About Time
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About Time: Fashion and Duration
By Andrew Bolton, Amanda Garfinkel, Michael CunninghamAnd fashion photographer Nicholas Alan Cope illustrates 120 fashions with sublime black and-white photography. This stunning book reveals fashion’s paradoxical connection to linear notions of time.
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About Time: 12 Short Stories
By Jack FinneyStories describe a secret level at Grand Central Station, a town which refuses to die, time travel, alternate worlds, love potions, time machines, and a ghost sighting
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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
By Paul Davies, P. C. W. DaviesIn About Time, Paul Davies discusses the big bang theory, chaos theory, and the recent discovery that the universe appears to be younger than some of the objects in it, concluding that Einstein's theory provides only an incomplete ...
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
By David RooneyDown toward the coast, his assistant, William Meadows, was waiting patiently beside a time ball, a large sphere held at the top of a wooden mast that was visible to sailors on the ships anchored in the nearby bay. Meadows had his foot ...
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About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
By Adam FrankNew machines were the pivot points; textile production led the way as inventions such as John Kay's flying shuttle and James Hargreaves' spinning jenny allowed industrialists to turn cotton into thread on a massive scale.45 Based on the ...
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About Time
By Richard CurtisAt the age of 21, Tim is told an incredible family secret by his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relive their past.
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About Time: A First Look at Time and Clocks
By Bruce KoscielniakLively illustrations and fun, accessible text provide an account of the history of time and the evolution of keeping time, from following the sun and the moon to the huge clocks we use today.
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About Time
By Mark CurrieIt is straightforward, for example, to produce a reference to future time in the present tense with the use of such an indexical: 'I am leaving for France tomorrow'. In miniature, this illustrates an important principle for the relation ...
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About Time: Speed, Society, People and the Environment
By Tim AldrichThe march towards mono-time can be shown obviously in law; from 1840, railways in Britain required a standard time and, in 1880, London Time was decreed by law to be the time for the whole country. In 1883, the US standardised ...
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About Time
By Simona SparacoThe walls are long and narrow, and I've tried to take him out of there many times, but never succeeded. When I get back to my car and make ready to plunge back into the unstoppable flow of the city, I find myself thinking that it's done ...
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About Time
By Des GreeneThe space-time model could be applied to cosmological scale times and distances and gave very exact results with reality but fall way short of adequacy for human level scales. I studied until late in the night taking only coffee breaks.
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About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
By Mark CurrieThis is an argument that shows that narrative lies at the heart of modern experiences of time, structuring the present, whether personal or collective, as the object of a future memory as much as it records the past.
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About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row
By Peter PringleWhen his sentence was changed to forty years without remission he set out to prove his innocence. Fifteen years later, he is finally a free man. This is his story.
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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
By Paul Davies, P. C. W. DaviesThe traditional association between time and creation is at the heart of science, cosmology, and religion. When scientists began to explore the implications of Einstein's time for the universe as...
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
By David Rooney'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps 'Not merely...
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About Time: 12 Short Stories
By Jack FinneyThe protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives.
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About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
By Adam FrankDavid J. Cole, Eve Browning and Fred E. H. Schroeder, Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003), 171. 8. Ibid., 11. 9. Peter Marber, Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to ...
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
By David RooneyWe discover how clocks have helped people navigate the globe and build empires, but also, on occasion, taken us to the brink of destruction. This is the story of time, and the story of time is the story of us.
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About Time: Exploring the Gay Past
By Martin B. DubermanThis is a collection of documentary material and a selection of previously uncollected essays, speeches and reviews by the historian and gay activist, Martin Duberman. Part One contains rare documents...
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About Time: Celebrating Men's Watches
By Ivar LineAn enthusiastsΓÇÖ guide to the best menΓÇÖs wristwatches by Audemars Piguet, Omega, Rolex, IWC, Patek Philippe, and others!