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Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hope, as Emily Dickinson famously wrote, is the thing with feathers. Erik Anderson, on the other hand, regards our obsession with birds as too sentimental, too precious or romantic. Birds don't ex ...Show more
Blanket (Object Lessons) by Kara Thompson; Ian Bogost (Contribution by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
$19.98 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most inti ...Show more
Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by PYNE,LYDIA
$22.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and another can groan with gravitas in the Library of Congress ...Show more
Burger by Carol J. Adams
$21.98 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger tha ...Show more
Cell Tower (Object Lessons) by Steven E. Jones; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The cell tower is a gigantic object we rarely see, effectively invisible, at the periphery of our vision but at the center of everyday experience. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework ...Show more
Compact Disc (Object Lessons) by Robert Barry
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Category: Non-fiction | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage ...Show more
High Heel (Object Lessons) by Summer Brennan; Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by); Ian Bogost (Contribution by)
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Category: Feminism | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for ...Show more
Ocean (Object Lessons) by Steve Mentz
$22.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Unlike ...Show more
Perfume (Object Lessons) by Megan Volpert; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Our sense of smell is crucial to our survival. We can smell fear, disease, food. Fragrance is also entertainment. We can smell an expensive bottle of perfume at a high-end department store. Perhaps ...Show more
Personal Stereo by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
$21.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced as se ...Show more
Pill (Object Lessons) by Robert Bennett
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Category: Health & Wellbeing | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "You are what you eat." Never is this truer than when we use medications, from beta blockers and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals-and especially psychotropic pills that transform our minds as well ...Show more
TV: (Object Lessons) by Susan Bordo
$21.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Once upon a time, the news was only 15 minutes long and middle-class families huddled around a tiny black-and-white screen, TV dinners on their laps, awaiting the weekly showing of sitcoms that ...Show more
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