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001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20240909204311.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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210606t20212021nyua b 001 0 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2021025193 |
019 ## - |
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1262788999 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780393867930 |
Qualifying information |
hardcover |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0393867935 |
Qualifying information |
hardcover |
024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER |
Standard number or code |
40030697669 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)1196176453 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
LBSOR/DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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OCLCO |
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CMI |
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IMT |
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IUK |
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J9U |
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
Holding library |
HRSA |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Rooney, David, |
Dates associated with a name |
1974- |
Relator term |
author. |
Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009148106 |
9 (RLIN) |
7698 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
About time : |
Remainder of title |
a history of civilization in twelve clocks / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
David Rooney. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
First American edition. |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, NY : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
W. W. Norton and Company, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2021. |
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2021 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
ix, 271 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
still image |
Content type code |
sti |
Source |
rdacontent |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
text |
Content type code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
First published in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Introduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983 -- Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE -- Faith : Castle Clock, Diyār Bakr, 1206 -- Virtue : the hourglass of Temperance, Siena, 1338 -- Markets : stock exchange clock, Amsterdam, 1611 -- Knowledge : Samrat Yantra, Jaipur, 1732-35 -- Empires : observatory time ball, Cape Town, 1833 -- Manufacture : Gog and Magog, London, 1865 -- Morality : electric time system, Brno, 1903-6 -- Resistance : telescope driving-clock, Edinburgh, 1913 -- Identity : golden telephone handsets, London, 1935 -- War : miniature atomic clocks, Munich, 1972 -- Peace : plutonium timekeeper, Osaka, 6970. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives-and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari's castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization"-- |
Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
562 ## - COPY AND VERSION IDENTIFICATION NOTE |
Materials specified |
31560000065124 |
Copy identification |
24408 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Clocks and watches |
General subdivision |
History. |
Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101137 |
9 (RLIN) |
7530 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Horology |
General subdivision |
History. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Time |
General subdivision |
Social aspects |
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History. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Civilization. |
Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026423 |
9 (RLIN) |
6437 |
775 08 - OTHER EDITION ENTRY |
Relationship information |
Reproduction of (manifestation): |
Main entry heading |
Rooney, David, 1974- |
Title |
About time |
Place, publisher, and date of publication |
London : Viking, 2021 |
International Standard Book Number |
9780241370490 |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Books |
Suppress in OPAC |
No |
994 ## - |
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C0 |
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NYHRS |