Beggy Carol (Writer/ Editor Public Relations Consultant Freelance Writer Usa)
Beggy Carol (Writer/ Editor Public Relations Consultant Freelance Writer Usa) - Pencil - Paperback
Beggy Carol (Writer/ Editor Public Relations Consultant Freelance Writer Usa) - Pencil - Paperback
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Description: Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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. 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. Pencil offers a deep look at this common almost ubiquitous object. 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. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Title: Pencil
Author(s): Beggy Carol (Writer/ Editor Public Relations Consultant Freelance Writer Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501392245
Pages: 152 Pages
Publication Date: 2/8/2024
Series: Object Lessons
Category: Impact Of Science & Technology On Society
Description: Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 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. 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. Pencil offers a deep look at this common almost ubiquitous object. 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. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Title: Pencil
Author(s): Beggy Carol (Writer/ Editor Public Relations Consultant Freelance Writer Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501392245
Pages: 152 Pages
Publication Date: 2/8/2024
Series: Object Lessons
Category: Impact Of Science & Technology On Society
