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The End of Time : The Next Revolution in Physics
Julian B. Barbour
Paperback - $37.95
In this highly provocative volume, Barbour presents the basic evidence for the nonexistence of time, explaining what a timeless universe is like and showing how the world will nonetheless be experienced as intensely temporal. 20 illustrations.
Time's Pendulum : From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World
Jo Ellen Barnett
Paperback - $23.95
Written in an easy-to-follow chronological format, this book traces the important developments in humankind's epic quest to measure the hours, days, and years with accuracy. Author speaking tour.
The Oxford Companion to the Year : An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning
Bonnie Blackburn
Hardcover - $163.95
What are the halcyon days? On what date do the dog days begin? How do Chinese, Muslim, Mesoamerican, Jewish, and Babylonian calendars differ from Christian calendars? The answers to these and hundreds of other intriguing questions about the way human ...
Broken Arrow of Time : Rethinking the Revolution in Modern Physics
James Galen Bloyd
Paperback - $21.95
About Time : Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Paul Davies
Paperback - $23.95
With wit and clarity, the author of more than 20 popular science books, including God and the New Physics and The Last Three Minutes, now explores the riddle of time, examining the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offering startlin ...
The New World Calendar : A New Concept in Time
Eric P. Donald
Paperback - $24.95
This book marks the Millenium. It contains the new simplified perpetual calendar that will replace the old 336 page Roman calendar of 2046 years, with one single permanent page.
An Experiment with Time
J. W. Dunne
Paperback - $27.95
J. W. Dunne (Intrusions?, The Jumping Lions of Borneo, Serial Universe) first published his ground-breaking theory of time in 1927. Spurred by dreams and other personal experiences to an intense interest in the nature of time and human perception, Du ...
Early Javanese Inscriptions : A New Dating Method
J. C. Eade
Hardcover - $304.95
In spite of its being one of the cornerstones of historical research, even the historical expert is - understandably - terrified by the complications involved in the calculation of dates. "Early Javanese Inscriptions puts the study of Indonesian epig ...
Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time : A CD-ROM Based on the Life and Work of Harold E. Edgerton
Harold E. Edgerton
Other - $62.95
Insightful scientist, exceptional teacher, ingenious inventor, successful entrepreneur, and acclaimed artist-Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, chief developer of the electronic strobe, was all of these. Whatever his guise, he taught by his own example that s ...