Object Lessons: Refrigerator

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 136 pages, 12 b/w images

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781628924329

Published:5 Nov 2015

Weight:134g

Dimensions:123 x 165 x 13 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

儘管冰箱出現在世界舞台的時間不是很長，但這台嗡嗡作響的盒子已經抑好或壞地改變了我們的飲食方式和食物。歷史學家喬納森·里斯(Jonathan Rees)研究了家用冰箱的過去、現在和未來；解釋了冰箱如何運作；甚至想象有或沒有它的生活。喬納森·里斯我們重新審視一件我們認為理所當然的東西。冰箱不僅僅是裝可樂和蔬果的容器，它就像一面鏡子——反射出來的東西確實讓人心寒，包括你是誰以及你所生活的社會。

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other technology of the last two thousand years-but have you ever thought seriously about your refrigerator? That box humming in the background displays more than you might expect, even who you are and the society in which you live. Jonathan Rees examines the past, present, and future of the household refrigerator with the aim of preventing its users from ever taking it for granted again. No mere container for cold Cokes and celery stalks, the refrigerator acts as a mirror-and what it reflects is chilling indeed.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

目錄

Introduction

Chapter One: How Refrigerators Work

Chapter Two: How to Make Your Refrigerator Stand Out

Chapter Three: Are the Benefits of Refrigeration Worth the Costs?

Chapter Four: Waste and Wants

Chapter Five: Freezing and Freezers

Conclusion

Notes

Index

作者簡介

Jonathan Rees is Professor of History at Colorado State University - Pueblo, USA. He is the author of four books, including of Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America (2013) and Industrialization and the Transformation of American Life: A Brief Introduction (2012).