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Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson
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Category: Natural History and Environment | 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
Cell Tower (Object Lessons) by Steven E. Jones; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Environment (Object Lessons) by Rolf Halden
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Category: No Category | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how long and comfortable we may live? The environment is n ...Show more
High Heel (Object Lessons) by Summer Brennan; Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by); Ian Bogost (Contribution by)
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Category: Art and Design | 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
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Category: Natural History and Environment | 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
Pill (Object Lessons) by Robert Bennett
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
Potato (Object Lessons) by Rebecca Earle
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To the United Nations they mean global food security (potatoes are the world's fourth most impor ...Show more
Spacecraft (Object Lessons) by Timothy Morton; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture?If ...Show more
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