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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

By Simon Garfield

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Social Sciences

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

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Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks. Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalise it and make it meaningful. It has two simple intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2018-07-03
Publication Date:
2018-07-03
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1782113215
ISBN13:
9781782113218
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
255 g
Height:
20 cm
Width:
13.2 cm
Thickness:
2.3 cm
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