Golf ball / Harry Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Harry J. (Harry John), 1972- author.

Series:

Object lessons.

Object Lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Golf balls--History.

Golf balls.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

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.

Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1 OUT: THING; 1 How I Cut a Golf Ball in Half,  and Found a Lot of Things Inside; 2 How the Golf Ball Keeps Holy the Lord's Day; 3 How an Empire Made the Golf Ball, and The Golf Ball Made an Empire; 4 How The Golf Ball Blew Up America and Made Golf More Fun; 5 How the Golf Ball Went Ballistic; 6 How the Golf Ball Reached Détente; 7 How the Court Decided Custody49 of the Golf Ball; 8 How the Golf Ball Became the #1 Ball in Golf; 9 How the Golf Ball Got So Cool; Part 2 IN: PHENOMENON.

10 How the Golf Ball Vanishes Before Your Eyes11 How the Golf Ball Makes Us Feel Fulfilled, for a Millisecond; 12 How to Control the Unruly Golf Ball; 13 How to Hit the Golf Ball by Not Hitting It; 14 How the Golf Ball Looks into the Abyss, and the Abyss Looks Back; 15 How the Golf Ball Won the Golden Fleece; 16 How the Golf Ball Went to the Moon; 17 How the Golf Ball Makes Friends with Animals; 18 How the Golf Ball Prepares for Doomsday; Notes; Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781501309465

1501309463

9781628921403

1628921404

9781628921410

1628921412

OCLC:

1201425831