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Social Conceptions of Time
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 145.00This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities in the field, and their up-to-date contributions consider the changing social meanings that time has in work, leisure and everyday routines. Together they provide a combination of theoretical and empirically-based approaches... more...
Splitting The Second: The Story of Atomic Time
CRC Press 2000; US$ 41.95Presents the story of the development of atomic clocks and atomic timekeeping. This study reveals how and why reliable clocks were invented, how co-ordinated universal time was developed, and how the future need for increased precision is driving atomic timekeeping to greater accuracy. more...
Nature?s Clocks
University of California Press 2008; US$ 21.95"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon... more...
The Eleven Pictures of Time
SAGE India 2003; US$ 96.95Time is a mystery that has perplexed humankind since time immemorial. Resolving this mystery is of significance not only to philosophers and physicists but is also a very practical concern. Our perception of time shapes our values and way of life; it also mediates the interaction between science and religion both of which rest fundamentally on assumptions... more...
Head of All Years
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00Covering a wide array of sources from ancient Mesopotamia to the Dead Sea Scrolls, this volume offers a different perspective on Jewish apocalyptic time-reckoning during the Second Temple period, based on a calendar year of 364 days. more...
Raum-Zeit
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 42.00The philosophical treatment of space and time has had a long history. This continuing interest stems not least from the fact that space and time form the basis of movement. Space-time philosophy encompasses a wide range of subjects, many of which, on first inspection, do not seem to have anything to do with space and time. Space-time philosophy is... more...
Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility: The Ideas Behind The World's Slowest Computer
Basic Books 2008; US$ 14.00Using the Millennial Clock as a paradigm for the Long Now, Stewart Brand offers a practical introduction to the concept of long-term responsibility. more...
Questioning The Millennium
Random House 2010; US$ 13.34Stephen Jay Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium. He looks at the origins of the term in the Biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation - if the six ages of man date from 4000BC, will 2000AD signify the end of time? Gould describes how the meaning of the word has evolved to its present day usage and tackles the debate over whether the... more...
A Geography Of Time
Basic Books 2008; US$ 18.50A social psychologist presents an illuminating portrait of time as a human construct, tracing its evolution through history and exploring its various incarnations in cultures throughout the world. He points out that a culture?s sense of time has profound consequences for an individual?s psychological, physical, and emotional well-being. more...









