Where Things Touch

Author : Bahar Orang
Publisher : Essais
ISBN 13 : 9781771665698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Things Touch written by Bahar Orang and published by Essais. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty. Such considerations lead her to questions about intimacy, queerness, home, memory, love, and other aspects of human existence. Throughout, beauty is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care of lovers, of patients, of art and literature and the various non-human worlds that surround us. Eloquent and meditative in its approach, beauty, here, beyond base expectations of frivolity and superficiality, is conceived of as a thing to recover. Where Things Touch is an exploration of an essential human pleasure, a necessary freedom by which to challenge what we know of ourselves and the world we inhabit.

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Publisher : Twirl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things That Go written by and published by Twirl. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feel the bumpy bicycle tires, the smooth body of the car, and the boat's soft blue sail! This latest addition to the My First Touch and Feel™ series combines high-quality textures on every spread with appealing high-impact art to stimulate the imagination of the youngest readers and encourage them to learn about their world. Using simple words on a classic white background, this multisensory approach engages children, helping them to understand by sight, hearing, and touch.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780241373415
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roald Dahl: Revolting Things to Touch and Feel written by Roald Dahl and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a giant's foot feel like? How about a rotten egg, or a bumpy crocodile? Find out in this book that's full of the most REVOLTING things to touch and feel!

Author : Phoebe Robinson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 073521655X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Can't Touch My Hair Deluxe written by Phoebe Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deluxe eBook edition of stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson’s You Can’t Touch My Hair brings Phoebe’s hilarious voice off the page, directly into your eyes and ears. This enhanced edition features exclusive video footage with cameos by some of Phoebe’s comedy besties, plus more than an hour of audio where Phoebe talks regrettable crushes from the 90s, advice she wishes someone had given her as a teenager, the influence of RuPaul, and much more. Delivered in her signature style, Phoebe serves laughter and levity alongside more serious topics at rapid-fire speeds, topped—as always—with pop culture references for days. A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe Robinson Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: she's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of "the black friend," as if she is somehow the authority on all things racial; she's been questioned about her love of U2 and Billy Joel ("isn’t that . . . white people music?"); she's been called "uppity" for having an opinion in the workplace; she's been followed around stores by security guards; and yes, people do ask her whether they can touch her hair all. the. time. Now, she's ready to take these topics to the page—and she’s going to make you laugh as she’s doing it. Using her trademark wit alongside pop-culture references galore, Robinson explores everything from why Lisa Bonet is "Queen. Bae. Jesus," to breaking down the terrible nature of casting calls, to giving her less-than-traditional advice to the future female president, and demanding that the NFL clean up its act, all told in the same conversational voice that launched her podcast, 2 Dope Queens, to the top spot on iTunes. As personal as it is political, You Can't Touch My Hair examines our cultural climate and skewers our biases with humor and heart, announcing Robinson as a writer on the rise.

Author : Libby Walden
Publisher : Tiger Tales
ISBN 13 : 1680106686
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noisy Things That Go written by Libby Walden and published by Tiger Tales. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will love to feel the different textures and hear the vehicle sounds in this interactive, sturdy board book designed for children ages 3 and up. Includes an on/off switch on the back cover to extend battery life. Children can touch, feel, and hear the noisy vehicles of the road, rails, sea, and sky in this engaging, sturdy board book. Filled with appealing photographs, fun facts, tactile textures, and exciting vehicle sounds! Press the touch-and-feels to hear five realistic vehicle sounds, with a button on the last page to play all five sounds again!

Author : Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190904879
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things written by Carolyn Korsmeyer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things: In Touch with the Past explores the value of artifacts that have survived from the past and that can be said to embody their histories. Such genuine or real things afford a particular kind of aesthetic experience-an encounter with the past-despite the fact that genuineness is not a perceptually detectable property. Although it often goes unnoticed, the sense of touch underlies such encounters, even though one is often not permitted literal touch. Carolyn Korsmeyer begins her account with the claim that wonder or marvel at old things fits within an experiential account of the aesthetic. She then presents her main argument regarding the role of touch-both when literal contact is made and when proximity suffices, for touch is a fundamental sense that registers bodily position and location. Correct understanding of the identity of objects is presumed when one values things just because of what they are, and with discovery that a mistake has been made, admiration is often withdrawn. Far from undermining the importance of the genuine, these errors of identification confirm it. Korsmeyer elaborates this position with a comparison between valuing artifacts and valuing persons. She also considers the ethical issues of genuineness, for artifacts can be harmed in various ways ranging from vandalism to botched restoration. She examines the differences between a real thing and a replica in detail, making it clear that genuineness comes in degrees. Her final chapter reviews the ontology that best suits an account of persistence over time of things that are valued for being the real thing.

Author : Murray Moss
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847861570
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Please Do Not Touch written by Murray Moss and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and revealing memoir of the mid-1990s, when high design became art and there was no more exclusive club for high design than MOSS. For almost twenty years the SoHo design gallery MOSS was the place where design, art, money, and glamour mixed. Murray Moss, the impresario behind the shop, and his partner, Franklin Getchell, were the leading arbiters of good taste and the new—launching the careers of now-established designers such as Studio Job and Maarten Baas while bringing back into fashion eighteenth-century porcelain and Tupperware. By mixing high and low MOSS shifted the design conversation from the galleries of MoMA to a storefront in SoHo. Please Do Not Touch is their witty insider confessions of that exciting time. Natural storytellers, Moss and Getchell effortlessly weave entertaining and revealing tales that take the reader behind the scenes of MOSS’s famous opening night parties and spectacular projects and partnerships with never-before-seen photographs from their personal archives. A memoir by two legends of modern design, Please Do Not Touch is sure to become a “bible” for cognoscenti and students alike—transporting lovers of modern design back to the time when high design first broke all barriers.

Author : Catherine Rondina
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554534550
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DonÍt Touch That Toad and Other Strange Things Adults Tell You written by Catherine Rondina and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DonÍt cross your eyes or theyÍll get stuck like that! This look at the truth (or falsity) behind the commonest things that adults tell kids is filled with humorous insights and wacky illustrations.

Author : Glenn Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632869640
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fewer, Better Things written by Glenn Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age. Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years. The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them. In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us. Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.

Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402287488
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don’t Push the Button! written by Bill Cotter and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's only one rule in Larry's book: don't push the button. (Seriously, don't even think about it!) Even if it does look kind of nice, you must never push the button. Who knows what would happen? Okay, quick. No one is looking... push the button. Uh, oh.