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  The Calendar

  The 5000 Year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days

  by David Ewing Duncan

  The adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in Washington, the world's official timekeeper since the 1960s. We visit cultures from Vedic India and Cleopatra's Egypt to Byzantium and the Elizabethan court; and meet an impressive cast of historic personages from Julius Caesar to Omar Khayyam, and giants of... (more)
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  Longitude

  The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

  by Dava Sobel

  Anyone alive in the eighteeth century would have known that "the logitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries.  Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land.  Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution. The... (more)
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  Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets

  by Jo Marchant

  The bronze fragments of an ancient Greek device have puzzled scholars for more than a century after they were recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where they had lain since about 80 BC. Now, using advanced imaging technology, scientists have solved the mystery of its intricate workings. Unmatched in complexity for a thousand years, the mechanism functioned as the world’s first analog computer,... (more)
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  Headache

  A Guide for the Primary Care Physician

  by Elizabeth W. Loder, MD, Vincent T. Martin, MD

  The emphasis of this book falls naturally on the Big Three headache disorders: migraine, tension-type, and cluster headaches. Other topics include medication overuse and misuse, complementary and alternative treatments, headache in special populations such as children and adolescents, and the difficult headache patient. Special features include the headache calendars and diaries, headache impact test, and the... (more)
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  SPQR: Book 13

  The Year of Confusion

  by John Maddox Roberts

  “Readers looking for a crafty and entertaining journey to the past won’t be disappointed.” —Publishers Weekly on SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius   Caius Julius Caesar, now Dictator of Rome, has decided to revise the Roman calendar, which has become out of sync with the seasons. As if this weren’t already an unpopular move, Caesar has brought in astronomers and astrologers from abroad, including Egyptians, Greeks,... (more)
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  Marking Time

  The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar

  by Duncan Steel

  Did you know? . . . Russias October Revolution in 1917 actually occurred on November 7th For centuries, Britain and the colonies rang in the New Year on March 25th The Roman Empire originally observed an eight-day week The anno Domini (a.d.) year-counting system is wrong, and Jesus birth actually occurred some years before December 25, 1 b.c. These are just a few of the little-known facts that you will... (more)
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  The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar: A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days

  by Michael Judge

  Did you know that the ancient Romans left 60 days of winter out of their calendar, considering these two months a dead time of lurking terror and therefore better left unnamed? That they had a horror of even numbers, hence the tendency for months with an odd number of days? That robed and bearded druids from the Celts stand behind our New Year's figure of Father Time? That if Thursday is Thor's day, then Friday... (more)
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  The Organized Parent : 365 Simple Solutions to Managing Your Home, Your Time, and Your Family's Life

  by Christina Baglivi Tinglof

  From parenting author Christina Baglivi Tinglof comes The Organized Parent , a collection of tips and advice on how you can create an organized and efficient home and family schedule. Three hundred sixty-five tips--divided into quick fixes and major tune-ups--focus on parent-specific organizational problems. You will find solutions for everything from budgeting to housecleaning to organizing messy closets,... (more)
• Phenomenon Book of CalendarsDragon's world a.g.

  

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  Phenomenon Book of Calendars

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  Festival of Calendar Quilts

  12 delightful wall quilts to celebrate each month

  by Sandra L. Hatch

  Make a wall quilt for each month of the year.