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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time

Simon Garfield

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Description:By the bestselling author of Just My Type : a “thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating” journey into the concept of time “stuffed with fascinating material” ( Observer , UK).Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalize it and make it meaningful. In this fascinating, anecdotal exploration, award-winning author Simon Garfield has two simple to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.Here, Garfield explores the nature of time through stories such the Beatles learning to be brilliant in an hour and a half; an Englishman arriving back from Calcutta, refusing to adjust his watch; Beethoven’s symphonic wishes being ignored; a US Senator’s speech that goes for 25 hours; the horrors of war frozen at the click of a camera; a woman who designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar; Roger Bannister living out the same four minutes over a lifetime; and a who prince attempts to stop time in its tracks.“Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining.”— The Sunday Times , UKWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time. To get started finding Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 423

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ISBN: 1782113215

Description: By the bestselling author of Just My Type : a “thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating” journey into the concept of time “stuffed with fascinating material” ( Observer , UK).Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it, immortalize it and make it meaningful. In this fascinating, anecdotal exploration, award-winning author Simon Garfield has two simple to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts.Here, Garfield explores the nature of time through stories such the Beatles learning to be brilliant in an hour and a half; an Englishman arriving back from Calcutta, refusing to adjust his watch; Beethoven’s symphonic wishes being ignored; a US Senator’s speech that goes for 25 hours; the horrors of war frozen at the click of a camera; a woman who designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar; Roger Bannister living out the same four minutes over a lifetime; and a who prince attempts to stop time in its tracks.“Digressive, gossipy, thoughtful and thoroughly entertaining.”— The Sunday Times , UKWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time. To get started finding Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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