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  1. Time [electronic resource]

    Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

    What is time? St Augustine famously claimed that he knew the answer as long as no one asked him for it, but as soon as he tried to explain it he no longer knew. Part of the problem is the intricate nature of the question. Every individual will approach the question 'what is time?' from a different perspective. We find ourselves asking whether time is linear or cyclic, whether it is endless, whether it is possible to travel in time, how the experience of the flow of time arises, how our own internal clocks are regulated and how our language captures the temporality of our existence. In this volume eight eminent researchers explore how investigations in their respective fields impinge on questions about the nature of time. These fields encompass the entire range from the arts and humanities to the natural sciences, mirroring the truly interdisciplinary nature of the subject.

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  2. Time

    Dyke, Heather
    Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

    Philosophical thinking about time is characterised by tensions between competing conceptions. Different sources of evidence yield different conclusions about it. Common sense suggests there is an objective present, and that time is dynamic. Science recognises neither feature. This Element examines McTaggart's argument for the unreality of time, which epitomises this tension, showing how it gave rise to the A-theory/B-theory debate. Each theory is in tension with either ordinary or scientific thinking, so must accommodate the competing conception. Reconciling the A-theory with science does not look promising. Prospects look better for the B-theory's attempt to accommodate ordinary thinking about time.

    Online Cambridge University Press

  3. Time

    Adnan, Etel
    New York : Nightboat Books, [2019]

    On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In Time, we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.

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  1. Special collections: East Asia

    The Stanford East Asia Library holds robust special collections of rare Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials. Learn more about our collections and how to access them, including procedures for using the reading room.

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  1. Travel Through Time: Japan

    Travel-related ephemera from the 17th through the early 20th century.

  2. Tokyo Over Time

    Maps of Tokyo spanning the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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  1. World Time Zones

    Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) and Harvard Geospatial Library
    2000

    World Time Zones represents the time zones of the world. The time zones are best displayed with World Countries or World Administrative Units.

  2. ESRI Data & Maps 2004 : World Time Zones

    Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
    2001

    World Time Zones represents the time zones of the world. The time zones are best displayed with World Countries or World Administrative Units.

  3. 2010 World Time Zones

    2010

    World Time Zones represents the time zones of the world. The time zones are best displayed with World Countries or World Administrative Units.

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