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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Warner, Andy, author.     Subjects     Material culture -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Manufactures -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Inventions -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Personal belongings -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Civilization -- Miscellanea -- Comic books, strips, etc.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Warner, Andy, author.       by title:      Brief histories of e...         MARC Display

Brief histories of everyday objects / written and drawn by Andy Warner. by Warner, Andy, author. New York : Picador, 2016. Subjects Material culture -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Manufactures -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Inventions -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Personal belongings -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc.   Civilization -- Miscellanea -- Comic books, strips, etc. ISBN:  9781250078650 (paper over board) 1250078652 (paper over board) Description:  xi, 206 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction -- The bathroom -- The bedroom closet -- The living room -- The kitchen -- The coffee shop -- The office -- The grocery store -- The bar -- The great outdoors. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 skates. In 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. Chapters are peppered with ballpoint pen riots, cowboy wars, and really bad Victorian practical jokes. Structured around the different locations in our home and daily life--the kitchen, the bathroom, the office, and the grocery store--award-nominated illustrator Andy Warner traces the often surprising and sometimes complex histories behind the items we often take for granted. 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. This is both a book of histories and a book about histories. It explores how lies become legends, trade routes spring up, and empires rise and fall--all from the perspective of your toothbrush or toilet "--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.4609 Wa Graphic Format Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library J -- Juvenile Nonfiction 306.4609 Wa   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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