Junk - Digging Through Americas Love Affair with Stuff Stewart AlisonPaperback / softback
Junk - Digging Through Americas Love Affair with Stuff Stewart AlisonPaperback / softback When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents' overloaded basement,…
Specifikacia Junk - Digging Through Americas Love Affair with Stuff Stewart AlisonPaperback / softback
Junk - Digging Through Americas Love Affair with Stuff Stewart AlisonPaperback / softback
When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents' overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for months, it got her thinking: How did it come to this? Junk details Stewart's three-year investigation into America's stuff. Why do smart, successful people hold on to old Christmas bows, chipped knick-knacks, and books they will likely never reread?
She goes backstage at Antiques Roadshow, and learns what makes for compelling junk-based television with the executive producer of Pawn Stars. Stewart rides along with junk removal teams like Trash Daddy, Annie Haul, and Junk Vets. And she even investigates the growing problem of space junk--23,000 pieces of manmade debris orbiting the planet at 17,500 mph, threatening both satellites and human space exploration.
But it's not all dire. Readers will also learn that there are