did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780203011638

Where Stuff Comes From : How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers, and Many Others Things Come to Be As They Are

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780203011638

  • ISBN10:

    0203011635

  • Copyright: 2003-05-23
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

List Price: $39.95 Save up to $13.39
  • Rent Book $26.56
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

A sparkling tour of how things are created: the everyday objects of our life - paper clips, Post-its, bathtubs, cars and all the other stuff - are a delicate and clever intermingling of design, timing and functionality that mirrors contemporary life.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Lash-Ups: Goods and Bads
Inside Stuff: How Professionals Do It
Form and Function
Changing Goods
Venues and Middlemen
Place in Product
Corporate Organization and the Design Big Thing
Moral Rules: New for Old
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program