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41) Sticker
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Stickers adorn our first memories, dot our notebooks and our walls, are stuck annoyingly on fruit, and accompany us into adulthood to announce our beliefs from car bumpers. They hold surprising power in their ability to define and provoke, and hold a strange steadfast presence in our age of fading physical media. Henry Hoke employs a constellation of stickers to explore queer boyhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence. A memoir in 20 stickers,...
42) Stroller
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Through memoir, historical research, and cultural criticism, Stroller explores what this ubiquitous baby equipment reveals about our attitudes toward parenthood and children"--
43) Trench coat
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"We all know what a trench coat is but where does it comes from? What began as a sports coat was later adapted for officers fighting in the trenches of the First World War, hence the name. Since then trench coats have adorned soldiers, police detectives, Nazis, Hollywood stars, Mafiosi, spies and 'flashers.' Ernest Hemingway wore one to draw attention to his military service, but the trench coat also turns up in the work of James Joyce, Nancy Mitford,...
44) Alarm
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A book that invites you to listen more closely to the beepers, bells, and buzzers that have shaped modern minds"--
45) Blue jeans
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Blue jeans may seem suited to every occasion, but their one-size-fits all appearance hides a history of contradictions"--
46) Grave
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Examines the design of the grave and how the ways in which we care for the dead are changing as old systems of burial are seen as expensive and unsustainable while new trends are emerging for people who want a more personal, meaningful final statement"--
47) Mushroom
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Explores an object that is both magical and medicinal, that nurtures ancient traditions, that is the object of foragers', cooks', and scientists' attention, and which has properties that continue to baffle physicians and psychiatrists"--
48) Ok
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"OK as a word can agree, accept, inspire, and describe the world; as an object, OK and its variants (okay, ok, etc.) tell a story about the ways that technology and globalization change the way we communicate"--
49) Pregnancy test
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An historical and cultural exploration of the overlooked object at the heart of the sexual revolution"--
50) Scream
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An examination of the scream, a universal expression that bridges both language and geography, containing the power to bring people together and push them apart"--
51) Sewer
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sewers are a mirror to the world above, at a time when our behaviors are drastically reshaping the environment for the worse. Studying that murky warren shows us who we truly are, and lays out a roadmap for being better stewards of a quickly changing world"--
52) Wine
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often wealth. Bottles sell for half a million dollars. Point systems tell us which wines are considered the best. Wine professionals give us the language to describe what we taste. Agricultural product and cultural commodity, drink of ritual and drink of addiction, purveyor of pleasure, pain, and memory - wine has...
53) Air conditioning
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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 libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air conditioning makes temperature a non-issue...
54) Barcode
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Arcodes are one of the most ignored yet impactful objects of the last fifty years, and they have a much more interesting and controversial history than most people realize"--
"Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's...
55) Bicycle
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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 live in, yet its time seems always yet-to-come or long-gone-by. Jonathan Maskit takes us on an interdisciplinary ride to see what makes the bicycle a magical machine that could yet make the world a safer, greener, and more just place."--
56) Magazine
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The magazine's heyday--its century--as the arbiter of culture is over, and so it is time to pay tribute to its voice, aesthetic, influence, frequent tackiness, and monumental ego as an object of envy"--
57) Pencil
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Often overlooked, tucked into a drawer or stuffed into a case, the pencil is a tool whose simplicity belies its usefulness and indeed, as a work of design and technology that endures around the globe, its greatness"--
58) Relic
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Relic explores how a bit of bone, a scrap of rag, a chip of wood - the most prosaic of materials - have often been endowed by faith, tradition, and culture with a sense of the sacred"--
59) Swimming pool
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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 taking a closer look at artists, architects, writers, and others who have helped to cement the swimming pool's prominent and iconic role in our society and culture. Swimming Pool explores the pool as a place where humans seek to attain the unique union between...
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