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the rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world
Bryan Appleyard.
305 pages
illustrations, portraits.
Summary: Bryan Appleyard's book places the car where it belongs: as the central technology of our lives, cultures, politics and history. It is a narrative-led evocation of how this momentous invention has produced equally good and bad outcomes, both freed us and imprisoned us. It is intended to make us notice the car, to see its extravagance and its genius, in its dying years as the crucial machine of modernity. (Distributor)