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The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century

Author : Richard Polt
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781581575873

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The connoisseur's guide to the typewriter, entertaining and practical What do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters—the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter, how to care for it, and what to do with it—from National Novel Writing Month to letter-writing socials, from type-ins to typewritten blogs, from custom-painted typewriters to typewriter tattoos. It celebrates the unique quality of everything typewriter, fully-illustrated with vintage photographs, postcards, manuals, and more.

The Typewriter Revolution

Author : Richard Polt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781581573114

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The connoisseur's guide to the typewriter, entertaining and practical What do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters—the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter, how to care for it, and what to do with it—from National Novel Writing Month to letter-writing socials, from type-ins to typewritten blogs, from custom-painted typewriters to typewriter tattoos. It celebrates the unique quality of everything typewriter, fully-illustrated with vintage photographs, postcards, manuals, and more.

Typewriters

Author : Anthony Casillo
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781452155746

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“Typewriter expert and collector Anthony Casillo presents a visual homage to the device that revolutionized correspondence” (The Florida Times-Union). From the creation of the QWERTY keyboard to the world’s first portable typing machine, this handsome collection is a visual homage to the golden age of the typewriter. From the world’s first commercially successful typewriter—the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer of 1874—to the iconic electric models of the 1960s, eighty vintage devices are profiled in elegant photographs and fascinating text that highlights the design modifications, intricate details, and peculiar quirks that make each typewriter unique. From functional advances like noiseless machines to luxurious details such as mahogany covers and inlaid mother-of-pearl, a century of design innovation and experimentation is charted in these pages. Packed with visuals and rich with history, Typewriters is the essential story of a writing invention that changed the world. Includes a foreword by Tom Hanks Praise for Typewriters “A Love Letter to Vintage Typewriters.” —Wall Street Journal “This is sure to delight typewriter lovers and those interested in machine or design history.” —Library Journal

Typewriter

Author : Tony Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1627950346

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Filled with trivia and archive photos of writers at their typewriters, Typewriter is a fascinating look at one of the great inventions in history.

Typewriter Century

Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Typewriters
ISBN : 9781487525736

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As a vehicle for outstanding creativity, the typewriter has been taken for granted and was, until now, a blind spot in the history of writing practices.

Typewriter

Author : Paul Robert,Peter Weil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1454920785

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Typewriter by Paul Robert,Peter Weil Pdf

In recent years, typewriters have experienced a resurgence. This fascinating book celebrates that renaissance through images of the most heralded typewriters in history, along with the stories of people who have created and used these beloved machines. Written by typewriter collectors and experts, it features 125 photographs tracing the typewriter's evolution from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries, along with print advertisements, vintage photographs, patents, and other memorabilia.

Uncommon Type

Author : Tom Hanks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101946169

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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that the legendary Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. “Reading Tom Hanks's Uncommon Type is like finding out that Alice Munro is also the greatest actress of our time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Dutch House A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!

Heidegger

Author : Richard Polt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134574230

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Heidegger is a classic introduction to Heidegger's notoriously difficult work. Truly accessible, it combines clarity of exposition with an authoritative handling of the subject-matter. Richard Polt has written a work that will become the standard text for students looking to understand one of the century's greatest minds.

Notes from a Public Typewriter

Author : Michael Gustafson,Oliver Uberti
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781538729106

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Notes from a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson,Oliver Uberti Pdf

A collection of confessional, hilarious, heartbreaking notes written anonymously on a public typewriter for fans of PostSecret and Other People's Love Letters. When Michael Gustafson and his wife Hilary opened Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, they put out a typewriter for anyone to use. They had no idea what to expect. Would people ask metaphysical questions? Write mean things? Pour their souls onto the page? Yes, no, and did they ever. Every day, people of all ages sit down at the public typewriter. Children perch atop grandparents' knees, both sets of hands hovering above the metal keys: I LOVE YOU. Others walk in alone on Friday nights and confess their hopes: I will find someone someday. And some leave funny asides for the next person who sits down: I dislike people, misanthropes, irony, and ellipses ... and lists too. In NOTES FROM A PUBLIC TYPEWRITER Michael and designer Oliver Uberti have combined their favorite notes with essays and photos to create an ode to community and the written word that will surprise, delight, and inspire.

