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Fabrication : Essays on making things and making meaning

Author: Susan Neville
Publisher: MacMurray & Beck
Keywords: making, meaning, things, fabrication, essays
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1878448080
ISBN-13: 9781878448088

We are a nation of consumers. But where does what we buy come from? And how are these things made? In this meditation on manufacture, Susan Neville journeys to factories and plants in the heart of Indiana, looking for the sources of things. From these journeys, Neville learns how the process of canning tomatoes is similar to the process of making metal caskets. Watches thousands of blue globes spin through a room like planets. Learns how, and by whom, and how well, and why things are made, whether they be dolls or insulin, gyroscopes or glass. And, by focusing on process and pro

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The Blood Latitudes

Author: William Harrison
Publisher: MacMurray & Beck
Keywords: latitudes, blood
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1878448978
ISBN-13: 9781878448972

By the time his son, Buck, arrives in London, Will Hobbs has settled into the quiet and solitary routines of retirement with the grace and self-sufficiency he carried through his years as a reporter in Africa. A reflective man, he senses an emptiness at the edges of his heart and mind-though he scarcely acknowledges it. But Buck brings along with his beautiful wife, Key, and the news that he’s now covering Will’s old territory-the incendiary part of Africa that once was the core of his father’s life. Soon word comes back from Africa that Buck is missing and Will sets out

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Horace Afoot

Author: Frederick Reuss
Publisher: MacMurray & Beck
Keywords: afoot, horace
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1997-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 187844879X
ISBN-13: 9781878448798

In this brilliantly comic first novel, a solitary and articulate outsider walks the quiet streets of a small midwestern town, making himself up from fragments of Latin poems, shards of ancient thought, and a few scattered appearances before the county clerk. And the townsfolk are understandably suspiciousespecially when this man who calls himself Horace starts making random Socratic phone calls at all hours and turning up half-dressed every time there’s trouble. Following in the literary footsteps of Walker Percy, Frederick Reuss charms us with the musings, vices, and brief encou