Books like The direction of time by Hans Reichenbach

Stephen Hawking explains the fundamental physics of the universe—space, time, cosmology, black holes, and the Big Bang—in clear, accessible language.

The author published a series of science divulgative books about the study and significance of time as a physical magnitude and an historical review of the concepts of Time in diferents civilizations and in different epoques. Perhaps this precise book is the most specific and "technical" of all. It keep a far resemblance with the intention of SIr Isaac Newton who published the mathematical principles of natural philosophy but made a resumee for the non mathematical readers. THis is just the opposite case. See other titles by the same author "The nature of time" and "Time in History"

A rigorous exploration of how modern scientific advances reshape our philosophical notions of space, time, and causality.

The Conscious Universe examines how quantum entanglement challenges traditional notions of distance and causality, revealing profound links between physics and philosophy.

"An important landmark in the developmant of the empiricist conception of geometry, this book is still one of the clearest and most valuable expositions of the crisis in physical science and mathematics occasioned by the advent of the non-Euclidean geometries. With unusual depth and clarity, it covers the problem of the foundations of geometry, the theory of time, the theory and consequences of Einstein's relativity including: relations between theory and observations, coordinate definitions, relations between topological and metrical properties of space, the psychological problem of the possibility of a visual intuition of non-Euclidean structures, and many other important topics in modern science and philosophy."--Back cover.

An examination of the physical origin of time’s direction, focusing on radiation, thermodynamics, quantum indeterminism and spacetime structure, and proposing a common root in the universe’s time‑independent wave function.

"Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?" "As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in Time Maps, we cannot answer questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past. In a pioneering attempt to map the structure of our collective memory, Zerubavel considers the cognitive patterns we use to organize the past in our minds and the mental strategies that help us string together unrelated events into coherent and meaningful narratives, as well as the social grammar of battles over conflicting interpretations of history. Drawing on fascinating examples that range from Hiroshima to the Holocaust, from Columbus to Lucy, and from ancient Egypt to the former Yugoslavia, Zerubavel shows how we construct historical origins; how we tie discontinuous events together into stories; how we link families and entire nations through genealogies; and how we separate distinct historical periods from one another through watersheds, such as the invention of fire or the fall of the Berlin Wall." "Most people think the Roman Empire ended in 476, even though it lasted another 977 years in Byzantium. Challenging such conventional wisdom, Time Maps will be must reading for anyone interested in how the history of our world takes shape."--Jacket.

A groundbreaking book that challenges the very notion of time

Huw Price explores why the future feels distinct from the past and how quantum theory may reveal time’s true symmetry, arguing that the universe is objective and that the future can influence the past.