Author: Douglas Mao
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: objects, solid
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-09-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0691059268
ISBN-13: 9780691059266
In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production’s dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects, which, regarded as objects, seemed to partake of a utopian serenity beyond the reach of human ideological conflicts. Under a variety of historical pressures, Mao observes, these writers came to revere the making of such things, and especi
Author: Wollheim Richard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: objects, art
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1980-09-30
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521297060
ISBN-13: 9780521297066
What defines a work of art and determines the way in which we respond to it? This classic reflection was written with the belief that the nature of art has to be understood simultaneously from the artist’s as well as the spectator’s viewpoint.
Author: A. M. Homes
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: objects, safety
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060564512
ISBN-13: 9780060564513
Published to overwhelming critical acclaim, this extraordinary collection of short stories established A. M. Homes as one of the most provocative and daring writers of her generation. Here you’ll find the cult classic "A Real Doll," the tale of a teenage boy’s erotic obsession with his sister’s favorite doll; "Adults Alone," which first introduced Paul and Elaine, the crack-smoking yuppie couple whose marriage careens out of control in Homes’s novel Music for Torching; and "Looking for Johnny," in which a kidnapped boy, having failed his abductor’s expectations, i
Author: Solomon
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: objects, lost
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1995-04-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0140242120
ISBN-13: 9780140242126
Amusing yet practical, this ingenious book provides a complete strategy for locating lost objects, including tips for the most effective search, common mistakes to avoid, and inspiring examples from Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Freud, Zen Buddhism, and Professor Solomon’s dentist. Photos; illustrations.
Author: Chamond Liu
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: design, objects, smalltalk
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2000-04-27
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 1583484906
ISBN-13: 9781583484906
This reference and text treats the Smalltalk programming system and the web of object-oriented ideas within and around it. Thus it is more than a guide to the language; it also examines Smalltalk in its technical and historical setting, and along the way addresses the questions that every Smalltalk developer sooner or later naturally wonders about. Assuming nothing more than general programming experience, it begins with what objects and classes are, and eventually progresses to subtle matters such as the distinction between types and classes. Going beyond typical programming language books, i
Author: Barry Soroka
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub
Keywords: first, objects, java
Number of Pages: 970
Published: 2006-02-15
List price: $128.95
ISBN-10: 0763737208
ISBN-13: 9780763737207
True to its name, Java 5: Objects First presents object-oriented concepts right from the start. The text places significant emphasis on patterns, their associated solutions, and how to recognize and modify them. Its conversational, user-friendly style and numerous programming exercises aid students in their comprehension and retention of the material presented. Additional resources, including instructor’s PowerPoint Lecture Slides, solutions to all exercises, and Student Lecture Companion, are also available.
Author: Trenton Merricks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: persons, objects
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2003-12-11
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 019926631X
ISBN-13: 9780199266319
With ontology motivated largely by causal considerations, this lucid and provocative work focuses on the idea that physical objects are causally non-redundant. Merricks "eliminates" inanimate composite macrophysical objects on the grounds that they would--if they existed--be at best completely causally redundant. He defends human existence by arguing, from certain facts about mental causation, that we cause things that are not determined by our proper parts. He also provides insight into a variety of philosophical puzzles, while addressing many significant issues like free will, the "reduction
