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273 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780713994766
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Allen Lane
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
Collecting is one of the most common pastimes, and can often become a passion bordering on the obsessive. Our familiarity with the pursuit, however, obscures the questions at its heart: why do people amass things that have no use? What drives them...
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273 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780713994766
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Allen Lane
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
Collecting is one of the most common pastimes, and can often become a passion bordering on the obsessive. Our familiarity with the pursuit, however, obscures the questions at its heart: why do people amass things that have no use? What drives them...