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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    London :The Bodley Head,
    UID:
    almahu_BV048315544
    Format: xvii, 396 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-84792-307-3 , 1-84792-307-0
    Content: "The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dream life-and a flashpoint in culture wars-for more for than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a "green machine," an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world's fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle's past and peers into its future, challenging myths and clichés while uncovering cycling's connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel--a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine."--
    Language: English
    Subjects: Engineering
    RVK:
    Keywords: History
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  • 2
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB35106138
    Format: 464 S.
    ISBN: 9783455015751
    Content: Ein Wunder von einem Buch über eine phänomenale Erfindung: das Fahrrad Eine einzigartige Liebeserklärung an das Fahrrad: Der Fahrradkurier und Journalist Jody Rosen erzählt mitreißend, klug und charmant von Geschichte und Gegenwart eines genialen Fortbewegungsmittels , das die Welt verändert hat. Eigentlich müsste ein Fortbewegungsmittel aus dem 19. Jahrhundert in unserer Welt mit ihren Smartphones, Ubers und selbstfahrenden Autos hoffnungslos veraltet sein. Doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall: W ir leben auf einem Fahrrad-Planeten! Das Fahrrad ist heute das meistgenutzte Transportmittel weltweit. Jody Rosen erzählt kenntnisreich und mitreißend von aristokratischen Jungspunden auf Drahteseln, von Frauen, denen das Fahrradfahren per Gesetz verboten wurde, weil sie ihren Männern davonfuhren, von Fahrrad f riedhöfen bis hin zu den BLM-Protesten. Eine unvergessliche Lektüre und ein einzigartiges Geschenk!
    Note: Jody Rosen, geboren 1969 in New York City, arbeitet als Journalist und Autor. Er schreibt für das New York Times Magazine, den New Yorker, Slate, die Los Angeles Times u.a. hauptsächlich über Kultur und Fortbewegungsmittel. Mit seiner Familie lebt er in Brooklyn.
    Language: German
    Author information: Topalova, Violeta
    Author information: Jandl, Andreas
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  • 3
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB35144359
    ISBN: 9781448192250
    Content: " **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** 'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine. A toy, a tool, a liberator, or complete nuisance: the bicycle has been many things to many people over the decades, yet it endures as the most popular form of transport in the world. How has such a simple machine achieved so much? Combining history, travelogue and memoir, Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous vehicle from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine'. Readers meet unforgettable characters: women's suffragists who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity. By examining the bicycle's past and peering into its future, Two Wheels Good forms a joyful ode to an engineering marvel of global importance. 'Funny, precise, surprising' Adam Gopnik 'Love for two-wheeled transport runs through every sentence'Economist'Wry, rich, deeply researched' Patrick Radden Keefe "
    Content: Biographisches: " Jody Rosen is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine . His writing on culture, politics, transportation, and music has appeared in The New Yorker , Slate, New York, the Los Angeles Times , and other publications." Rezension(2): "New York TImes:When I fell in love with riding a bike in New York City last year, what I found myself craving was a history-of the bicycle... that whoever wrote this history would find a way to make it personal and ruminative... Lo and behold: Jody Rosen has written that very book. My wish has come true and a door's been blown open. I got more than I knew I wanted " Rezension(3): "Times Literary Supplement: Two Wheels Good is full of interesting moments...and is often written with real verve... his [Rosen's] enthusiasm for what is sometimes described as mankind's noblest invention is infectious" Rezension(4): "BBC History Magazine:The bicycle has been loved and loathed... Rosen's vibrant history explores it all" Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from April 4, 2022 This high-flying debut history by New York Times Magazine contributor Rosen captures the allure of riding a bike. Through vivid anecdotes, such as how the design of the bicycle led the Wright brothers to invent the airplane, Rosen makes clear how impactful the invention has been for humankind. Baron Karl von Drais, a minor German nobleman, produced the first bike in 1817, and the design was repeatedly improved upon in subsequent decades. For example, in 1888, Belfast-based veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop replaced the solid rubber tires on his son’s tricycle with “inflated rubber tubes, sheathed in canvas and an additional outer layer of sheet rubber,” leading to the widespread adoption of pneumatic tires. Rosen is equally fascinating in describing the bicycle’s changing status in countries like China, which produces more bikes per year than the world builds cars,the “Great Covid-19 Bicycle Boom” that saw people “converging on bike lanes and patronizing cycle-share systems in unprecedented numbers”,and the archetype of “bright-eyed children, bicycling through idyllic suburbs” seen in movies and TV shows like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Stranger Things . Witty prose, exhaustive research, and Rosen’s contagious enthusiasm ensure that this standout history will appeal to cyclists and non-cyclists alike."
