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WW Norton & Co About Time A History of Civilization in Twelve
Book SynopsisA captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world.Trade Review"Abundantly clever.... Lovely and engaging ... with myriad fascinations on every page." -- Simon Winchester - New York Times Book Review"Fascinating.... A valuable intellectual journey at a moment ripe for contemplation." -- Michael O'Donnell - Wall Street Journal"Insightful, globe-spanning." -- James Gleick - New York Review of Books"Fascinating.... with [Rooney’s] book in hand, and an eye on the world that sustains us, we might just save ourselves." -- Jonathon Keats - Forbes"People say time is money, but David Rooney knows better. In this information-packed swoop through history and into the future, he exposes time’s many identities along with the hidden agendas of clocks. Time is knowledge. Time is power. Time is faith. Time is destiny." -- Dava Sobel, author of Longitude"Not merely an horologist’s delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping itself. From the medieval hourglass to the Doomsday Clock, from Jaipur to Jodrell Bank, from GMT to GPS, Rooney ticks off time in a highly entertaining series of historical tales and parables which also give pause for thought and sometimes alarming reflections. I will never hear the pips, or ask ‘what’s the time?’ in quite the same way again. A striking success." -- Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder"About Time is an utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time. From sundials in ancient Rome to astronomical, water-driven, mechanical, and atomic timepieces used throughout history and across cultures, Rooney has written the definitive book on these remarkable objects that give order to everyday life. It is a moving and beautifully written book that even takes us 5,000 years into the future with plutonium clocks ticking away beneath our feet. There will be many puns about this as a timely book; in fact, it is timeless." -- Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps"The measurement of time is a convenience, a jailor, a tyrannical device. David Rooney’s delightful and discursive work anatomizes that tyranny. Page after page offers up instances of time’s ubiquity and its mercurial power to get into the interstices of the everyday." -- Jonathan Meades"Enthralling and important, About Time takes us deep into the past and far into the future. With David Rooney as personable guide, we peer inside clocks from Kyoto to Cape Town, discovering what they meant to the diverse people who made them, used them, whose lives were ruled by them…This is a gripping and revealing account of time, and humanity’s changing relationship with it." -- Seb Falk, author of The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science"David Rooney’s passionate enthusiasm for everything clock-related leaps off every page. The vivid writing, engaging stories, and autobiographical details combine to offer a rich and generous picture of the history of clocks, from China and Japan to Central Europe, the Middle East and outer space. In clear, pacey, and evocative prose, Rooney’s volume takes in ancient wonders and modern marvels, leaving us at once enlightened and moved." -- Ludmilla Jordanova, author of History in Practice"Lovely, personal, idiosyncratic.... Throughout, Rooney entertains with witty clock trivia and anecdotes alongside illuminating sketches of famous horologists. Go slowly when devouring this charming, intelligent, highly informative history." -- Kirkus, starred review
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Lulu.com The Equation of Time AEquatio Dierum
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Authorhouse The Apocalypse of the Aquarian Age: (An Essay on
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www.bnpublishing.com Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, 100th Anniversary Edition
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Independently Published Shattered Reality: The Mandela Effect
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De Gruyter Changing Seasonality: How Communities are
Book SynopsisCommunities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided repertoires for living by annual rhythms. In a chaotic world, the seasons – winter, the monsoon and so on – can feel like stable cultural landmarks for reckoning time and orienting our communities. Seasons are rooted in our pasts and reproduced in our present. They act as schemes for synchronising community activities and professional practices, and as symbol systems for interpreting what happens in the world. But on closer inspection, seasons can be unstable and unreliable. Their meanings can change over time. Seasonal cultures evolve with environments and communities’ worldviews, values, technologies and practices, affecting how people perceive seasonal patterns and behave accordingly. Calendars are contested, especially now. Communities today find themselves in a moment of accelerated and intersecting changes – from climate to social, political, and technological – that are destabilizing seasonal cultures. How they reorient themselves to shifting patterns may affect whether seasonal rhythms serve as resources, or lead people down maladaptive pathways. A focus on seasonal cultures builds on multi-disciplinary work. The social sciences, from anthropology to sociology, have long studied how seasons order people’s sense of time, social life, relationship to the environment, and politics. In the humanities, seasons play an important role in literature, art, archaeology and history. This book advances scholarship in these fields, and enriches it with extrascientific insights from practice, to open up exiting new directions in climate adaptation.
