Alchemy of us: (Record no. 982120)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780262542265
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 620.11
Item number RAM
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Personal name Ramirez, Ainissa
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245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Alchemy of us:
Remainder of title how humans and matter transformed one another
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT Press
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 308 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code USD
Price amount 17.95
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies changed us. One of the Best Summer Science Books of 2020 by Science Friday | Named one of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2020 | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Science and Technology | Winner of the 2021 AAAS/Subaru SBF Prize in the Young Adult Science Book Category In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines eight inventions-clocks, steel rails, copper communication cables, photographic film, light bulbs, hard disks, scientific labware, and silicon chips-and reveals how they shaped the human experience. Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the way to the computer. She describes, among other things, how our pursuit of precision in timepieces changed how we sleep; how the railroad helped commercialize Christmas; how the necessary brevity of the telegram influenced Hemingway's writing style; and how a young chemist exposed the use of Polaroid's cameras to create passbooks to track Black citizens in apartheid South Africa. These fascinating and inspiring stories offer new perspectives on our relationships with technologies. Ramirez shows not only how materials were shaped by inventors but also how those materials shaped culture, chronicling each invention and its consequences-intended and unintended. Filling in the gaps left by other books about technology, Ramirez showcases little-known inventors-particularly people of color and women-who had a significant impact but whose accomplishments have been hidden by mythmaking, bias, and convention. Doing so, she shows us the power of telling inclusive stories about technology. She also shows that innovation is universal-whether it's splicing beats with two turntables and a microphone or splicing genes with two test tubes and CRISPR.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Materials
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650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Technology - Social aspects | Inventions
9 (RLIN) 10989
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    Dewey Decimal Classification       Bodh Gaya Bodh Gaya General Stacks 17/12/2022 International Book Centre 976.04   620.11 RAM IIMG-004075 17/12/2022 1 1484.47 17/12/2022 Book
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Jammu Jammu General Stacks 29/03/2022 Bharatiya Sahitya Bhavana 911.23   620.11 RAM IIMJ-5816 29/03/2022   1401.89 29/03/2022 Book

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