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Saving The Daylight David S. Prerau

Saving The Daylight By David S. Prerau

Saving The Daylight by David S. Prerau


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Summary

Every spring the clocks go forward, and every autumn they go back. This book explores the contentious story of this deceptively simple attempt to regulate the sunlight hours.

Saving The Daylight Summary

Saving The Daylight: Why We Put The Clocks Forward by David S. Prerau

Benjamin Franklin conceived it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it. Every spring the clocks go forward, and every autumn they go back. Saving the Daylight explores for the first time the contentious, and often entertaining, story of this deceptively simple attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. Throughout its surprisingly controversial history, Daylight Saving Time has been claimed to have influenced a wide variety of areas, including agricultural practices, the reporting of sports scores, street crime, voter turnout and many other, sometimes unexpected aspects of daily life. The book brings together the historical, political and technical aspects of the fascinating story behind the movement for DST, with many light and offbeat anecdotes.

Saving The Daylight Reviews

'A fascinating and unusual book. It contained points I didn't know, and I enjoyed it immensely' Sir Patrick Moore 'This entertaining book is likely to make your head spin... Plenty of hilarious anecdotes here about the chaos that followed most attempts to save daylight around the world' New Scientist 'A neat account of the attempt to regulate daylight... don't hit the snooze button if Saving the Daylight is on the bedside table' Sunday Express 'This is a fascinating, enlightening book on a subject that continues to generate a lot of heat... I heartily recommend it' Morning Star 'Informed and lively history of why we monkey with time' Sunday Business Post (Dublin) Clocks go back on 29th October 2006. Further information at: www.savingthedaylight.com

About David S. Prerau

David Prerau has a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is one of the world's foremost experts on daylight saving time. He has authored/co-authored three extensive U. S. Government reports to Congress on DST, and has written two books, Developing and Managing Expert Systems and Worldwide Intelligent Systems.

Additional information

GOR002845035
9781862078789
1862078785
Saving The Daylight: Why We Put The Clocks Forward by David S. Prerau
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Granta Books
20061002
224
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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