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The Labyrinth of Time
Clarendon Press 2005; US$ 24.99Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He investigates philosophical questions about past, present, and future, our experience of time, and the... more...
A Watched Pot
NYU Press 1999; US$ 75.00Time, it has been said, is the enemy. In an era of harried lives, time seems increasingly precious as hours and days telescope and our lives often seem to be flitting past. And yet, at other times, the minutes drag on, each tick of the clock excruciatingly drawn out. What explains this seeming paradox?. Based upon a full decade's empirical research,... more...
Time and the French Revolution
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 90.00The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. The creation of the calendar is viewed not just as an aspect of the broader republican programme of social, political and cultural reform, but as a reflection of a broader interest in time and the culmination of several generations' concern... more...
Time Reversibility, Computer Simulation, Algorithms, Chaos
World Scientific Publishing Company 2012; US$ 114.00A small army of physicists, chemists, mathematicians, and engineers has joined forces to attack a classic problem, the reversibility paradox, with modern tools. This book describes their work from the perspective of computer simulation, emphasizing the authors' approach to the problem of understanding the compatibility, and even inevitability,... more...
Objects of Time
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 30.00This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time?it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization. more...
The Yoga of Time Travel
Quest Books 2012; US$ 17.95Buddha said he could move backward through time, observes theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf. Time travel is not just science fiction; it may actually be possible. Wolf draws on yoga and quantum physics to show that time is a flexible projection of mind. Cheating time, he says, is an ancient metaphysical idea from the Vedas having to do with moving... more...
On the Months (de Mensibus)
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 169.95The objective of this edition is textual and translational in nature. Since the works of Lydus are replete with Latin vocabulary, this book serves to bring it into English. The translation is faithful to the original and accurate so as to express Lydus intended thoughts. His repetitious use of certain linguistic expressions, although sometimes... more...
Timescapes of Modernity
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 75.95Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life. Global markets and economic... more...







