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Gagarina, Larisa, Elena Akimova, Anton Garaschenko, Ilona Kapitanova, Martin Tihonov, and Larisa Gagarina. Software design. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1893880.
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The basic concepts and definitions, classification of software, stages of software product creation within the life cycle are considered, the current state of software product development technologies is highlighted. The existing approaches to assessing the quality of software creation processes are described, requirements analysis and definition of software specifications are performed. Much attention is paid to the issues of software design, its reliability, and collective development using modern version control systems. The theoretical material is accompanied by a workshop in the form of l
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Roy, Elodie A. Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729543.
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This book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, retracing its journey from the visual to the sonic, and back again. Each chapter unveils a situated moment in the long history of shellac – travelling from its early visual culture to Emile Berliner’s discovery of its auditory properties through to its recycling in contemporary art and design practices. Unforeseen correspondences between artefacts as diverse as mirrors, seals, gramophone discs and bombs are revealed. With its combinatory approach and commitment to material thinking, Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture insi
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Zech, Valentin. INDESEM | The International Design Seminar: Its Emerging, Development and Interplay with the Education in Delft. TU Delft OPEN Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34641/mg.39.
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INDESEM has always been an explosion of one week of learning without education. Students themselves are responsible for everything and it is them who make sure that the technical and academic staff warm to the idea of breaking plenty of rules for a week. And you should see what happens when you do! Work continues into the early hours and the building is turned inside out to get at its hidden qualities. The daily routine is disrupted and the cleaners are made aware of their importance. Each time a group of students comes together to perform the task of getting this event off the ground, their o
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Alford, Sarah. Art Botany in British Design Reform, 1835-1865. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350350564.
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Drawing on the fields of design history and the history of science, this book examines the important role that botanical science played in the emergence of Victorian design theory. In early 19th-century Britain, a rapid influx of plants from other countries began to confuse the orders of classification. As these new specimens arrived in nurseries and conservatories, botanists revised and promoted a new taxonomy: the Natural System. In parallel, in 1835, British manufacturers faced a government inquiry in order to improve the output of the British design industry. They needed a nationally ident
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Schrijver, Lara, ed. The Tacit Dimension. Leuven University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461663801.
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Within architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role both within the design process and its reception. This book explores the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polanyi as what we ‘can know but cannot tell’, often denotes knowledge that escapes quantifiable dimensions of
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Ross, Janice. The Choreography of Environments. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197775660.001.0001.
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Abstract The Choreography of Environments: How the Home of Anna and Lawrence Halprin Transformed Contemporary Dance and Urban Design opens with an odd premise: objects and the domestic spaces dancers occupy seep into their aesthetic consciousness, shaping their approach to movement invention and choreography. If these objects and spaces happen to have been designed by a leading modernist architect and landscape designer working with the dancer, then the aesthetic imprint is amplified. Dance innovation becomes pressed into dialogue with spatial, environmental, and urban agendas. The Choreograph
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Lobdell, Nicole. X-ray. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501386732.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. X-rays are powerful, moving through objects undetected, revealing the body as a tryptic of skin, tissue, and bone. X-rays gave rise to a transparent world and the belief that transparency conveys truth. It stands to reason then that our relationship with X-rays would be a complicated one of fear and fascination, acceptance and resistance, confusion and curiosity. X-ray reveals the paradox of living in an age that relies on X-rays to expose hidden threats to our health and security and fea
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Abebe, Adem. Taming the Incumbency Advantage: Innovative Constitutional Designs from the "South". International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2021.87.
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This Discussion Paper was drafted for an International IDEA webinar on Taming the Incumbency Advantage (25 May 2021), the first of a series on innovative constitutional design options. It has been revised and updated to reflect contributions from webinar participants: Professor Juvence F. Ramasy (Madagascar), Professor Ridwanul Hoque (Bangladesh) and Professor Gabriel Negretto (Latin America), among others. The webinar series seeks to identify, discuss, profile and showcase the ‘hidden treasures’ of innovative constitutional/institutional design options—including from the Global ‘South’—with p
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Adler, Paul S., and Terry A. Winograd, eds. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195075106.001.0001.
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As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools collects six essays that herald a fundamental shift in the way industry and researchers think about usability. In this new, broader definition, usability no longer means safeguarding against human error, but rather enabling human beings to learn, to use, and to adapt the equipment t
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Tondre, Michael. Oil. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501386657.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae and marine life to turn modernity’s wheels. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction, so that others may reap its benefits. But despite its heated history, few will ever see oil on the ground. Shrouded within a labyrinth of oil fields, pipelines, and manufacturies, it tends to be known only through its magical effects: the thrill
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Luna, Paul. Design. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574797.003.0008.
