hardback
$374.88

This Handbook makes a comprehensive examination of calendrical systems used in mainland Southeast Asia. It is designed...  Read More >>

Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures

Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures

Author: Anthony F. Aveni
ISBN: 9781568360737
Format: Paperback
$27.45

"This fascinating book, written by noted astronomer and anthropologist, Anthony Aveni, explores the complex interaction...  Read More >>

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