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The Clocks Are Telling Lies

Author : Scott Alan Johnston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780228009641

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Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways – from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling.

Dandelion Clocks and Other Tales

Author : Juliana Horatia Ewing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : OXFORD:590349057

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The Teachers' Institute

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102796232

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The Living Age

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081672754

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Littell's Living Age

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1676 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108057252614

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Littell's Living Age

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000699407

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Notes and Queries

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175024106489

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Mary ́s Meadow

Author : Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734053658

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Mary's Meadow

Author : Juliana Horatia Ewing
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781776593613

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Mary's Meadow by Juliana Horatia Ewing Pdf

This charming collection of stories from Juliana Horatia Ewing, an acclaimed writer of fiction for younger audiences, will delight readers in any age group. The title novella, "Mary's Meadow," centers on a family embroiled in a dispute over a tract of land separating their property from the neighbor's. Although the meadow is a worthless nuisance in the eyes of the adults, it's a fantastical wonderland in the imaginations of thirteen-year-old Mary and her troop of younger siblings.

British Clocks And Clockmakers

Author : Kenneth Ullyett
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447498209

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British Clocks And Clockmakers by Kenneth Ullyett Pdf

This early work on clockmaking is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all horologists. Eight plates and 24 illustrations accompany a wealth of information and anecdote on British clocks and clockmakers. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Ladies' Home Journal

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Home economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012341635

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Thoughts of Discord

Author : Dominic Lyne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780956161222

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Go back... existing in an alternate world. Chemically calm or chemically enhanced. The choice always a pill, a line, a glass. Record the pain, get it out from the head. Let the words echo into the air, vibrations locked in the surroundings for eternity. One chance, one redemption, one way of escape. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Thoughts of Discord continues the story of the author's life from the painful end of The Mushroom Diaries. Behind the backdrop of trying to produce his band's debut album Self Degraded Suicide, Thoughts of Discord follows his fall into the depths of depression and drug addiction. This is the solitary journey into the mouth of the abyss. A study of a person. A study of a soul. Another twisted love story.

The Science Fiction Dimensions of Salman Rushdie

Author : Yael Maurer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476614021

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The Science Fiction Dimensions of Salman Rushdie by Yael Maurer Pdf

This book focuses on the science fictional dimensions of Rushdie's later novels, Fury, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown and Luka and the Fire of Life, and Rushdie's first unpublished novel, The Antagonist, to show how the author's oeuvre moves towards a more consistent engagement with science fiction as a generic form and an ideological investment. The author demonstrates how Rushdie recreates personal and national histories in a science fictional setting and mode, and contends that the failure of his first novel Grimus may have led Rushdie away from SF for some time, although he returns to it with a much firmer conviction and a much stronger voice in his later novels, showing his commitment to this imaginative form which he describes in Fury as providing "the best popular vehicle ever devised for the novel of ideas and metaphysics."The science fictional mode is the most appropriate vehicle for expressing these thematic and ideological concerns and the organizing feature of Rushdie's oeuvre. The author rereads the later novels in light of recent critical engagement with SF as a vehicle for reimagining national histories and as a potentially subversive tool for social and political engagement in a fictional realm.