{"product_id":"signature-9781501353345","title":"Signature","description":"\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness-as if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSignature\u003c\/i\u003e addresses these questions as it roams from a roundtable on the Greek island of Syros, to a scene of handwriting analysis conducted in an English pub, from a wedding in Moscow, where guests sign the bride's body, to a San Franciscan tattoo parlor interested in arcane forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe signature's history encompasses ancient handprints on cave walls, autograph hunters, the branding of slaves, metaphysical poetry, medical malpractice, hip-hop lyrics, legal challenges to electronic signatures, ice cores harvested from Greenland, and tales of forgery and autopens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart cultural chronicle, part travelogue, \u003ci\u003eSignature\u003c\/i\u003e pursues the identifying marks made by people, animals, and planetary forces, revealing the stories and fantasies hidden in their signatures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501353345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.40h x 4.60w x 0.70d","brand":"Hunter Dukes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38023844659381,"sku":"9781501353345","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8234cd24-3d04-46f0-829c-84b403d06f53.jpg?v=1609185738","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/signature-9781501353345","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}