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Air Conditioning (Object Lessons) by Hsuan L. Hsu
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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 ...Show more
Barcode (Object Lessons series) by Jordan Frith; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
Category: General Design | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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 ...Show more
Bicycle (Object Lessons) by Jonathan Maskit; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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 l ...Show more
Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious or romantic. Birds don't ex ...Show more
Blackface (Object Lessons) by Ayanna Thompson; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Culture | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyWhy are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of people of color in whitefa ...Show more
Bulletproof Vest (Object Lessons) by Kenneth R. Rosen; Ian Bogost (Contribution by); Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by)
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "Nothing's bulletproof," the salesman said. "The thing's only bullet resistant." The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on ...Show more
Cell Tower (Object Lessons) by Steven E. Jones; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The cell tower is a gigantic object we rarely see, effectively invisible, at the periphery of our vision but at the center of everyday experience. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework ...Show more
Compact Disc (Object Lessons) by Robert Barry
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
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 the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage ...Show more
Email (Object Lessons) by Randy Malamud; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Politics | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Do you feel your consciousness, your attention, and your intelligence (not to mention your eyesight) being sucked away, byte by byte, in a deadening tsunami of ill-composed blather, corporate grou ...Show more
Environment (Object Lessons) by Rolf Halden
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how long and comfortable we may live? The environment is n ...Show more
Exit (Object Lessons) by Laura Waddell; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Exits are all around us. They are the difference between travelling and arriving, being on the inside or outside. Whether signposted or subversive, personal or political, choices or holes we've fa ...Show more
Eye Chart (Object Lessons) by William Germano; Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by); Ian Bogost (Contribution by)
Category: Popular Science | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes. Reading the eye chart is an exercise in failur ...Show more