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Bookshelf
Taschenbuch von Lydia Pyne
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom?

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books but of so many other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd eye toward this particular moment in the history of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom?

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Über den Autor

Lydia Pyne is a writer and historian, interested in the history of science and material culture. She has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University, and is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her field and archival work has ranged from South Africa, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Iran, as well as the American Southwest.

Lydia's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, History Today, Time, The Scientist, Nautilus, The Appendix, Lady Science and Electric Literature as well as The Public Domain Review, and her previous book was Seven Skeletons, the story of human origins. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an avid rock climber and mountain biker.

Zusammenfassung
Argues that while it is easy to assume that the bookshelf is an object moving toward extinction in the 21st century, how we think about bookshelves (even virtual ones) reflects the deep, 2000-year history of bookshelves
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Bookshelf: What's In a Name?

Chapter 1. From Medieval to Modern: Bookshelves in Chains

Chapter 2. The Things that Go On a Bookshelf

Chapter 3. Bookshelves That Move

Chapter 4. Bookshelves as Signs and Symbols

Chapter 5. The Life Cycle of a Bookshelf

Conclusion. The Plural Futures of Bookshelves

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 136 S.
ISBN-13: 9781501307324
ISBN-10: 1501307320
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pyne, Lydia
Redaktion: Schaberg, Christopher
Bogost, Ian
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 165 x 118 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Lydia Pyne
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2016
Gewicht: 0,147 kg
Artikel-ID: 104688332
Über den Autor

Lydia Pyne is a writer and historian, interested in the history of science and material culture. She has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University, and is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her field and archival work has ranged from South Africa, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Iran, as well as the American Southwest.

Lydia's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, History Today, Time, The Scientist, Nautilus, The Appendix, Lady Science and Electric Literature as well as The Public Domain Review, and her previous book was Seven Skeletons, the story of human origins. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an avid rock climber and mountain biker.

Zusammenfassung
Argues that while it is easy to assume that the bookshelf is an object moving toward extinction in the 21st century, how we think about bookshelves (even virtual ones) reflects the deep, 2000-year history of bookshelves
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Bookshelf: What's In a Name?

Chapter 1. From Medieval to Modern: Bookshelves in Chains

Chapter 2. The Things that Go On a Bookshelf

Chapter 3. Bookshelves That Move

Chapter 4. Bookshelves as Signs and Symbols

Chapter 5. The Life Cycle of a Bookshelf

Conclusion. The Plural Futures of Bookshelves

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 136 S.
ISBN-13: 9781501307324
ISBN-10: 1501307320
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pyne, Lydia
Redaktion: Schaberg, Christopher
Bogost, Ian
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 165 x 118 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Lydia Pyne
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2016
Gewicht: 0,147 kg
Artikel-ID: 104688332
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