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Gone to the shops shopping in Victorian England / by Graham, Kelley, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Going shopping in Victorian England -- Shopping traditions and innovations -- Clothes and accessories -- Food and drink -- Home furnishings and furniture -- Other shops -- Services -- Late century transformations.…”
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Gone to the shops shopping in Victorian England / by Graham, Kelley, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Going shopping in Victorian England -- Shopping traditions and innovations -- Clothes and accessories -- Food and drink -- Home furnishings and furniture -- Other shops -- Services -- Late century transformations.…”
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Playing with purpose adventures in performative social science / by Gergen, Mary M.

Table of Contents: “…Extending experiments : flying furniture.…”
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Playing with purpose adventures in performative social science / by Gergen, Mary M.

Table of Contents: “…Extending experiments : flying furniture.…”
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Everyday life & consumer culture in 18th-century Damascus by Grehan, James

Table of Contents: “…City & environment -- Bread & survival -- Luxury & variety : everyday food -- Luxury & variety : everyday drink -- Domestic space -- Fashion & deportment -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Major articles of furniture -- Appendix B. Major utensils for cooking and eating -- Appendix C. …”
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Everyday life & consumer culture in 18th-century Damascus by Grehan, James

Table of Contents: “…City & environment -- Bread & survival -- Luxury & variety : everyday food -- Luxury & variety : everyday drink -- Domestic space -- Fashion & deportment -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Major articles of furniture -- Appendix B. Major utensils for cooking and eating -- Appendix C. …”
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The nature and culture of rattan : reflections on vanishing life in the forests of Southeast Asia / by Siebert, Stephen F. (Stephen Frederic), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Rattan and a changing world -- The ecology, diversity, and climbing prowess of rattan -- Historical and current uses of rattan -- Forest communities and rattan management -- From forest to furniture boutique -- Rattan and household livelihood -- The history of a Sulawesi rattan village -- Cane gathering : nuisances, risks, and pain -- Sustainable harvesting : a local view -- Rattan cultivation : rich history, uncertain future -- Rattan, religion, and family planning.…”
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The nature and culture of rattan : reflections on vanishing life in the forests of Southeast Asia / by Siebert, Stephen F. (Stephen Frederic), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Rattan and a changing world -- The ecology, diversity, and climbing prowess of rattan -- Historical and current uses of rattan -- Forest communities and rattan management -- From forest to furniture boutique -- Rattan and household livelihood -- The history of a Sulawesi rattan village -- Cane gathering : nuisances, risks, and pain -- Sustainable harvesting : a local view -- Rattan cultivation : rich history, uncertain future -- Rattan, religion, and family planning.…”
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Narrative Structures and the Language of the Self / by Clark, Matthew, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the self and narrative -- The reflexive self : Descartes and Ovid -- The furniture of the self : Montaigne, Highsmith, Dostoevsky -- The dyadic subject : Hegel, Aristophanes, Hemingway -- Doubles and doubled doubles : Knowles and Austen -- Freudian thirds : Heinlein, Stevenson, Forster, Wharton -- Deep subjectivity -- Agents, patients, and experiencers : le Carre, Weldon, Kesey, Woolf -- Dative subjects : Stevenson, Fitzgerald, Kesey, Robbe-Grillet -- Instrumental subjects : Knowles, Eliot, Davies -- Locative subjects : Mahfouz, Lem, Forster -- Conclusion : narrative and the self: Hartley, Sartre, Ishiguro.…”
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Narrative Structures and the Language of the Self / by Clark, Matthew, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the self and narrative -- The reflexive self : Descartes and Ovid -- The furniture of the self : Montaigne, Highsmith, Dostoevsky -- The dyadic subject : Hegel, Aristophanes, Hemingway -- Doubles and doubled doubles : Knowles and Austen -- Freudian thirds : Heinlein, Stevenson, Forster, Wharton -- Deep subjectivity -- Agents, patients, and experiencers : le Carre, Weldon, Kesey, Woolf -- Dative subjects : Stevenson, Fitzgerald, Kesey, Robbe-Grillet -- Instrumental subjects : Knowles, Eliot, Davies -- Locative subjects : Mahfouz, Lem, Forster -- Conclusion : narrative and the self: Hartley, Sartre, Ishiguro.…”
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Leven Betts pattern recognition / by Leven, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Live: CC01 House ; Catskills House ; VVE House ; Chelsea Penthouse ; Cedarhurst Spiral Housing ; Nassau Street Lobby -- Work: Mixed Greens Gallery ; Stockholm Public Library Addition ; Les Migrateurs Furniture Showroom ; EMR Printing Plant -- Show: Site Lines/Line Weights ; Piranese as designer ; Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran -- City: Filter parking ; Chicago Filter Park ; Greenwich Street Park Apartments ; Spaces between the hills: Ramallah/Jerusalem/Bethlehem -- Wetland City: New Orleans East Urban Proposal.…”
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Leven Betts pattern recognition / by Leven, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Live: CC01 House ; Catskills House ; VVE House ; Chelsea Penthouse ; Cedarhurst Spiral Housing ; Nassau Street Lobby -- Work: Mixed Greens Gallery ; Stockholm Public Library Addition ; Les Migrateurs Furniture Showroom ; EMR Printing Plant -- Show: Site Lines/Line Weights ; Piranese as designer ; Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran -- City: Filter parking ; Chicago Filter Park ; Greenwich Street Park Apartments ; Spaces between the hills: Ramallah/Jerusalem/Bethlehem -- Wetland City: New Orleans East Urban Proposal.…”
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Faulkner and material culture Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Aiken -- The philosophy of furniture, or, Light in August and the material unconscious / Jay Watson -- Dematerializing culture : Faulkner's trash aesthetic / Patricia Yaeger -- Flags in the dust and the material culture of class / Kevin Railey -- "Touch me while you look at her" : stars, fashion, and authorship in Today we live / D. …”
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Faulkner and material culture Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Aiken -- The philosophy of furniture, or, Light in August and the material unconscious / Jay Watson -- Dematerializing culture : Faulkner's trash aesthetic / Patricia Yaeger -- Flags in the dust and the material culture of class / Kevin Railey -- "Touch me while you look at her" : stars, fashion, and authorship in Today we live / D. …”
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The funny parts a history of film comedy routines and gags / by Balducci, Anthony, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- And then there were pies -- Mannequins and other dummies -- Animals -- Adventures in eating -- Attack of the vamps -- Indecent exposure -- Spooky apparitions -- Bombs and burglars -- How to disguise yourself as furniture and fool -- Your friends -- The amazing trapdoor chase -- Science and magic -- Tooth extraction and laughing gas -- Into the looking glass -- Sleepless nights -- Fathers to sons of the desert -- The big jangly box, the sliding ladder and -- Other comic props -- The Buster Keaton variations -- The Harold Lloyd variations -- Hysterical history -- Bugs -- Scared black servants, dice-playing african -- Cannibals, and the most racist comedy in silent cinema history -- Other variations.…”
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The funny parts a history of film comedy routines and gags / by Balducci, Anthony, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- And then there were pies -- Mannequins and other dummies -- Animals -- Adventures in eating -- Attack of the vamps -- Indecent exposure -- Spooky apparitions -- Bombs and burglars -- How to disguise yourself as furniture and fool -- Your friends -- The amazing trapdoor chase -- Science and magic -- Tooth extraction and laughing gas -- Into the looking glass -- Sleepless nights -- Fathers to sons of the desert -- The big jangly box, the sliding ladder and -- Other comic props -- The Buster Keaton variations -- The Harold Lloyd variations -- Hysterical history -- Bugs -- Scared black servants, dice-playing african -- Cannibals, and the most racist comedy in silent cinema history -- Other variations.…”
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects /

