Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Mariah Smith - GoodreadsIf this book could be an ongoing project, with new editions every several years, it would be so valuable that it should be required reading for every high school geography student. It is a fascinating ... Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Lisa Eggers - GoodreadsA great book about how families live in different countries around the world. It goes into just the right amount of depth. I loved how the question, what is your most valued possession? is answered ... Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Laura B. - GoodreadsEvery American should read/look at this book. The authors have captured actual physical representations of the disparity in the standards of living around the world and it is riveting! I've had this ... Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Stephanie - GoodreadsIf you only flipped through this book and looked at the pictures you are missing everything. Anyone who gave this book less than a 4 star rating looked at the stuff and missed the content. This book ... Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Moe - GoodreadsI didn't read the whole book but I looked at several different pictures throughout. In some cultures, a lot of people are poor and we are so lucky to be in America. In some places, kids work, work, and work and have less than 5 minutes of play a day. Can you imagine that? Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Julie Doherty - GoodreadsEver feel like your kids (and yourself, for that matter) take for granted all of your "things?" This book is an eye-opener. This is a big book full of photographs and statistics of families from all ... Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Brown - Goodreadsthis book is a little bit depressing when u look at the pictures from bosnia and mali, but i think it is really amazing to see how different some countries are from one another. read this book if u get the time to, it is really cool. i loved it! Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Terri - GoodreadsAnother great book from Peter Menzel. We, as Americans, have far too much stuff. Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Ami - GoodreadsI am so, so curious to know what happened to all of the families in this 1993-1994 book. Where are they now? Who has died? How? Who had more kids? Who moved to another country? How have their ... Read full review
Review: Material World: A Global Family Portrait
User Review - Richelle - GoodreadsThis book is fascinating. It is collaborative work of 16 photographers who spent a week in 30 different countries with a "statistically average" family (number of family members, wages, size of home ... Read full review
