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Material World: A Global Family Portrait
Material World A Global Family Portrait
Author: Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann, Paul Kennedy
Profiles thirty international and statistically average families, documenting their economic standings, needs, hopes, and beliefs about the future of the planet, in a study that reveals the environmental cost of materialism. Reprint. 45,000 first printing.
ISBN-13: 9781439505540
ISBN-10: 1439505543
Publication Date: 6/26/2008
Pages: 255
Edition: Reprint
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Book Type: Library Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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This book and his others give glimpses into the daily lives of families around the world. He has representative families from many different countries and cultures take out all the possessions and arrange them in front of their homes, and takes their pictures with all of it. There are lots of interesting details about the possessions and the lives of the families. His other books are Women in the Material World, and Hungry Planet, which pictures the food each family eats in one week or one month.
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