The Retro Future

Author : John Michael Greer
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781771422536

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The author of The Long Descent examines a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression. To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it’s clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited to the tools we have on hand right now. This book is about one very powerful option: deliberate technological regression. Technological regression isn’t about “going back”—it’s about using the past as a resource to meet the needs of the present. It starts from the recognition that older technologies generally use fewer resources and cost less than modern equivalents, and it embraces the heresy of technological choice—our ability to choose or refuse the technologies pushed by corporate interests. People are already ditching smartphones and going back to “dumb phones” and land lines and e-book sales are declining while printed books rebound. Clear signs among many that blind faith in progress is faltering and opening up the possibility that the best way forward may well involve going back. A must-read for anyone willing to think the unthinkable and embrace the possibilities of a retro future. Praise for The Retro Future “Whether or not you accept John Michael Greer’s argument that a deindustrialized future is inevitable, you’ll appreciate his call for the freedom to select the best technologies of the past—worthy and sustainable tools, not pernicious prosthetics. Greer’s vision of a “post-progress” world is clear, smart, and ultimately hopeful.” —Richard Polt, professor of philosophy, Xavier University; author, The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century “What might your life be like without an automobile, TV, or a mobile phone? Ask John Michael Greer, who lives that way and recommends it as practice for the soon-to-be-normal. Greer says we are embarked upon the post-progress era. Climate change, loose nukes, and resource exhaustion are among its many challenges. In The Retro Future, Greer looks backward to mark the way forward.” —Albert Bates, author, The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide, The Biochar Solution, and The Paris Agreement

The Wonderful Writing Machine

Author : Bruce Bliven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Typewriters
ISBN : UOM:39015060998013

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The fascinating story of the typewriter from its earliest beginnings to the present, including evolution of typists.

Antique Typewriters

Author : Michael H. Adler
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764301322

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Antique Typewriters by Michael H. Adler Pdf

Since 1973 Michael Adler's first book, The Writing Machine, has been affectionately called "the bible of the typewriter enthusiast." The renowned typewriter expert's new book, is sure to stimulate the same enthusiasm all over again, bringing you new and as yet unpublished insights into the origins of the invention itself in a detailed history of the machine. Over 250 photographs illustrate this definitive text, which includes comprehensive directories of typewriter inventions, makes, and models, and a concise guide to their values with advice on buying and collecting. How much? When? Where? How good? How rare? Who? Why? If you are looking for answers to any or all of these questions, Antique Typewriters is the ultimate reference book for you - from the novice typewriter collector to "seasoned old hand" enthusiasts and historians.

The Poetry of Strangers

Author : Brian Sonia-Wallace
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062870247

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It might surprise you who’s a fan of poetry — when it meets them where they are. Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems. An amateur busker at first, Brian asked countless strangers, “What do you need a poem about?” To his surprise, passersby opened up to share their deepest yearnings, loves, and heartbreaks. Hundreds of them. Then thousands. Around the nation, Brian’s poetry crusade drew countless converts from all walks of life. In The Poetry of Strangers, Brian tells the story of his cross-country journey in a series of heartfelt and insightful essays. From Minnesota to Tennessee, California to North Dakota, Brian discovered that people aren’t so afraid of poetry when it’s telling their stories. In “dying” towns flourish vibrant artistic spirits and fascinating American characters who often pass under the radar, from the Mall of America’s mall walkers to retirees on Amtrak to self-proclaimed witches in Salem. In a time of unprecedented loneliness and isolation, Brian’s journey shows how art can be a vital bridge to community in surprising places. Conventional wisdom says Americans don’t want to talk to each other, but according to this poet-for-hire, everyone is just dying to be heard. Thought-provoking, moving, and eye-opening, The Poetry of Strangers is an unforgettable portrait of America told through the hidden longings of one person at a time, by one of our most important voices today. The fault lines and conflicts which divide us fall away when we remember to look, in every stranger, for poetry.

Typewriter Art

Author : Barrie Tullett
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 1780673477

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The first piece of known typewriter art was a "drawing" of a butterfly by Flora F. F. Stacey in 1898; since then, artists, designers, poets, and writers have used this rigorous medium to produce an astounding range of creative work. This beautiful book brings together some of the best examples by typewriter artists around the world. As well as key historical work from the Bauhaus, H. N. Werkman, and the concrete poets, there is art by contemporary practitioners, both typewriter artists who use the keyboard as a "palette" to create artworks, and artists/typographers using the form as a compositional device. The book will appeal to graphic designers, typographers, artists, and illustrators, and anyone fascinated by predigital technology.

Time and Trauma

Author : Richard Polt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786610515

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Offering new insights into Heidegger’s thought based on recently published texts, Richard Polt, one of the most respected contemporary commentators on Heidegger, presents a critical perspective that draws creatively on Heidegger’s thinking and makes original proposals for understanding human existence.