Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.

Simple text with photographs shows how to tell time using clocks.

Private I must find out who is responsible for the disappearing clocks and watches in Capital City before they run out of time.

Unlike her best friend Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday.

Twelve mice that live in a cuckoo clock wander out to find birthday cake and have a party while Max the cat sleeps.

"Jewels and their lapidaries and have all but passed into myth. Jorit, broke and branded a thief, just wants to escape the Far Reaches for something better. Ania, a rumpled librarian, is trying to protect her books from the Pressmen, who value knowledge but none of the humanity that generates it. When they stumble upon a mysterious clock powered by an ancient jewel, they may discover secrets in the past that will change the future forever."--Provided...

When, on New Year's eve, the Clock King sets off a time bomb that interferes with all technology that depends on clocks, it is up to the Flash to find the villain and his device and undo the chaos it is causing.

Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but--and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that...

Learn about clocks and calendars and how they measure time.