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The Press’s approach to the design of its publications between 1970 and 2004 developed in parallel to its editorial policy. When the publishing departments were reorganized in Oxford in the mid-1970s, the design operations for general trade, educational, and academic books were consolidated. The increasing demand for design-intensive publications and the widely differing requirements of different titles soon necessitated the creation of individual design departments within each publishing department. Each design studio responded to the design challenges of its books, which were very different,
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Robison, Wade L. Ethics Within Engineering. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350340473.
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Exploring key ethical concerns in the engineering industry, this 2nd edition of Ethics Within Engineering is fully revised and updated to educate a new generation of engineers in ethical decision-making. By focusing on critical issues concerning tracking harm, contract work, and collective action, Wade L. Robison provides educational tools and solutions that match the complexity of the engineering landscape today. Two new chapters on the responsibility of the engineer and the ethical issues that arise when teams work together to solve design problems, together with new material on tracking har
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Hanna, Julian. Island. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765102350.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are repositories of unique cultures and ways of living, seed banks built up in relative isolation.Islandis an archipelago of ideas, drawing from research and first-hand experience living, working, and traveling to islands as far afield as Madeira and Cape Verde, Orkney and Svalbard, the Aran Islands and the Gulf Islands,
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Raffle, Angela E., Anne Mackie, and J. A. Muir Gray. Screening. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198805984.001.0001.
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Muir Gray, Anne Mackie and Angela Raffle have been at the forefront of achieving improvements in UK screening over recent years, and they bring a wealth of experience to this non-technical introductory guide covering all aspects of screening. As USA expert Gilbert Welch describes it, this book is “A readable yet encyclopaedic guide to screening: its history, its key design elements, its implementation and policy challenges… A must read for clinicians, managers, and policy makers who would like to assist Raffle Mackie and Gray in achieving their goal: ‘to sort out the mess’.” The first four cha
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Anderson, Wendy K. Z. Rebirthing a Nation. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496832771.001.0001.
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Rebirthing a Nation unmasks how white nationalist women refine racism through colorblind values, ideologies, and classifications to validate, promote, and sustain a white identity politic. Analyzing web rhetorics of white nationalist, alt-right, and conservative white women, Wendy K. Z. Anderson reveals how white women sustain institutional white supremacy through coded language and digital design. The close textual analysis of GUI texts and instruction sets, organization of digital infrastructures, and easter eggs hidden within digital code offer critical, procedural, and infrastructural insi
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Tiernan, R. Kent. Walsingham Gambit. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978732445.
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The Walsingham Gambit provides the reader with a new and unique insight into the hidden history associated with the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scots. This hidden history is revealed in great detail by R. Kent Tiernan, who describes how the English deception planners led by Sir Francis Walsingham designed, engineered, and executed a complex seven-year operation to expand Queen Elizabeth I’s power by ending Mary’s life. Tiernan presents a counterintelligence analytical approach utilizing conspiracies and deception between two religious mortal enemies. Historians have explained what happened duri
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Lawrence Sinclair, Stewart. Space Rover. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501399985.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit many equated with the space race. The lunar roving vehicles (LRVs) would be the first and last manned rovers to date, but they provided a vision of humanity’s space-faring future: astronauts roaming the moon like space cowboys. Fifty years later, that vision feels like a nostalgic fantasy, but the LRV’s legacy would pave the way for Mars rovers like Sojourner, Cur
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Murray-Rust, Dave. Lichtsuchende. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450689.
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Lichtsuchende is an interactive installation that investigates relations between humans and robots. It consists of a group of robotic sunflowers that use light as a form of communication. It was created by Murray-Rust in collaboration with the design researcher Dr Rocio von Jungenfeld. It has been exhibited at nine international venues, including Edinburgh’s Hidden Door Festival (2014), the New Technology Art Awards, Ghent (2014) and GLOBALE: ExoEvolution (2015), curated by media theorist Peter Weibel, at the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany – an important international venue for t
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Fishman, Daniel B., Stanley B. Messer, David J. A. Edwards, and Frank M. Dattilio, eds. Case Studies Within Psychotherapy Trials. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199344635.001.0001.
