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The History of Time : A Very Short Introduction
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Paperback - $20.95
Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?
The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems imm ...
The Idea of Time
C. H. Holland
Hardcover - $226.95
What is time? What do we understand when we think about time? What do we mean by now? This book covers concisely all the different aspects of time with an anchoring point within the geological sciences. Here successions of strata are seen as represen ...
A Paradox in Time
James P. Hurley
Paperback - $40.95
Why has no one built a time machine? The author provides a simple, straightforward answer to this question. This book is also something of a science memoir, dealing with everything from the biology of happiness to the physics of rainbows.
Protophysics of Time : Constructive Foundation and History of Time Measurement
Peter Janich
Hardcover - $441.95
From Sundials to Atomic Clocks : Understanding Time and Frequency, Second Revised Edition
James Jespersen
Paperback - $22.95
Newly revised and updated introduction to time-- its measurement, historic methods of timekeeping, uses of time information, and role of time in science and technology. Over 300 illus.
Chronos : How Time Shapes Our Universe
Etienne Klein
Hardcover - $40.95
Time is a "thing" that cannot be grasped, yet which undoubtedly exists. It is a "thing" which everybody speaks of but no one has seen. We see, hear, feel, taste IN time, but not time itself. We are sure we are grounded in physical reality, but it is ...
The Secret Pulse of Time : Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity
Stefan Klein
Paperback - $24.95
The Secret Pulse of Time : Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity
Stefan Klein
Hardcover - $39.95
Popular science, at its very best, awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have ever before realized
300 Year Calendar : 1760 to 2060
Jack S. Koay
Paperback - $24.95
With our busy schedules today everyone seems to be in a hurry with little time to retrieve information such as the day of the week of Christmas 2010 or the day of the week the first man landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. The 300 Year Calendar Book ...