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The Life Of Stuff
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Author : Susannah Walker
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-05-17
The Life Of Stuff written by Susannah Walker and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black biography prize 2019 'A moving memoir.' Sunday Times 'Gripped me from the first page.' Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless Nights 'A gripping read... a riveting piece of writing.' Radio 4 __________ What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? What becomes of the things we leave behind? Only after her mother's death does Susannah Walker discover how much of a hoarder she had become. Over the following months, Susannah has to sort through a dilapidated house filled to the brim with rubbish and treasures - filling bag after bag with possessions. But what she's really in search of is 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. __________ 'Compelling and moving.' Ruth Hogan 'An excellent memoir.' Cathy Rentzenbrink
The Secret Life Of Stuff
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Author : Julie Hill
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-06
The Secret Life Of Stuff written by Julie Hill and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-06 with Science categories.
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.
Move Your Stuff Change Your Life
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Author : Karen Rauch Carter
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000-01-06
Move Your Stuff Change Your Life written by Karen Rauch Carter and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-06 with Architecture categories.
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.
The Life Of Stuff
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Author : SUSANNAH. WALKER
language : en
Publisher: Black Swan
Release Date : 2019-01-10
The Life Of Stuff written by SUSANNAH. WALKER and has been published by Black Swan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with categories.
'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?
The Life Of Stuff
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Author : Simon Donald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-08
The Life Of Stuff written by Simon Donald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-08 with categories.
Sex, drugs and Frank Sinatra. 'The Life of Stuff' is a brilliantly funny fly-on-the-wall snapshot of eight lives careering out of control as small time crook and aspiring pharmaceutical entrepreneur, Wille Dobie's best laid plans unravel. Introduction by Author. Cast of 8, 5M, 3 F.
The Stuff Of Life
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Author : Hilary Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Release Date : 2014-04-10
The Stuff Of Life written by Hilary Robertson and has been published by Ryland Peters & Small this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with House & Home categories.
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.
Stuff
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Author : Daniel Miller
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Stuff written by Daniel Miller and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Social Science categories.
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.
My Life And Other Stuff I Made Up
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Author : Tristan Bancks
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2014
My Life And Other Stuff I Made Up written by Tristan Bancks and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"Have you ever been kissed by a dog? Ever had to eat Vegemite off your sister's big toe? Have you had a job delivering teeth? Has a bloodthirsty magpie ever been out to get you? Ever woken up to discover that everything hovers? And have you eaten 67 hot dogs in ten minutes? I have. I'm Tom Weekly. This book is full of my stories, jokes, cartoon characters, ideas for theme park rides and other stuff I've made up. It's where I pour out whatever's inside my head. It gets a bit weird sometimes but that's how I roll"--Back cover. First person recount.
Stuff
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Author : John C. Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : Northwest Environment Watch
Release Date : 1997
Stuff written by John C. Ryan and has been published by Seattle, Wash. : Northwest Environment Watch this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Nature categories.
This volume takes you to the places and people you touch every day. - BOOK JACKET.
Stuff
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Author : Jeremy Strong
language : en
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date : 2007-02-20
Stuff written by Jeremy Strong and has been published by HarperTeen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-20 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Stuff. My head's full of it. I don't even know where most of it comes from. I just seem to pick it up, like my brain emits a special sort of tractor beam that locks on to pointless information. But in the face of my problems, all the extra stuff is proving useless. What problems? you ask. I shall tell you. Problem 1: The invasion of my home. Dad's new girlfriend moved in, and, even worse, she brought along her daughter, who has no sense of humor and no taste in music. Problem 2: My girlfriend, Delfine. Her brother would break both my arms if I broke up with her. Problem 3: The new girl at school. Stunning. Gorgeous. Willowy. My Destiny (but see Problem 2). Problem 4: My comic strip. At first it was cool to anonymously author the strip in the school paper, but now that everyone suspects who they are in the strip, I run the risk of getting my legs broken in addition to my arms (see above). Clearly, I need to plan The Great Escape! Part hilarious musings, part graphic novel, stuff is the quirky exposé of a fourteen-year-old boy who, let's face it, could use a little help.