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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
de Petroski, Henry
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307266362
- ISBN 13
- 9780307266361
- Librería
-
Saginaw, Michigan, United States
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Sobre este artículo
U.S.A.: Knopf, 2007. First Edition/First Printing. Book has no internal or external markings, no rem-mark, and is clean and tight. DJ is not price-clipped, and has no tears, chips or folds, and is bright and clean. 443 pgs. w/index, notes, illustrations and photos.. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil.From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of the American wooden toothpick industry, ensured toothpicks appeared in every restaurant, the toothpick has been an omnipresent, yet often overlooked part of our daily lives. Here, with an engineer's eye for detail and a poet's flair for language, Henry Petroski takes us on an incredible tour of this most interesting invention. Along the way, he peers inside today's surprisingly secretive toothpick-manufacturing industry, and explores a treasure trove of the toothpick's unintended uses and perils, from sandwiches to martinis and beyond.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Riverhorsebooks
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- D8508148
- Título
- The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
- Autor
- Petroski, Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0307266362
- ISBN 13
- 9780307266361
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall
- Palabras clave
- Petroski, Henry, The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
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Sobre el vendedor
Riverhorsebooks
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Saginaw, Michigan
Sobre Riverhorsebooks
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