An edition of Glass, Paper, Beans (1997)

Glass, paper, beans

revelations on the nature and value of ordinary things

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An edition of Glass, Paper, Beans (1997)

Glass, paper, beans

revelations on the nature and value of ordinary things

1st ed.

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  • 2 Want to read

In Glass, Paper, Beans, Leah Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table in the Someday Cafe to their various points of origin.

And through the intimate portraits of three everyday workers - Ruth Lamp, a night-shift supervisor at the Anchor Hocking glass factory in Ohio; Brent Boyd, a third-generation lumberjack from Plumweseep, Canada; and Basilio Salinas, a man who tends the coffee trees at Pluma Hidalgo, Mexico - a whole new world of connections and values area realized as Cohen, Oz-like, draws the reader across time and continents.

In prose both sophisticated and stunningly simple, Leah Cohen braids the lives of these three unforgettable workers as she traces the origins, myths, and manufacture of glass, paper, and the beloved coffee bean.

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Doubleday/Currency
Language
English
Pages
299

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Material culture, Social aspects, Fetishism, Commercial products, Social aspects of Commercial products, History
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Cover of: Glass, Paper, Beans
Glass, Paper, Beans : Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
August 17, 1998, Currency
in English
Cover of: Glass, paper, beans
Glass, paper, beans: revelations on the nature and value of ordinary things
1997, Doubleday/Currency
in English - 1st ed.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299).

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.3
Library of Congress
GN450 .C65 1997, GN450.C65 1997

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Pagination
xvii, 299 p. ;
Number of pages
299

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OL981666M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0385478194
LCCN
96019273
OCLC/WorldCat
34782620
Library Thing
27764
Goodreads
2655797

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