Title Cigarette lighter / Jack Pendarvis.

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Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials	EBSCO Ebook	Downloadable
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Description	1 online resource (160 pages).
	data file rda
Series	Object Lessons
	Object lessons.
Contents	Welcome to the National Lighter Museum -- Personalized -- The Disposability of the Permanent; the Permanence of the Disposable -- Masters of Fire -- Smoke 'Em if You've Got 'Em -- What Have We Learned So Far? -- Strike Anywhere -- In Cars -- Strange Intimacy -- About These Little Things.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
Summary	"An eclectic and poetic exploration of the cigarette lighter and its association with romance, magic, art, science, immortality and death in literature and popular culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Cigar lighters -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Smoking -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Popular culture -- United States.
	Philosophy: aesthetics.
	Media studies.
	Literary theory.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
	PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	Smoking -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01121714
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form:	1-5013-0736-3
ISBN	9781501307379 (electronic book)
	1501307371 (electronic book)

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