Time in Maps

Time in Maps
Author: Kären Wigen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 022671862X

Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.

On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time

On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time
Author: Elisabeth Sussman
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1989
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

These photographs, essays, drawings, and original texts document the rich agit-art legacy of the Situationist International, a group of European artists and writers who emerged from such avant-garde movements as COBRA, Lettrisme, and the Imaginary Bauhaus and from the breakup of surrealism to launch a strategy of art as cultural critique.

The Passage

The Passage
Author: Justin Cronin
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Total Pages: 785
Release: 2010-06-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385669526

The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .

A Guide to First-Passage Processes

A Guide to First-Passage Processes
Author: Sidney Redner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001-08-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521652480

The basic theory presented in a way which emphasizes intuition, problem-solving and the connections with other fields.

A Passage in Time

A Passage in Time
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1991
Genre: Maine
ISBN: 9780393029970

Looks at the role of the schooner in Maine's maritime history, and describes a journey in Maine's coastal waters

My Exile Lifestyle

My Exile Lifestyle
Author: Colin Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-06-26
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 9781938793097

My Exile Lifestyle is a memoir made of stories from the life of author, entrepreneur, and full-time traveler, Colin Wright. From his early years as an antisocial geek, to his high-flying career in Los Angeles, to his life as a wandering vagabond, Colin holds nothing back as he talks about love, business, blogging, and culture through tales that span four continents. In the easy to digest style of storytelling that has made his other work such a success, Colin discusses life on the road and nothing is too taboo. Every epic, embarrassing, and awkward detail is covered with sometimes brutal honesty.

On the nature and passage of time and 4-D geometry

On the nature and passage of time and 4-D geometry
Author: Samuel K.K. Blankson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-12-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1471682080

PAPERBACK: In his 10th book on post-relativity philosophy of time, the Ghanaian philosopher argues that all the theories we read about time are useful only for constructing clocks to accord accurately with the earth's regular motions and astronomical features. The many bemusing technical terms employed (like duration between events, sidereal time, solar time, nutation, equinox, earth's rotation, the precession of the equinoxes etc.), were all invented to account for fixed, general and absolute time, running all through the cosmos and the same everywhere. This view of time, however, was abolished by Einstein. He adds that everything we have ever used to reckon time (including atomic time) amounts to mere physical cycles, pulses or oscillations that we count as the units of time---the years, for instance---but they are passing. He has also uncovered Einstein's undoubted snub to 4-D geometry.

Relational Passage of Time

Relational Passage of Time
Author: Matias Slavov
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2022-06-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 100063521X

This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above the succession of events, one thing coming after another. Causally related events are temporally arranged as they happen one after another along observers’ worldlines. There is no unique global passage but a multiplicity of local passages of time. After setting out this positive argument for relationism, the author deals with five common objections to it: (a) triviality of deflationary passage, (b) a-directionality of passage, (c) the impossibility of experiencing passage, (d) fictionalism about passage, and (e) the incompatibility of passage with perduring objects. Relational Passage of Time will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of time, metaphysics, and philosophy of physics.

Passage of Time

Passage of Time
Author: J. M. Buckler
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733105705