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The Cases Within Trials (CWT) model combines the randomized clinical trial (RCT) research design, based on quantitative group research, with richly and qualitatively detailed systematic case studies involving contrasting outcomes drawn from the experimental condition of the RCT. Chapter 1 of the book provides the broad historical and methodological context out of which the CWT method developed, including the recent dramatic growth of mixed-methods approaches in psychotherapy research generally, with an associated increase in their credibility and rigor. Chapter 2 presents the details of the CW
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Maskit, Jonathan. Bicycle. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501338120.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bicycles promise safe, low-cost, environmentally-friendly transportation for billions of people. But the bicycle can only be understood in relation to transit infrastructure and spatial planning. Jonathan Maskit looks at bicycles as environmental, urban, and everyday objects. The bicycle, a seemingly simple machine, quickly becomes complicated when it collides with public safety, politics, and the shape of cities. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atla
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Whitesell, Lloyd. Wonderful Design. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190843816.001.0001.
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Glamour is an elusive aspect of cinematic style. This book critically examines previous scholarship on glamour; defines the concept as a compound of artifice, allure, and magic; and examines the phenomenon at work in the genre of the film musical. The focus is on the role of music in representing glamour, and the stylistic and semiotic conventions by which glamour is embodied in sound. The book develops an analytical framework that applies across media, the better to appreciate music’s collaborative role within multimedia spectacle. First, glamour is situated as one of a handful of “style mode
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Messitt, Maggie. Newspaper. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501392207.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record, to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, to the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy and to holding the powerful to account. This is a 400-year history of a nearly-endangered object as seen by journalist Maggie Messitt in the two democratic nations she calls home – the United States and South Africa.
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Meierhenrich, Jens. “A Rational Core within an Irrational Shell”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814412.003.0007.
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This chapter turns from the making of The Dual State to its theoretical significance. Fraenkel’s principal argument had three parts. The first part comprised several counterintuitive propositions about the nature of the institutional design of the Nazi political order. Fraenkel argued that this structure consisted of two interacting states: a prerogative and a normative state. The second part of his argument revolved around the institutional effects of this bifurcated state. Fraenkel claimed that it facilitated not only violent domination but also allowed for an orderly transition to and conso
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Cross, Wilbur. Gullah Culture in America. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400660689.
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In 1989, 1998, and 2005, fifteen Gullah speakers went to Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa to trace their origins and ancestry. Their journey frames this exploration of the extraordinary history of the Gullah culture-characterized by strong African cultural retention and a direct influence on American culture, particularly in the South-described in this fascinating book. Since long before the Revolution, America has had hidden pockets of a bygone African culture with a language of its own, and long endowed with traditions, language, design, medicine, agriculture, fishing, hunting, we
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Duff, Brian. Restaurant. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765121856.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. In the last few decades, restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural presence. Chefs are heroes and thought leaders, well-executed entrées go viral, dining out has become theater, plating has become art and ubiquitous Instagram content. But in recent years restaurants have faced crisis upon crisis. Restaurant takes a deep dive into the drives, desires, and anxieties we bring to dining out at this time of uncertainty. It explores the meaning we find in good food and w
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Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories. Edited by Barry McCrea. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199672066.001.0001.
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‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science.’ For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in their appeal. The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, together with their housekeeper Mrs Hudson and their address at 221B Baker Street are as familiar today as when they made their first appearance in the late 1880s. The stories have been endlessly interpreted, adapted, and modernized, but still it is to Arthur Conan Doyl
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Arka, I. Wayan, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King, eds. Modular Design of Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844842.001.0001.
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Modular design of grammar: Linguistics on the edge presents the cutting edge of research on linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design that models the linguistic system as a set of discreet submodules that include, among others, constituent structure, functional structure, argument structure, semantic structure, and prosodic structure, with each module having its coherent properties and being related to each other by correspondence functions. Following a detailed introduction, Part I scrutinises the nature of linguistic structures, in
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White, Bruce. Spreadsheets for Librarians. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216017967.
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Work smarter and save time with the librarian's guide to the hidden-in-plain-sight secrets of Excel, Sheets, and other types of spreadsheets. While some librarians have become very skilled at using the full power of Excel and Sheets to turn data into useful and valuable information, for many librarians the relevance of spreadsheets–and how to use them–is not necessarily obvious. This book demystifies Excel and other spreadsheets. Starting from basic concepts, the book progresses to advanced implementations important to librarians in such areas as collection management, including evaluation and
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Hsu, Hsuan L. Air Conditioning. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501377853.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air conditioning makes temperature a non-issue in (some) people’s daily lives, thermoce
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Jarvis, Jeff. Magazine. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501394980.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Here is a tribute to all that magazines were, from their origins in London and on Ben Franklin’s press; through their boom — enabled by new technologies — as creators of a new media aesthetic and a new mass culture; into their opulent days in advertising-supported conglomerates; and finally to their fall at the hands of the
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Hochberg, Gil Z. Becoming Palestine. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022138.
