The Artifact by W. Michael GearRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1 mbOverview: In a galaxy on the brink of civil war, the Brotherhood seeks to keep peace through diplomacy, subterfuge, and control of both technological advances and the carefully gathered knowledge of countless worlds. But now Speaker Archon, formerly a privateer and currently head of the world […]
How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things (Design Thinking, Design Theory) by Jenny L. DavisRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 1.2 MBOverview: The mechanisms and conditions framework shifts the question from what objects afford to how objects afford, for whom, and under what circumstances. Davis shows that through this framework, analyses can account for […]
Artifact by Arlene HeymanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.8MB | RetailOverview: A sweeping debut novel about love, sex, motherhood, and ambition that follows a gifted and subversive scientist’s struggle to reach beyond cultural constraints for the life she wants. From practicing psychiatrist and critically acclaimed of Scary Old Sex, Artifact is the dazzling, half-century-spanning story of biologist […]
Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology by R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O’BrienRequirements: .PDF reader, 2.9 MbOverview: Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways […]
Artifacts from Ancient Rome by James B.T. EmmonsRequirements: .PDF reader, 6.9 MBOverview: “Artifacts from Ancient Rome” is a unique social history that explores major aspects of daily life in a long-ago era via images of physical objects and historical information about these items. This book also affords “hands-on training” on how to approach primary sources. […]