Table of Contents: “…Joy -- Sheep tracks: a multi-species impression / Julian Yates -- The renaissance res publica of furniture / Julia Reinhard Lupton -- Powers of the hoard: further notes on material agency / Jane Bennett -- Response essays: Speaking stones, John Muir, and a slower (non)humanities / Lowell Duckert -- 'Ruinous monument': transporting objects in Herbert's Persepolis / Nedda Mehdizadeh -- Animal, vegetable, mineral: twenty questions / Jonathan Gil Harris.…”
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects /

Table of Contents: “…Joy -- Sheep tracks: a multi-species impression / Julian Yates -- The renaissance res publica of furniture / Julia Reinhard Lupton -- Powers of the hoard: further notes on material agency / Jane Bennett -- Response essays: Speaking stones, John Muir, and a slower (non)humanities / Lowell Duckert -- 'Ruinous monument': transporting objects in Herbert's Persepolis / Nedda Mehdizadeh -- Animal, vegetable, mineral: twenty questions / Jonathan Gil Harris.…”
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Dynamics of Long-Life Assets From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model /

Table of Contents: “…PART I: Introduction and Setting the scene -- Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: The Editors’ Intro -- The Challenge -- The Use-it-Wisely (UIW) Approach -- PART II: Tools and Methods -- Innovation Management with an Emphasis on Co-Creation -- Complexity Management and System Dynamics Thinking -- Managing the Life Cycle to Reduce Environmental Impacts -- Virtual Reality and 3D Imaging to Support Collaborative Decision Making for Adaptation of Long-llife Assets -- Operator-oriented Product and Production Process Design for Manufacturing, Maintenance and Upgrading -- Fostering a Community of Practice for Industrial Processes -- Extending the System Model -- PART III: From Theory to Practice -- Collaborative Management of inspection Results in Power Plant Turbines -- Rock crusher Upgrade Business from a PLM Perspective -- Space Systems Development -- Adaptation of High-Variant Automotive Production System Using a Collaborative Approach -- Supporting the Small-to-Medium Vessel Industry -- Sustainable Furniture that Grows with End-users -- Comparing Industrial Cluster Cases to Define Upgrade Business Models for a Circular Economy.   .…”
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Dynamics of Long-Life Assets From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model /

Table of Contents: “…PART I: Introduction and Setting the scene -- Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: The Editors’ Intro -- The Challenge -- The Use-it-Wisely (UIW) Approach -- PART II: Tools and Methods -- Innovation Management with an Emphasis on Co-Creation -- Complexity Management and System Dynamics Thinking -- Managing the Life Cycle to Reduce Environmental Impacts -- Virtual Reality and 3D Imaging to Support Collaborative Decision Making for Adaptation of Long-llife Assets -- Operator-oriented Product and Production Process Design for Manufacturing, Maintenance and Upgrading -- Fostering a Community of Practice for Industrial Processes -- Extending the System Model -- PART III: From Theory to Practice -- Collaborative Management of inspection Results in Power Plant Turbines -- Rock crusher Upgrade Business from a PLM Perspective -- Space Systems Development -- Adaptation of High-Variant Automotive Production System Using a Collaborative Approach -- Supporting the Small-to-Medium Vessel Industry -- Sustainable Furniture that Grows with End-users -- Comparing Industrial Cluster Cases to Define Upgrade Business Models for a Circular Economy.   .…”
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