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Author: Ammon Shea Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101444118 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 184
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Read Ammon Shea's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A surprising, lively, and rich history of that ubiquitous doorstop that most of us take for granted. Ammon Shea is not your typical thirtysomething book enthusiast. After reading the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover (and living to write about it in Reading the OED), what classic, familiar, but little-read book would he turn to next? Yes, the phone book. With his signature combination of humor, curiosity, and passion for combing the dustbins of history, Shea offers readers a guided tour into the surprising, strange, and often hilarious history of the humble phone book. From the first printed version in 1878 (it had fifty listings and no numbers) to the phone book's role in presidential elections, Supreme Court rulings, Senate filibusters, abstract art, subversive poetry, circus sideshows, criminal investigations, mental-health diagnoses, and much more, this surprising volume reveals a rich and colorful story that has never been told-until now.
Author: Ammon Shea Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101444118 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
Read Ammon Shea's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A surprising, lively, and rich history of that ubiquitous doorstop that most of us take for granted. Ammon Shea is not your typical thirtysomething book enthusiast. After reading the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover (and living to write about it in Reading the OED), what classic, familiar, but little-read book would he turn to next? Yes, the phone book. With his signature combination of humor, curiosity, and passion for combing the dustbins of history, Shea offers readers a guided tour into the surprising, strange, and often hilarious history of the humble phone book. From the first printed version in 1878 (it had fifty listings and no numbers) to the phone book's role in presidential elections, Supreme Court rulings, Senate filibusters, abstract art, subversive poetry, circus sideshows, criminal investigations, mental-health diagnoses, and much more, this surprising volume reveals a rich and colorful story that has never been told-until now.
Author: Logan Smalley Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1982140585 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 224
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For fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and entertaining interactive guide to reading, featuring voicemails, literary Easter eggs, checklists, and more, from the creators of the popular multimedia project. The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is an interactive illustrated homage to the beautiful ways in which books bring meaning to our lives and how our lives bring meaning to books. Carefully crafted in the style of a retro telephone directory, this guide offers you a variety of unique ways to connect with readers, writers, bookshops, and life-changing stories. In it, you’ll discover... -Heartfelt, anonymous voicemail messages and transcripts from real-life readers sharing unforgettable stories about their most beloved books. You’ll hear how a mother and daughter formed a bond over their love for Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus, or how a reader finally felt represented after reading Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, or how two friends performed Mary Oliver’s Thirst to a grove of trees, or how Anne Frank inspired a young writer to continue journaling. -Hidden references inside fictional literary adverts like Ahab’s Whale Tours and Miss Ophelia’s Psychic Readings, and real-life literary landmarks like Maya Angelou City Park and the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum. -Lists of bookstores across the USA, state by state, plus interviews with the book lovers who run them. -Various invitations to become a part of this book by calling and leaving a bookish voicemail of your own. -And more! Quirky, nostalgic, and full of heart, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is a love letter to the stories that change us, connect us, and make us human.
Author: Avital Ronell Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803289383 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 492
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The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech. Profoundly changing our concept of long-distance, it is constantly transmitting effects of real and evocative power. To the extent that it always relates us to the absent other, the telephone, and the massive switchboard attending it, plugs into a hermeneutics of mourning. The Telephone Book, itself organized by a "telephonic logic," fields calls from philosophy, history, literature, and psychoanalysis. It installs a switchboard that hooks up diverse types of knowledge while rerouting and jamming the codes of the disciplines in daring ways. Avital Ronell has done nothing less than consider the impact of the telephone on modern thought. Her highly original, multifaceted inquiry into the nature of communication in a technological age will excite everyone who listens in. The book begins by calling close attention to the importance of the telephone in Nazi organization and propaganda, with special regard to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In the Third Reich the telephone became a weapon, a means of state surveillance, "an open accomplice to lies." Heidegger, in Being and Time and elsewhere, elaborates on the significance of "the call." In a tour de force response, Ronell mobilizes the history and terminology of the telephone to explicate his difficult philosophy. Ronell also speaks of the appearance of the telephone in the literary works of Duras, Joyce, Kafka, Rilke, and Strindberg. She examines its role in psychoanalysis—Freud said that the unconscious is structured like a telephone, and Jung and R. D. Laing saw it as a powerful new body part. She traces its historical development from Bell's famous first call: "Watson, come here!" Thomas A. Watson, his assistant, who used to communicate with spirits, was eager to get the telephone to talk, and thus to link technology with phantoms and phantasms. In many ways a meditation on the technologically constituted state, The Telephone Book opens a new field, becoming the first political deconstruction of technology, state terrorism, and schizophrenia. And it offers a fresh reading of the American and European addiction to technology in which the telephone emerges as the crucial figure of this age.