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CNPIE Group Corporation The World in Time
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Brill Time and Memory
Book SynopsisThe nature of time has haunted humankind through the ages. Some conception of time has always entered into our ideas about mortality and immortality, and permanence and change, so that concepts of time are of fundamental importance in the study of religion, philosophy, literature, history, and mythology. On one aspect or another, the study of time cuts across all disciplines. The International Society for the Study of Time has as its goal the interdisciplinary and comparative study of time. This volume presents selected essays from the 12th triennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Time at Clare College, Cambridge. The essays are clustered around themes that pertain to the constructive and destructive nature of memory in representations and manipulations of time. The volume is divided into three sections Inscribing and Forgetting, Inventing, and Commemoration wherein the authors grapple with the nature of memory as a medium that reflects the passage of time.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Dedication List of Contributors Foreword (Michael Crawford, Jo Alyson Parker, Paul Harris) President’s Welcoming Remarks A Few Th oughts about Memory, Collectiveness and Aff ectivity (Remy Lestienne) Founder’s Address Reflections Upon An Evolving Mirror (J. T. Fraser) Response: Globalized Humanity, Memory, and Ecology (Paul Harris) Section I: Inscribing and Forgetting Preface to Section I Inscribing and Forgetting (Jo Alyson Parker) Chapter One The Body as a Medium of Memory (Christian Steineck) Response (Remy Lestienne) Chapter Two Body Memories and Doing Gender: Remembering the Past and Interpreting the Present in Order to Change the Future (Karen Davies) Response (Linda McKie) Chapter Th ree Coding of Temporal Order Information in Semantic Memory (Elke van der Meer, Frank Kruger, Dirk Strauch, Lars Kuchinike) Chapter Four Telling the Time of Memory Loss: Narrative and Dementia (Marlene P. Soulsby) Response (Alison Phinney) Chapter Five Georges Perec’s “Time Bombs”: about Lieux (Marie-Pascale Huglo) Chapter Six Seeking in Sumatra (Brian Aldiss) Section II: Inventing Preface to Section II Inventing (Paul Harris) Chapter Seven Furnishing a Memory Palace: Renaissance Mnemonic Practice and the Time of Memory (Mary Schmelzer) Chapter Eight The Radiance of Truth: Remembrance, Self-Evidence and Cinema (Heike Klippel) Chapter Nine Tones of Memory: Music and Time in the Prose of Yoel Hoff mann and W. G. Sebald (Michal Ben-Horin) Response (David Burrows) Chapter Ten Once a Communist, Always a Communist: How the Government Lost Track of Time in its Pursuit of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Katherine A. S. Sibley) Response (Dan Leab) Chapter Eleven Temporality, Intentionality, the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Causal Mechanisms of Memory in the Brain: Facets of One Ontological Enigma? (E. R. Douglas) Section III: Commemoration Preface to Section III Commemoration—Where Remembering and Forgetting Meet (Michael Crawford) Chapter Twelve Jump-starting Timeliness: Trauma, Temporality and the Redressive Community (Jeffrey Prager) Chapter Th irteen Black in Black: Time, Memory, and the African-American Identity (Ann Marie Bush) Chapter Fourteen Remembering Th e Future: On the Return of Memories in the Visual Field (Efrat Biberman) Responses (Shirley Sharon-Zisser) (Robert Belton) Chapter Fifteen Family Memory, Gratitude And Social Bonds (Carmen Leccardi) Chapter Sixteen Time to Meet: Meetings as Sites of Organizational Memory (Dawna Ballard and Luis Felipe Gómez) Index
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Brill Time and Trace: Multidisciplinary Investigations of Temporality
Book SynopsisTime holds an enduring fascination for humans. Time and Trace investigates the human experience and awareness of time and time’s impact on a wide range of cultural, psychological, and artistic phenomena, from reproductive politics and temporal logic to music and theater, from law to sustainability, from memory to the Vikings. The volume presents selected essays from the 15th triennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Time from the arts (literature, music, theater), history, law, philosophy, science (psychology, biology), and mathematics. Taken together, they pursue the trace of time into the past and future, tracing temporal processes and exploring the traces left by time in individual experience as well as culture and society. Contributors are: Michael Crawford, Orit Hilewicz, Rosemary Huisman, John S. Kafka, Erica W. Magnus, Arkadiusz Misztal, Carlos Montemayor, Stephanie Nelson, Peter Øhrstrøm, Jo Alyson Parker, Thomas Ploug, Helen Sills, Lasse C. A. Sonne, Raji C. Steineck, and Frederick Turner.