Timekeepers (eBook)

How the World Became Obsessed With Time

Simon Garfield (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
368 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78211-320-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 intentions: 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 as: 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, UK

Autor

Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham prize. www.simongarfield.com

Rezensionen

Simon Garfield is like the schoolteacher who made the time fly, a one-man Blue Peter team for intelligent adults, a great British explainer

Garfield has a genius for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight

His great strength is his storytelling

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2016
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: A Brief History of Time • Alice Waters • A Notable Woman • A Short History of England • beatles history • Beethoven • Beethoven's Fifth • book of hours • Books about time • Daniel Pink • Danubia • dava sobel • doomsday clock • exposure • French calendar • Germania • Harold Lloyd • history for children • history for young adults • history of time • horology • How to make a watch • Invention of the timetable • James Gleick • Just My Type • longitude • mary beard • mauve • mini • muybridge • My Dear Bessie • Non-fiction • On the Map • Our Hidden Lives • Peter Wilson • Popular History • Private Battles: The Error World • Roger Bannister • science of time • simon garfield • Simon Garfield time book • Simon Jenkins • Simon Schama • Simon Winder • slow food movement • Social History • Stephen Hawking • Strom Thurmond • Swiss watches • The Beatles Revolver • The End of Innocence • The Last Journey of William Huskisson • The Man Who Saved Britain • The Nation’s Favourite • The Wrestling • Time • Timekeepers • time perception • Time Travel • To the Letter • watchmaking • We Are At War • Yamaha history
• ISBN-10: 1-78211-320-7 / 1782113207
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-320-1 / 9781782113201