Author: Boris EmmetPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Catalogues and Counters
Author: Boris EmmetCATALOGUES AND COUNTERS
Author: BORIS EMMET & JOHN E. JEUCKPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Shopping
Author: Deborah C. AndrewsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495180
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
We all shop. The essays in this wide-ranging anthology demonstrates how a material culture perspective—a focus on the mutual creation of people and their things—yields significant insights into multiple aspects of consumption in American culture.
Counter Space
Author: Juliet KinchinPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 0870708082
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 15, 2010-May 2, 2011.
Condensed Catalogues of Mechanical Equipment
Author: The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience
Author: H. Roger GrantPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025306435X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience explores the role of local frontline workers that kept the country's vast rail network running. Virtually every community with a railroad connection had a depot and an agent. These men and occasionally women became the official representatives of their companies and were highly respected. They met the public when they sold tickets, planned travel itineraries, and reported freight and express shipments. Additionally, their first-hand knowledge of Morse code made them the most informed in town. But as times changed, so did the role of, and the need for, the station agent. Beautifully illustrated with dozens of vintage photographs, The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience, brings back to life the day-to-day experience of the station agent and captures the evolution of railroad operations as technology advanced.
Between Truth and Power
Author: Julie E. CohenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190246715
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A work of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the ways that law and technology interact. Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the US legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, struggles over ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms are producing new systemic changes. In Between Truth and Power, Julie E. Cohen explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, she argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it is too is transforming in fundamental ways. Drawing on elements from legal theory, science and technology studies, information studies, communication studies and organization studies to develop a complex theory of institutional change, Cohen develops an account of the gradual emergence of legal institutions adapted to the information age and of the power relationships that such institutions reflect and reproduce. A tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship, Between Truth and Power will transform our thinking about the possible futures of law and legal institutions in the networked information era.
Mechanical Catalog
Author: A Wish in the Dark
Author: Christina SoontornvatPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536211729
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man — the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one behind bars. The wealthy dine and dance under bright orb light, while the poor toil away in darkness. Worst of all, Pong’s prison tattoo marks him as a fugitive who can never be truly free. Nok, the prison warden’s perfect daughter, is bent on tracking Pong down and restoring her family’s good name. But as Nok hunts Pong through the alleys and canals of Chattana, she uncovers secrets that make her question the truths she has always held dear. Set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world, Christina Soontornvat’s twist on Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is a dazzling, fast-paced adventure that explores the difference between law and justice — and asks whether one child can shine a light in the dark.
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