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01812aam a2200289Mi 4500 001 2829FAEA021B11EBA789D99C28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200929011515 008 170621t20172016stka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1782113215 020 $a 9781782113218 035 $a (OCoLC)992442363 040 $a NLE $b eng $e rda $c NLE $d OCLCO $d BDX $d SHS $d OCLCF $d CO2 $d SILO 100 1 $a Garfield, Simon, $e author. 245 10 $a Timekeepers : $b how the world became obsessed with time / $c Simon Garfield. 264 1 $a Edinburgh : $b Canongate Books, $c 2016. 300 $a 349 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 20 cm. 500 $a First published: Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd, 2016. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a 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. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Time perception. 650 0 $a Time. 650 0 $a Time measurements. 941 $a 1 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20200929012053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2829FAEA021B11EBA789D99C28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search