Unfolding in nine chapters to examine nine aspects of life with cats, Cat is both a memoir and a meditation on the things cat people admire in their pets: laziness and lawlessness. Touching on the age-old rivalry between cats and dogs, the stereotyp...Lasīt vairāk
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. In the West, its advent deepened the trends of th...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture. Its the devils horn, its the voic...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Triggering severe nostalgia and denoting adventure, mystery, and glamour, the passenger train is still portrayed as the most romantic...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In this unique book, Philip Howell takes the publi...Lasīt vairāk
Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the commodity of our global era. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction. But despite its heated history, few will ever see oil on the ground. Shrouded within a la...Lasīt vairāk
Islands have long been viewed as both paradise and prison - we project onto them our deepest desires for freedom and escape, but also our greatest fears of forced isolation. This book asks: what can islands teach us about living sustainably, being a...Lasīt vairāk
X-ray reveals the paradox of living in an age that relies on X-rays to expose hidden threats to our health and security and fears X-rays for that exposure. Nicole Lobdell explores when, where, and how we use X-rays, what meanings we give them, what...Lasīt vairāk
Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. From censorship and the intentional destruction of the historic record to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, this is the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy and to hold...Lasīt vairāk
Mask will explore the long history of masking, asking who and what we seek to protect through different forms of masks-- Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Fr...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the vehicles and robotic extensions of ourselves that we cast out into the solar system to photograph, probe, scan and drill our way into new understandings, or into harms way in search and rescue missions here on earth, and questions what...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of ou...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Flo...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to...Lasīt vairāk
Shows how understanding the bicycle requires investigating technological history, urban planning, and social norms, as well as both natural and human law-- Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden...Lasīt vairāk
Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often been endowed by faith, tradition, and culture with a sense of the sacred-- Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully des...Lasīt vairāk
The magazines heyday--its century--as the arbiter of culture is over, and so it is time to pay tribute to its voice, aesthetic, influence, frequent tackiness, and monumental ego as an object of envy--...Lasīt vairāk
