Timekeepers How the World Became Obsessed With Time

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

• Authors: Simon Garfield, Garfield Simon
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.07.2017
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781782113218
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-321-8
• Pages: 349
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.2 cm
• Subjects: Mini, TIME, Stephen Hawking, simon garfield, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Prose: non-fiction, Social History, Beethoven, non-fiction, horology, Germania, Alice Waters, Harold Lloyd, time travel, Exposure, the beatles revolver, Biography & non-fiction prose, Doomsday Clock, Time Perception, Time (chronology), time systems & standards, watchmaking, Peter Wilson, Mauve, Popular History, Mary Beard, Simon Jenkins, Swiss watches, daniel pink, Longitude, beatles history, a brief history of time, A Notable Woman, science of time, Roger Bannister, history for children, history of time, james gleick, slow food movement, timekeepers, A Short History of England, simon schama, On the Map, We Are At War, To the Letter, Just My Type, Our Hidden Lives, the end of innocence, dava sobel, danubia, simon winder, book of hours, books about time, The Wrestling, Strom Thurmond, history for young adults, The Man Who Saved Britain, My Dear Bessie, The Last Journey of William Huskisson, Private Battles: The Error World, Simon Garfield time book, The Nation’s Favourite, How to make a watch, French calendar, Beethoven's Fifth, Yamaha history, Invention of the timetable, Muybridge