Description: Bookshelf, Paperback by Pyne, Lydia, ISBN 1501307320, ISBN-13 9781501307324, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You might think that its name says it all. A bookshelf is just that - a shelf for books. It's the stuff of libraries, offices, and the bane of movers' existence. But every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. Onshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Bookshelf takes an almost meta-approach to the object studies aim of Object Lessons: exploring the stacks as well as our bedside tables, writer and historian Lydia Pyne unpacks not just the material parts but the secret lives of bookshelves. 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 ona tour of thshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, why is the life of bookshelf in full bloom?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic"--
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Book Title: Bookshelf
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Decorating, Library & Information Science / General, General, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, House & Home, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Weight: 5.1 Oz
Author: Lydia Pyne
Item Length: 6.5 in
Item Width: 4.9 in
Book Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
