Pencil Paperback / softback
by Carol (Writer/editor, public relations consultant, Freelance Writer, USA) Beggy
Part of the Object Lessons series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:08/02/2024
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- ISBN:9781501392245
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:08/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501392245