(Izdošanas datums: 19-Oct-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628922646)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Blankets exist in so many places: throughout homes, on our beds, in commercial airliners, in prison cells, silver ones scattered...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Mar-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628920529)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living objects entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Tre...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Jul-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628926156)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientatio...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628921717)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Oct-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628924251)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encir...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Oct-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628924107)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many mor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Oct-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628921434)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jul-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628924374)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, its also wasteor was, or will be....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jul-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628924336)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other technology of the last two thousand year...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Feb-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628927689)
Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, and swarming through the networks. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word "drone" fills many of us with...Lasīt vairāk
A material, literary, and cultural exploration of how the remote control, a seemingly innocuous media accessory, impacts our perception and world-view-- While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their im...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Feb-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628921397)
In the history of sport, golf bears a unique relation to the natural world. The game evolved on the Scottish links, a peculiar terrain linking arable land and the rocky coast, which farmers could not domesticate as plowed land or pasture. Mode...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Feb-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628927788)
This book is about seeing how a small rectangle of plastic can say something about the central problems of identity in our age.A classic teenage fetish object, the drivers license has long symbolized freedom and mobility. It is youths pas...Lasīt vairāk
