Material Goods

A large-scale investigation into grave goods (c. 4000 BC-AD 43), enabling a new level of understanding of mortuary practice, material culture, tech...

This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It c...

Reducere. Sometimes the biggest lessons come in the smallest packages. In the timeless tale The King's Drapes, it takes the wits of a bright, brave girl to t...

Here is an announcement! The train approaching platform two is full of stolen goods . . . Mr Track is the train driver, and Mrs Track is the driver...

Reducere. The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain is packed with the goods on glia and the news about neurons, with a cool way to test your brai...

Reducere. Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history o...

This book reveals a great untold story of enterprise and innovation based on the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Elkington...

Offers a broad study of the literature and culture of the ""long 1980s"". The Argument about Things in the 1980s contributes to of-the-moment schol...

CMF Design focuses on general key fundamental principles and processes of the use of colors, materials, and finishes as they apply to consumer prod...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

Reducere. The book draws on Professor Cheng's "New Four Theory" on value, wealth, and distribution, among which the "new living labor value theory" is partic...

Reducere. Still, today may religious men and women be for the Church and for the World, the outposts of care for all of the poor and for all material, moral ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a young woman, Riane learned the joy and craft of quiltmaking from her grandmother. Together they stepped into the tradition as so ma...

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things t...

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the c...

Reducere. This stunning book examines design exchanges between the United States and Scandinavia over nearly a century and explores the fascinating reasons w...

Reducere. Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically u...

Reducere. Just as Detroit symbolizes the U.S. automobile industry, during World War II it also came to stand for all American industry's conversion from civi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cleo BoracAuthor: Silviu BoracA companion series to our "Competitive Mathematics for Gifted Students, " the series "Math Ch...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cleo BoracAuthor: Silviu BoracA companion series to our "Competitive Mathematics for Gifted Students, " the series "Math Ch...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cleo BoracAuthor: Silviu BoracA companion series to our "Competitive Mathematics for Gifted Students, " the series "Math Ch...

Reducere. In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World Wa...

Microeconomics for Public Decisions is a core textbook that covers essential microeconomic principles and applies them to public decisions. It can ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jr. M. D. Lyle H. RossiterIllustrator: George FosterDesigned by: Bob SpearThe Liberal Mind is the first in-depth examinatio...

DescriptionIn its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only g...

DescriptionTrade is a cornerstone concept in economics worldwide. This updated second edition of the essential graduate textbook in international t...

'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...

Reducere. Price theory, often misleadingly labeled "microeconomics, " is the explanation of how individual actors coordinate via markets, prices, and exchang...

Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the ``bullpens`` of southwestern trading posts to barter for mat...

Reducere. This book describes the traditional use of wild plants among the Arikara (Sahnish) for food, medicine, craft, and other uses. The Arikara grew corn...

A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee Examining literary and philosophical writing about id...

Reducere. Timeless and contemplative sayings from the earliest Christian sages of desert spirituality can be a companion on your own spiritual journey.The de...

Reducere. This book is about a way of return to one's own true life.In any society, ancient or modern, which has made busyness a virtue, lost itself in pursu...

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi...

Reducere. This is a combo volume that incorporates all four volumes for level 1. The interior of the 4 in 1 volume is always updated to contain the latest ed...

Reducere. Description2nd Edition - 2014 About "Competitive Mathematics for Gifted Students" This series provides practice materials and short theory reminder...

Reducere. The butt of endless jokes and the focus of considerable anguish, shopping offers significant insights into contemporary social relations and their ...

XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is everywhere: the syntax of choice for newly designed document formats across almost all computer application...

About "Competitive Mathematics for Gifted Students" This series provides practice materials and short theory reminders for students who aim to exce...

Reducere. Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and ...

J. Shoshanna Ehrlich's Fundamentals of Family Law, Second Edition is a concise version of Ehrlich's Family Law for Paralegals, developed for use in...

Reducere. Swashbuckling stories of the Union naval blockade of the Southern states and the blockade runners who smuggled goods to the Confederacy have long b...

In The Age of Experiences, Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt examines how the advance of happiness science is impacting the economy, making possible new exp...

Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, ...

Reducere. 2nd Edition - 2014 About "Competitive Mathematics for Gifted Students" This series provides practice materials and short theory reminders for stude...

Reducere. Have you ever thought that there might be something wrong with human beings, even that we might be slightly insane? Why is it that human history ha...

Reducere. The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse ar...

DescriptionToday's leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health "What we measure affe...

Reducere. Are you looking for a more sustainable and affordable housing option? Do you have amazing designs you would love to experiment with on a shipping c...

Reducere. Are you looking for a more sustainable and affordable housing option? Do you have amazing designs you would love to experiment with on a shipping c...

A wide-ranging account of shipping and capitalism in the Middle East On the map of global trade, China is now the factory of the world. A parade of...