{"product_id":"signature-by-dr-hunter-dukes-9781501353345","title":"Signature","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 parlour interested in arcane forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455690981612,"sku":"9781501353345","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/615Ogd-9_hL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774794297","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/signature-by-dr-hunter-dukes-9781501353345","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}