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Time and Traction: Blazing the Trail, Frederick Turner I. NARRATIVE TRACING: THE WORK OF CRITICISM The Chaotic Trace: Stoppard’s Arcadia and the Emplotment of the Past, Jo Alyson Parker Beyond the Forensic Imagination: Time and Trace in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels, Arkadiusz Misztal Time, Trace, and Movement in Stravinsky’s Three Japanese Lyrics, Helen Sills Tracing Space in Time: Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, Orit Hilewicz II. LOOKING BACK: TRACING HISTORY Traces of Viking-Age Temporal Organization, Lasse C. A. Sonne Time and Memory in the Odyssey and Ulysses, Stephanie Nelson Time, Cognition, and Attic Performance: Tracing a New Approach to Theatre History’s “Vexing Question”, Erica W. Magnus III. THOUGHT TRACES: PHILOSOPHY, MEMORY, AND THE HUMAN MIND A. N. Prior’s Ideas on Keeping Track of Branching Time, Peter Øhrstrøm and Thomas Ploug Psychoanalysis and the Temporal Trace, John S. Kafka Memory: Epistemic and Phenomenal Traces, Carlos Montemayor IV. LEAVING TRACES: SOCIETY AND ETHICS Heredity in the Epigenetic Era: Are we Facing a Politics of Reproductive Obligations?, Michael Crawford The Trace of Time in Judicial Reasoning: A Case of Conflicting Argument in the High Court of Australia (Al-Kateb v. Godwin, 2004), Rosemary Huisman Time, Waste, and Enlightenment, or: On Leaving no Trace, Raji C. Steineck CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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Brill The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE
Book SynopsisIn the year 921/2, the Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia disagreed on how to calculate the calendar. This led the Jews of the entire Near East to celebrate Passover and the other festivals, through two years, on different dates. The controversy was major, but it became forgotten until its late 19th-century rediscovery in the Cairo Genizah. Faulty editions of the texts, in the following decades, led to much misunderstanding about the nature, leadership, and aftermath of the controversy. In this book, Sacha Stern re-edits the texts completely, discovers many new Genizah sources, and challenges the historical consensus. This book sheds light on early medieval Rabbanite leadership and controversies, and on the processes that eventually led to the standardization of the medieval Jewish calendar.Trade Review"This volume, both readable and handsomely produced, includes a detailed historical treatment of the controversy, as well as a critical edition based on five manuscripts and diplomatic editions of each reconstructed manuscript, letters and other polemical writings that circulated during 921–922, and later sources from the following centuries. (...) This new treatment of the controversy is long overdue and very welcome." - Melonie Schmierer-Lee, in: Genizah Fragments, October 2019Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Editorial Policies; List of Manuscripts and Sigla Part 1 Introduction 1 The Controversy Revisited 2 Palestinians and Babylonians in Conflict 3 Discovery and Early Scholarship 4 Manuscripts, Texts, History: A New Approach 5 The Jewish Calendar: The Controversy Explained Part 2 The Book of the Calendar Controversy 6 Introduction 7 Critical Edition 8 Diplomatic Editions Part 3 Letters and Polemics, c. 922 CE 9 Ben Meir’s First Letter 10 Saadya’s Letters 11 Letters Miscellany 12 Babylonian Letter 1 13 Babylonian Letter 2 14 Discourse on the Midday Limit 15 Palestinian Polemic Part 4 Later Sources 16 Short References and Narratives (Sahl b. Maṣliaḥ, Hayye Gaon, Elias of Nisibis, and Various Genizah Sources) 17 Palestinian Calendar Manuals Conclusion Glossary References Index of Manuscripts General Index Plates
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Brill Time's Urgency
Book SynopsisThe Study of Time XVI: Time’s Urgency celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Society for the Study of Time. It includes a keynote speech by renowned physicist Julian Barbour, a dialogue between British author David Mitchell, Katie Paterson and ISST’s previous president Paul Harris. The volume is divided into dialogues and papers that directly address the issue of urgency and time scales from various disciplines. This book offers a unique perspective on the contemporary status of the interdisciplinary study of time. It will open new paths of inquiry for different approaches to the important issues of narrative structure and urgency. These are themes that are becoming increasingly relevant during our times. Contributors are Julian Barbour, Dennis Costa, Kerstin Cuhls, Ileana da Silva, Margaret K. Devinney, Sonia Front, Peter A. Hancock, Paul Harris, Rose Harris-Birtill, David Mitchell, Carlos Montemayor, Jo Alyson Parker, Katie Paterson, Walter