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In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine's future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. In their use of archaeology, musical traditions, and archival film and cinematic footage, these artists imagine a Palestinian future unb
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Florczyk, Piotr. Swimming Pool. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501394904.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of swimming has no beginning or end. Ever since humans glimpsed the open sea, or a pond, or a river, they have strived to reach the other shore. A swimming pool puts that goal within our reach, if only metaphorically. In the swimming pool - outdoor, indoor - we can both forget who we are and dream of becoming someone else, which is why we swim for pleasure, exercise, and relaxation. Swimming Pool looks at the pool as a place where humans seek to attain the unique union between m
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Beggy, Carol. Pencil. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501392214.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to sketch civilization’s greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw’s blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object. Penci
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Pearl, Sharrona. Mask. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765102398.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From the theater mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument for the protection and concealment of identity. Even as they conceal and protect, masks – as faces – are an extension of the self. At the same time, they are a part of material culture: what are masks made of? What traces do they leave behind? Acknowledging that that mask-wearing has become increasingly weaponized and politicized, Sharrona Pea
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Simon, Ed. Relic. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765102275.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every time period has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which gestures beyond their literal importance. Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr, the tooth of a Buddhist lama, or the cloak of a Sufi saint, relics are material conduits to the immaterial world. Yet relics aren't just a feature of religion; the exact same sense of the transcendent animates objects of political, historical, and cultural significance. From Abraham Lincoln's dea
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Montgomery, Paul, Nicole Thurston, Michelle Betts, and C. Scott Smith. Implementing Distress Screening in a Community and Veteran’s Administration Oncology Clinic. Edited by David A. Chambers, Wynne E. Norton, and Cynthia A. Vinson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190647421.003.0023.
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The complexities of cancer treatment present a myriad of life-altering impacts for patients. These impacts can be addressed only if health care systems have been designed to detect and address all of these challenges. One significant, but often hidden, challenge is distress. This reaction to the myriad obstacles that cancer presents can impact the quality of life, and influence outcomes, of patients with cancer. Health systems have been slow to address these problems, and a prime example is the implementation of a distress screening and management system. This case study summarizes distress sc
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Parker, Martin. Sonikebana. University of Edinburgh, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ed.9781836450542.
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Sonikebana is a long-form composition designed for nine loudspeakers inside wooden boxes on wheels. The audience is invited to move the speakers around the room in order to shape their experience of the piece itself. Sometimes the slightest touch of a speaker will cause the music to take on a completely new direction, leading to the emergence of new sonic forms. At other points, the speakers react less obviously and audiences are encouraged to listen instead. The formal idea for this piece is based on a model borrowed from the refined Japanese art form of flower arranging called Ikebana. This
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Davis, Isabel, and Anna Burel. Conceiving Histories. The MIT Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15063.001.0001.
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A fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of trying to conceive in both the past and the present. Inspired by the author's own experiences, Conceiving Histories brings together history, personal memoir, and illustration to investigate the culturally hidden experience of trying to conceive. In elegant, engaging prose, Isabel Davis explores the combination of myth, fantasy, science, and pseudo-science that the (un)reproductive body encounters in pursuit of a viable pregnancy. The book chronicles the trying-to-conceive lifecycle arc from sex education at school, through the desire to be a
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Landis, Deborah Nadoolman, ed. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474207874.
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The second volume in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design features short profiles on almost 500 individual costume designers whose creative contributions have shaped global cinema, ignited fashion trends, and become icons of popular culture, documenting their centrality to every film and television production. Universal and inclusive in scope, with designers for productions as wide-ranging as Mexican telenovelas and Bollywood musicals, early silent film through streaming series, Volume 2 features the biographies of lesser-known costume designers along with their mo
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Frith, Jordan. Barcode. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501399947.
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. They’re everywhere and impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed, but few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, their “ordinariness” is the ultimate symbol of their success. After all, barcodes have remained mostly unchanged (except for a few exceptions like QR Codes) for the last 50 years, and yet billions of barcodes are still scanned each day. But behind the mundan
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Bide, Bethan, Jade Halbert, and Liz Tregenza, eds. Everyday Fashion. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350232488.
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Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion makes the case that your grandmother’s wardrobe is an archive as interesting and important as any museum store. From the moment we wake and get dressed in the morning until we get undressed again in the evening, fashion is a central medium through which we experience the world and negotiate our place within it. Because of this, the ways that supposedly ‘ordinary’ and ‘everyday’ fashion objects have been designed, manufactured, worn, cared for, and rem
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America, Carina, Nazeem Edwards, and Maureen Robinson, eds. Teacher Education for Transformative Agency: Critical perspectives on design, content and pedagogy. African Sun Media, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928480938.
