Author: Bruce Koscielniak
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Keywords: time, clocks, first
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618396683
ISBN-13: 9780618396689
Time to read a book.Time to wash dishes.Time to do this or that.You say things like this every day, all the time. But there was a time when time itself was undefined—no one knew the difference between a minute, an hour, or a day. Then people started creating tools to measure time. First they used the big stuff around them—the sun, the moon, water. Soon after, using the knowledge they got from their natural time-telling tools, people began to build clocks—huge clocks unlike the ones we use today. They also used their knowledge of the sun and moon to create calendars made up of months an
Authors:John P. Robinson, Geoffrey Godbey, Robert D.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: time, reading, canon, americans, ways, life, surprising
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0271019700
ISBN-13: 9780271019703
A study of the Americans’ leisure time, comparing the 1990s to the 1960s. The authors argue that, although many Americans feel increasingly rushed and stressed, they actually have more free time, which they waste in activities like TV. This edition is updated to include 1995-1997 data.
Author: Jack Finney
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: time
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-02-06
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0684818442
ISBN-13: 9780684818443
The New York Times Bestseller -- Jack Finney’s long-awaited sequel to his classic illustrated novel Time and Again. Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si’s mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912,
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Publisher: Time Out
Keywords: time, guides, paris
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1904978304
ISBN-13: 9781904978305
These are exciting times for the world’s most romantic city. Traditionally a global centre for the arts, fashion, film, gastronomy, architecture, shopping and sport, the French capital has been transformed by incumbent mayor Bertrand Delanoe. Recent public initiatives have included Paris-Plage, creating inner-city beaches and outdoor leisure activities along the Seine for a month in summer, and Nuit Blanche, all-night museum openings in October. Paris is also in pole position to host the Olympic Games of 2012, and a positive decision in July 2005 would be a further boost to the city̵
Author: Editors of Time for Kids magazine
Publisher: Time For Kid
Keywords: almanac, kids, time
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-06-24
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 1603207759
ISBN-13: 9781603207751
The newest edition of the best-selling Time For Kids Almanac is back and better than ever. Full of information on everything from animals to inventions, cutting-edge technology for the environment, this handy, colorful resource is a must-have for 8- to 12-year-olds. The Time For Kids Almanac 2009 features more than 650 new photos of kids’ favorite stars, athletes, leaders, and other newsmakers, not to mention pictures of people and places from all around the world (and spanning history!). Engaging articles from the award-winning Time for Kids magazine bring the facts to life while quizze
Author: Marcel Proust
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: time, guide, proust, regained, volume, lost, search
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 1993-05-18
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0679424768
ISBN-13: 9780679424765
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each volume is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast,
Authors:Paul Ricoeur, Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pell
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: time, narrative, volume
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 1990-09-15
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226713326
ISBN-13: 9780226713328
Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur’s earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern. Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using Augustine’s theory of time and Aristotle’s theory of plot and, further, develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of
