(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Murray Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781399803113)
A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists....Loe edasi...
In Plastic: An Autobiography, Cobbs obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey e...Loe edasi...
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, its also waste-or was, or will be....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781628924374)
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, its also wasteor was, or will be....Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Feb-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9780791469934)
A philosophical exploration of the problematic nature of the disposable. Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes … What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if...Loe edasi...
Looks at contemporary society and its treatment of waste products, offering a meditation on what we throw out, how we do it, and the ethical significance of waste in everyday life....Loe edasi...
Looks at contemporary society and its treatment of waste products, offering a meditation on what we throw out, how we do it, and the ethical significance of waste in everyday life....Loe edasi...
