Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, Hardcover

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DescriptionThe Elements of a Home reveals the fascinating stories behind more than 60 everyday household objects and furnishings. Brimming with amu...

Without quantum physics, your breakfast - and so many other things we take for granted - wouldn't be possible... international bestselling author a...

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This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depi...

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This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people ...

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Reducere. With more than 300 bright and colorful stickers, this engaging, interactive sticker-activity book invites creative young artists to transform every...

Reducere. Featuring more than 300 bright and colorful stickers, this engaging, interactive sticker-activity book invites creative young artists to transform ...

Children of all ages can let their imaginations run wild when they transform everyday objects into magical mermaids! Use the stickers to transform ...

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DescriptionCo-published with the Royal Mint Museum. War has shaped currencies, creating, abolishing and moulding them. By providing the means throu...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 14 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 18Cover type: Har...

Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disarming power that announces an extraordinary new ...

A revolutionary and entertaining look at the history of everyday objects and presences more frequently taken at face value, connecting for instance...

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The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of...

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Description#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer's popular study Bible featured in Pink Euroluxe binding; with practical commentaries, a...

Reducere. In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regar...

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

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DescriptionAn illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terrence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy ringsFungipedia presents ...

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DescriptionThis study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of ...

Beware...this book is cursed These strange but true stories of the world's most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buf...

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Hunt for ghosts, ghouls, and more delightfully spooky ogres in this adorable Halloween-themed Look & Find book. Loaded with illustrations, it provi...

DescriptionBeer has been brewed and drunk for 10, 000 years, but those earliest beers (think dark, soupy and sour) would've been unrecognizable to ...

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DescriptionWhat do the Mona Lisa, the light bulb, and a Lego brick have in common? The answer - intellectual property (IP) - may be surprising, bec...