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.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
A book that invites you to listen more closely to the beepers, bells, and buzzers that have shaped modern minds-- Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Alarms ar...Lasīt vairāk
Explores an object that is both magical and medicinal, that nurtures ancient traditions, that is the object of foragers, cooks, and scientists attention, and which has properties that continue to baffle physicians and psychiatrists-- ...Lasīt vairāk
