{"product_id":"scrolling-forward-book-david-m-levy-9781559705530","title":"Scrolling Forward","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of the document.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Henry Petroski's \u003ci\u003eThe Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e, David Levy's \u003ci\u003eScrolling Forward\u003c\/i\u003e takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds--letters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages--yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement about many of the new kinds of emerging documents. He demonstrates how today's technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventions--such as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewriters--in shaping how we use documents and the forms those documents take. \u003ci\u003eScrolling Forward\u003c\/i\u003e lets us see the continuity between the written forms of today and those of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War I, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534526783761,"sku":"GOR005188347","price":49.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49757548445969,"sku":"CIN1559705531A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50202708803857,"sku":"CIN1559705531G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50203314782481,"sku":"CIN1559705531VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1559705531.jpg?v=1751087879","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/scrolling-forward-book-david-m-levy-9781559705530","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}