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Isotope chronology has developed over the last 100 years and has advanced in response to the requirements of geological research. Despite the technical, instrumental, and methodological advances in geochronology, accurate and precise dating of geological materials, processes, and events is still needed. This book highlights new findings on tectonochronology, and contributes to the theory and methods of several important scientific topics, such as the formation of syn-kinematic minerals, developm...

Indonesian Chronology (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia, VOLUME 1)

by de Casparis

Published 6 December 2021

Adult

Cover of Civil Calender and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt

Civil Calender and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, v.77)

by Leo Depuydt

Published 1 January 1997

Adult

This investigation is concerned with ancient Egyptian calendars. Its specific focus is one of the oldest problems of the study of these calendars: the so-called problem of the month names. This work's main purpose is to suggest an explanation for the Brugsch phenomenon. The Brugsch phenomenon is one of the two main aspects of the problem of the month names. The other is the Gardiner phenomenon. No new theory is presented for the Gardiner phenomenon. As a problem, the Brugsch phenomenon is s...

I Have a Watch

by Deborah Williams

Published 1 January 1997

Children

Bear Hugs - Transition Time (Bear Hugs S.)

by Patty Claycomb

Published 1 July 1994

Children

The Physics of Finance

by Ilexa Yardley

Published 31 December 2014

Adult

Saving the Daylight

by David S. Prerau

Published 3 October 2005

Adult

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...