Pencil

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Beschreibung

<p>Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.<br><br>A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. <br><br>Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. <i>Pencil</i> offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object. <br><br>Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool. <br><br>Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in <i>The Atlantic.</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781501392245

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

164 x 122 x 13 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc