"An intimate look at how coffee comforts and inspires and restores-how it works against time, with time, in time, to wake us up, to slow us down, to let us savor, ponder, prepare, reach out, remember, resolve, and dream"--

"The compact disc promised to be the perfect medium for recorded sound, but it presaged the end of physical media for good. Its history shows that the materiality of media can never simply be wished away."--

"Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective"--

Explores our collective desire for invisible, ethereal, and ubiquitous connectivity, however much steel, cement, and cable it takes to sustain that desire.

A close look at an invention with a curious history and influence, an object that speaks to our notions of, and need for, security in all its forms.