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By: Hsuan L. Hsu
ISBN: 9781501377822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr. Alice Bennett
ISBN: 9781501375576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"A book that invites you to listen more closely to the beepers, bells, and buzzers that have shaped modern minds"--
(Paperback)
By: Jordan Frith
ISBN: 9781501399916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Jonathan Maskit
ISBN: 9781501338090
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Erik Anderson
ISBN: 9781501353352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"We tend to have romanticized and sentimental ideas about birds. But what is it about birds that so captivates us And what does this captivation, in its various forms, say about us humans"--
(Paperback)
By: Professor Ayanna Thompson
ISBN: 9781501374012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"--
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By: Kara Thompson
ISBN: 9781628922653
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Blanket explores covers in everyday contexts, "New World" colonial encounters, contemporary art, emerging economies, and collecting practices to show how the blanket is not just an object of utility, but one that provides lessons in metaphor, viruses, and secrets.
(Paperback)
By: Carolyn Purnell
ISBN: 9781501383748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Blue jeans may seem suited to every occasion, but their one-size-fits all appearance hides a history of contradictions"--
(Paperback)
By: Scott Cutler Shershow
ISBN: 9781501307447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Explores bread as both everyday object and as an object that has been invested throughout history with symbolic power and an astonishing variety of social, cultural and figural meanings"--
(Paperback)
By: Kenneth R. Rosen
ISBN: 9781501353024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A close look at an invention with a curious history and influence, an object that speaks to our notions of, and need for, security in all its forms.
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By: Carol J. Adams
ISBN: 9781501329463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A book about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It is an exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger.
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By: Professor or Dr. Steven E. Jones
ISBN: 9781501348815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores our collective desire for invisible, ethereal, and ubiquitous connectivity, however much steel, cement, and cable it takes to sustain that desire.
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By: Jack Pendarvis
ISBN: 9781501307362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An eclectic and poetic exploration of the cigarette lighter and its association with romance, magic, art, science, immortality and death in literature and popular culture"--
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By: Dinah Lenney
ISBN: 9781501344350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An intimate look at how coffee comforts and inspires and restores-how it works against time, with time, in time, to wake us up, to slow us down, to let us savor, ponder, prepare, reach out, remember, resolve, and dream"--
(Paperback)
By: Robert Barry
ISBN: 9781501348518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The compact disc promised to be the perfect medium for recorded sound, but it presaged the end of physical media for good. Its history shows that the materiality of media can never simply be wished away."--
(Paperback)
By: Dr. Andrew Bomback
ISBN: 9781501338175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Maria Teresa Hart
ISBN: 9781501380860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An examination of dolls and how they model an idealized feminine self, instructing girls what to strive for, and reinforcing dominant patriarchal, heteronormative, white norms"--
(Paperback)
By: Meredith Castile
ISBN: 9781628929133
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Adam Rothstein
ISBN: 9781628926323
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
ISBN: 9781501317910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance.
(Paperback)
By: Dr. Nicole Walker
ISBN: 9781501322853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Taking in Faberge eggs, Easter eggs, dinosaur eggs, eggs across cultures and cuisines, rotten eggs, and good eggs, Egg is a whimsical and sometimes surprisingly serious examination of the humble egg.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Randy Malamud
ISBN: 9781501341908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor or Dr. Rolf Halden
ISBN: 9781501361906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An object lesson on how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanity's prospect of survival"--
(Paperback)
By: Laura Waddell
ISBN: 9781501358159
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"An unique exploration of exits as everyday commands we follow, personal choices we make in relationships and work, and as political outcomes we experience"--
