Golf ball /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1717230 |
| Summary: | 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 inevita. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 150 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1628921412 9781628921410 9781628921403 1628921404 1628921382 1628921390 |