Timekeepers
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SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF
THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of
the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently,
and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have
enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be
dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling stories in this
book explore our obsessions with time. An Englishman arrives back
from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his
symphonic wishes ignored. A moment of war is frozen forever. The
timetable arrives by steam train. A woman designs a ten-hour clock
and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister becomes stuck in the
same four minutes forever. A British watchmaker competes with
mighty Switzerland. And a prince attempts to stop time in its
tracks. Timekeepers is a vivid exploration of the ways we have
perceived, contained and saved time over the last 250 years,
narrated in the highly inventive and entertaining style that
bestselling author Simon Garfield is fast making his own. As
managing time becomes the greatest challenge we face in our lives,
this multi-layered history helps us tackle it in a sparkling new
light.
Výber kníh autorov
Simon Garfield ,
Canongate Books
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Simon Garfield,
Canongate Books
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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