    Language: English
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  • 4
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB35045363
    Format: 461 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    ISBN: 9783455015744
    Content: Ein Wunder von einem Buch über eine phänomenale Erfindung: das FahrradEine einzigartige Liebeserklärung an das Fahrrad: Der Fahrradkurier und Journalist Jody Rosen erzählt mitreißend, klug und charmant von Geschichte und Gegenwart eines genialen Fortbewegungsmittels, das die Welt verändert hat.
    Language: German
    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
    Author information: Schmid, Sigrid
    Author information: Topalova, Violeta
    Author information: Jandl, Andreas
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    München : Blessing
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB13566421
    Format: 219 Seiten , Ill. , 22 cm
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    ISBN: 3896671723
    Language: German
    Keywords: Berlin, Irving 〈1888-1989〉. White Christmas ; Geschichte
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  • 6
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB35078316
    ISBN: 9783455015751
    Content: "Ein Wunder von einem Buch über eine phänomenale Erfindung: das Fahrrad Eine einzigartige Liebeserklärung an das Fahrrad: Der Fahrradkurier und Journalist Jody Rosen erzählt mitreißend, klug und charmant von Geschichte und Gegenwart eines genialen Fortbewegungsmittels , das die Welt verändert hat. Eigentlich müsste ein Fortbewegungsmittel aus dem 19. Jahrhundert in unserer Welt mit ihren Smartphones, Ubers und selbstfahrenden Autos hoffnungslos veraltet sein. Doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall: W ir leben auf einem Fahrrad-Planeten! Das Fahrrad ist heute das meistgenutzte Transportmittel weltweit. Jody Rosen erzählt kenntnisreich und mitreißend von aristokratischen Jungspunden auf Drahteseln, von Frauen, denen das Fahrradfahren per Gesetz verboten wurde, weil sie ihren Männern davonfuhren, von Fahrrad f riedhöfen bis hin zu den BLM-Protesten. Eine unvergessliche Lektüre und ein einzigartiges Geschenk!"
    Language: German
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  • 7
    UID:
    kobvindex_ERBEBC7256042
    Format: 1 online resource (435 pages)
    ISBN: 9783455015751
    Note: Cover -- Verlagslogo -- Titelseite -- Widmung -- Vorwort Die Reise zum Mond -- Einleitung Der Fahrradplanet -- 1 Das Fahrradfenster -- 2 Dandy-Pferd -- 3 Fahrradkunst -- 4 Stilles Ross -- 5 Fahrradwahn in den 1890ern -- 1899, Akron Daily Democrat (Akron, Ohio, USA) -- 1896, The Wichita Daily Eagle (Wichita, Kansas, USA) -- 1896, The World (New York, New York, USA) -- 1891, The Essex Standard (Colchester, Essex, U.K.) -- 1895, The Journal and Tribune (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA) -- 1896, The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa, USA) -- 1895, The Allentown Leader (Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA) -- 1895, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (New York City, USA) -- 1896, Munsey's Magazine (New York City, USA) -- 1897, The Muncie Evening Press (Muncie, Indiana, USA) -- 1896, The Journal (New York, New York, USA) -- 1896, The Forum (New York City, USA) -- 1897, The Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Montana, USA) -- 1895, The Oshkosh Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA) -- 1893, Buffalo Courier (Buffalo, New York, USA) -- 1896, The Medical Age (Detroit, Michigan, USA) -- 1896, The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, Colorado, USA) -- 1898, Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA) -- 1896, Toronto Saturday Night (Toronto, Ontario, Kanada) -- 1897, Saint Paul Globe (Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA) -- 1894, The Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois, USA) -- 1896, The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) -- 1895, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (New York City, USA) -- 1895, The Medical World (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) -- 1897, The Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) -- 1896, The Sun (New York City, USA) -- 1896, Cheltenham Chronicle (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) -- 1897, Public Opinion (New York City, USA) -- 1896, The Glencoe Transcript (Glencoe, Ontario, Kanada) , 1896, The Philadelphia Times (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) -- 1899, Comfort (Augusta, Maine, USA) -- 1896, Fort Scott Daily Monitor (Fort Scott, Kansas, USA) -- 6 Balanceakt -- 7 Spaß zwischen den Beinen -- 8 Winter -- 9 Bergauf -- 10 An Ort und Stelle -- 11 Quer durchs Land -- 12 Packesel -- 13 Persönliches -- I. Das erste Mal -- II. Fahrradkurier -- III. Unfall -- IV. Schloss und Riegel -- V. Cycleur -- VI. Turkey -- VII. Phantomglied -- VIII. Wir treffen uns an der Ecke -- IX. In Würde alt werden -- 14 Friedhöfe -- 15 Massenbewegung -- Danksagung -- Bildnachweise -- Endnoten -- Biographien -- Impressum
