Time (Chronology), Time Systems & Standards

This is the first comprehensive bibliography of temporal scholarship-research on the subject of time and the phenomenon of time itself. As the auth...

"Days, months, and years were given to us by nature, but we invented the week for ourselves. There is nothing inevitable about a seven-day cycle, o...

"A discussion of the historical development of our ideas of time as they relate to nature, human nature and society. . . . The excellence of The Di...

Have you ever been in an accident and felt that time slowed down? Have you felt time stretch radically, or even apparently disappear, in a state of...

This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks. Computers have changed the human social e...

Bring the latest statistical tools to bear on predicting future variables and outcomes A huge range of fields rely on forecasts of how certain vari...

Time is central to our lived experience of the world. Yet, as this book reveals, it is startlingly difficult to reconcile the way we seem to experi...

From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of the universe ...

Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award“Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking ...

"Time" is the most common noun in the English language yet philosophers and scientists don’t agree about what time actually is or how to define it....

The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better repr...

Prominent scientists and philosophers of science address contemporary debates on the nature of Time. Their contributions freely discuss its unity a...

As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrep...

Time is relative, situation-dependent, location- and culturally-dependent, and very much subjective. Yet we treat it as if it were objective. We sh...

Circadian rhythms have been shown to be ubiquitous and critically important in the experimental laboratory, accounting for the difference between l...

John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude is a fascinating account of one man driven by the need to solve one of the greatest practical problems of...

What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently witnessing a second Copernican revolution: neithe...

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from C...

A quirky, funny, and accessible blend of science and art that delves into the heart of Einstein’s theory of relativity  “A fascinating introduction...

An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.We have...

How old is Earth? Can we look back in time? How long is a light year? How short is a femtosecond? What is Greenwich Mean Time? How did astronauts t...

Travel back in time with Doctor Who, the Terminator, the X-Men, and all your favorite time travelers!   Science fiction is the perfect window into ...