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Glass / John Garrison

Author
Garrison, John S., 1970-
Published
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 122 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; â#x80;#x9C;A Day Made of Glassâ#x80;#x9D;; Macbeth; Minority Report; Microscopic vision; Telescopic vision; Earrings and landscapes; Photography; Shakespeareâ#x80;#x99;s sonnets; â#x80;#x9C;Heart of Glassâ#x80;#x9D;; Sea glass; Google Glass; Trademark; Microsoft HoloLens; Strange Days; A glass, darkly; Surfaces; â#x80;#x9C;A World of Glassâ#x80;#x9D;; Postscript: Whatâ#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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ISBN
1628924292 (electronic bk.)
9781628924299 (electronic bk.)
9781628924282 (electronic bk.)
1628924284 (electronic bk.)
1628924241
9781628924244
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-111) and index.
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