Brief Histories of Everyday Objects
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250078652 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He writes and draws in a garden shed in San Francisco, and he lives in Berkeley and comes from the sea. ANDY WARNER's comics have been published by Slate, Medium,American Public Media, Symbolia,popsci, Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency, Generation Progress, UNICEF, Buz
Alexandra T. Berke said What a fun book! I learned so much and really appreciated. What a fun book! I learned so much and really appreciated how Andy Warner recognized the winners and losers of history. People who love history, trivia and inventions will love this book!
Chapters are peppered with ballpoint pen riots, cowboy wars, and really bad Victorian practical jokes. Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skatesIn the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If? comes Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, a graphic tour through the unusual creation of some of the mundane items that surround us in our daily lives. It explores how lies become legends, trade routes spring up, and empires rise and fallall from the perspective of your toothbrush or toilet.. This is both a book of histories and a book about histories. Readers learn how Velcro was created after a Swiss engineer took his dog for a walk; how a naval engineer invented the Slinky; a German housewife, the coffee filter; and a radical feminist and anti-capitalist, the game Monopoly. Structured around the different locations in our home and daily lifethe kitchen, the bathroom, the office, and the grocery storeaward-nominated illustrator Andy Warner traces the often surprising and sometimes complex histories beh
Warner is a deft cartoonist, able to convey a lot of information, humor, and emotion within a single panel.”Publishers Weekly . "The most delightfully irreverent illustrated history lesson since Larry Gonick’s Cartoon History of the Universe (1990)."Booklist“Andy Warner has sparked my curiosity about microwave ovens and piqued my taste for cinnamon with this remarkable book. Brief Histories of Everyday Objects combines scholarship, wit, and some of the best gray-scale design I’ve ever seen in a comic book.” Larry Gonick, author of The Cartoon History of the Universe"Ever wonder how the postcard, the bathtub, the ballpoint pen, the microwave, or kitty litter came to be? Warner has you covered with fun and quick backg