Objects of our desire : exploring our intimate connections with the things around us /
Salman Akhtar.
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Harmony Books, , c2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (223 p. )
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Prologue: Gandhi's paperclip -- Everything -- Acquiring and using things -- Collecting and hoarding things -- Something -- Nostalgic things -- Sacred things -- Sexy things -- Hybrid things -- Fake things -- Nothing -- Misplacing, losing, and letting go of things -- Becoming a thing -- Epilogue: a little silver box inside the parrot's heart.. - A poet and psychiatrist examines how humans acquire objects and explores the psychological reasons why they invest them with significance and meaning.
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| ISBN | 0-307-42136-8
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