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“sam johnson schlee”

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  • Living Rooms

    by Sam Johnson-Schlee ...
    The places where we live promise refuge from the brutality of life within capitalist society. Yet in our bloated property market, houses have become an asset first and a home second. For a few, the home is a sanctuary and a safe investment. For many others, a place of precarity, discomfort and financial insecurity. Living Rooms invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Funny Weather

    Art in an Emergency

    by Olivia Laing ...
    “One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing ... Read more

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  • Burning Questions

    Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, ... Read more

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  • Life in the Garden

    by Penelope Lively ...
    From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and lifePenelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, ... Read more

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  • The Cost of Living

    A Working Autobiography

    by Deborah Levy ...
    The bestselling exploration of the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.A New York Times Notable BookA New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?This vibrant memoir ... Read more

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  • True Style

    The History and Principles of Classic Menswear

    by G. Bruce Boyer ...
    **From a leading menswear expert, the essential guide to gentlemanly style“Erudite and charming.”—San Francisco Chronicle**From choosing the right pair of eyeglasses to properly coordinating a shirt, tie, and pocket square, getting dressed is an art to be mastered. Yet, how many of us just throw on, well, whatever each morning?In True Style, acclaimed fashion expert G. Bruce Boyer provides a crisp ... Read more

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  • Chromophobia

    by David Batchelor ...
    The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse – a fear of corruption or contamination through colour – lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge colour, either by making it the property of some ‘foreign body’ – the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological – or by ... Read more

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  • Paper

    An Elegy

    by Ian Sansom ...
    From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper—an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and ... Read more

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  • Get Started with Origami

    by Robin Harbin ...
    Teach Yourself - the world's leading learning brand - is relaunched in 2010 as a multi-platform experience that will keep you motivated to achieve your goals. Let our expert author guide you through this brand new edition, with personal insights, tips, energising self-tests and summaries throughout the book. Go online at www.teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community ... Read more

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  • How to Make a Home

    by Edward Hollis ...
    Series Book 11 - The School of Life
    At a time when work and home life are becoming increasingly blurred, and modern technology brings the realm of the public into what used to be a personal and private space, Ed Hollis looks at what it means to make a home in today's world.Exploring the meaning of private and public space, the importance we place on physical objects and the demands we make of our home environment, How to Make a Home ... Read more

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  • The Missing Ink

    The Lost Art of Handwriting

    by Philip Hensher ...
    "Acclaimed British novelist Hensher . . . provides a droll and eclectic tour of handwriting history" — Booklist ."Rediscover the joys of writing. . . . Like a charming dinner guest, [Hensher] brims with fun facts, good humor and amusing reminiscences . . . [He] enlivens his musings about penmanship's demise with sharp insights and wry wit." ― The New York Times Book Review... ... Read more

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  • Paraphernalia

    The Curious Lives of Magical Things

    by Professor Steven Connor ...
    From keys and handkerchiefs to sweets and rubber bands, the curious objects we surround ourselves with, though often seemingly mundane, have a magical quality.Their surprising power to disturb, soothe, seduce or absorb give these quirky objects histories and meanings we rarely ponder. Yet we would be lost without them.Take bags, for example. Why do most women carry handbags, while men rely on ... Read more

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