Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar Ramsey & Todd and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)

and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)

heart and body

Includes quotes from classic and contemporary times and from such varied sources as Catholic prayers

and deeply researched take on a vital

complete with beautiful step-by-step color pictures

Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar Ramsey & Todd and Lance Armstrong (testicular cancer)"If you lie awake worrying about the overnight transition from December 31, 1 BC, to January 1, AD 1 (there is no year zero), then you will enjoy Duncan Steel's Marking Time." American Scientist "No book could serve as a better guide to the cumulative invention that defines the imaginary threshold to the new millennium." Booklist A Fascinating March through History and the Evolution of the Modern Day Calendar . . . In this vivid, fast moving