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The Week

Author : David M Henkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300263066
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Week written by David M Henkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources—including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries—David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work, but a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.

The Seven Day Circle

Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226981657
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Day Circle written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published in 1985 by the Free Press and Collier Macmillan. Zerubavel (sociology, Rutgers U.) discusses the rhythm that the week--an arbitrary invention--imposes on our activities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages

Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004459693
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages written by Sacha Stern and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the week as a standard method of dating and time reckoning.

Calendars in Antiquity

Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199589445
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Calendars in Antiquity written by Sacha Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendars were at the heart of ancient culture and society and were far more than just technical, time-keeping devices. Calendars in Antiquity offers a comprehensive study of the calendars of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, from the origins up to and including Jewish and Christian calendars in late Antiquity.

Simplification of the Calendar

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simplification of the Calendar written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine

Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470655089
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine by : Jörg Rüpke

Download or read book The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine written by Jörg Rüpke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts. Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religious history of the Roman calendar Provides a comprehensive historical and social contextualization of ancient calendars and chronicles Highlights the unique characteristics which are still visible in the most dominant modern global calendar

Rogerson's Book of Numbers

Author : Barnaby Rogerson
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847659837
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Rogerson's Book of Numbers written by Barnaby Rogerson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rogerson's Book of Numbers tells the stories behind our iconic numbers. It is based on a numerical array of virtues, spiritual attributes, gods, devils, sacred cities, powers, calendars, heroes, saints, icons and cultural symbols. It provides a dazzling mass of information for those intrigued by the many roles numbers play in folklore and popular culture, in music and poetry, and in the many religions, cultures and belief systems of our world. The stories unfold from millions to zero: from the number of the beast (666) to the seven deadly sins, the twelve signs of the zodiac to the four suits of a pack of cards. Along the way you will discover why Genghis Khan built a city of 108 towers, how Dante forged his Divine Comedy on the number eleven, and why thirteen is so unlucky in the west while fourteen is the number to avoid in China. Now available as a paperback, this is your pocket-book guide to the numerical mysteries of the universe.

Time and the Art of Living

Author : Robert Grudin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395898314
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Time and the Art of Living written by Robert Grudin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about time--about one's own journey through it and, more important, about enlarging the pleasure one takes in that journey. It's about memory of the past, hope and fear for the future, and how they color, for better and for worse, one's experience of the present. Ultimately, it's a book about freedom--freedom from despair of the clock, of the aging body, of the seeming waste of one's daily routine, the freedom that comes with acceptance and appreciation of the human dimensions of time and of the place of each passing moment on life's bounteous continuum. For Robert Grudin, living is an art, and cultivating a creative partnership with time is one of the keys to mastering it. In a series of wise, witty, and playful meditations, he suggests that happiness lies not in the effort to conquer time but rather in learning to bend to its curve, in hearing its music and learning to dance to it. Grudin offers practical advice and mental exercises designed to help the reader use time more effectively, but this is no ordinary self-help book. It is instead a kind of wisdom literature, a guide to life, a feast for the mind and for the spirit.

Journal of Calendar Reform

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Calendar Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Global Transformation of Time

Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737024
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Global Transformation of Time written by Vanessa Ogle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.

The Edge of the Universe

Author : Deanna Haunsperger
Publisher : MAA
ISBN 13 : 9780883855553
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of the Universe written by Deanna Haunsperger and published by MAA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exquisite expositions of mathematics taken from the first ten years of the Math Horizons magazine.

The Man Who Invented the Calendar

Author : B. J. Novak
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1408705990
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Invented the Calendar written by B. J. Novak and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Invented the Calendar provides a taster of the darkly hilarious treasures that can be found in B. J. Novak's One More Thing. We'll meet a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; find out how February got its name; and learn the truth about the icing on carrot cake.

The Global Transformation of Time

Author : Vanessa Ogle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674286146
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Global Transformation of Time written by Vanessa Ogle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a revisionist account of attempts to unify clock times, calendars, and social time, and a methodological intervention in discussions about writing global and transnational history. The book uses the reform of time between 1870 and 1950 as a lens through which to understand the dynamics of globalization. Based on research in archives around the world in multiple languages, individual chapters take the story of uniform time to France and Germany, Britain, the British Empire/German colonies/Latin America, British India, Arab elites in the Levant, Muslim scholars in Egypt, and to the League of Nations. The author shows how cross-border flows of ideas and concepts of uniform time resulted in a nationalization and regionalization of temporal identities. As a consequence, uniform, accurate clock time remained nonstandardized, unstable, and incomplete as late as the 1930s and 1940s. Calendar reform, just as vivid and vast a field of activism as clock time, never came to pass altogether due to strong national and religious objections to a uniform World Calendar. When ideas about uniform time moved across borders and continents, they often did so along lateral, informal trajectories of transmission. Local initiatives often preceded national time politics. Top-down attempts to devise time reform schemes at international conferences, to implement them nationally, and assure application in the most remote local contexts rarely succeeded. Rather, globalization disheveled such hierarchies of the international, the national, and the local. The book, then, emphasizes the importance of nationalism and states as well as attention to scale in writing the history of global flows and connections"--

