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Daniel Miller

    Daniel Miller is a leading anthropologist who examines how technology and material culture shape our lives. His work delves into everyday interactions, revealing how meaning is constructed in our increasingly digitized world. With keen insight, he analyzes the impacts of online communication and consumption on human relationships and identity. Miller's writing offers profound insights into the complexities of modern existence.

    The Sari
    Capitalism
    Texit
    Forging Political Compromise: Antonín Svehla and the Czechoslovak Republican Party, 1918-1933
    Animal Ethics and Theology
    My American Dream
    • 2024

      This guide serves as a valuable resource for both novice and experienced collectors of fine art photography. It offers insights into identifying, evaluating, and acquiring photographs, while also covering essential topics such as market trends, artist backgrounds, and preservation techniques. The compact format makes it easy to reference, ensuring collectors can make informed decisions in their pursuit of building a meaningful photography collection.

      The Compact Guide to Collecting Fine Art Photography
    • 2024

      The story encourages children to overcome boredom by harnessing their imagination and creativity. It highlights the importance of love and support from parents, illustrating how these elements can inspire kids to explore new ideas and activities. Through engaging illustrations, the book aims to empower young readers to discover their potential and find joy in creative expression.

      Daddy, what can I do?
    • 2023

      Published in 1898, 'History of the Reformed Church in Reading, PA' provides a detailed account of the development of the Reformed Church in Reading from its origins in the 18th century through to the late 19th century. The work covers the major events and figures in the church's history and includes discussions of theological controversies and social and cultural contexts. Valuable for scholars of church history and local history alike.

      History of the Reformed Church in Reading, Pa.
    • 2023
    • 2023

      My American Dream

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      A young girl from a rural Spanish village faces profound challenges when separated from her parents and raised by her grandparents. Her journey takes a dramatic turn as she reunites with her family in South America, leading her to confront obstacles like a chronic illness and cultural ostracism. As she navigates motherhood and professional life, her experiences in Miami and New York City force her to grapple with identity and resilience. This poignant narrative explores her transformative path toward achieving her American Dream amidst adversity.

      My American Dream
    • 2021

      Irvin Atchison lived a hard life as a young man growing up around Sidney, Montana, in the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s. He had a way with horses and a hardscrabble life. When he joined the US Army, he had no idea that his skill would take him to the mountains of Hawaii to train mules in preparation for the coming War.

      A Young Man of Montana: From Hard Youth to Hawaii Mule-Skinner
    • 2021

      A look at the adoption of smartphones by older people across the globe. The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose—but do we really know what it is, or what its consequences are for people’s lives around the world? This volume presents the findings of eleven anthropologists in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America on the adoption of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are a technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from a comparative research project on the ways that people use smartphones. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which the user can transform it. It follows that in order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland—all alongside diverse trajectories of aging in Al Quds, Brazil, and Italy.

      The Global Smartphone
    • 2021

      The Tree of Knowledge

      • 305 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.5(57)Add rating

      A Booklife Editor's Pick "Filled with fascinating characters, breathtaking action... this novel grabs one's interest from page one."-Kat Kennedy, The US Review of Books Knowledge is power. It is said that the greatest chess masters can envision a match's outcome ten moves before it occurs. Imagine a person who can visualize ten steps ahead, not simply in the game of chess, but in every human interaction. Imagine a person who can see a punch before it is thrown; who knows what you are going to say before you say it; who can see every political and economic move long before it happens. Imagine a secret that can make this all possible. Mathematics professor Albert Puddles exposes this secret for himself as he is thrust into a murder investigation on the Princeton campus. The discovery leads Albert to delve into ancient religious interpretation and unmask new analytical abilities, all while teaming up with an aging mentor, a curious teaching assistant, and an elite Book Club on a frantic chase across America to recover this world-changing knowledge before it falls into dangerous hands. Albert-now embedded in a national cat-and-mouse political power play-rediscovers a woman from his past and is forced to confront his own understanding of love, rationality, power, and the true limits of the human mind.

      The Tree of Knowledge
    • 2019

      Stuff

      • 169 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      3.8(235)Add rating

      Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff. The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the theories that are required to understand the way we are created by material as well as social relations. It takes us inside the very private worlds of our home possessions and our processes of accommodating. It considers issues of materiality in relation to the media, as well as the implications of such an approach in relation, for example, to poverty. Finally, the book considers objects which we use to define what it is to be alive and how we use objects to cope with death. Based on more than thirty years of research in the Caribbean, India, London and elsewhere, Stuff is nothing less than a manifesto for the study of material culture and a new way of looking at the objects that surround us and make up so much of our social and personal life.

      Stuff
    • 2018

      Texit

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Texit is the first non-fiction book to delve into the motivations, the process, and the practicality of a modern-day Texas exit from United States. Channeling his 20 years of experience on the issue, author Daniel Miller, takes the reader through the historical and cultural foundations of Texit, its impact on mainstream politics, and plainly lays out the grievances expressed by many Texans that drive their support for an independent Texas. Texit also addresses the most common objections with facts and sheds light on what a future Republic of Texas could look like. Foreword by John Griffing.

      Texit