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By: Birkhold, Matthew H.
Metronome
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musici

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Birkhold, Matthew H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765108871
- Language: English
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By: Enjeti, Anjali
Ballot
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Ballot examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an incre

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765126196
- Language: English
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By: G'Sell, Eileen
Lipstick
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: G’Sell, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765135587
- Language: English
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By: Mesle, Sarah
Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now
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This book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.

Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermin

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- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Mesle, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843629
- Language: English
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By: Eco, Umberto
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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“Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”
—The Atlantic

One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.

Umberto Eco was fond of p

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- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 067430246X
- Language: English
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By: Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana
Videotape
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765100004
- Language: English
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By: Laer, Rebecca Van
Cat
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Laer, Rebecca Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114629
- Language: English
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By: Prado, Ignacio M. SÃ¡nchez
Taco
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City n

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Prado, Ignacio M. SÃ¡nchez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765135624
- Language: English
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By: McGowan, Todd
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan
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The difficulty of Jacques Lacan’s thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Hardcover)
- Author: McGowan, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 100930075X
- Language: English
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By: Frye, Northrop
Words with Power: Being a Second Study the Bible and Literature
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In Words With Power, literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, w

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- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156983656
- Language: English
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By: Gilbert, Sandra M.
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
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“A feminist classic.”–Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review

“A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”–Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World

A p

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- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246722
- Language: English
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By: Robbins, Bruce
Atrocity: A Literary History
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Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.

Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we thi

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- Author: Robbins, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640558
- Language: English
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By: Barthes, Roland
Empire of Signs
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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography–in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies–of Japan itself

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- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374522073
- Language: English
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By: Habib, M. A. R.
Literary Studies: A Norton Guide
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Literary Studies provides students with an accessible overview of everything they need to know to succeed in their English courses–literary terms, historical periods, theoretical approaches, and more… [more below]
- Author: Habib, M. A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 039393795X
- Language: English
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By: Hawkins, Mollie
Saxophone
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hawkins, Mollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114773
- Language: English
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By: Frye, Northrop
Educated Imagination
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“What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?” Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous sty

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- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0887845983
- Language: English
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By: Patrick Hastings
The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
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From the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, this essential guide to James Joyce’s masterpiece weaves together plot summaries, interpretive analyses, scholarly perspectives, and historical and biographical c

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- Author: Hastings, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 142144349X
- Language: English
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By: Weinstein, Arnold
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
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A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives

Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to becom

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- Author: Weinstein, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691177309
- Language: English
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By: Bernhard, Meg
Wine
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inex

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bernhard, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383612
- Language: English
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By: Simon, Ed
Relic
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a signi

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- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765102282
- Language: English