| #1228266 in Books | imusti | 2016-01-28 | 2016-01-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.55 x.49 x4.86l,.0 | File type: PDF | 152 pages | Bloomsbury Academic||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| and just plain boring. What were you thinking|By The Flipper|Sorry, Lydia - this was obtuse, ponderous, arcane, and just plain boring. What were you thinking? Nice cover - nothing worthwhile inside.|||“As the page is to the book, so is the bookshelf to our culture, that is the lesson of this delightful and stimulating essay. Anything can happen on a page, so too, we learn, a bookshelf partakes of that astonishing range of possibility, circumscribed o
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 con...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Bookshelf (Object Lessons) | Lydia Pyne. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.