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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time - Simon Garfield
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
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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... show more
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 arri
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B01CGI004Y
Publisher: Canongate Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
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Humor, History, Science
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4.0 Entertaining, Informative, Challenging -- you'll rethink Time and how you spend it.
text Entertaining, Informative, Challenging -- you'll rethink Time and how you spend it.
Time, once passive, is now aggressive. It dominates our lives in ways that the earliest clockmakers would have surely found unbearable. We believe that time is running away from us. Technology is making everything faster, and because we know that things will become faster in the future, it follows t...
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time - Simon Garfield
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