Object Lessons: Bookshelf

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 152 pages, 7 b/w illustrations

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781501307324

Published:24 Mar 2016

Weight:146g

Dimensions:123 x 165 x 15 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

無論是在圖書館、辦公室還是家裏，書架都是我們創建知識和經驗分類的地方和方式，每個書架都講述着不同的故事。

每個書架都不同，講述着不同的故事。在波西米亞風格的咖啡館裏，書架可以隨個性而吱吱作響；而在國會圖書館裏，書架則可以莊重地呻吟。作家和歷史學家莉迪亞·派恩發現，書架不僅可以存放書籍，還可以存放許多其他東西：價值觀念、共鳴和動詞，這些東西可以陳列在當代人類存在的建築物和房間裏。Pyne敏鋭地注視着圖書史上的這個特殊時刻，帶着讀者參觀了一遍書架，並將讀者帶到了一個關鍵的轉折點：在書籍文化正在消亡的傳言中，為什麼書架的生命力還在蓬勃發展？

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.

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 and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress. Writer and historian Lydia 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 on a tour of the bookshelf that leads critically to this juncture: amid rumors 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 The Atlantic.

目錄

Introduction. Bookshelf: What's In a Name?

Chapter 1. From Medieval to Modern: Bookshelves in Chains

Chapter 2. The Things that Go On a Bookshelf

Chapter 3. Bookshelves That Move

Chapter 4. Bookshelves as Signs and Symbols

Chapter 5. The Life Cycle of a Bookshelf

Conclusion. The Plural Futures of Bookshelves

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

作者簡介

Lydia Pyne is a writer and historian, interested in the history of science and material culture. She has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University, and is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her field and archival work has ranged from South Africa, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Iran, as well as the American Southwest.

Lydia's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, History Today, Time, The Scientist, Nautilus, The Appendix, Lady Science and Electric Literature as well as The Public Domain Review, and her previous book was Seven Skeletons, the story of human origins. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an avid rock climber and mountain biker.