![]() ![]() ![]() Be warned: once you've read a few of these, you'll start walking around your house, picking up random objects, and musing aloud: 'I wonder what the story is behind this thing?'"― Steven Johnson, best-selling author of How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World Filled with fascinating details and conveyed in sharp, accessible prose, the books make the everyday world come to life. "The Object Lessons series achieves something very close to magic: the books take ordinary―even banal―objects and animate them with a rich history of invention, political struggle, science, and popular mythology. A lovely glimpse of the joy and scale of human culture endeavor, its forms and functions, contexts and containers.” ― Richard Nash, Publisher, Red Lemonade Even virtually, it continues unabashed, as a metaphor, like browsing. ![]() Anything can happen on a page, so too, we learn, a bookshelf partakes of that astonishing range of possibility, circumscribed only by rectilinear geometry, a mode nonpareil of storing, displaying, distributing, assembling, categorizing and contextualizing knowledge. ![]() “As the page is to the book, so is the bookshelf to our culture, that is the lesson of this delightful and stimulating essay. ![]()
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