Author: Deirdre Mask Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250134781 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 182
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Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.
Author: M.L. Shannon Publisher: Paladin Press ISBN: 9780873649728 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Learn all about the invasive new surveillance technology and gadgets and what you can do to defeat them. Plus, find out just how far the government has gone to compromise your privacy and what you should be doing to fight back. Get the scoop on cellular and mobile phones, faxes, e-mail and much more.
Author: Gregory Heisler Publisher: Amphoto Books ISBN: 082308566X Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 224
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In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners, shares 50 iconic portraits of celebrities, athletes, and world leaders, along with fascinating, thoughtful, often humorous stories about how the images were made. From his famously controversial portrait of President George H.W. Bush (which led to the revocation of Heisler’s White House clearance) to his evocative post-9/11 Time magazine cover of Rudolph Giuliani, to stunning portraits of Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Hillary Clinton, Michael Phelps, Muhammad Ali, and many more, Heisler reveals the creative and technical processes that led to each frame. For Heisler’s fans and all lovers of photography, Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits offers not only a gorgeous collection of both black-and-white and color portraits, but an engrossing look at the rarely seen art of a master photographer at work. With a foreword by New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Author: Sophie Calle Publisher: Siglio Press ISBN: 9780979956294 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 104
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After finding a lost address book, the artist sets out to understand its owner by randomly interviewing contacts to learn more about the personality and past of its owner.
Author: M. U. BOOK Publisher: ISBN: 9781652578383 Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
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A5 Telephone Numbers Only Book No Addresses Each entry contains space for phone number of Home, Office, Mobile and Notes section. 120 pages include first page for personal information, 116 pages for store 580 contacts, 3 pages for notes. Dimensions 5.8" x 8.3" (14.8 x 21 cm) A5 size. 120 Pages. White paper 90 GSM. Soft glossy cover. High quality. Fast delivery. Telephone Only Book , Telephone Numbers Only Book , Telephone Phone Book , Telephone Phone Books With Tabs No Addresses , Telephone Book No Address , Telephone Book A-Z Large , Telephone Book A5 , Telephone Books Alphabet , Personal Telephone Book , White Pages Of The Telephone Book , Telephone Log Book
Author: Assa Doron Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674074246 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 352
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In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.
Author: Kerry Johnson Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media ISBN: 1722522763 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 179
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How can you get through gate-keepers? How can you get calls returned? How can you reach more prospects instead of their voicemails? Phone Sales will make your phone a profit center. This book includes actual phone sales calls from top producers. Some of the skills you'll learn are: • The 3 best closes to use on the phone • How to book appointments • What to say when someone says, "I'm not interested" • How to avoid telephone tag • How to get your calls returned • How to beat "call reluctance" Dr. Kerry L. Johnson is a best selling author and speaker. He speaks to audiences around the world at least 8 times a month ranging from Hong Kong to Halifax, and from New Zealand to New York. Traveling 8,000 miles each week, Dr. Johnson presents such topics as “How to Read Your Customers Mind,” “The Trust Connection” and Peak Performance: How to Increase Business by 80% in 8 weeks.” In addition to speaking, Kerry heads Peak Performance Coaching. Professionals around the world use Dr. Johnson and his coaches to increase business often by 300%. Kerry currently writes monthly for fifteen national trade and management magazines whose editors have dubbed him, “The Nation’s Business Psychologist.” He is also the author of nine best-selling books including: MASTERING THE GAME, PEAK PERFORMANCE: HOW TO INCREASE YOUR BUSINESS BY 80% IN 8 WEEKS, and WILLPOWER: THE SECRETS OF SELF-DISCIPLINE. Kerry spent two years competing on the International Grand Prix Tennis Tour. He played both singles and doubles matches against some of the worlds top tennis players. Kerry was also recognized by the U.S. Jaycees as one of the Most Outstanding Men in America.
Author: Ammon Shea
Author: Ammon Shea
Author: Logan Smalley
Author: Avital Ronell
Author: Deirdre Mask
Author: M.L. Shannon
Author: Gregory Heisler
Author: Sophie Calle
Author: M. U. BOOK
Author: Assa Doron
Author: Kerry Johnson