Object Lessons – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

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Terence Charlston & Julian Perkins (Clavichords)

Dr Jonathan Maskit

Bicycle

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An almost …

Piotr Florczyk,

Swimming Pool

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. As a former world-ranked swimmer whose journey toward naturalization and U.S. citizenship began …

Ed Simon,

Relic

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a signific…

Carol Beggy,

Pencil

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroye…

Nicole Lobdell

X-ray

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. X-rays are powerful, moving through objects undetected, revealing the body as a tryptic of skin,…

Sharrona Pearl,

Mask

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From the theater mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition s…

Maggie Messitt,

Newspaper

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selve…

Stewart Lawrence Sinclair,

Space Rover

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenu…

Hsuan L. Hsu,

Air Conditioning

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly con…

Julian Hanna,

Island

"Islands have long been viewed as both paradise and prison - we project onto them our deepest desires for freedom and escape, but also our greatest fears of forced isolation. This book asks: what can isla…

Tondre, Dr. Michael (Associate Professor of English, Stony Brook University (SUNY), USA)

Oil

"Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the commodity of our global era. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction. But despite its heated history, few will ev…

Golden Age Of American Sweet Bands

Joe Newman (1922-1992)

The Complete Swingville Sessions

Product Information These Joe Newman Swingville sessions, an object lesson in relaxed and intelligent blowing, are among the happiest recorded by the trumpeter. All the elements fit —compatible musici…

B.B. King

Blues In My Heart

Produktinfo: It would be difficult to come up with a more apt title for a B.B. King album. Throughout his extensive career, the blues have always been close to his heart. This, the penultimate of his twel…

Philip Howell,

Pub

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The pub is an English institution. Yet its history has been obscured by myth and nostalgia. In t…

A. N. Devers (Freelance Writer, UK, and Owner of The Second Shelf bookstore)

Train

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Triggering severe nostalgia and denoting adventure, mystery, and glamour, the passenger train is…

mills, (they / them) nelle (Freelance writer, St. Louis, USA)

Fist

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Our ability to make a fist is what distinguishes humans from every other species, including prim…

Giovanni Aloi,

Lawn

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the center of a …