Time (Chronology), Time Systems & Standards

The concern with time permeates Freud's work, from Studies on Hysteria to Analysis Terminable and Interminable, which point out to a network of con...

This book brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'.

One Time Fits All provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuse...

Two systems of timekeeping were in concurrent use in Venice between 1582 and 1797. Government documents conformed to the Venetian year (beginning 1...

With the advent of the new millennium, the notion of the future, and of time in general, has taken on greater significance in postmodern thought. A...

From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus – the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction – was...

Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless 'nows'. In THE...

In About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution Paul Davies confronts the puzzles and paradoxes of time that have bemused the world's greatest thin...

Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. ...

We are directed to "mind the time" on occasions when diligence to the clock is important. However, to deliberately invoke "mind your time" is to re...

With the advent of the new millennium, the notion of the future, and of time in general, has taken on greater significance in postmodern thought. A...

The subject of 'time' is currently experiencing a revival in the most diverse areas of academic discourse. Contemporary time theory attempts to rel...

'The Calendar' contains descriptions of a selection of the calendars of the world and their history. There are introductory chapters on the nature ...

G. J. Whitrow (1912-2000) begins this classic exploration of the nature of time with a story about a Russian poet, visiting London before the First...

This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It desc...

The Letter and Prologue on Easter of Theophilus of Alexandria (385-412), the 95-year list of Paschal data compiled by Cyril (412-444), and the Prol...

The theory of relativity convinced many philosophers that space and time are fundamentally alike, and that they are mere aspects of a more fundamen...

Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these ...

Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval cultures is essential to the writing of history. Equally important, however, is understa...

After decades of innovative scholarship that galvanized a field and shattered a world of preconceptions, the study of gender now appears to languis...

A readable and entertaining look at how Einstein’s special theory of relativity gives us a new understanding of the nature of timeRelativity ought ...

Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However,...

A look at the competing notions of time in the middle ages, from the spiritual - death, the Last Judgement - to the practical - lawyers' calculatio...

Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, Patriarc...

John Somer was one of the leading English astronomers of the late fourteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer likely consulted Somer’s Kalendarium to rela...

The development of increasingly precise measurements is an essential part of what Samuel L. Macey identifies as the West’s wide-ranging effort to r...

Standing as a summary of Spalinger's ideas at the time of the Yale lectures in 2012, this study covers two research sides of modern Egyptological r...

In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the most challenging questions scientists and philosophers ask. What is time? I...

For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to “discover” the truth of time, to determine whether time is in...

For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to “discover” the truth of time, to determine whether time is in...

What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction...

What is time? How has our relationship to time changed through history and how does time structure our social lives? In this lively introduction...