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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Paul Davies
RRP: £10.99£7.77In About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution Paul Davies confronts the puzzles and paradoxes of time that have bemused the world's greatest thinkers throughout the ages.When Albert Einstein formulated his theory of relativity it brought about a... -
Bede: The Reckoning of Time Bede 9780853236931
RRP: £34.99£32.12From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus - the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction - was a subject of intense concern to medieval people. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was... -
Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe by Robert Lanza 9781935251743
RRP: £13.99£9.86Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world--a US News & World Report cover story called him a "genius" and a "renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in... -
Dreaming Ahead of Time: Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicity and Coincidence by Gary Lachman 9781782507864
RRP: £20.00£14.29Can we see the future in our dreams?Does time flow in one direction?What is a 'meaningful coincidence'?Renowned esoteric writer Gary Lachman has been recording his own precognitive dreams for forty years. In this unique and intriguing book, Lachman... -
An Experiment with Time by J W Dunne 9780955989889
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955989889Author J W DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint ResonancebookworksPublisher ResonancebookworksWeight(grams) 286g -
Introducing Einstein's Relativity: A Deeper Understanding by Ray d'Inverno 9780198862031
RRP: £47.99£45.97There is little doubt that Einstein's theory of relativity captures the imagination. Not only has it radically altered the way we view the universe, but the theory also has a considerable number of surprises in store. This is especially so in the three... -
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine 9780241992036
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind'A rare event' Sean Carroll_____When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs... -
Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination by Michael McGillen 9781501772825
RRP: £25.99£22.49Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time-beyond those of historicism and... -
On The Line: The Story of the Greenwich Meridian by Royal Observatory, Greenwich 9781906367619
RRP: £8.99£6.41Every year, thousands of people come to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to have their photograph taken on the line of the Prime Meridian - longitude 0 Degrees - as they stand in the eastern and western hemispheres at the same time. But what is the... -
Practical Time Series Analysis: Prediction with Statistics and Machine Learning Aileen Nielsen 9781492041658
RRP: £63.99£41.43Time series data analysis is increasingly important due to the massive production of such data through the internet of things, the digitalization of healthcare, and the rise of smart cities. As continuous monitoring and data collection become more... -
Experiment with Time by J. W. Dunne
RRP: £15.99£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571742346Author J. W. DunneFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co -
The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images Alfred Gell 9780854968909
RRP: £37.99£33.38Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on... -
The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity by Stefan Klein
£15.00Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have previously realized. award-winning journalist Stefan Klein, whose previous book, The Science of... -
Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything by James Gleick 9780679775485
RRP: £20.00£13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679775485Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Zeno's Paradox: Unraveling the Ancient Mystery Behind the Science of Space and Time by Joseph Mazur 9780452289178
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452289178Author Joseph MazurFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 15mm -
Time: The Modern and Postmodern Experience by Helga Nowotny 9780745618371
£16.18"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearning for... -
The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time by Joseph Mazur
RRP: £22.50£21.91Named one of Book Riot's Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time: a tour of clocks throughout the centuries-from the sandglass to the telomere-that reveals the physical, biological, and social nature of time"[A] mind-stretching book. . . . Skilfully... -
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine
RRP: £20.00£13.10'Everything you wanted to know about physics but were afraid to ask' Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens__________________________When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible book... -
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano
RRP: £20.99£17.75"Time" is the most common noun in the English language yet philosophers and scientists don't agree about what time actually is or how to define it. Perhaps this is because the brain tells, represents and perceives time in multiple ways. Dean Buonomano... -
Of Time and Lamentation by Raymond Tallis
RRP: £75.00£71.51Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time by Craig Callender
£35.00As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research. Philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time, and our experience and... -
Felt Time: The Science of How We Experience Time by Marc Wittmann
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533546Author Marc WittmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm -
Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700 by Carlo M. Cipolla 9780393324433
RRP: £16.50£13.88How did a time-keeping device affect the growth of crafts guilds and the scientific research that led to the Industrial Revolution? Clocks and Culture is a brief history of the changes wrought by and on Europe over four hundred years due to technological... -
Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc by Arthur Miller 9780465018604
RRP: £20.99£16.37The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances. This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo... -
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: £24.00£13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735216105Author Carlo RovelliFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 193mm... -
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
RRP: £20.00£14.29'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism,... -
Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History by E.G. Richards
£47.26Mapping Time is an account for the general reader of the history and underlying basis of each of the most important calendars of the world, from antiquity to modern times. There are descriptions of prehistoric calendars, of those devised by the... -
How Nature Keeps Time: Understanding Life Events in the Natural World by Helen Pilcher
RRP: £16.99£11.67An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to timespans in the natural world, featuring more than 80 beautifully designed diagrams and charts. Which organisms live the longest? How does the natural world recover from wildfires? How long do eggs... -
Mysteries and Secrets of Time by Lionel Fanthorpe 9781550026771
£15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550026771Author Patricia FanthorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
The Philosophy of Time by Robin Le Poidevin 9780198239994
RRP: £42.99£36.19This volume provides a balanced set of reviews which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. This is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years; the contributors are distinguished, and two of the essays are... -
Now: The Physics of Time by Richard A. Muller 9780393354812
RRP: £12.99£11.02You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge. He begins... -
Deep Time: A journey through 4.5 billion years of our planet Riley Black 9781787397439
RRP: £25.00£17.98Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us. Through explanations of the latest research and over 200... -
Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time by Barbara Adam 9780745614618
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to... -
The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past Matthew Hedman 9780226322933
RRP: £16.00£13.84Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000... -
A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time by Adrian Bardon 9780199301089
RRP: £28.49£20.76Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short yet thorough introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. Its treatment is roughly... -
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel by Brian Clegg
RRP: £9.99£7.25'10 Short Lessons in Time Travel lucidly sums up the essential parts of this fascinating subject.' John Gribbin________________________In Ten Short Lessons in Time Travel, Brian Clegg takes us on a fascinating and up-to-date tour of the workings of the... -
The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature by Ilya Prigogine
RRP: £17.99£16.29The Nobel laureate and founder of chaos theory challenges the accepted laws of nature, explaining why Einstein's belief that time is merely an illusion is incorrect.Book InformationISBN 9780684837055Author Ilya PrigogineFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Me Counting Time by Joan Sweeney 9780525646853
RRP: £7.99£5.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525646853Author Joan SweeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Random House USA Children's BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
RRP: £14.99£13.62"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is... -
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality by Paul Halpern
RRP: £13.99£11.22In Fall 1939, Richard Feynman, a brash and brilliant recent graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The prim and proper Wheeler timed their interaction with a watch placed on the table. ...