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
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
Sewers are a mirror to the world above, at a time when our behaviors are drastically reshaping the environment for the worse. Studying that murky warren shows us who we truly are, and lays out a roadmap for being better stewards of a quickly changin...Lasīt vairāk
Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. And in the real world, eager industrialists race to develop new vehicles to travel beyond Earths atmosphere. Space travel can seem like a waste of resources or like human destiny. But what are spacecraft,...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothings bulletproof, the salesman said. The things only bullet resistant. The New York Times journalist K...Lasīt vairāk
Explores our collective desire for invisible, ethereal, and ubiquitous connectivity, however much steel, cement, and cable it takes to sustain that desire-- Explores our collective desire for invisible, ethereal, and ubiquitous connectivity...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid th...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We take it for granted yet the magnet is fundamental to our existence-as important as gravity-and to our survival on this planet and...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Pause and look, and you will see that you are surrounded by glass: light reflects off and refracts through your windows; it encircles...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Oct-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628924251)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encir...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot lo...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, were told, theyll be delivering our shopp...Lasīt vairāk
