Timekeepers
| Bezeichnung | Wert |
|---|---|
| Titel |
Timekeepers
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| Untertitel |
How The World Became Obsessed With Time
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| Verfasserangabe |
Simon Garfield
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| Medienart | |
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| Verlag | |
| Ort |
Edinburgh
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| Jahr | |
| Umfang |
349 pages, illustrations
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| ISBN13 |
978-1-78211-321-8
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| Schlagwort | |
| Annotation |
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.
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