Bread

by Scott Cutler Shershow

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of "breaking bread together" to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict -...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501307444
• ISBN13: 9781501307447
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.4"