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008			050531s2005 nyua b 001 0 eng d
010			_a 2005298259
020			_a1560256559
020			_a9781560256557
020			_a1560257962 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781560257967 _q(paperback)
024	3		_a9781560256557
035			_a(OCoLC)57688129
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100	1		_aPrerau, David S, _eauthor. _93242
245	1	0	_aSeize the daylight : _bthe curious and contentious story of daylight saving time / _cDavid Prerau.
250			_a[1st edition].
264		1	_aNew York : _bThunder's Mouth Press, _c[2005]
264		4	_c©2005
300			_axvi, 256 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references pages (225-233) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The waste of daylight -- From sun time to standard time -- The first time -- America takes its time -- An hour of peace -- War time -- Clock chaos -- Daylight for oil -- Modern times.
520	1		_aIn Seize the Daylight, David Prerau weaves a tale of science, history, and politics - a story grand enough to involve luminaries such as Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill, and FDR, but personal enough to revolve around railroad conductors and schoolchildren waiting at bus stops on dark mornings - all about the simple act of setting the clock forward an hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall. Who knew that daylight saving time influences everything from movie attendance to street crime, voter turnout to traffic accidents, Halloween trick-or-treaters to death-row inmates? That it has foiled Mideast terrorist plots and saved young men from being drafted into war? That it took a "celebrity endorsement" from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Supreme Court decision to make it an actuality? That three U.S. states still refuse to employ it? Seize the Daylight is the story behind an institution that has been the subject of back-room brawling and front-page headlines for more than two hundred years - and remains so today.
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590			_aThe history of daylight savings time (summer time) in the USA
650		0	_aDaylight saving. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035971 _97462
650		7	_aDaylight saving. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00888302 _97462
653		0	_aSociology
653		5	_aUSA
653		3	_aDaylight savings time
653		0	_aTimekeeper (general)
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