Bicycle
Series: Object Lessons;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 25 January 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501338090
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 164x122x16 mm
- Weight 166 g
- Language English 573
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Long description:
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle promises to transform our lives and the world we live in, yet its time seems always yet-to-come or long-gone-by. Jonathan Maskit takes us on an interdisciplinary ride to see what makes the bicycle a magical machine that could yet make the world a safer, greener, and more just place.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
1. A Tale of Two Cyborgs
2. A Brief History
3. The Magical Machine
4. The Death Machine
5. What Does It Mean to Share the Road?
6. Right of Way
7. Bicycle Diaries
8. Motorism and Motorists
9. The Visible and the Invisible
10. Ghost Bikes
11. Idaho Stop
12. Space
13. History Repeats Itself
15. Dark Clouds, Silver Linings
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index
