Time (Chronology), Time Systems & Standards

It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger th...

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...

For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of im...

This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ...

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...

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to ...

An engaging, encyclopedic account of the material world of early modern Britain as told through a unique collection of dated objects The period fro...

Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin AwardTells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a...

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

Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put ...

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

'Clock time', which denotes particular ways of valuing temporal duration, is typically associated with monetary worth or labour. From this follows ...

This book is about structural relations between phenomenological and neurophysiological aspects of consciousness and time. Focusing on auditory per...