Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Whale Song

Whale Song

Author: Professor Margret Grebowicz (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
ISBN: 9781501329258
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Uses the whale song to explore how environmental problems like noise pollution and climate change affect social...  Read More >>

The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed

The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed

Author: Jared Poley
ISBN: 9781785337413
Format: Paperback
$61.97

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over...  Read More >>

Prisoners' Objects - Collection of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum

Prisoners' Objects - Collection of the International...

Author: Paul Bouvier ,  Roger Mayou
ISBN: 9788874397600
Format: Hardback
$69.99

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum houses an extraordinary collection of 'prisoners' objects' made...  Read More >>

The Brightness of Things: An Adventure in Light and Time

The Brightness of Things: An Adventure in Light and...

Author: Kate Devlin
ISBN: 9781472912787
Format: Paperback
$33.61

We are surrounded by the material culture of the people who lived before us: architecture, artworks and artefacts....  Read More >>

Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair

Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair

Author: Emma Tarlo
ISBN: 9781786071613
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Hair – we all have it, but have you ever really thought about it?  Read More >>

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Abigail Williams
ISBN: 9780300208290
Format: Hardback
$67.95

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth...  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: 9781107592704
Format: Paperback
$69.84

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

Enlightened Consumption

Enlightened Consumption

Author: James Doug Clopton
ISBN: 9781524920739
Format: Paperback
$191.40

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Growing Down: Theology and Human Nature in the Virtual Age

Growing Down: Theology and Human Nature in the Virtual...

Author: Jaco J. Hamman
ISBN: 9781481306461
Format: Hardback
$56.00

Explores the theological and psychological implications of humanity's fascination with technology. Jaco Hamman examines...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property

Author: Jane Anderson (New York University, USA) ,  Haidy Geismar (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138812642
Format: Hardback
$452.00

This volume is at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional...  Read More >>

Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific Projects and Political Realities

Unreal Objects: Digital Materialities, Technoscientific...

Author: Kate O'Riordan
ISBN: 9780745336749
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Unpacks the political economy of new science and technology projects, and the implications for a utopian future...  Read More >>

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors

Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families...

Author: Jeanne E. Arnold ,  Anthony P. Graesch
ISBN: 9781938770128
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class...  Read More >>

HDB Homes of Singapore

HDB Homes of Singapore

Author: Tomohisa Miyauchi ,  Keyakismos
ISBN: 9789811122866
Format: Paperback
$100.29

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Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box

Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile...

Author: David Morley (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781405192002
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport...  Read More >>

Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile Phone, and the Container Box

Communications and Mobility: The Migrant, the Mobile...

Author: David Morley (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
ISBN: 9781405192019
Format: Hardback
$153.95

Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport...  Read More >>

Tourism Art and Souvenirs: The Material Culture of Tourism

Tourism Art and Souvenirs: The Material Culture of Tourism...

Author: David Hume
ISBN: 9781138081963
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism

Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism

Author: Alice Twemlow (Professor, Design Academy Eindhoven)
ISBN: 9780262035989
Format: Hardback
$59.99

How product design criticism has rescued some products from the trash and consigned others to the landfill.  Read More >>

isiShweshwe: A history of the indigenisation of blueprint in South Africa

isiShweshwe: A history of the indigenisation of blueprint...

Author: Juliette Leeb-Du Toit
ISBN: 9781869143145
Format: Paperback
$168.19

The cross-cultural usage of a particular cloth type - blueprint - is central to South African cultural history....  Read More >>

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