The Social Life of Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Books write by Abigail Williams. This book was released on 2017-06-27. The Social Life of Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books.”—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book Review Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which shared reading shaped the lives and literary culture of the eighteenth century, offering new perspectives on how books have been used by their readers, and the part they have played in middle-class homes and families. Drawing on marginalia, letters and diaries, library catalogues, elocution manuals, subscription lists, and more, Williams offers fresh and fascinating insights into reading, performance, and the history of middle-class home life. “Williams’s charming pageant of anecdotes…conjures a world strikingly different from our own but surprisingly similar in many ways, a time when reading was on the rise and whole worlds sprang up around it.”—TheWashington Post
It's Complicated
It's Complicated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It's Complicated write by Danah Boyd. This book was released on 2014-02-25. It's Complicated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surveys the online social habits of American teens and analyzes the role technology and social media plays in their lives, examining common misconceptions about such topics as identity, privacy, danger, and bullying.
The Social Lives of Animals
The Social Lives of Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Lives of Animals write by Ashley Ward. This book was released on 2022-03-01. The Social Lives of Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? In The Social Lives of Animals, biologist Ashley Ward takes us on a wild tour across the globe as he searches for a more accurate picture of how animals build societies. Ward drops in on a termite mating ritual (while his guides snack on the subjects), visits freelance baboon goatherds, and swims with a mixed family of whales and dolphins. Along the way, Ward shows that the social impulses we’ve long thought separated humans from other animals might actually be our strongest connection to them. Insightful, engaging, and often hilarious, The Social Lives of Animals demonstrates that you can learn more about animals by studying how they work together than by how they compete.
The Social Life of Standards
The Social Life of Standards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Standards write by Janice E. Graham. This book was released on 2021-04-15. The Social Life of Standards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Standards. We apply them, uphold them, or fail to meet them. But how do they get made? The Social Life of Standards reveals how these political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, subverted, contested, and reassembled by local communities interacting with standards created by others. Using ethnographic approaches, contributors investigate biomedical, agricultural, and other contexts that reveal the mismatch between the inconsistent implementation of standards in the real world and the non-negotiable criteria presupposed by external forces. These cases support a reflexive process that involves local engagement at every stage in the production and application of standards.
The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles
The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles write by J. Sean Doody. This book was released on 2021-06. The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revealing the secrets of reptilian social relationships through original quantitative research, field studies, laboratory experiments, and careful analysis of the literature, The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles elevates these fascinating animals to key players in the science of behavioral ecology.