Time and the Technosphere

Author : José Argüelles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159143873X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Time and the Technosphere written by José Argüelles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-08-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study that distinguishes the natural time of the cosmos from artificial mechanistic time. • Reveals September 11 as the signal of the end of artificial time according to the Law of Time. • Long awaited sequel to the author's bestselling book The Mayan Factor. • Explains the Great Calendar Change of 2004 and its enormous potential for the future of humanity. In Time and the Technosphere, José Argüelles presents a groundbreaking study that distinguishes the natural time of the cosmos from the artificial mechanistic time under which we currently live. Argüelles defines the actual nature of time as the frequency of synchronization. Applying this Law of Time to an understanding of the entire system of life on Earth, he shows that in order to not destroy Earth's ability to sustain life, we must change our definition of time and adopt a natural harmonic calendar based on the 13-moon 28-day cycle. Until the creation of the Gregorian calendar and the 60-minute hour, most of humanity lived by the 28-day cycle of natural time. The adoption of artificial time has subjected us to a 12:60 time frequency that governs the entire global industrialized civilization--the technosphere. With the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, a fissure was created in this artificial technosphere, opening up the noosphere (Earth's mental envelope). Humanity has a golden opportunity to leave the strife of the past and enter a time of peace by adopting a harmonious natural calendar that will repair the damages caused by the irregular tempo of technospheric time. Our last best chance to adopt this natural time and step into the bright new future promised by the galactic shift of 2012 is the Great Calendar Change of 2004, a new discovery based on the author's mathematical research into the Mayan calendar first begun in his landmark work The Mayan Factor. In Time and the Technosphere, Argüelles reveals the clear distinction between third-dimensional astronomical time and the fourth-dimensional synchronic order of the Law of Time, which holds enormous potential for the future of humanity.

Meghnad Saha

Author : Pramod V. Naik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319621025
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Meghnad Saha written by Pramod V. Naik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography is a short yet comprehensive overview of the life of Meghnad Saha, the mastermind behind the frequently used Saha equations and a strong contributor to the foundation of science in India. The author explores the lesser known details behind the man who played a major role in building scientific institutions in India, developed the breakthrough theory of thermal ionization, and whose fervor about India’s rapid progress in science and technology, along with concern for uplifting his countrymen and optimizing resources, led him to eventually enter politics and identify the mismanagement of many programs of national importance to Parliament. This book is free of most academic technicalities, so that the reader with general scientific knowledge can read and understand it easily. One interested only in Saha’s contribution to physics can pick up just that part and read it. Conversely, the average reader may skip the technical chapters, and read the book without loss of continuity or generality to still get a coherent picture. This work touches on all aspects of Saha’s multidimensional personality, which overflows in the pages of his periodical, Science and Culture,as well as his many speeches, debates and discussions in Parliament, all of which is appropriately conveyed in this book.

Time Management for Unicorns

Author : Giulio D'Agostino
Publisher : Business Expert Press
ISBN 13 : 1952538831
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Time Management for Unicorns written by Giulio D'Agostino and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents time and resource management lessons and tips from senior system administrator Giulio D'Agostino and aims to help increase time management skills and raise questions on how to possibly improve them. Time is one of the most precious commodities, especially if you are the system administrator of a ''unicorn company'' (a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion). In the 2018 year alone, more than 50 startups around the world attained unicorn status with a valuation of $1 billion or more, according to data from venture capital trackers like PitchBook. The nature of time has always been a subject of interest for various disciplines, from neuroscience to economics; now more than ever, with the increasing level of technology in our lives, proper time management has become a fundamental aspect of any successful project. This book presents time and resource management lessons and tips from senior system administrator Giulio D'Agostino and aims to help increase time management skills and raise questions on how to possibly improve them. Learn from more than 20 years of experience in project management working for companies like Google, Apple, Salesforce.com, and Hewlett Packard.

Sabbath Diagnosis

Author : Gary Hullquist
Publisher : TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781572582620
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Sabbath Diagnosis written by Gary Hullquist and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-08-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabbath Diagnosis is a fascinating exploration of the seventh day from a unique clinical perspective. After covering an exhaustive medical history, this chart presents the findings of a comprehensive physical examination. The patient's chief complaint, family, social and surgical history are all there. Also, presented is a full discussion of the differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, etiology and epidemiology of the Sabbath. All consultations, doctor's orders and progress notes included. Within the covers of this extensive medical record you will discover compelling documentation to support your final diagnosis. Additional Topics: --Exposure and spread of Sabbath-keeping --Excision and Biopsy of the Ten Commandments --Classical Symptoms and Vital Signs