A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists....Lasīt vairāk
In Plastic: An Autobiography, Cobbs obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey e...Lasīt vairāk
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 waste-or was, or will be....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
Sērija : SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Feb-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9780791469934)
A philosophical exploration of the problematic nature of the disposable. Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if...Lasīt vairāk
Looks at contemporary society and its treatment of waste products, offering a meditation on what we throw out, how we do it, and the ethical significance of waste in everyday life....Lasīt vairāk
Looks at contemporary society and its treatment of waste products, offering a meditation on what we throw out, how we do it, and the ethical significance of waste in everyday life....Lasīt vairāk
