Time (Key Concepts)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: March 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780745627786
Subjects: Time (chronology); Time; Sociological aspects; Social Science; Sociology; Human Geography; Sociology - General; Science / Time; Social aspects
First sentence: Re, Egyptian sun god and ruler of time, changed his shape with every hour of the day, making visible the repeating processes of the sun's cycle: rising as a scarab, descending into the darkness of the otherworld as a crocodile and re-emerging at dawn in the form of a double lion.