Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000
ISBN 10: 029784136X ISBN 13: 9780297841364
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Verlag: Vintage, 2002
ISBN 10: 0375727523 ISBN 13: 9780375727528
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Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000
ISBN 10: 029784136X ISBN 13: 9780297841364
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Verlag: Pantheon, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375401768 ISBN 13: 9780375401763
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Verlag: Pantheon, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375401768 ISBN 13: 9780375401763
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hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. ex library book, includes the dust jacket.
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375401768 ISBN 13: 9780375401763
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Verlag: Vintage, 2002
ISBN 10: 0375727523 ISBN 13: 9780375727528
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The covers, edges, and corners are worn from previous use and ownership. The pages are in great reading condition! Like shelf wear.
Verlag: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, London, 2000
ISBN 10: 029784136X ISBN 13: 9780297841364
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Even by Victorian standards, the Scots/Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming was a man of extraordinary energy - designer of Canada's first postage stamp and the first street maps of Canadian cities, engineer of the trans-Canadian railway to British Columbia and of the trans-Pacific telegraph cable from London to Australia and New Zealand via Canada and Fiji, he yet found the time to write volumes of diaries, thousands of letters and fifteen books. Time Lord tells the story of yet another achievement - Fleming's greatest - his idea of unifying the world's times in a series of time zones, an idea originally rejected as too trivial for discussion by the Royal Canadian Society of Engineers for whom he wrote his first paper on the subject. Twenty years later, after a series of journeys to the British astronomer-Royal, the Czar's Astronomer, the courts of Prussia, Italy and Japan and finally the American President, and after opposition from many quarters, the world adjusted its clocks and accepted Fleming's new system. It is an extraordinary story, wonderfully illuminating of the past, and of a fascinating man, difficult, irascible, but ultimately brilliant. Comparable obviously to Longitude, Fleming's achievement, in a world without modern communications or transport, makes the achievement of a single European currency seem like a minor detail in comparison. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Phoenix, 2001
ISBN 10: 0753811480 ISBN 13: 9780753811481
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Pantheon, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375401768 ISBN 13: 9780375401763
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Phoenix 07/06/2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0753811480 ISBN 13: 9780753811481
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Verlag: W&N, 2000
ISBN 10: 029784136X ISBN 13: 9780297841364
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Verlag: W&N 24/08/2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 029784136X ISBN 13: 9780297841364
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Verlag: Vintage, 2002
ISBN 10: 0375727523 ISBN 13: 9780375727528
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Verlag: Pantheon, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375401768 ISBN 13: 9780375401763
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Zustand: Very Good. 2001. hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing v. light shelf wear. . . . .
Verlag: W&N, 2000
ISBN 10: 029784136X ISBN 13: 9780297841364
Anbieter: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Phoenix, 2001
ISBN 10: 0753811480 ISBN 13: 9780753811481
Anbieter: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC Apr 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0375727523 ISBN 13: 9780375727528
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.