Author: John Scanla
Publisher: Reaktion Book
Keywords: garbage
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1861892225
ISBN-13: 9781861892225
How do we decide what is junk? The discarded remnants of our daily lives may no longer be useful to us, yet John Scanlan proposes in On Garbage that our trash is actually a treasure trove of artifacts that reveals intriguing insights into the modern human condition and the evolution of Western culture. On Garbage is the first book to examine the detritus of Western culture in full rangenot only material waste and ruin, but also residual or "broken" knowledge and the lingering remainders of cultural thought systems. Scanlan considers how Western philosophy, science, and technology attained mas
Author: Ivan Klima
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: garbage, love
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 1991-04-23
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0394589769
ISBN-13: 9780394589763
The narrator has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress an essay on Kafka and exchanged his writers pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, on Kafka, on life, on art and, obsessively, on his passionate and adulterous love affair with the sculptress Daria.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Barry Keating
Publisher: S. French
Keywords: cantata, garbage
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573695385
ISBN-13: 9780573695384
Author: Heather Roger
Publisher: New Pre
Keywords: garbage, life, hidden
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-09-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1595581200
ISBN-13: 9781595581204
A sobering exploration of our high-octane trash output that was named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times and a nonfiction choice by The Guardian. Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem; the Pacific Ocean is today six times more abundant with plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journa
Author: Christiane Dorio
Publisher: World Almanac Library
Keywords: crisis, garbage, earth
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-01-12
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0836877535
ISBN-13: 9780836877533
Author: Christiane Dorio
Publisher: World Almanac Library
Keywords: crisis, garbage, earth
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-04-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0836881532
ISBN-13: 9780836881530
Ideal for classroom discussions and reports on current events, this series takes an in-depth look at six global problems facing us today. Each book clearly explains the causes and effects of a major problem and suggests solutions. Grades: 5-8 Manufacturer: Weekly Reader
Authors:DeGezelle, Terri,
Publisher: Capstone Pre
Keywords: mighty, machines, plus, pebble, trucks, garbage
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $6.75
ISBN-10: 0736869050
ISBN-13: 9780736869058
Text and photographs present garbage trucks, their parts, and their jobs.
