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The Life of Stuff

Susannah Walker
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Author : Susannah Walker
Publisher : Doubleday UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 0857525409

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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."--

The Secret Life of Stuff

Julie Hill
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Author : Julie Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409040231

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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.

Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life

Karen Rauch Carter
Move Your Stuff Change Your Life Book PDF

Author : Karen Rauch Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780684866048

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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.

Blood

Lawrence Hill
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Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770893245

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Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today. Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literature, and the visual arts. Every time it pools or spills, we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what pulls us apart. For centuries, perceptions of difference in our blood have separated people on the basis of gender, race, class, and nation. Ideas about blood purity have spawned rules about who gets to belong to a family or cultural group, who enjoys the rights of citizenship and nationality, what privileges one can expect to be granted or denied, whether you inherit poverty or the right to rule over the masses, what constitutes fair play in sport, and what defines a person’s identity. Blood: The Stuff of Life is a bold meditation on blood as an historical and contemporary marker of identity, belonging, gender, race, class, citizenship, athletic superiority, and nationhood.

The Life of Stuff

SUSANNAH. WALKER
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Author : SUSANNAH. WALKER
Publisher : Black Swan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784163309

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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?

The Stuff of Life

Hilary Robertson
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Author : Hilary Robertson
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1849755051

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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.

Stuff

Daniel Miller
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Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745654966

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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.

The Hard Stuff

Wayne Kramer
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Author : Wayne Kramer
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306921537

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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.

Stuff

Jeremy Strong
Stuff Book PDF

Author : Jeremy Strong
Publisher : HarperTeen
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060841060

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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.

Stuff

John C. Ryan,Alan Thein Durning
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Author : John C. Ryan,Alan Thein Durning
Publisher : Seattle, Wash. : Northwest Environment Watch
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015048750643

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

My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up

Tristan Bancks
My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up Book PDF

Author : Tristan Bancks
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857983190

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"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.

98% Funky Stuff

Maceo Parker
98 Funky Stuff Book PDF

Author : Maceo Parker
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613743492

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98% Funky Stuff by Maceo Parker Pdf

Maceo Parker's signature style became the lynchpin of James Brown's band when he and his brother Melvin joined the Hardest Working Man in Show Business in 1964. That style helped define Brown's brand of funk, and the phrase &“Maceo, I want you to blow!&” became part of the lexicon of black music. He took time off from James Brown to play with George Clinton's P-funk collective and with Bootsy's Rubber Band; he also formed his own band, Maceo and All the King's Men, whose records are cult favorites among funk aficionados. Here Maceo tells his own warm and astonishing story, from his Southern upbringing to his career touring the world and playing to adoring fans. Maceo has long called his approach to the saxophone &“2% jazz, 98% funky stuff.&” Now, on the eve of Maceo's 70th birthday, in prose as lively and funky as his saxophone playing, here is the definitive story of one of the funkiest musicians alive.

The Good Stuff

Christine Holton Cashen
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Author : Christine Holton Cashen
Publisher : Dynamic Speaker Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 1616589809

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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.

Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First.

Laura Tremaine
Share Your Stuff I ll Go First Book PDF

Author : Laura Tremaine
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780310359869

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Part memoir and part guidebook, Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. is the invitation you've been waiting for to show up with your whole self and discover the intimate, meaningful friendships you long for. In spite of the hyper-connected culture we live in today, women still feel shamed for oversharing and being publicly vulnerable. And no matter how many friends we seem to have, many of us are still desperately lonely. Laura Tremaine, blogger and podcaster behind 10 Things To Tell You, says it's time for something better. Openness and vulnerability are the foundation for human growth and healthy relationships, and it all starts when we share our stuff, the nitty-gritty daily details about ourselves with others. Laura has led the way in her personal life with her popular blog and podcast, and now with lighthearted self-awareness, a sensitivity to the important things in life, and compelling storytelling, Laura gives you the tools to build and deepen the conversations happening in your life. Laura's stories about her childhood, her complicated shifts in faith and friendships, and her marriage to a Hollywood movie director will prompt you to identify the beautiful narrative and pivotal milestones of your own life. Each chapter offers intriguing and reflective questions that will reveal unique details and stories you've never thought to tell and will guide you into cultivating the authentic connection with others that only comes from sharing yourself. So let’s get started! Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First.

Discardia

Dinah Sanders
Discardia Book PDF

Author : Dinah Sanders
Publisher : Dinah Sanders
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780983998020

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Let go of everything that doesn't make your life awesome! With three key principles and numerous practical tips, Discardia-a new holiday-helps you solve specific issues, carve away the nonsense of physical objects, habits, or emotional baggage, and uncover what brings you joy. Dinah Sanders, productivity and happiness coach, draws on many years of experience to provide a flexible, iterative method for cutting out distractions and focusing on more fulfilling activities. Join others around the world who use Discardia's inspirational-but not sappy-approach, and put your energy where it counts: toward living the less stressful life of your dreams!