Schweidler, Raji C. Steineck, Daniela Tan, Frederick Turner, Thomas P. Weissert, Marc Wolterbeek, and Barry Wood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction Carlos Montemayor Introductory Essays 1 A New Theory of Time’s Arrows Julian Barbour 2 ‘Looking Down Time’s Telescope at Myself’: Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell’s Fictional Worlds (Winner of the 2016 New Scholar’s Prize) Rose Harris-Birtill part 1: Dialogues 3 Archivists of the Future Paul Harris, Katie Paterson and David Mitchell 4 Presidential Address: Should We Give Up “Time”? Raji C. Steineck 5 Time as an Open Concept: A Response to Raji Steineck Carlos Montemayor 6 Zero-Time Theory Peter A. Hancock 7 Deconstructing the Zero Time Theory Frederick Turner 8 Time’s up: Clarifying Misunderstandings of Zero-Time Theory Peter A. Hancock part 2: Urgency and Time Scales 9 Eternal Recursion, the Emergence of Metaconsciousness, and the Imperative for Closure Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert 10 Petrotemporality at Siccar Point: James Hutton’s Deep Time Narrative Barry Wood 11 Time’s Urgency Ritualized: The Centrality and Authority of Mayan Calendars Margaret K. Devinney 12 Telling Time: Literary Rituals and Trauma Daniela Tan 13 Sequence and Duration in Graphic Novels Ileana da Silva and Marc Wolterbeek 14 “There’s More Than One of Everything”: Time Complexity in Fringe Sonia Front 15 Foresight and Urgency: The Discrepancy between Long-Term Thinking and Short-Term Decision-Making Kerstin Cuhls 16 “More Than Watchmen”: Dante on Urgency in Ritual Dennis Costa 17 Time’s Redeeming Urgency Walter Schweidler Index
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Brill Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages
Book SynopsisCalendars in the Making investigates the origins of calendars we are most familiar with today, yet whose early histories, in the Roman and medieval periods, are still shrouded in obscurity. It examines when the seven-day week was standardized and first used for dating and time reckoning, in Jewish and other constituencies of the Roman Empire; how the Christian liturgical calendar was constructed in early medieval Europe; and how and when the Islamic calendar was instituted. The volume includes studies of Roman provincial calendars, medieval Persian calendar reforms, and medieval Jewish calendar cycles. Edited by Sacha Stern, it presents the original research of a team of leading experts in the field. Contributors are: François de Blois, Ilaria Bultrighini, Sacha Stern, Johannes Thomann, Nadia Vidro, Immo Warntjes.
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Brill Time in Variance
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural, creative, and scholarly contexts. Featuring a President’s Address by philosopher David Wood, it begins with critical reassessments of J.T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time through the lens of Anthropocene studies, philosophy, ecological theory, and ecological literature; proceeds to variant narratives in fiction, video games, film, and graphic novels; and concludes by measuring time’s variance with tools as different as incense clocks and computers, and by marking variance in music, film, and performance art.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Paul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parker part 1: Variations on J. T. Fraser’s Hierarchical Theory of Time 1 President’s Address: Time in Variance Raji C. Steineck 2 Out of Plato’s Cave Steve Ostovich 3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero’s La última playa Lucia Cash Beare 4 Founder’s Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change David Wood 5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a Tension Paul A. Harris part 2: Variant Narratives 6 Temporal Otherness and the “Gifted Child” in Fiction Adam Barrows 7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Sue Scheibler 8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives Sonia Front 9 “Out of Repetition Comes Variation”: Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores’s Glitch in Westworld Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert 10 Time in Variance and Time’s Invariance in Richard McGuire’s Here Arkadiusz Misztal part 3: Measuring Time’s Variance 11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval Japan Vroni Ammann 12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance Metric David Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill 13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow’s 1948 Film The Big Clock Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard 14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site Emily DiCarlo 15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin’s Sudden Time Martin Scheuregger Index
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