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Many teacher education programs globally are undergoing significant changes in response to government policy, imperatives driven by global competitiveness, as well as local conditions. This is particularly relevant in the South African context where teacher education seeks to navigate from the ravages of apartheid education towards addressing the developmental needs of the majority of its citizens. This book records and explores efforts by academic staff members within the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, responding to the demands of a new program in initial teach
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Kielich, Steven, and Chris Hall, eds. Metal Gear Solid Series. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765123584.
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This collection, arriving in the wake of the 25th anniversary of 1998’sMetal GearSolid, provides scholars and fans alike with a wide-ranging selection of critical essays on the franchise from diverse disciplinary and thematic perspectives. With the conclusion of Hideo Kojima’sMetal Gear Solidvideo game series only recently behind us, it is now both possible and essential to study this critically, commercially, and culturally resonant series as a whole. The essays contained in this volume, which are all new contributions from both established and emerging scholars, take up this crucial opportun
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Powell, Roger A., Stephen Ellwood, Roland Kays, and Tiit Maran. Stink or swim: techniques to meet the challenges for the study and conservation of small critters that hide, swim, or climb, and may otherwise make themselves unpleasant. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0008.
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The study of musteloids requires different perspectives and techniques than those needed for most mammals. Musteloids are generally small yet travel long distances and many live or forage underground or under water, limiting the use of telemetry and direct observation. Some are arboreal and nocturnal, facilitating telemetry but limiting observation, trapping, and many non-invasive techniques. Large sexual size dimorphism arguably doubles sample sizes for many research questions. Many musteloids defend themselves by expelling noxious chemicals. This obscure group does not attract funding, even
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Shapo, Marshall S. Experimenting with the Consumer. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400649011.
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Experimenting With The Consumer exposes the hazards of the mass-market experimentation in which every American consumer and worker is unwittingly tapped for product risk data by manufacturers, scientists, and regulators. Vioxx, Heparin, Avandia, Paxil, fen-phen, estrogens, silicone implants, pacemakers, formaldehyde in FEMA trailers, 60 buckyballs in coatings … the headlines are increasingly filled with hidden risks coming to light in popular products years after federal agencies approve them for the American public. Shapo shows readers how to get past unreasonable trust or fear and make the b
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Ballinger, Lizzie. Trish Arnold. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350264595.
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‘All you have is yourself, no words, no script in hand, no music to dance to, nothing to hide behind. It was just me – the pure expression of my desire.’ Trish Arnold (1918–2017) was a pioneer in the field of movement. Her work stands alongside that of movement practitioners such as Litz Pisk, Jacques Lecoq and Rudolf Laban in its influence on international theatre, film and drama-school training. Until now, her practice has never been written down in its entirety, but has been passed from body to body, through one-to-one teaching between movement practitioners. Lizzie Ballinger’s intimate and
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Kantor, Martin. Lifting the Weight. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400679537.
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Depression in men often goes undiagnosed or improperly treated because of unique qualities that make it different from depression in women. In this volume, Dr. Kantor explains that depression in men is not strictly the product of major life events; it also regularly appears in response to minor troubling issues that often go entirely overlooked by others or, if recognized at all, are downplayed. In this jargon-free text, Kantor explains how many men are able to navigate the big stresses successfully only to succumb to the little ones. And he challenges the current widespread tendency now viewi
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Balzac, Honoré de, and Patrick Coleman. The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories. Translated by Peter Collier. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199571284.001.0001.
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‘What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.’ Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind the seductiveness of the singer's voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the jealous young studen
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Balserak, Jon. Geneva's Use of Lies, Deceit, and Subterfuge, 1536-1563. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197672303.001.0001.
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Abstract This study presents a new reading of the battle that raged between the Genevan ministers and the French government between ca. 1536 and 1563. The first portion of the work produces a critical assessment of scholarship. The second turns to an analysis of Calvin’s plans for France. It argues that Calvin, after fleeing France in 1534, began devising plans to establish Christ’s kingdom in his homeland, rescuing it from the “idolatrous” Catholicism imposed on the people by their monarchs. It shows his plans entailed the systematic use of lying and deception, which were necessary to evade d
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Gertsman, Elina. Matter Matters. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.003.0003.
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This chapter explores a late medieval Tuscan reliquary which contains Mary Magdalene’s tooth within the context of the network of feelings and senses bound with the relic’s materiality. In exploring the possible access points of this network and in attending to specific visual aspects of the object—its translucent crystal that simultaneously reveals and obfuscates the enclosed tooth, its fragile microarchitecture that allows one to glimpse the figures hidden within, the affective imagery on its verre églomisé medallion that indicates the use of the reliquary by a Franciscan community—the chapt