`Time's definition is elusive but Dan Falk is keen to track it down. In this thoroughly readable, broad-sweeping and thought-provoking book, Falk surveys humanity's attempts to record and understand time, and poses some fascinating questions.' - New Scientist `Falk seamlessly combines science with literary and philosophical observations... and digresses to fascinating topics like root notions of past and future, the vagaries of memory and the behavior of birds at breakfast time.' - Publishers W...
Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it. Every spring, the clocks go forward, and every autumn they go back. Saving the Daylight explores for the first time the contentious, and often entertaining, story of this deceptively simple attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. Throughout its surprisingly controversial history, DST has been claim...
Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday; Garden Delights Which Are Here Displayed in Very Truth and Are Moreover Regarded as Emblems
by Alice Morse Earle
Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory (Complete Idiot's Guides (Audio))
by George Musser
Disney Flash Ahead with Time Telling
by Walter Elias Disney and Walt Disney
Day and Night the Hands Go Around The Clock! Telling Time for Kids - Baby & Toddler Time Books
by Baby Professor
The 100 Years Anglo-Chinese Calendar, 1st Jan., 1776 to 25th Jan., 1876
by Pedro Loureiro
Time And Free Will (Cosimo Classics Philosophy) (Muirhead Library of Philosophy)
by Henri Bergson
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Attractively laid out on illustration-filled pages with texts that speak clearly to their subjects, these books review the technological achievements that have helped to shape history. Each book has between 70 and 110 photos, modern illustrations of historical events, and reproductions of famous illustrations from the past.Summarized here are ancient methods of timekeeping, including sundials and water clocks. The development of the Julian calendar, origins of names for days and months, and the...
The book provides easy-to-use tables that translate the calendars of over sixty civilizations into the Julian and Gregorian calendars. An indispensable tool for scholars.
Die wahre Geschichte des Todes, WIEDERGEBOREN
by Javier Clemente Engonga Avomo
La véritable histoire de la mort (History of Death: The Revenant, #9)
by Javier Clemente Engonga Avomo