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Pregnancy Test - Prof. Karen (associate Professor Of English Weingarten - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Pregnancy Test - Prof. Karen (associate Professor Of English Weingarten - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists—the majority of whom were men—control over information about women’s bodies.However, while science so often promises clear-cut answers, the reality of pregnancy is often much messier. Pregnancy Test explores how the pregnancy test has not always lived up to the fantasy that more information equals more knowledge. Karen Weingarten examines the history and cultural representation of the pregnancy test to show how this object radically changed sex and pregnancy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

DKK 140.00
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Eye Chart - William (the Cooper Union For The Advancement Of Science And Art Germano - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Eye Chart - William (the Cooper Union For The Advancement Of Science And Art Germano - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes.Reading the eye chart is an exercise in failure, since it only gets interesting when you cannot read any further. It is the opposite of interpretative reading, like one does with literature. When you have finished reading an eye chart, what exactly have you even read? From a Spanish cleric’s Renaissance guide to testing vision, to a Dutch ophthalmologist’s innovation in optical tech, to the witty subversion of the eye chart in advertising and popular culture, William Germano’s Eye Chart lets people see the eye chart at last.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic .

DKK 119.00
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All Things History - Jane C. Flinn - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

All Things History - Jane C. Flinn - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

On July 1, 1941, the world’s first television commercial aired on NBC advertising what?What sport was once called “battledore”?Which president made his millions as a geologist, traveling the world as an expert in gold mining?Holding a trivia night? Preparing for trivia night? Looking for discussion topics for the dinner table? Simply interested in history?Entertaining, educational, and full of fun facts, All Things History includes hundreds of multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and open-ended questions that provide an opportunity for you to not only test your knowledge of history, but to learn something new along the way.Written for all ages in an educational and entertaining style, All Things History will be your go-to guide to a broad range of topics-from fashion trends through the decades, to inventions and discoveries, mythology, sports, creative arts, and US Presidents. Special Did You Know facts provide a deeper dig into the topic.

DKK 101.00
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Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead - Buzz Poole - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead - Buzz Poole - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Released in 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late ‘60s. It was the band’s most commercially and critically successful release to date. More importantly, these songs established the blueprint for how the Dead would maintain and build upon a community held together by the core motivation of rejecting the status quo – the “straight life” – in order to live and work on their own terms. As a unified whole, the album’s eight songs serve as points of entry into a fully-rendered portrait of the Grateful Dead within the context of late twentieth-century American history. These songs speak to the attendant cultural and political anxieties that resulted from the idealism of the ‘60s giving way to the uncomfortable realities of the ‘70s, and the band’s evolving perspective on these changes. Based on research, interviews, and personal experience, this book probes the paradox at the heart of the band’s appeal: the Grateful Dead were about much more than music, though they were really just about the music.

DKK 119.00
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