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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air conditioning makes temperature a non-issue...
2) Barcode
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Arcodes are one of the most ignored yet impactful objects of the last fifty years, and they have a much more interesting and controversial history than most people realize"--
"Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's...
3) Bicycle
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle promises to transform our lives and the world we live in, yet its time seems always yet-to-come or long-gone-by. Jonathan Maskit takes us on an interdisciplinary ride to see what makes the bicycle a magical machine that could yet make the world a safer, greener, and more just place."--
4) Magazine
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The magazine's 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"--
5) Pencil
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Often overlooked, tucked into a drawer or stuffed into a case, the pencil is a tool whose simplicity belies its usefulness and indeed, as a work of design and technology that endures around the globe, its greatness"--
6) Relic
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while taking a closer look at artists, architects, writers, and others who have helped to cement the swimming pool's prominent and iconic role in our society and culture. Swimming Pool explores the pool as a place where humans seek to attain the unique union between...
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