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100			_aPyne, Lydia
245			_aBookshelf
260			_bBloomsbury Academic, _c2017 _aNew Delhi:
300			_a160 p. _c17 cm.
365			_aINR _b250.00
440			_aObject Lessons
520			_aObject 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. One bookshelf 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 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 bookshelf in full bloom?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
650			_aPhilosophy - aesthetics
650			_aSemiotics and​ Theory
650			_aLiterary Criticism
650			_aMedieval Libraries
650			_aMobile Shelves
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