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Air Conditioning (Object Lessons) 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)
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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 l ...Show more
Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson
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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
Bulletproof Vest (Object Lessons) by Kenneth R. Rosen; Ian Bogost (Contribution by); Christopher Schaberg (Contribution by)
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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)
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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
Environment (Object Lessons) by Rolf Halden
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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)
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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
Ocean (Object Lessons) by Steve Mentz
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Category: Gift | 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
Pencil (Object Lessons) by Carol Beggy
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Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
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 to ...Show more
Signature by Hunter Dukes; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness--as if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify o ...Show more
Swimming Pool (Object Lessons) by Piotr Florczyk
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Category: Gift | Series: Object Lessons Ser.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began with a swimming fellowship, Piotr Florczyk reflects on his own adventures in swimming pools while ta ...Show more