Objects

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 14 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 241 x 162 x 18Cover type: Har...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ferenc HuoranszkiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Mind, Meaning and MetaphysicsPublication date: 2022...

DescriptionThis study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of ...

By drawing on geology's approaches to studying porosity, the book takes an innovative approach arguing that similarly to rocks and minerals that on...

Steven Luper explores what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, and what it is to live and persist. After death or extinction, wh...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): David BarnesNumber of pages: 664Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 230 x 180 x 30Cover type: Paperbac...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Paul DeitelNumber of pages: 1296Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 180 x 231 x 39Cover type: Paperbac...

-First systematic review of Tibetan ritual art -Never-before-published Buddhist art objects -Written by expert on Tibetan art, Michael Henss Tibeta...

Publisher: Editions FlammarionAuthor(s): Francois ChailleIllustration(s): 200 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022D...

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Beca...

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Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the net...

Reducere. Sir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth century are unrivaled. His lasting legacy is his dedicated all-sky sur...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 30 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 432Collection: Leicester Readers in Museum StudiesPub...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Brice LaurentIllustration(s): 2 figuresNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 23Cover...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A large-scale investigation into grave goods (c. 4000 BC-AD 43), enabling a new level of understanding of mortuary practice, material culture, tech...

The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the Frenc...

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The movement of designed objects is not just something purely functional but also triggers a wide range of sensations. A curtain swaying gently in ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 236Collection: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and PhilosophyPublication date: 2018Dimensions: ...

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Get up to speed on Scala--the JVM, JavaScript, and natively compiled language that offers all the benefits of functional programming, a modern obje...

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

Publisher: Pearson Education (US)Author(s): Harvey DeitelNumber of pages: 960Collection: Deitel Developer SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Presents a new interpretation of sacred objects found in pagan Viking graves as indicating their introduction by Christian missionaries and re-exam...

Paul Nash (1889-1946) created an individual pathway through English art in the first half of the 20th century, shaping a body of work that recognis...

Explores human relationships to objects, shows what museums can learn from them, and offers practical tools and exercises for using objects to crea...

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Divided into thematic sections, these collected papers celebrate the career and research interests of Lindsay Allason-Jones, who has been at the fo...

Reducere. The Caldwell Catalogue, compiled by the late Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012), has delighted amateur astronomers worldwide since its publication in 19...

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern per...

Pursuing the discursive or material effects of relational queerness, this book reflects on how objects can illuminate, affect, and animate queer mo...

Reducere. How to Draw is for artists, architects and designers. It is useful to the novice, the student and the professional. You will learn how to draw any ...

DescriptionShakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant o...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Margareta Ingrid ChristianIllustration(s): 69 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

In Phase Media, James Ash theorizes how smart objects, understood as Internet-connected and sensor-enabled devices, are altering users' experience ...

In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by high...

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Reducere. A lavishly illustrated and engaging selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicago's extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa.Abou...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurel Thatcher UlrichAuthor: Ivan GaskellAuthor: Sara SchechnerIn a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are o...

Publisher: ArnoldscheNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 296 x 216 x 20Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Angelika NollertRedescopera...

Kim Buck uses well-known jewellery motifs such as hearts, daisies, and crosses as a point of departure, but the materials can be anything from prec...

Reducere. Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive r...

Reducere. Inquiry-Based Learning Using Everyday Objects: Hands-On Instructional Strategies That Promote Active Learning in Grades 3-8, Paperback

An updated catalog of the smaller-scale works created by installation art's most iconic duoThough born on the same day in 1935, artists Christo Vla...

This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultu...

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expa...

The Belgian artist David Huycke is one of the most important silversmiths working today. This first monograph shows the meticulous granulation of t...

Publisher: Reaktion BooksIllustration(s): 74 color plates, 46 halftonesNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 181 x 228 x 30Cover ty...

Peter Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings with architectural atmosphere. But how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Yegor BugayenkoTL;DR Compound variable names, validators, private static literals, configurable objects, inheritance, annot...

What makes an object queer? This collection considers the question in relation to lesbian, gay and transgender communities across time, cultures an...

Published to coincide with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, ...

Reducere. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, written by Captain Edward Ruppelt in 1956, was the first serious, unbiased account written about UFOs by...

Reducere. In 1996 Meade, the world's largest astronomical telescope manufacturer, introduced the ETX, a low-cost and genuinely portable instrument capable of...

Explores contemporary issues around the metaphysics of ordinary objects, a field that has been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. The...

Reducere. Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and...

The bright galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae catalogued in the late 1700s by the famous comet hunter Charles Messier are still the most widely o...

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Jacob GabouryIllustration(s): 133 black and white photos, 20 colour plateNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2...

The World Cup in 100 Objects tells the almost 90-year history of the world's most celebrated sporting event from a unique perspective and proudly b...

This guide to the night sky's brightest and most fascinating objects features celestial bodies that are accessible to amateur astronomers using med...

Reducere. Challenging the astrological status quo, this book discusses the fascinating astrological significance of no less than 85 Centaurs and Centaur rela...