    Additional Edition: Print version: Rosen, Jody Zwei Reifen, eine Welt Hamburg : Hoffmann und Campe,c2023 ISBN 9783455015744
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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  • 8
    UID:
    gbv_1778855911
    Format: xvii, 396 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780804141499
    Content: "The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife-and a flashpoint in culture wars-for more for than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a "green machine," an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world's fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780804141505
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Rosen, Jody Two wheels good New York : Crown, [2022]
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    Keywords: Fahrrad ; Geschichte 1817-2022
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  • 9
    Musical Score
    Musical Score
    [San Francisco] :McSweeney's,
    UID:
    almafu_BV042440024
    Format: 22 Doppel- oder Dreifachbl. ; , 31 cm.
    Edition: 3. ed.
    ISBN: 1-93807-338-X , 978-1-93807-338-0
    Content: Twenty songs presented as individual pieces of sheet music; music sheets, packaged in a hard-bound folio; includes a guide to sheet music symbols by Bettie Ross; also features full-color illustrations from some of the finest artists working currently
    Note: Title from cover. - Mainly for voice and piano; some for piano solo. - Twenty songs presented as individual pieces of sheet music; music sheets, plus a separate preface by Beck Hansen and an introduction by Jody Rosen, packaged in a hard-bound folio , Bevat: America, here's my boy ; Do we? We do ; Don't act like your heart isn't hard ; Eyes that say "I love you" ; Heaven's ladder ; I'm down ; Just noise ; Last night you were a dream ; Mutilation rag ; Now that your dollar bills have sprouted wings ; Old Shanghai ; Please leave a light on when you go ; Rough on rats ; Saint Dude ; Sorry ; The last polka ; The wolf is on the hill ; Title of this song ; We all wear cloaks ; Why did you make me care?
    Language: English
    Author information: Beck Musiker 1970-
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  • 10
    Book
    Book
    London [u.a.] : Fourth Estate
    UID:
    kobvindex_JMB00033135
    Format: 213 Seiten , Ill.
    ISBN: 1841156329
    Content: "Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote." Irving Berlin, 1942. This book provides both the story behind the making of Irving Berlin's most memorable tune and a rich cultural history of the America that embraced it. When Irving Berlin first conceived the song "White Christmas", he envisioned it as "a throwaway" - a satirical novelty number for a vaudeville-style stage review. By the time Bing Crosby introduced the song to the world in the winter of 1942, it was a yuletide ballad that would become the world's all-time top-selling and most frequently recorded song. Berlin, the Russian-Jewish immigrant who became America's greatest pop troubadour, had written his magnum opus - what one commentator has called a "holiday Moby-Dick" - a timeless song that resonates with some of the deepest strains in American culture: yearning for an idealised New England past, belief in the magic of the "merry and bright" Christmas season, longing for the sanctuaries of home and hearth. Today the song endures not just as an icon of the national Christmas celebration but as the artistic and commercial peak of the golden age of popular song arising from the Jewish-American assimilation, and a symbol of the values and strivings of the World War II generation. This book traces the story of the song's making amid the vibrant world of mid-century Broadway and Hollywood, and provides a chronicle of the song's legacy through today, when Berlin's masterpiece endures as a secular hymn.
    Language: English
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