User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.
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User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.
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Add this copy of User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal to cart. $5.00, very good condition, Sold by JDH Lawton OK rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LAWTON, OK, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010051494 Type of material Book Personal name Corn, Joseph J. Main title User unfriendly: consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn. Published/Created Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Description 272 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9781421401928 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1421401924 (hardcover: alk. paper) LC classification T173.8. C685 2011 Scope and content "Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies....Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology."--Dust jacket. Contents Our marvelous and maddening machines--The advent of technology consumption--Buying an automobile--Running a car--Tools, tinkering, and trouble--Reading the owner's manual--Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption--The technology treadmill--Acknowledgments LC Subjects Technological innovations--United States. Human-machine systems--Social aspects. Human-computer interaction. Consumer satisfaction. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index. Dewey class no. 303.48/30973 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn698624799
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Fine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 296 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
