The making of incarnation
(Book)
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 309 pages ; 25 cm.
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Nederland Community Library - FICTION | Fic McCarthy | On Shelf |
Ridgway Public Library - FICTION | FIC MCC | On Shelf |
Security Public Library - FICTION | F MCCAR | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Copyright -- Fiction.
Cyberpunk fiction.
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, -- 1878-1972 -- Fiction.
Human mechanics -- Fiction.
Human-machine systems -- Fiction.
Intellectual property -- Fiction.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Fiction.
Motion study -- Fiction.
Perpetual motion -- Fiction.
Physicists -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Time study -- Fiction.
Cyberpunk fiction.
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, -- 1878-1972 -- Fiction.
Human mechanics -- Fiction.
Human-machine systems -- Fiction.
Intellectual property -- Fiction.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Fiction.
Motion study -- Fiction.
Perpetual motion -- Fiction.
Physicists -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Time study -- Fiction.
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within the archives of time-and-motion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret. Famous for producing solid light-tracks that captured the path of workers' movements, Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data. But did she also, as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests, discover in her final days a "perfect" movement, one that would "change everything"? An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records, and we follow contemporary motion-capture consultant Mark Phocan, as well as his collaborators and shadowy antagonists, across geopolitical fault lines and through strata of personal and collective history. Meanwhile, work is under way on the blockbuster movie Incarnation, an epic space tragedy. As McCarthy peers through the screen, or veil, of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience, The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories one inside the other, rings within rings, a perpetual motion machine"--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McCarthy, T. (2021). The making of incarnation (First United States edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-. 2021. The Making of Incarnation. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22-. The Making of Incarnation Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McCarthy, Tom. The Making of Incarnation First United States edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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