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How the concept of “deep time” began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and ni
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Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new ins
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Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach fu
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Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the
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Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different tempora
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This ambitious book explores the relationship between time and history and shows how an appreciation of long-term time h
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