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Author | : Michael Downing |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-02-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1582434956 |
Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and Japanese water clocks. Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time–zone boundaries. It is a true–to–life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs.
Author | : David Prerau |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009-04-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 078673695X |
Benjamin Franklin conceived of 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, and more recently the United States fought an energy crisis with it. For several months every year, for better or worse, daylight savings time affects vast numbers of people throughout the world. And from Ben Franklin's era to today, its story has been an intriguing and sometimes-bizarre amalgam of colorful personalities and serious technical issues, purported costs and perceived benefits, conflicts between interest groups and government policymakers. It impacts diverse and unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, street crime, the reporting of sports scores, traffic accidents, the inheritance rights of twins, and voter turnout. Illustrated with a popular look at science and history, Seize the Daylight presents an intriguing and surprisingly entertaining story of our attempt to regulate the sunlight hours.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Daylight saving |
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Author | : United States. Department of Transportation |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Daylight saving |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Law |
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Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Energy conservation |
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Author | : Lawrence J. Taylor |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2001-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816519262 |
Drawing on two summers spent with the kids who live in drainage tunnels connecting Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona, the authors present a verbal and pictoral portrait of the displaced and sometimes heroic young people whose stories add a human dimension to the world of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Author | : Lee Panich |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816543224 |
Narratives of Persistence charts the remarkable persistence of California's Ohlone and Paipai people over the past five centuries. Lee M. Panich draws connections between the events and processes of the deeper past and the way the Ohlone and Paipai today understand their own histories and identities.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space |
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Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Daylight saving |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Daylight saving |
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