I Had a Father: a Post-modern Autobiography.

Biographies & Memoirs

BLAISE, Clark

Arts & Literature

Addison-Wesley

Richard Durgin desires and marries the beautiful, sophisticated, and gifted Rachel, his opposite in many ways, yet he never comes to understand or truly love her until after her death

Lusts

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

The author looks back on childhood and his relationship with his enigmatic father, and attempts to learn more about both his father and his family heritage

I Had A Father: A Post-modern Autobiography

Da Capo Press

Regional Canada

Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

1st Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson 2000 edition hardcover unread as new book fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

History

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The remarkable story of the man who created and then convinced all the nations of the world to adopt a unified standard for telling time. Standard Time was one of the crowning achievements of Victorian progressiveness and one of the few Victorian innovations to have survived practically unchanged into our era. Few technological inventions have proven to be both as invisible and as important. Today we take it for granted that the world is divided into twenty-four time zones, but before Standard Time was established in 1884, time was an arbitrary measure decided by individual localities. With the advent of continent-spanning railroads and transatlantic steamers, the myriad local times became a mind-boggling obstacle and the rational ordering of time became an urgent priority. After laboring for years to create a scientific consensus, Sandford Fleming gathered scientific and political representatives from the world's twenty-five independent nations in Washington, D.C., for the Prime Meridian Conference. There, after considerable rancor, delegates agreed to the Greenwich Prime Meridian, the International Date Line, and a single system by which the entire world would measure its longitudes and tell the same time. In Time Lord, Clark Blaise introduces us to an almost-forgotten figure, who saw the world as a whole and overcame traditional and national objections to the rational accounting of time.

Professionals & Academics

Pantheon

It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of errors that ultimately threatened to impede progress. The creation of standard time, with its two dozen global time zones, is one of the great inventions of the Victorian Era, yet it has been largely taken for granted. In Time Lord, Clark Blaise re-creates the life of Sanford Fleming, who struggled to convince the world to accept standard time. It’s a fascinating story of science, politics, nationalism, and the determined vision of one man who changed the world. Set in a time marked by substantial technological and cultural transformation, Time Lord is also an erudite exploration of art, literature, consciousness, and our changing relationship to time

Historical

Vintage

A North American Education is a collection of polished and disturbing short stories about life and the passage of time.

A North American education;: A book of short fiction

DOUBLEDAY

David has always been special, attuned to the dark side of things, pulled toward the disturbing undercurrents beneath the slick surface of American life. As a whimsical, misunderstood boy growing up in the Florida backwoods, he maps out a reality less hostile than the snapping gators and insensitive school teachers of his rural home. As an adolescent he gets a shocking introduction to sensuality, a sexual initiation in stark contrast to the gentle first-kiss fantasies of teenaged dreams. Lunar Attractions brilliantly captures the manic nature of our times.

Lunar attractions

Literary

Richard Durgin desires and marries the beautiful, sophisticated, and gifted Rachel, his opposite in many ways, yet he never comes to understand or truly love her until after her death

United States

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I Had a Father: a Post-modern Autobiography.

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I Had A Father: A Post-modern Autobiography

I Had A Father: A Post-modern Autobiography

Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

A North American education;: A book of short fiction

Lunar attractions

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