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Object Studies : Introductions to Material Culture
Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture is a textbook that introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach to material cultural study.This text helps reveal how everyday objects from pens and coffee cups to our most cherished keepsakes help define our collective histories and personal narratives.Object Studies is organized around accessible and engaging chapters on objects with “model essays” that present original projects designed to engage students with a series of concepts and research activities.Each will demonstrate a key methodology tied to specific learning outcomes, but all chapters will be intertwined in their attention to the project of developing the core skills of “object studies”: careful viewing, writing detailed descriptions, setting out and testing research hypotheses, and telling stories through material artifacts.Aimed towards undergraduate students taking courses in material culture as well as postgraduate students embarking on independent research projects these chapter “studies” are practically oriented and demonstrate research projects that can be undertaken either in a course or even through personal study.Chapters in Object Studies conclude with research questions, suggestions on methodology, and a discursive bibliography designed to help students pursue their own projects based on these examples.
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Indestructible Object
“Beautifully messy and real.” —Amy Spalding, bestselling author of We Used to Be FriendsPerfect for fans of What If It’s Us and Mary H.K. Choi, this stunning coming-of-age novel from Printz Honor author Mary McCoy follows a Memphis teen whose quest to uncover the secrets of love reveals new truths about herself. For the past two years, Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop and her podcast Artists in Love, which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent. Until he breaks up with her on the air right after graduation. When their unexpected split, the loss of her job, and her parent’s announcement that they’re separating coincide, Lee’s plans, her art, and her life are thrown into turmoil.Searching for a new purpose, Lee recruits her old friend Max and new friend Risa to produce a podcast called Objects of Destruction, where they investigate whether love actually exists at all. But the deeper they get into the love stories around them, the more Lee realizes that she’s the one who’s been holding love at arm’s length. And when she starts to fall for Risa, she finds she’ll have to be more honest with herself and the people in her life to create a new love story of her own. Funny, romantic, and heartfelt, this is a story about secrets, lies, friendship, found family, an expired passport, a hidden VHS tape, fried pickles, the weird and wild city of Memphis, and, most of all, love.
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Found Object
A journalist begins to question everything she knows about her mother’s murder in a startling novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Body Reader. Culpable in an exposé gone tragically wrong, investigative journalist Jupiter Bellarose takes her boss’s advice: head back to her hometown for a fluff piece and get her world in balance.But in Savannah, the past is waiting. Twenty years ago Jupiter’s mother, actress and celebrated beauty Marie Nova, was murdered, leaving many in her wake: Jupiter’s father, who has erased memories of his wife’s murder with alcohol.The matriarch of the cosmetics company who helped make Marie a star—and who takes every opportunity to reopen old wounds.Then there’s the fragile cop with blood on his hands, and the killer whose confession no longer seems convincing. With so many lingering questions, Jupiter must revisit the grisly event that has influenced every decision in her life.Maybe her homecoming will bring closure. Or maybe the worst is yet to come.
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Broken Object
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Object Logos
Object Logos contains a carefully curated selection of logos, trademarks and symbols from around the world formed of objects such as scissors, musical instruments, sports kit, tools, keys and stationery.
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Object Lessons
'I have put this book together, not as a prose narrative is usually constructed, but as a poem might be.In turnings and returnings. In parts which find and repeat themselves and re-state the argument until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully becomes a sort of cadence.' In "Object Lessons" Eavan Boland meditates on womanhood in the specific places and times of her life.She engages, in a scrupulous and evocative prose, the issues of nationhood as well, clearing a space within Ireland where to be a woman and a poet has seemed in the past a contradiction in terms.The book functions in her work as Wordsworth's "Prelude" does in his, though Boland does not allow herself the luxury of rapture: to say no more or less than she means, she focuses on particulars, on 'obstinate details' that contain and represent larger meaning, connection and force.The autobiography here is not of a confessional kind: the facts which connect with other voices, other lives, matter.What the London Review of Books called Boland's 'radical but undoctrinaire feminism' informs all the related meditations in "Object Lessons", an enabling document of our time.Unease with Modernism, a concern with the erotic in time, and at every point a sense of continuities, mark the book as a portrait of a critical imagination of deep integrity finding a way among history's obstacles, finding itself in and through the lessons of the objects - particularly artifacts and poems - that it encounters.
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Boundary Object
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Impossible Object
"The object of life is impossible; one cuts out fabrication and creates reality.A mirror is held to the back of the head and one's hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended." In these closing lines from Impossible Object, one has embodied both Nicholas Mosley's subject of love and imagination, as well as his unmatched lyric style.In eight carefully connected stories that are joined by introspective interludes on related subjects, the author pursues the notion, through the lives of a couple seen by different narrators, that "those who like unhappy ends can have them, and those who don't will have to look for them."
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What is the difference between prepositional object and object?
The main difference between a prepositional object and an object is their relationship to the verb in a sentence. An object is a noun or pronoun that directly receives the action of the verb, while a prepositional object is the noun or pronoun that comes after a preposition and is related to the verb indirectly. In other words, an object is directly affected by the verb, while a prepositional object is connected to the verb through a preposition.
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'Substance or object?'
A substance is a type of matter that has a specific composition and properties, such as water or salt. An object, on the other hand, is a tangible item that can be seen and touched, such as a book or a chair. While substances are the fundamental building blocks of matter, objects are made up of one or more substances and have a distinct shape and form.
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What is the difference between object identity and object state?
Object identity refers to the unique identifier of an object, which distinguishes it from other objects. It remains constant throughout the object's lifetime, even if its state changes. On the other hand, object state refers to the current values of the object's attributes or properties at a specific point in time. The state of an object can change as it interacts with the system or its environment, while its identity remains constant.
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What is the difference between object constancy and object permanence?
Object constancy refers to the ability to maintain a consistent emotional bond with a person despite changes in the environment or temporary absences. It involves understanding that people can still care for you even when they are not physically present. On the other hand, object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight. It is a cognitive milestone typically achieved in infancy, whereas object constancy is a more complex emotional concept that develops later in childhood.
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What is the difference between direct object and indirect object?
A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb directly, while an indirect object is a noun or pronoun that receives the direct object. In other words, the direct object is the recipient of the action, while the indirect object is the recipient of the direct object. For example, in the sentence "She gave him a book," "book" is the direct object receiving the action of "gave," and "him" is the indirect object receiving the book.
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Was the object reference not set to an object instance?
Yes, the object reference was not set to an object instance. This means that the reference variable does not point to any actual object in memory, and attempting to access or use this reference will result in a null reference exception. It is important to ensure that object references are properly initialized to point to valid object instances before attempting to use them in the code.
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What are examples of how an object becomes another object?
One example of how an object becomes another object is through the process of recycling. For instance, plastic bottles can be recycled and transformed into new plastic products. Another example is when raw materials such as wood, metal, or glass are used to create new objects such as furniture, machinery, or containers. Additionally, objects can be repurposed or upcycled, such as turning an old tire into a swing or a used jar into a candle holder.
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What is the difference between dative object and accusative object?
In German grammar, the dative object is the indirect object that receives the direct object. It usually answers the question "to whom" or "for whom." The accusative object, on the other hand, is the direct object that receives the action of the verb. It usually answers the question "whom" or "what." In simple terms, the dative object is the recipient of the action, while the accusative object is the direct receiver of the action.
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