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100 1  Garfield, Simon,|eauthor. 
245 10 Timekeepers /|cSimon Garfield. 
246 14 Timekeepers : how the world became obsessed with time 
264  1 Edinburgh :|bCanongate,|c2016. 
264  4 |c©2016 
300    349 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-335) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: Very, very early or very, very late -- The 
       accident of time. Leaving the ground ; The shortness of 
       life and how to live it -- How the French messed up the 
       calendar -- The invention of the timetable. The fastest 
       thing you ever did see ; Was ever tyranny more monstrous? 
       -- The Beet goes on. The way to play the Ninth ; Just how 
       long should a CD be? ; Revolver -- How much talking is too
       much talking?. In the time of Moses ; Talking it over -- 
       Movie time. How you get to the clock ; Oncoming train -- 
       Horology part one: How to make a watch. A very difficult 
       floor ; Just what is it about the Swiss? -- Roger 
       Bannister goes round and round -- Vietnam. Napalm. Girl. 
       The split second ; 'I am Muybridge and this is a message 
       from my wife' -- The day shift. We will crush, squash, 
       slaughter Yamaha! ; The boss from hell -- Horology part 
       two: How to sell the time. Vasco da Gama special edition ;
       Welcome to Baselworld ; Uh-oh ; In which we name the 
       guilty man ; The most valuable watch on the planet -- Time
       tactics that work!. The berry season ; The lean email 
       simple system -- Life is short, art is long. The clock is 
       a clock ; White people are crazy -- Slowing down the 
       world. A place where time stands still ; Living Frenchly ;
       Faster food -- The British Museum and the story of us. The
       book of hours ; Doomed and marooned ; Those who feel 
       differently -- Epilogue: Humility watch. 
520    "Not 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 Simon Garfield's typically inventive and entertaining 
       style. As managing time becomes one of the greatest 
       challenges we face in our lives, this multi-layered 
       history helps us understand it in a sparkling new light."-
       -Dust jacket flap. 
650  0 Time. 
650  0 Time perception. 
650  7 Time.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01151043 
650  7 Time perception.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01151148 
650  7 Zeit|2gnd 
650  7 Zeitlichkeit|2gnd 
650  7 Zeitwahrnehmung|2gnd 
650  7 Zeitmessung|2gnd 
650  7 Fahrplan|2gnd 
650  7 Kultur|2gnd 
650  7 PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.|2bisacsh 
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