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Provides a survey of the scientific, economic, and cultural history of plastic
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Perhaps Dustin Hoffman should have paid attention to that unsolicited investment advice in "The Graduate." Plastics really are the future. Indeed these smooth oil-based synthetic polymers, available in a spectrum from rainbow-colored through raindrop transparent, are already so ubiquitous in our lives that we barely notice them. Expertly and entertainingly, Stephen Fenichell draws our attention to these shape-shifting substances; he tells us the names (do you know your polypropylene from your butadiene?), and the social history and cultural legacy of a diverse family of materials that has been given a bad rap--or maybe "wrap" is the word.
About the Author
Stephen Fenichell was educated at The Riverdale Country School, at Harvard College (where he was an editor ofThe Harvard Lampoon) and at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he holds a Diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature. He is the author of Other People's Money, an anatomy of the largest financial fraud in U.S. business history, and co-author (with Lawrence Charfoos) of Daughters at Risk: A Personal DES History. His articles on popular culture, business and travel have appeared in numerous periodicals, including New York magazine, Cond-eacute;-Nast Traveler, Forbes/FYI, Men's Journal, Lear's, Connoisseur, American-Photo, Mademoiselle, and The Village Voice. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.
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- PublisherHarperbusiness
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0887307329
- ISBN 13 9780887307324
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
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