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Questionnaire
Av Evan Kindley, Christopher Schaberg
Häftad, 2016
170 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors’ offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where did they come …
Relic
Av Ed Simon, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
155 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the …
Personal Stereo
Av Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
129 kr
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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 …
Eye Chart
Av William Germano, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
169 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes.Reading the eye chart is an exercise in …
Hotel
Av Joanna Walsh, Christopher Schaberg
Häftad, 2015
146 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, …
Bookshelf
Av Lydia Pyne, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
129 kr
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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 …
Burger
Av Carol J. Adams, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
147 kr
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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 …
Fly-Fishing
Häftad, 2023
189 kr
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In Fly-Fishing, Christopher Schaberg ponders his lifetime pursuit of the widely mythologized art of fly-fishing. From the Michigan lakeshore where he learned to fish to casting flies in a New Orleans bayou, Schaberg sketches landscapes and fish habitats and shows how fly-fishing allows him to think …
Cigarette Lighter
Av Jack Pendarvis, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
147 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors…. The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and …
Pill
Av Robert Bennett, Christopher Schaberg
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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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 …
Pencil
Av Carol Beggy, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
146 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used …
Metronome
Av Matthew H. Birkhold, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
129 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musicians now had a tool that could help them maintain a precise and consistent tempo. And while giants of …
Mushroom
Av Sara Rich, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
146 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They are grouped with plants, but they …
Textual Life of Airports
Reading the Culture of Flight
E-bok, 2011
466 kr
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This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not always fit into standard ideas of these in-between places. Tales of near disaster, endless delays, …
Textual Life of Airports
Reading the Culture of Flight
E-bok, 2011
466 kr
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This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not always fit into standard ideas of these in-between places. Tales of near disaster, endless delays, …
Textual Life of Airports
Reading the Culture of Flight
Inbunden, 2011
1474 kr
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From the earliest airfields to the post-9/11 turn, this book investigates how airports figure in the American cultural imagination. "The Textual Life of Airports" shows how airports demand to be read. Working at the intersection of literary studies and cultural theory, Schaberg tracks airport …
Textual Life of Airports
Reading the Culture of Flight
Häftad, 2013
431 kr
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This is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life, and about the secret stories of airports-the strange or hidden narratives that do not always fit into standard ideas of these in-between places. Tales of near disaster, endless delays, …
Fly-Fishing
Inbunden, 2023
961 kr
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In Fly-Fishing, Christopher Schaberg ponders his lifetime pursuit of the widely mythologized art of fly-fishing. From the Michigan lakeshore where he learned to fish to casting flies in a New Orleans bayou, Schaberg sketches landscapes and fish habitats and shows how fly-fishing allows him to think …
Fly-Fishing
E-bok, 2023
260 kr
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In Fly-Fishing , Christopher Schaberg ponders his lifetime pursuit of the widely mythologized art of fly-fishing. From the Michigan lakeshore where he learned to fish to casting flies in a New Orleans bayou, Schaberg sketches landscapes and fish habitats and shows how fly-fishing allows him to …
Shipping Container
Av Craig Martin, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
127 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…. …
End of Airports
E-bok, 2015
359 kr
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If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of …
End of Airports
E-bok, 2015
347 kr
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If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of …
Bread
Av Scott Cutler Shershow, Christopher Schaberg
Häftad, 2016
151 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social …
Shopping Mall
Av Matthew Newton, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
147 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The mall near Mat thew Newton’s childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state’s first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a …
Password
Av Martin Paul Eve, Ian Bogost m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
146 kr
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The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. The open-access edition of this text was made possible by a Philip Leverhulme Prize from The Leverhulme Trust.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the …
Sock
Av Kim Adrian, Christopher Schaberg
Häftad, 2017
147 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment’s history, construction, and use, Kim Adrian’s Sock …
Earth
Av Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
149 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer …
Veil
Av Rafia Zakaria, Christopher Schaberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
139 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of feminist empowerment, and veiled anonymity can confer power to women. Starting from her own marriage ceremony at which she first wore a full veil, Rafia …
Egg
Av Nicole Walker, Christopher Schaberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
149 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object—strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker‘s Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly …
Jet Lag
Av Christopher J. Lee, Christopher Schaberg
Häftad, 2017
169 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Jet lag is a momentary condition resulting from the human body and its inner clock being pitched against the time-leaping effects of modern aviation. But more than that, it is a situation that …
