Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Attfield Judy)(Paperback)

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Attfield Judy)(Paperback)

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to

Acoustic Territories, Second Edition: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (LaBelle Brandon)(Paperback)

The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of

Remembering Utopia: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia (Luthar Breda)(Paperback)

This collection of essays helps uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia, such as leisure, popular culture, consumption, sociability and power. This volume attempts to uncover various aspects of everyday life during the time of socialism in Yugoslavia from

Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing (Goldstein Joshua)(Paperback)

Remains of the Everyday traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing's economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have

Pure Wisdom - The Simple Things That Transform Everyday Life (Cunningham Dean)(Paperback / softback)

The Beauty of Everyday Things (Yanagi Soetsu)(Paperback)

'Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial' - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As

Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Halberstam Jack)(Paperback)

In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of

Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (Thompson Nato)(Paperback)

One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and

Picture Pedagogy: Visual Culture Concepts to Enhance the Curriculum (Duncum Paul)(Paperback)

Contemporary societies are saturated with pictures. They are globally a part of everyday life, and they are seductive, offering values and beliefs in such highly pleasurable forms that it is often difficult to resist their power to persuade. Yet interpreting pictures is largely neglected in

Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback / softback)

A brand new transaction of the 'Psychopathology of Everyday Life' - one of 15 volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for the Penguin classics. This edition aims to reach beyond the institiutional/clinical

Where The Wild Things Are (Sendak Maurice)(Paperback / softback)

Presents the story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year,

Wild (Demetriou Annette)(Paperback / softback)

'WILD' gives a gentle glimpse into the world of gang culture/ toxic masculinity through the eyes of two young brothers 'Wolfie' and 'Wilfie'. Carefully crafted for younger readers, it deals with themes of peer pressure to follow and join in with unruly behaviour or be shunned by 'the popular

How Not to Be Wrong - The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life (Ellenberg Jordan)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore and when to change the equation entirely. This book tells us that maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the

Vindolanda - Everyday Life on Rome's Northern Frontier (Birley Robin)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating insight into everyday life on Hadrian's Wall. The translations of the Vindolanda Scrolls ('send fresh socks' etc) are also a

Some Clever Title, 41: A Foxtrot Collection Blah Blah Blah (Amend Bill)(Paperback)

FoxTrot distills popular culture through the lens of everyday family life--offering a deft and humorous critique on society's latest comings and goings. You might belong in the Fox family if you . . . dress up in a Batman costume . . . model a scarecrow after your sister . . . bake cookies to

Design of Everyday Things (Norman Donald A.)(Paperback / softback)

Physics of Everyday Things - The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day (Kakalios James)(Paperback / softback)

Stranger Things: Zombie Boys (Graphic Novel) (Pak Greg)(Paperback)

Following the events of season one of Netflix's pop-culture sensation Stranger Things, our main characters struggle with returning to normal life after overcoming supernatural horror. School is back in session in the normally quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana. Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Will are still

Get Happy - The Life of Judy Garland (Clarke Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

* Definitive biography of Hollywood's brightest musical star - Judy Garland

Amy Snow - The Richard & Judy Bestseller (Rees Tracy)(Paperback / softback)

Unlock the secret with the Richard and Judy bestseller. 'My favourite novel of last year' Lucinda Riley. Perfect for fans of The Seven Sisters, The Lake House and Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife. Discover more from Tracy Rees with her next heartwarming historical mystery, Florence Grace

Vanishing of Audrey Wilde - The spellbinding mystery from the Richard & Judy bestselling author of The Glass House (Chase Eve)(Paperback / softback)

The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy in Everyday Life (Lyons Minna)(Paperback)

The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy in Everyday Life summarizes the latest research on how these personality traits (psychopathology, narcissism, Machiavellianism) are defined and displayed, while also exploring the impact they have on individuals and

From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read (Ghodsee Kristen)(Paperback)

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its original home in

Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making (Saito Yuriko)(Paperback)

Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader importance for how we make our