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DUST: A History of the Small & the Invisible
By Joseph A. Amato
University of California Press, 250 pages, $22.50
This one won’t sit on your coffee table collecting, well, eponymous stuff. Joseph Amato, a professor of intellectual and cultural history, finds no mote too ordinary to trace. In this quirky book, Amato examines the history of Western hygiene, the advent of microscopes and dust-inspired metaphors.
