The Book of Impossible Objects

The Book of Impossible Objects
Author: Pat Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780545496476

A bunch of scientifically proven ways to blow your mind. A Canadian Toy Testing Council 3-Star Award winner! The world is weirder than you think. Want proof? Look no further than this book - which actually looks back at you. In fact, its eyes follow you across the room. And there's more weirdness inside. The Book of Impossible Objects comes with all the plastic pieces, paper parts, and special pages you need to experience 25 impossible things. Spin the wobblestone and watch it reverse direction all by itself. Wander the paper labyrinth, an ever-changing folded maze. Use the Mirror Monster Maker to give yourself three eyes. Follow a road sign that points in a different direction every time you check it. These objects all work like magic, but there are no tricks here. All this weirdness has a solid scientific basis - from the mathematically amazing Möbius strip (a band of paper with only one side), to cardstock acrobats with astoundingly great balance, to a spinning top that changes colors before your eyes. The why behind each wow is explained with crystal clarity by the award-winning team of Pat Murphy and the scientists of Klutz Labs. Which makes for a book that's not only weird - it's wonderful.

Impossible Object

Impossible Object
Author: Nicholas Mosley
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1985-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781564784650

In a series of inter-related stories, husbands, wives and lovers attempt to come to grips with their 'impossible' situations, while the novel itself attempts to show in its formal inventiveness just how bewildering romantic love can be.

Impossible Objects

Impossible Objects
Author: J. Timothy Unruh
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806949963

Presents optical illusions that captivate the imagination by fooling the eye with tricks of perception.

Impossible Objects

Impossible Objects
Author: Bill Greenwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Sixty-four poems by Bill Greenwell who teaches Creative Writing in Exeter. This debut collection was short-listed for the Forward Prize.

Impossible Things

Impossible Things
Author: Robin Stevenson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1551437368

Cassidy thinks that making friends is impossible until she meets Victoria, who has some very unusual abilities.

21 Impossible Things: Quantum Physics And Relativity For Everyone

21 Impossible Things: Quantum Physics And Relativity For Everyone
Author: Nury Vittachi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9811235902

Quantum physics and relativity, two of the most important advances in modern science, are normally presented as a series of technical discoveries in 20th century Europe.Yet this brief, easy-to-read volume shows how they were underpinned by centuries of observations about the nature of reality from the great philosophies and faiths of humanity, from China to India to the Middle East.At each stage, the people involved found themselves saying: 'That's impossible! That makes no sense. And yet...'

Noneist Explorations I

Noneist Explorations I
Author: Richard Routley
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3030263096

This second volume continues Richard Routley’s explorations of an improved Meinongian account of non-referring and intensional discourse (including joint work with Val Routley, later Val Plumwood). It focuses on the essays 2 through 7 of the original monograph, Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond, following on from the material of the first volume and explores its implications of the Noneist position. It begins with a further development of noneism in the direction of an ontologically neutral chronological logic and associated metaphysical issues concerning existence and change. What follows includes: a detailed response to Quine’s On What There Is; a defense against further objections to noneism; a detailed account of Meinong’s own position; arguments in favour of noneism from common-sense; and a noneist analysis of fictional discourse. We present these essays separately and provide additional scholarly commentaries from a range of philosophers including Fred Kroon, Maria Elisabeth Reicher-Marek and a previously unpublished commentary on noneism by J.J.C. Smart.

The Impossible Collection of Cars

The Impossible Collection of Cars
Author: Dan Neil
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1614280150

It is the dream of many to own the world’s most beautifully designed automobiles, but most often only a handful of collectors ever come close. Now, The Impossible Collection of Cars makes that dream come true, showcasing the one hundred most exceptional cars of the twentieth century in ASSOULINE's third volume in the Impossible Collection series. Each luxury automobile—from the 1909 Blitzen Benz to a 1996 McLaren F1—was chosen for its revolutionary engineering, magnificent lines, and head-turning capabilities. Assouline is pleased to announce this exquisite tome, which features cars owned by celebrities like Marlene Dietrich, Ralph Lauren, Greta Garbo, Pablo Picasso, and Elvis Presley. This Impossible Collection volume is presented on cotton paper in a beautiful black rubber clamshell box with a cutout metal plate.

Subjects and Objects

Subjects and Objects
Author: Jeffrey Strayer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9047419324

The subject matter of Subjects and Objects is the limits of Abstraction in art. The notion of Abstraction, its development in art history, and the relation of art and philosophy regarding Abstraction are considered in addition to identifying and examining things that are essential to artworks. Any artwork has an identity, and comprehension of that identity depends on a perceptual object. A subject’s apprehension of such an object creates an “artistic complex” of which the object, the subject, and the apprehension are constituents. The essential elements of this kind of complex are the subject of the final part of the work. Its concluding section considers these elements as ‘material’ to be used to determine the limits of Abstraction.