Gusto for Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gusto for Things write by Renata Ago. This book was released on 2013-04-22. Gusto for Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We live in a material world—our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a time of expanding consumption, when objects began to play an important role in defining gender as well as social status. Gusto for Things reconstructs the material lives of seventeenth-century Romans, exploring new ways of thinking about the meaning of things as a historical phenomenon. Through creative use of account books, inventories, wills, and other records, Renata Ago examines early modern attitudes toward possessions, asking what people did with their things, why they wrote about them, and how they passed objects on to their heirs. While some inhabitants of Rome were connoisseurs of the paintings, books, and curiosities that made the city famous, Ago shows that men and women of lesser means also filled their homes with a more modest array of goods. She also discovers the genealogies of certain categories of things—for instance, books went from being classed as luxury goods to a category all their own—and considers what that reveals about the early modern era. An animated investigation into the relationship between people and the things they buy, Gusto for Things paints an illuminating portrait of the meaning of objects in preindustrial Europe.
Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats write by T. S. Eliot. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The inspiration for the iconic musical Cats, T. S. Eliot's classic and delightful collection of poetry about cats. These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and adults alike. This collection is a curious and artful homage to felines young and old, merry and fierce, small and unmistakably round. This is the ultimate gift for cat and poetry lovers.
The Silent Life of Things
The Silent Life of Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Silent Life of Things write by Alan Munton. This book was released on 2015-11-25. The Silent Life of Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and “thingness”. Combining cultural, phenomenological, semiotic, and philosophical approaches, this collection of eleven essays proposes a journey into “the silent life of things”, into those aspects of materiality that are not immediately visible and require both increased attention and a sense of intuition. It focuses on the subtle changes that materiality operates upon our subjectivity and upon our status as producers, users, possessors, negotiators and manipulators of objects, and analyses the ways in which materiality is constantly redefined by consumerism and the strategies it adopts in order to resist commodification. In the process, the collection explores different ways of deciphering what materiality, in its reliable concreteness or its “magical materialism”, tries to tell us: all the silent stories that “things” accumulate while circulating among people, societies and cultures; the narratives they weave when amassed, collected, archived or transformed into cultural commodities; the secrets they reveal when witnessing the gradual commodification of their owners – of their bodies, lives and souls. The Silent Life of Things: Representing and Reading Commodified Objecthood establishes a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality, and its participation in the establishment of a new aesthetics of consumerism.
Molto Gusto
Molto Gusto - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Molto Gusto write by Mario Batali. This book was released on 2010-03-19. Molto Gusto available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Molto Gusto is a glorious collection of mouth-watering recipes for pizza, pasta, and more from Mario Batali’s famed Otto Enoteca Pizzeria in New York City. Chef and restaurateur Batali—a fixture on the Food Network and bestselling author of Italian Grill and Molto Italiano—has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the “100 most recognized personalities in the U.S.” With Molto Gusto, Mario Batali takes food lovers on a spectacular culinary journey—from antipasti to gelati—with nearly 100 scrumptious recipes for “Easy Italian Cooking” and gorgeous full-color photographs.
You Only Die Once
You Only Die Once - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook You Only Die Once write by Margie Jenkins. This book was released on 2002-10-03. You Only Die Once available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Death is something readers usually don't like to think about. That is understandable, but, as Margie Jenkins points out, that kind of denial misses out of life's last adventure. As practical as it is profound, this book teaches that good preparation for death is the foundation for a bold and rewarding life.
