In this intriguing book G.J. Whitrow traces the evolution of our general awareness of time and its significance from the dawn of history to the present day.

"Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East" is a new two-volume A-to-Z reference to the history and culture of the peoples of Africa and the Middle East.

Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed ...