{"product_id":"owners-manual-9798994417256","title":"Owner's Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Neil Powell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Neil Powell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Neil Powell\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Product\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOwner's Manual\u003c\/strong\u003e is a design-driven field guide for living inside complex systems - technological, cultural, psychological - without surrendering agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending visual essays, speculative diagrams, and tightly written reflections, this book examines the invisible structures that shape modern life: interfaces, algorithms, institutions, belief systems, and the quiet contracts we sign without reading. It asks a simple but destabilizing question: if life no longer comes with clear instructions, what would an honest manual look like?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross more than one hundred large-format pages and sixty full-color images, \u003cstrong\u003eOwner's Manual\u003c\/strong\u003e moves between art object and operating guide. Some spreads feel instructional. Others feel archival. Others read like fragments recovered from a future that tried to warn us. The tone is precise, restrained, and unsentimental - less self-help than systems literacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than offering productivity hacks or motivational promises, this book invites awareness. It explores how friction disappears, how convenience rewires behavior, how scale alters responsibility, and how design quietly governs experience. The result is not a manifesto, but a calibration tool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOwner's Manual \u003c\/strong\u003eis ideal for designers, technologists, architects, strategists, writers, and anyone interested in the intersection of form, power, and perception. It belongs on the shelf alongside design theory, cultural criticism, speculative philosophy, and visual essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in a large 8.25 x 11 hardcover format with premium color interiors, the book is conceived as a physical object - composed with intentional pacing, generous white space, and carefully structured visual rhythm. It is meant to be handled, revisited, and interpreted rather than consumed quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a workbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no exercises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is only the manual - and the awareness that you are already inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Neil Powell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47568583622807,"sku":"9798994417256","price":4153.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798994417256.webp?v=1774869429","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/owners-manual-9798994417256","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}