[PDF] The Life Of Stuff eBook

Author : Susannah Walker
Publisher : Doubleday UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9780857525406

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"Only after her mother's death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, sorting through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, she goes in search of a woman she'd never really known in life. Hoping to piece together her mother's story and make sense of their troubled relationship, what emerges from the mess of scattered papers, discarded photographs and an extraordinary amount of stuff is the history of a sad and fractured family, haunted by dead children, divorce and alcohol."--

Author : Julie Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1409040232

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Wouldn't you like: - Products that don't damage the environment? - A better way of life without agonising about your 'footprint'? - To really know your stuff? Climate change? Biofuels? Nuclear power? Landfills? Recycling? Renewable energy? Environmental issues can feel overwhelming. But, in fact, it is simple; it all comes down to one thing - stuff. Our use of the Earth's resources - whether a crisp packet or a cargo ship, a T-shirt or a wind turbine - has an inescapable impact on our future. In The Secret Life of Stuff, Julie Hill uncovers the origins and the true cost of what we use. Her inventory of over-consumption may shock but it is the first step towards overcoming waste. The misuse of stuff is not your fault, it's a product of history. But it is only by understanding what has gone wrong, that everyone - politicians, business people and us as consumers - can create a new and better material world.

Author : Wayne Kramer
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306921537

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The first memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5 "Voyeuristically dramatic." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, the MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone. Led by legendary guitarist Wayne Kramer, the band was a reflection of the times: exciting, sexy, violent, chaotic, and even out of control. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, the MC5 toured the country, played alongside music legends, and had a rabid following, their music acting as the soundtrack to the blossoming blue collar youth movement. Kramer wanted to redefine what a rock 'n' roll group was capable of, and though there was power in reaching for that, it was also a recipe for personal and professional disaster. The band recorded three major label albums but, by 1972-it was all over. Kramer's story is (literally) a revolutionary one, but it's also the deeply personal struggle of an addict and an artist, a rebel with a great tale to tell. From the glory days of Detroit to the junk-sick streets of the East Village, from Key West to Nashville and sunny L.A., in and out of prison and on and off of drugs, Kramer's is the classic journeyman narrative, but with a twist: he's here to remind us that revolution is always an option.

Author : SUSANNAH. WALKER
Publisher : Black Swan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781784163303

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'Absolutely fascinating. She writes with admirable honesty... It is a book I know I shall read again.' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things 'An excellent memoir'. Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times Only after her mother's death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, she has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures, in search of a woman she'd never really known or understood in life. This is her last chance to piece together her mother's story and make sense of their troubled relationship. What emerges from the mess of scattered papers, discarded photographs and an extraordinary amount of stuff is the history of a sad and fractured family, haunted by dead children, divorce and alcohol. The Life of Stuff is a deeply personal exploration of mourning and the shoring up of possessions against the losses and griefs of life, which also raises universal questions about what makes us the people we are. What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? And what painful circumstances turn someone who loves their home and the stuff it contains into an incurable hoarder who ends their days in squalor?

Author : Jeremy Strong
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060841052

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Fourteen-year-old Simon, known as Stuff, struggles with his new stepfamily, tries to avoid a giant attack rabbit, hopes to break up with his girlfriend and connect with a new one, and creates cartoons of "Punykid's battle with drooling dorkoids."

Author : John C. Ryan
Publisher : Seattle, Wash. : Northwest Environment Watch
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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This volume takes you to the places and people you touch every day. - BOOK JACKET.

Author : Christine Holton Cashen
Publisher : Dynamic Speaker Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 9781616589806

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A must read book. Author has autographed the book with a little message attached. The buyer also gets a free CC's Books and Bling book mark.

Author : Hilary Robertson
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781849755054

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In her gorgeous new book, sought-after interiors stylist Hilary Robertson reveals a multitude of different ways to style and display the ‘stuff of life’ – the flotsam and jetsam of possessions, from pictures and ornaments to hats and bicycles, that we all gradually accumulate during the course of time. In her gorgeous new book, sought-after interiors stylist Hilary Robertson reveals a multitude of different ways to style and display the “stuff of life”—the flotsam and jetsam of possessions that we all slowly acquire. In the first chapter, How to Arrange your Stuff, Hilary identifies and illustrates four different approaches to arrangements and shows how each one can be achieved. She also considers the variety of display locations available within the home – blank walls, mantelpieces, windowsills, chests of drawers, tabletops – and suggests how to make the most of them. Next, in Stories told by Real Homes, Hilary shares inspiration from real-life interiors that fall into five different styles—Neatnik, Bohemian, Naturalist, Sculpture Vulture, and Noble Salvage. Some people are magpies—they love stuff; finding, collecting, and displaying it, while their opposite, the minimalists, are on a mission to contain it or tame it.The ideas in this book are sure to appeal to both magpies and minimalists and everyone in between.

Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745654967

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Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff. The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the theories that are required to understand the way we are created by material as well as social relations. It takes us inside the very private worlds of our home possessions and our processes of accommodating. It considers issues of materiality in relation to the media, as well as the implications of such an approach in relation, for example, to poverty. Finally, the book considers objects which we use to define what it is to be alive and how we use objects to cope with death. Based on more than thirty years of research in the Caribbean, India, London and elsewhere, Stuff is nothing less than a manifesto for the study of material culture and a new way of looking at the objects that surround us and make up so much of our social and personal life.

Author : Karen Rauch Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2000-01-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0684866048

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Applying the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui to modern life, the author reveals how carefully arranging items in the home can lead to remarkable results in love, career, and personal happiness. Original.