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Title: Golf Ball
Condition: New
EAN: 9781628921380
ISBN: 9781628921380
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 29/01/2015
Item Height: 165mm
Item Length: 121mm
Item Weight: 155g
Author: Harry Brown
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1628921382
Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in places far beyond our reach. Golf balls embody our efforts to impose our will on the land, whether the local golf course or the Moon, but their unpredictable spin, bounce, and roll often defy our control. Despite their considerable technical refinements, golf balls reveal the futility of control. They inevitably disappear in plain sight and find their way into hazards. Golf balls play with people.Harry Brown's short treatise on the golf ball serves up surprising lessons about the human desire to tame and control the landscape through technology. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Sports & Hobbies
Book Series: Object Lessons
Topic: Society & Culture
Release Year: 2015

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