Where Stuff Comes From

Download or read book Where Stuff Comes From written by Harvey Molotch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us.

Download or read book Where Stuff Comes From written by Harvey Molotch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us.

Download or read book Home on the Strange written by Glen Wells and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial Disclaimer: Fiction's sticky story is that any resemblance to actual persons, places, things and events are either entirely coincidental or used fictitiously. Nonfiction must content itself with getting more things right than wrong and avoid making stuff up as it goes along. If it is true that communication changes brain states and to want to communicate is to want to change brain states, then in the end, attempting to mix the two will do the most changing

Download or read book Nowhere Else on Earth written by Caitlyn Vernon and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to live in the Great Bear Rainforest to benefit from its existence, but after you read Nowhere Else on Earth you might want to visit this magnificent part of the planet. Environmental activist Caitlyn Vernon guides young readers through a forest of information, sharing her personal stories, her knowledge and her concern for this beautiful place. Full of breathtaking photographs and suggestions for ways to preserve this unique ecosystem, Nowhere Else on Earth is a timely and inspiring reminder that we need to stand up for our wild places before they are gone.

Download or read book Uncle John's Facts to Go Where'd THAT Come From? written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of incredible origin stories, ranging from everyday items to social customs to history-altering inventions. Uncle John’s Where’d That Come From? delivers the true stories behind all sorts of things, even things you never thought of as having origins. Covering a wide range of topics--pop culture, science, sports, politics, customs, superstitions, language, and more--you’ll discover the most engrossing origin stories from the BRI’s deep archives, as well as some all-new “origin”al material! Find out about… - Why the number seven is considered lucky - An airplane in ancient Egypt, and other “OOPAs” (Out Of Place Artifacts) - Who put the hole in a doughnut, the K in K-mart, and the e in e-book - Automotive firsts--including the gas pump, the solar-powered car, and the drag race - The ancient games that led to golf, and the story of the boomerang - Louis Perrier, Earl Grey, Mrs. Paul, and other tasty namesakes - The origins of toothpaste, the color purple, the Ming Dynasty, Valentine’s Day, the recycle symbol, Captain Kirk, “gobbledygook,” and much, much more!

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics written by Randy Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms and approaches the engagement between them can take. The contributors - a diverse assembly of artists, activists, scholars from around the world – discuss and demonstrate ways of making art and politics legible and salient in the world. As such the 32 chapters in this volume reflect on performing and visual arts; music, film and new media; as well as covering social practice, community-based work, conceptual, interventionist and movement affiliated forms. The Companion is divided into four distinct parts: Conceptual Cartographies Institutional Materialities Modalities of Practice Making Publics Randy Martin has assembled a collection that ensures that readers will come away with a wider view of what can count as art and politics; where they might find it; and how it moves in the world. The diversity of perspectives is at once challenging and fortifying to those who might dismiss political art on the one hand as not making sufficient difference and on the other to those embracing it but seeking a means to elaborate the significance that it can make in the world. The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics brings together a range of issues and approaches and encourages critical and creative thinking about how art is produced, perceived, and received.

Download or read book Report of the Mayor's Market Commission of New York City written by New York (N.Y.). Market Commission and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: