{"product_id":"bookshelf-paperback","title":"Bookshelf - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLydia Pyne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Schaberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIan Bogost\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eW\u003c\/i\u003eriter 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 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 the bookshelf in full bloom? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLydia Pyne \u003c\/b\u003e(PhD) is a freelance writer, editor, historian, and Research Fellow in the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Appendix\u003c\/i\u003e and a reviewer and essayist for \u003ci\u003eNewPages \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of S\u003ci\u003eeven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils \u003c\/i\u003e(Viking, 2016) and, with Stephen J. Pyne, \u003ci\u003e The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene \u003c\/i\u003e(Penguin, 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 6.4 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42168047894663,"sku":"9781501307324","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/255ae196406078ed920269ace9874057.webp?v=1733332649","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/bookshelf-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}