The Ancestry of Objects (Ryckman Tatiana)(Paperback)

The Ancestry of Objects (Ryckman Tatiana)(Paperback)

A young woman contemplates the end of her life as she's known it as tragedy after tragedy accumulates around her, threaded with her relationship to desire, consent, and control

A History of Women in 100 Objects (Andrews Maggie)(Paperback)

The history of the world has been told in objects. But what about the objects that tell the history of women? What are the items that symbolize the journey of women from second-class citizens with no legal rights, no vote and no official status to the powerful people they are today? And what are

The System of Objects (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

Safety Of Objects (Homes A.M. (Y))(Paperback / softback)

The Safety of Objects, A.M. Homes' first collection of short stories, displays the flair for the hilarious, the perverse and the extraordinary that characterizes all of her

Islam Through Objects (Bigelow Anna)(Paperback)

Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic

The Lives of Colonial Objects (Cooper Annabel)(Paperback)

'The Lives of Colonial Objects' is a sumptuously illustrated and highly readable book about things, and the stories that unfold when we start to investigate them. In this collection of 50 essays the authors, including historians, archivists, curators and Maori scholars, have each chosen an object

A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects (Berry Mark)(Paperback)

Explore the history of ocean liners through the objects that bring them to life.Liners represented the ambitions of their nations in peace and war; their design, interiors and fittings incorporated the finest contemporary technological and artistic features. In peacetime they carried celebrities,

On the Existence of Digital Objects, 48 (Hui Yuk)(Paperback)

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today--as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events.Yet, despite their ubiquity, the nature of digital objects remains unclear.On the

Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems (Oroo Tatiana)(Paperback)

Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems of Tatiana Oro o is the first English-language collection of Oro o's poetry. Her poems draw on motherhood, the loses in the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1980s and, most of all, the natural world. She is a feminist and her poems show a consciousness of her

Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things (Dudley Sandra H.)(Paperback)

Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and

Fewer, Better Things - The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (Adamson Glenn)(Paperback / softback)

In the Company of Others (Karon Jan)(Paperback)

Follow Father Tim and Cynthia on their journey to research his Kavanagh ancestry in the Irish countryside. Vacation--the very word has been foreign to Episcopal priest Tim Kavanagh. Now retired from tending his flock in the village of Mitford, he is making good on a promise to show his wife,

3,000 Deep-Sky Objects: An Annotated Catalogue (Aranda Ted)(Paperback)

This title is a comprehensive set of visual descriptions of deep-sky objects visible from the northern hemisphere. It is a record of the most extensive and systematic visual survey of the sky ever done in modern times. 3,000 deep-sky objects are listed with short descriptions of the visual

A History of the World in 100 Objects (MacGregor Dr Neil)(Paperback / softback)

Deals with human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. This title shows the surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and also features objects which characterise the world we live in

Superpowers of Scale (Jaque Andres)(Paperback)

The objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material--they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies (whether political, social, or environmental) in equally complex ways. Exploring these forms of architectural agency has in recent years been a central aspect of

Tricky Design: The Ethics of Things (Fisher Tom)(Paperback)

Tricky Design responds to the burgeoning of scholarly interest in the cultural meanings of objects, by addressing the moral complexity of certain designed objects and systems. The volume brings together leading international designers, scholars and critics to explore some of the ways in which the

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (Franklin Michael J.)(Paperback)

Immensely proud of her aristocratic Welsh ancestry, Hester Lynch was one of the most talented female authors of the long eighteenth century. A friend to the leading lights of the era, including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Joshua Reynolds, and more, she was the single salonni re with the wit and

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (Clark Gregory)(Paperback)

A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater

Islam Through Objects (Bigelow Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic

Great Civilisations: The Maya (Kelly Tracey)(Paperback / softback)

Introduces the achievements of past civilisations through 12 structures or objects, each of which illustrates a key aspect or theme of that

Shaping Things (Sterling Bruce)(Paperback)

A guide to the next great wave of technology--an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.'Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything,' writes Bruce Sterling in this addition

The Culture of Design (Julier Guy)(Paperback)

What is the social impact of design? How do culture and economics shape the objects and spaces we take for granted? How do design objects, designers, producers and consumers interrelate to create experience? How do new networks of communication and technology change the design process? Thoroughly

30 Objects 30 Insights (Gotlieb Rachel)(Paperback)

Thirty Objects, Thirty Insights reflects upon the celebrated collection at the internationally renowned Gardiner Museum, Toronto, which has grown to become one of the world's great speciality museums in its devotion to the ceramic arts. Featuring more than 100 images, the book focuses upon 30

The History of Sweets (Chrystal Paul)(Paperback)

We all know our sweets. We all remember sweets - objects of pure delight and the endless cause of squabbles, fights even, hoarding and swapping; a chance to gorge, suck, crunch and chew. But they're by no means just a nostalgic thing of days past, and it's not only children who love and devour