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| Author | : Mark Blackwell |
| Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780838756669 |
This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by focusing on it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike. The volume also advances important work on eighteenth-century consumer culture and the theory of things. The essays that comprise The Secret Life of Things thus bring new texts, and new ways of thinking about familiar ones, to our notice. Those essays range from the role of it-narratives in period debates about copyright to their complex relationship with object-riddled sentimental fictions, from anti-semitism in Chrysal to jingoistic imperialism in The Adventures of a Rupee, from the it-narrative as a variety of whore's biography to a consideration of its contributions to an emergent middle-class ideology.
| Author | : Terry Border |
| Publisher | : Running Press Adult |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-10-06 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 9780762435623 |
Trained as a photographer, Terry Border left the commercial world for story-telling. His complex vignettes are made of the simplest, everyday items: a jar of spices, a cigarette stub, a flower, a snack food. These sly photos range from whimsical scenes to sexy scenarios, the sad truths to the hilarious happenings in everyday life. In the tradition of bestselling humorous photography books like Chicks with Baggage, Play with Your Food, and Hello Cupcake!, this volume will surprise you with every viewing. A sunflower missing a petal becomes the tortured artist Van Gogh; an egg arrives to visit his mom only to discover roast chicken on the table; when confronted by a jar of peanut butter, peanuts hold a wake; and hot dogs leave behind their own brand of little presents. Marshmallows, wine corks, bread, soap, rocks, and tea bags—no common household item is safe from the twisted (wire) mind behind these uncommon creations!
| Author | : John C. Ryan |
| Publisher | : Seattle, Wash. : Northwest Environment Watch |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
This volume takes you to the places and people you touch every day. - BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Marijn Haverbeke |
| Publisher | : No Starch Press |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1593279507 |
Completely revised and updated, this best-selling introduction to programming in JavaScript focuses on writing real applications. JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications. This much anticipated and thoroughly revised third edition of Eloquent JavaScript dives deep into the JavaScript language to show you how to write beautiful, effective code. It has been updated to reflect the current state of Java¬Script and web browsers and includes brand-new material on features like class notation, arrow functions, iterators, async functions, template strings, and block scope. A host of new exercises have also been added to test your skills and keep you on track. As with previous editions, Haverbeke continues to teach through extensive examples and immerses you in code from the start, while exercises and full-chapter projects give you hands-on experience with writing your own programs. You start by learning the basic structure of the JavaScript language as well as control structures, functions, and data structures to help you write basic programs. Then you'll learn about error handling and bug fixing, modularity, and asynchronous programming before moving on to web browsers and how JavaScript is used to program them. As you build projects such as an artificial life simulation, a simple programming language, and a paint program, you'll learn how to: - Understand the essential elements of programming, including syntax, control, and data - Organize and clarify your code with object-oriented and functional programming techniques - Script the browser and make basic web applications - Use the DOM effectively to interact with browsers - Harness Node.js to build servers and utilities Isn't it time you became fluent in the language of the Web? * All source code is available online in an inter¬active sandbox, where you can edit the code, run it, and see its output instantly.
| Author | : Marc Olivier |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2020-02-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0253046599 |
A scholar examines 14 everyday objects featured in horror films and how they manifest their power and speak to society’s fears. Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie’s prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. In Household Horror, Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema. Inspired by object-oriented ontology and the nonhuman turn in philosophy, Olivier places objects in film on par with humans, arguing, for example, that a sleeper sofa is as much the star of Sisters as Margot Kidder, that The Exorcist is about a possessed bed, and that Rosemary’s Baby is a conflict between herbal shakes and prenatal vitamins. Household Horror reinvigorates horror film criticism by investigating the unfathomable being of objects as seemingly benign as remotes, radiators, refrigerators, and dining tables. Olivier questions what Hitchcock’s Psycho tells us about shower curtains. What can we learn from Freddie Krueger’s greatest accomplice, the mattress? Room by room, Olivier considers the dark side of fourteen household objects to demonstrate how the objects in these films manifest their own power and connect with specific cultural fears and concerns. “Provides a lively and highly original contribution to horror studies. As a work on cinema, it introduces the reader to films that may be less well-known to casual fans and scholars; more conspicuously, it returns to horror staples, gleefully reanimating works that one might otherwise assume had been critically “done to death” (Psycho, The Exorcist, The Shining).” —Allan Cameron, University of Auckland
| Author | : Jane Graves |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2012-03-27 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1466920777 |
This book looks at everyday, and not-so-everyday objects from a psychoanalytical perspective as well as the practice of art and design. It is an entertaining interpretation of the creation, consumption and culture of things we take for granted.
| Author | : N.S.Hussain |
| Publisher | : Author House |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2014-10-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 149698918X |
In a world where magic is restricted to those worthy. Sixty years have passed since magic was last taught in a wizarding school, within Wizardridge, where magic once was gifted to every child, but now with the ruling of the Concilium; magic is only being performed by the wealthy. A council of dark Witches and Wizards rule the masses, with the non-magical community enslaved to the wills of Councillor Cerberus and his dark Concilium. Councillor Cerberus resolute to ensure an age old prophecy does not transpire; that a young Witch or Wizard will rise from the people and challenge his reign; but to his knowledge a series of events are about to unfold, revealing a hidden secret that may change the complete existence of Wizardridge. Peter Jenkins is finally made to feel determined on his 15th birthday that the choice to disobey his father's wishes and not join his older brother in the mines but to venture into the world of magic in order to change his destiny. .......will he be the one to overthrow dark magic?
| Author | : Kat Duff |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2014-03-18 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1582704686 |
Citing a high percentage of Americans who routinely experience sleep problems or shortages, the award-winning author of The Alchemy of Illness draws on a wide range of disciplines to reveal the healing benefits of sleep and argue for its prioritizing.--Publisher information.
| Author | : James W. Pennebaker |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2013-01-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1608194965 |
The author of Opening Up draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what our language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept and social intelligence, in a lighthearted treatise that also explores the language personalities of famous individuals. 40,000 first printing.
| Author | : Salvador Dali |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2013-06-10 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0486319849 |
This startling early autobiography takes Dalí through his late 30s and "communicates the ... total picture of himself (Dalí) sets out to portray" — Books. Superbly illustrated with over 80 photographs and scores of drawings.
