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Clockwork man : the story of time, its origins, its uses, its tyranny / Lawrence Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1992.Description: 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780880299732
  • 0880299738
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM656. W754 1992
Contents:
Contents: Author’s preface—1. If you wan to know the time, ask a priest—2. Order, counter-order, disorder—3. Parson and peasant—4. One long holiday—5. To know the houris—6. The common round—7. Curiouser and curiouser—8. Science and magic—9. Town tempo—10. Clocking in—11. The mail goes through—12. God’s time and man’s time—13. Late again!—14. The heart of empire—15. Beating the clock—16. The enduring image—17. Cross-sections in time—18. Time and the law—19. Profitless chaos—20. Master and slave—21. Modern times—22. A time bomb in the hall—23. The grooves of change—24. Envoi—Appendices—Bibliography—Index.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University HM656.W754 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Donated by Daood Moosa. 3ACKU000531615
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251) and index.

Contents: Author’s preface—1. If you wan to know the time, ask a priest—2. Order, counter-order, disorder—3. Parson and peasant—4. One long holiday—5. To know the houris—6. The common round—7. Curiouser and curiouser—8. Science and magic—9. Town tempo—10. Clocking in—11. The mail goes through—12. God’s time and man’s time—13. Late again!—14. The heart of empire—15. Beating the clock—16. The enduring image—17. Cross-sections in time—18. Time and the law—19. Profitless chaos—20. Master and slave—21. Modern times—22. A time bomb in the hall—23. The grooves of change—24. Envoi—Appendices—Bibliography—Index.

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