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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time [Audiobook] download free by Simon Garfield

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Audiobook download free by Simon Garfield
  • Listen audiobook: Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
  • Author: Simon Garfield
  • Release date: 2018/7/18
  • Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
  • ISBN: 9781782113195
  • Rating: 7.19 of 10
  • Votes: 57
  • Review by: Brynlee Hodge
  • Review rating: 8.33 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/22
  • Duration: 4H29M51S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-01
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AIFF, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC (compression LZMA, ARJ, RAR, TZO, ZIP)
  • Total pages original book: 368
  • Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 21M13S (5.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER 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.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Time (chronology), Time Systems & Standards, Social & Cultural History, Physics Books, Society & Culture: General, Prose: Non-fiction
  • Download servers: WeTransfer, BitShare, Hotfile, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA. Compressed in LZMA, ARJ, RAR, TZO, ZIP
  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 26.64 USD
  • Dimensions: 144x220x33mm
  • Weight: 505g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Categories: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD, 2018, English, Society and Social Sciences
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CREATESPACE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING PLATFORM CENGAGE LEARNING, INC CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING CO GILL WW NORTON & CO VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Genres
Natural History Society and Social Sciences
Authors
Thich Nhat Hanh Gerald Durrell Henry David Thoreau Willow Creek Press Dk
Years
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