Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Masked Warriors: The Battle Stage of the Samurai

Masked Warriors: The Battle Stage of the Samurai

Author: Bas Verberk
ISBN: 9789087282905
Format: Paperback
$121.44

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The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman Object

The Cinema of Things: Globalization and the Posthuman...

Author: Elizabeth Ezra (University of Stirling, UK)
ISBN: 9781501328855
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Traces the progressive redrawing of the boundaries between human beings and things as represented in cinema through...  Read More >>

The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich

The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still...

Author: Cristobal Young
ISBN: 9781503603806
Format: Paperback
$63.36

In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income...  Read More >>

Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

Author: Scot Barnett ,  Casey Boyle
ISBN: 9780817359102
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still Matters for the Rich

The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How Place Still...

Author: Cristobal Young
ISBN: 9781503601147
Format: Hardback
$152.95

In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income...  Read More >>

Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture

Trust and Proof: Translators in Renaissance Print Culture...

Author: Andrea Rizzi
ISBN: 9789004323858
Format: Hardback
$472.56

The chapters in this volume share an aim to historicize the role of the translator as a cultural and political agent...  Read More >>

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The Daybook Manuscripts of the Warring States, Qin, and Han

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China: The...

Author: Donald Harper ,  Marc Kalinowski
ISBN: 9789004310193
Format: Hardback
$549.12

Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China is a comprehensive introduction to the daybook manuscripts found...  Read More >>

Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

Vehicles: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral...

Author: David Lipset ,  Richard Handler
ISBN: 9781785337512
Format: Paperback
$61.97

On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical...  Read More >>

Interpretations of Luxury: Exploring the Consumer Perspective

Interpretations of Luxury: Exploring the Consumer Perspective...

Author: Linda Lisa Maria Turunen
ISBN: 9783319608693
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Exploring the elements that constitute the perceived luxuriousness of a brand, this book addresses the changing...  Read More >>

History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching...

Author: Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781138928671
Format: Paperback
$77.99

With new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley, this edition examines material sources...  Read More >>

Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique

Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique

Author: Tereza Kuldova
ISBN: 9781350049499
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary...  Read More >>

Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life...

Author: Niki Brantmark
ISBN: 9780008260101
Format: Hardback
$19.99

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Rings

Rings

Author: Rachel Church
ISBN: 9780500519745
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An engaging and authoritative overview of the evolution of ring design from the Middle Ages to today, illustrated...  Read More >>

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

Author: Timothy J. LeCain (Montana State University)
ISBN: 9781107134171
Format: Hardback
$245.79

Part materialist manifesto, part empirical case study, and part methodological guide, The Matter of History develops...  Read More >>

Sock

Sock

Author: Kim Adrian (Brown University, USA) ,  Christopher Schaberg (Activist and Freelance Author USA)
ISBN: 9781501315060
Format: Paperback
$20.99

A funny, lyrical, illuminating book on the rich and little known history of the humble sock, its various incarnations...  Read More >>

Jet Lag

Jet Lag

Author: Dr. Christopher J. Lee (Lafayette College, USA)
ISBN: 9781501323225
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Jet lag is a physical ailment, a temporal condition, a political effect, and, ultimately, a cultural moment--in...  Read More >>

Shopping Mall

Shopping Mall

Author: Matthew Newton (Carnegie Museum of Art, USA)
ISBN: 9781501314827
Format: Paperback
$20.99

Part memoir and part study of modern life, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the shopping mall and...  Read More >>

Veil

Veil

Author: Rafia Zakaria (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781501322778
Format: Paperback
$19.99

In a world where visibility is power and identity is at the core of political contestation, the veil questions notions...  Read More >>

Personal Stereo

Personal Stereo

Author: Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781501322815
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow investigates the Walkman's influence on public space, our relationship to electronic personal...  Read More >>

Eye Chart

Eye Chart

Author: Professor William Germano (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USA)
ISBN: 9781501312342
Format: Paperback
$18.99

The eye chart--essential diagnostic tool, template, sign, toy--is a monument to un-reading and a guide to the absurdities...  Read More >>

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