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Air Conditioning by Hsuan L. Hsu
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and l ...Show more
Bicycle (Object Lessons) by Jonathan Maskit; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost miraculous 19th-century contraption, the bicycle promises to transform our lives and the world we li ...Show more
Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | 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
Bookshelf (Object Lessons) by PYNE,LYDIA
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | 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
Bread (Object Lessons) by Scott Cutler Shershow
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Category: Writing | Series: Object Lessons
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 cohesion: f ...Show more
Bulletproof Vest (Object Lessons) by Kenneth R. Rosen; Ian Bogost (Contribution by); Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "Nothing's bulletproof," the salesman said. "The thing's only bullet resistant." The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on ...Show more
Cell Tower (Object Lessons) by Steven E. Jones; Ian Bogost (Series edited by); Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | 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
Coffee (Object Lessons) by Dinah Lenney; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
$21.99 AUD
Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the r ...Show more
Drone (Object Lessons) by Adam Rothstein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toy ...Show more
Environment (Object Lessons) by Rolf Halden
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gift | 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
Fat (Object Lessons) by Hanne Blank; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Health | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the ...Show more
Gin (Object Lessons) by Shonna Milliken Humphrey; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia.Although early medical textbooks treated it as a healing ...Show more