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Series: Object Lessons
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Bookshelf
Shows that, whether in the library, office, or home, the bookshelf is where and how we create categories to sort knowledge and experience and that every bookshelf tells a different story.
Shows that, whether in the library, office, or home, the bookshelf is where and how we create categories to sort knowledge and experience and that every bookshelf tells a different story.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every shelf is different, and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop, while another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Bookshelf by writer and historian Lydia Pyne explores these differences and finds bookshelves to be holders not just of books, but of 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 on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumours of the death of book culture, why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom?
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne is praised as an engaging exploration of the cultural and historical significance of bookshelves. Critics describe it as a delightful essay that highlights how bookshelves function much like pages, offering endless possibilities for storing and displaying knowledge. It is appreciated for its insightful look into the human endeavour to organise and contextualise information, providing a broader perspective on their importance in both physical and metaphorical terms.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781501307324
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 March 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Illustration: 7 b/w illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 122.0mm
Height: 164.0mm
Weight: 141g
Pages: 152
About the Author
Lydia Pyne (PhD) is a freelance writer, editor, historian, and Research Fellow in the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is a contributing editor for The Appendix and a reviewer and essayist for NewPages and New York Journal of Books. She is the author of Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils (Viking, 2016) and, with Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene (Penguin, 2012).
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