Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a climate change controversy. The large...Lasīt vairāk
Islands have long been viewed as both paradise and prison - we project onto them our deepest desires for freedom and escape, but also our greatest fears of forced isolation. This book asks: what can islands teach us about living sustainably, being a...Lasīt vairāk
Examines the design of the grave and how the ways in which we care for the dead are changing as old systems of burial are seen as expensive and unsustainable while new trends are emerging for people who want a more personal, meaningful final stateme...Lasīt vairāk
Sewers are a mirror to the world above, at a time when our behaviors are drastically reshaping the environment for the worse. Studying that murky warren shows us who we truly are, and lays out a roadmap for being better stewards of a quickly changin...Lasīt vairāk
From Cleopatra to Coachella, this book tracks the enduring, emotionally-charged human relationship to glitter-a variously-composed object that reveals the gendered and sexualized ways we interact with our environment and respond to its crises--...Lasīt vairāk
An object lesson on how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanitys prospect of survival-- Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinar...Lasīt vairāk
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 and m...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
