A World Art History And Its Objects By David Carrier
2008 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0271034149 | PDF | 4 MB
Is writing a world art history possible? Does the history of art as such even exist outside the Western tradition? Is it possible to consider the history of art in a way that is not fundamentally Eurocentric? In this highly readable and provocative book, David Carrier, a philosopher and art historian, does not attempt to write a world art history himself. Rather, he asks the question of how an art history of all cultures could be written - or whether it is even possible to do so. He also engages the political and moral issues raised by the idea of a multicultural art history. Focusing on a consideration of intersecting artistic traditions, Carrier negotiates the way meaning and understanding shift or are altered when a visual object from one culture, for example, is inserted into the visual tradition of another culture. "A World Art History and Its Objects" proposes the use of temporal narrative as a way to begin to understand a multicultural art history.

Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects by Theresa Bane
2020 | ISBN: 1476676887 | English | 227 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Curious about the chains that bound Fenriswulf in Norse mythology? Or the hut of Baba Yaga, the infamous witch of Russian folklore? Containing more than one thousand detailed entries on the magical and mythical items from the different folklore, legends, and religions the world over, this encyclopedia is the first of its kind. From Abadi, the named stone in Roman mythology to Zul-Hajam, one of the four swords said to belong to the prophet Mohammed, each item is described in as much detail as the original source material provided, including information on its origin, who was its wielder, and the extent of its magical abilities. The text also includes a comprehensive cross-reference system and an extensive bibliography to aid researchers.

Avinash Kak, "Programming with Objects: A Comparative Presentation of Object Oriented Programming with C++ and Java"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0471268526 | 1144 pages | PDF | 82.5 MB
Your essential comparative approach to learning C++ and Java

Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany by Roger Moorhouse
English | January 6th, 2021 | ISBN: 1784385166 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 58.13 MB
Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no regime of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature.

A History of Gardening in 50 Objects by George Drower
English | October 1, 2019 | ISBN: 0750991305 | EPUB | 256 pages | 151 MB
The earliest record of an enclosed space around a homestead come from 10,000 BC and since then gardens of varying types and ambition have been popular throughout the ages. Whether ornamental patches surrounding wild cottages, container gardens blooming over unforgiving concrete or those turned over for growing produce, gardens exist in all shapes and sizes, in all manner of styles.

The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) by Maia Kotrosits
English | October 5, 2020 | ISBN: 022670744X, 022670758X | PDF | 232 pages | 1.5 MB
Our lives are filled with objects-ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change.

Java How To Program (Early Objects), Global Edition
by Harvey Deitel
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1292018194 | 1250 Pages | PDF True | 86 MB

Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography By F. Kent Reilly III, James F. Garber, Vincas P. Steponaitis
2007 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0292713479 | PDF | 8 MB
Between AD 900-1600, the native people of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.

Chloe Paver, "Exhibiting the Nazi Past: Museum Objects Between the Material and the Immaterial "
English | ISBN: 3319770837 | 2018 | 314 pages | EPUB | 1161 KB
This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds.

Java: How to Program (Late Objects), Global Edition
by Harvey Deitel
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1292019360 | 1234 Pages | PDF True | 46 MB