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|author=Michael Marder
|title=Dust (Object Lessons)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=''Dust'' is among the latest volumes in Bloomsbury's fascinating new 'Object Lessons' series. With titles ranging from ''Cigarette Lighter'' to ''Shipping Container'', the books aim to explore the hidden histories of commonplace items. Here Marder approaches dust not as a scientist but as a philosopher: he is a professor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Nevertheless, he reminds readers that dust is largely composed of skin cells and hair, the detritus of our human bodies. Thus dusting – the verb form – is a kind of guilty attempt to clean up after ourselves, ultimately a futile and 'self-defeating occupation'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1628925582</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Eva Holland
|summary= Keever is dead. We know this from the outset, because in the opening lines of ''Make Me'' he is being buried under the hog pen. There are reasons for this, not least because the ground is already churned up by the hogs, and anywhere else in this vast mid-west expanse of wheat fields would be terribly visible from the air.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857502689</amazonuk>
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