Death Drive: There are no Accidents [Audiobook] download free by Stephen Bayley
- Listen audiobook: Death Drive: There are no Accidents
- Author: Stephen Bayley
- Release date: 2017/5/14
- Publisher: CIRCA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780993072123
- Rating: 8.72 of 10
- Votes: 63
- Review by: Dana Mcelroy
- Review rating: 9.09 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/19
- Duration: 2H50M44S in 256 kbps (46.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 ALS, WMA, MPC, WAV, MP3, MPEG4, AC3, FLAC (compression ZIP, JAR, BZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 232
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M18S (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars and car design than in any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness and cultural modelling. But when all this perverse promise ends in catastrophe, these same talismanic qualities acquire an extra dimension. The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of twenty celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac CRX, in 2004. En route the narrative traces one very big arc - the role of the car in extending or creating the personality of a celebrity - and concludes by confronting the imminent death of the car itself.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Photographs: Collections, Photographic Reportage, Motor Cars, Road & Motor Vehicles, Popular Culture, Sociology: Death & Dying
- Download servers: SandCage, BitShare, Microsoft OneDrive, FreakShare, FileServe, Ivoox. Compressed in ZIP, JAR, BZ, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 34.85 USD
- Dimensions: 160x210x25.4mm
- Weight: 725.75g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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