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Glass / John Garrison.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Object lessonsPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 122 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1628924292
  • 9781628924299
  • 9781628924282
  • 1628924284
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 620.144 23
LOC classification:
  • TA450 .G38 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; �a#x80;#x9C;A Day Made of Glass�a#x80;#x9D;; Macbeth; Minority Report; Microscopic vision; Telescopic vision; Earrings and landscapes; Photography; Shakespeare�a#x80;#x99;s sonnets; �a#x80;#x9C;Heart of Glass�a#x80;#x9D;; Sea glass; Google Glass; Trademark; Microsoft HoloLens; Strange Days; A glass, darkly; Surfaces; �a#x80;#x9C;A World of Glass�a#x80;#x9D;; Postscript: What�a#x80;#x99;s in my pocket?; Further reading; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.
Summary: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-111) and index.

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament above you; it's in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone-you're drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most common object, rarely considered because assumed to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see.

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; �a#x80;#x9C;A Day Made of Glass�a#x80;#x9D;; Macbeth; Minority Report; Microscopic vision; Telescopic vision; Earrings and landscapes; Photography; Shakespeare�a#x80;#x99;s sonnets; �a#x80;#x9C;Heart of Glass�a#x80;#x9D;; Sea glass; Google Glass; Trademark; Microsoft HoloLens; Strange Days; A glass, darkly; Surfaces; �a#x80;#x9C;A World of Glass�a#x80;#x9D;; Postscript: What�a#x80;#x99;s in my pocket?; Further reading; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.

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