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Inventing Modern, Technology & Culture, 20th Century America, Lienhard PBK VG
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Literary Movement
- Modernism, Historical Non-Fiction, Cultural Analysis, Science and
- Personalized
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Science & Technology Book, Cultural Studies Book, Americana Book
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Features
- historical analysis, technological innovation, cultural history,
- Ex Libris
- No
- Era
- 20th Century, 1900s, Early Modern Era, Pre-World War II
- Signed
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition, thus
- Vintage
- No
- Signed By
- NA
- ISBN
- 9780195189513
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195189515
ISBN-13
9780195189513
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45996852
Product Key Features
Book Title
Inventing Modern : Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Social Aspects, United States / 20th Century, General, History, Science & Technology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
" 'A good read' is not the first phrase that comes to mind in discussingmost academic books, but in this case, it is well-deserved praiseA morefascinating, informative, or enjoyable introduction to science, technology, andmodern science would be hard to imagine."--Choice, "From Buck Rogers to the Chrysler Airflow, Lienhard considers a particularstrain of American Modernism through the personal lens of his own boyhood. Whilethis book reflects a fascination with how things work, it also is a memoir,replete with subjective, idiosyncratic and deeply nostalgic associations."--LosAngeles Times, "Lienhard is a story-teller who informs and enchants. His book carries uson a riveting journey with twentieth-century technologies that created theworldview called modernity. In learning about these roots of modern, we learnabout ourselves."--Stanley Joel Reiser, Griff T. Ross Professor of Humanitiesand Technology in Health Care at the University of Texas Health Science Centerat Houston, "Lienhard's genius is in telling the real story of invention."-- Newscientist.com"For a general reader with little knowledge of the history of technology, Inventing Modern offers an exciting, provocative survey uniting the social, the cultural, and the technical. Lienhard encompasses everything from the ironclads of the Civil War to the Art Deco skyscrapers of Manhattan; from a brief but clear introduction to quantum physics and a perceptive comparison of the intellectual styles of Edison, Tesla, and Einstein to the early days ofautomobiling and the exploits of barnstorming female pilots; from the intricate airship paintings of Charles Dellschau around 1900 to the kinetic sculptures of Alexander Calder; from the technical fantasies ofL. Frank Baum to the cybernetic theories of Norbert Wiener."--Jeffrey L. Meikle"From Buck Rogers to the Chrysler Airflow, Lienhard considers a particular strain of American Modernism through the personal lens of his own boyhood. While this book reflects a fascination with how things work, it also is a memoir, replete with subjective, idiosyncratic and deeply nostalgic associations."--Los Angeles Times"A delightful personal memoir, a provocative cultural history, and an instructive guide to science and technology--a splendid book that entertains, challenges and informs in equal measure."--Samuel C. Florman, author of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering"This is vintage Lienhard: intellectually cosmopolitan and curious, wide-ranging and almost breathless, with an ability to knit together events and people into a mosaic that, like all good history, is greater than the sum of its parts, and all in a voice that is so rhythmical that the reader is drawn along almost involuntarily."--Richard J. Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University"Lienhard is a story-teller who informs and enchants. His book carries us on a riveting journey with twentieth-century technologies that created the worldview called modernity. In learning about these roots of modern, we learn about ourselves."--Stanley Joel Reiser, Griff T. Ross Professor of Humanities and Technology in Health Care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston" 'A good read' is not the first phrase that comes to mind in discussing most academic books, but in this case, it is well-deserved praiseA more fascinating, informative, or enjoyable introduction to science, technology, and modern science would be hard to imagine."--Choice, "For a general reader with little knowledge of the history of technology,Inventing Modern offers an exciting, provocative survey uniting the social, thecultural, and the technical. Lienhard encompasses everything from the ironcladsof the Civil War to the Art Deco skyscrapers of Manhattan; from a brief butclear introduction to quantum physics and a perceptive comparison of theintellectual styles of Edison, Tesla, and Einstein to the early days ofautomobiling and the exploits of barnstorming female pilots; from the intricateairship paintings of Charles Dellschau around 1900 to the kinetic sculptures ofAlexander Calder; from the technical fantasies of L. Frank Baum to thecybernetic theories of Norbert Wiener."--Jeffrey L. Meikle, "A delightful personal memoir, a provocative cultural history, and an instructive guide to science and technology--a splendid book that entertains, challenges and informs in equal measure."--Samuel C. Florman, author of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, " 'A good read' is not the first phrase that comes to mind in discussing most academic books, but in this case, it is well-deserved praiseA more fascinating, informative, or enjoyable introduction to science, technology, and modern science would be hard to imagine."--Choice, "From Buck Rogers to the Chrysler Airflow, Lienhard considers a particular strain of American Modernism through the personal lens of his own boyhood. While this book reflects a fascination with how things work, it also is a memoir, replete with subjective, idiosyncratic and deeply nostalgicassociations."--Los Angeles Times, "This is vintage Lienhard: intellectually cosmopolitan and curious, wide-ranging and almost breathless, with an ability to knit together events and people into a mosaic that, like all good history, is greater than the sum of its parts, and all in a voice that is so rhythmical that the readeris drawn along almost involuntarily."--Richard J. Blackett, Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, "For a general reader with little knowledge of the history of technology, Inventing Modern offers an exciting, provocative survey uniting the social, the cultural, and the technical. Lienhard encompasses everything from the ironclads of the Civil War to the Art Deco skyscrapers of Manhattan;from a brief but clear introduction to quantum physics and a perceptive comparison of the intellectual styles of Edison, Tesla, and Einstein to the early days of automobiling and the exploits of barnstorming female pilots; from the intricate airship paintings of Charles Dellschau around 1900 to thekinetic sculptures of Alexander Calder; from the technical fantasies of L. Frank Baum to the cybernetic theories of Norbert Wiener."--Jeffrey L. Meikle, "Lienhard is a story-teller who informs and enchants. His book carries us on a riveting journey with twentieth-century technologies that created the worldview called modernity. In learning about these roots of modern, we learn about ourselves."--Stanley Joel Reiser, Griff T. Ross Professor ofHumanities and Technology in Health Care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Dewey Decimal
303.48/3/097309045
Synopsis
In this book, Lienhard elucidates, from a de facto postmodern persepctive, what unique ideas and developments explain the profound watershed transition, around 1900 or 1906, to a new and different era, the "Modern" era, which persisted into the 1950's. He explores the cultural history of the first half of the 20th century, showing the impact of technological and scientific developments on the culture at large., Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood--the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes., Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern , John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern . Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis , Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood--the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio , unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.
LC Classification Number
T173.8
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