In Miniature

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501199585

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In Miniature by Simon Garfield Pdf

Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans’ peculiar fascination with small things—and what small things tell us about our larger world. “[Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid.” —Sunday Times (London) Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charms and eccentricities hiding in plain sight around us. After beguiling fans with books about everything from typography to time, from historic maps to the color mauve, he’s found his most delightful topic yet: miniatures. Tiny Eiffel Towers. Platoons of brave toy soldiers. A doll’s house created for a Queen. Diminutive crime scenes crafted to catch a killer. Model villages and miniscule railways. These are just a few of the objects you will discover in the pages of In Miniature. Bringing together history, psychology, art, and obsession, Garfield explores what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modelers, and fans. The toys we enjoy as children invest us with a rare power at a young age, conferring on us a taste of adult-sized authority. For some, the desire to play with small things becomes a desire to make small things. We live in a vast and uncertain world, and controlling just a tiny, scaled-down part of it restores our sense of order and worth. As it explores flea circuses, microscopic food, ancient tombs, and the Vegas Strip, In Miniature changes the way we perceive our surroundings, encouraging all of us to find greatness in the smallest of things.

Author : Linda Schlossberg
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758262844

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Life In Miniature by Linda Schlossberg Pdf

From a powerful new voice in fiction comes a compelling debut about the delicate bond between daughters and mothers, and about leaving everything you know in order to find the place where you belong. Adie has always known she was different. There's her size, for one thing. Born three months premature, Adie is the smallest of her peers. Then there's Adie's mother, who at first glance seems like so many other 1980s moms--clipping coupons and attending Feel the Burn aerobics classes. But beneath the surface is something erratic and unpredictable, something that makes her drag Adie and her older sister, Miriam, from one rental apartment to the next--until Miriam runs away. Adie is left behind with her mother, who is convinced their lives are in real danger and takes Adie on a crazy run across northern California. Now Adie faces a stark choice: submit to this increasingly surreal adventure, or grow up in ways she never imagined. . . "Life in Miniature is a stunning double portrait, subtly capturing a daughter's misconceptions of her mother's delusions--while simultaneously revealing the consequences for both--in a compulsively readable and deeply insightful first novel." --Jonathon Keats, author of The Book of the Unknown ". . .a book of intelligence and grace that will make you laugh and cry." --Terry Gamble, author of Good Family Linda Schlossberg received her PhD in English literature from Harvard University, where she is the Assistant Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. Her fiction has been recognized by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, the National League of American PEN Women, and Writers at Work. She has also received research and writing grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as several awards for excellence in teaching. Linda lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Author : Jack Davy,Charlotte Dixon
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013293592

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Worlds in Miniature by Jack Davy,Charlotte Dixon Pdf

Miniaturisation is the creation of small objects that resemble larger ones, usually, but not always, for purposes different to those of the larger original object. Worlds in Miniature brings together researchers working across various regions, time periods and disciplines to explore the subject of miniaturisation as a material culture technique. It offers original contribution to the field of miniaturisation through its broad geographical scope, interdisciplinary approach, and deep understanding of miniatures and their diverse contexts. Beginning with an introduction by the editors, which offers one possible guide to studying and comparing miniatures, the following chapters include studies of miniature Neolithic stone circles on Exmoor, Ancient Egyptian miniature assemblages, miniaturisation under colonialism as practiced by the Makah People of Washington State, miniature surf boats from India, miniaturised contemporary tourist art of the Warao people of Venezuela, and dioramas on display in the Science Museum. Interspersing the chapters are interviews with miniature-makers, including two miniature boat-builders at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall and a freelance architectural model-maker. Professor Susanne Küchler concludes the volume with a theoretical study summarising the current state of miniaturisation as a research discipline. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume makes it suitable reading for anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and artists, and for researchers in related fields across the social sciences. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Margaret Grace
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564748041

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Matrimony in Miniature by Margaret Grace Pdf

When murder happens in the small town of Lincoln Point CA, there aren’t many degrees of separation between the victim and retired teacher Gerry Porter. How can she stay away from the investigation when the crime scene is the venue for her marriage to Henry Baker? But this time, nephew Detective Skip Gowen tries to discourage Gerry’s and granddaughter Maddie’s efforts to solve “The Case.” He couldn’t live with himself if the murderer learns of their efforts and comes after them....

Author : Camille Minichino
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Matrimony in Miniature by Camille Minichino Pdf

When murder happens in the small town of Lincoln Point CA, there aren't many degrees of separation between the victim and retired teacher Gerry Porter. How can she stay away from the investigation when the crime scene is the venue for her marriage to Henry Baker? But this time, nephew Detective Skip Gowen tries to discourage Gerry's and granddaughter Maddie's efforts to solve The Case. He couldn't live with himself if the murderer learns of their efforts and comes after them....

Author : Camille Minichino
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mayhem in Miniature by Camille Minichino Pdf

Now that Geraldine Porter is retired, she's got time to devote to her favorite craft. You'd think the world of shoe-box-sized Victorian shadow boxes and little ceramic bathtubs would be trouble free. But Gerry's problems are anything but tiny... Gerry likes working in a smaller scale, yet her to-do list is anything but. Between creating a miniature Victorian room box for the holiday auction, teaching crafts at the Mary Todd Retirement Home, and watching her granddaughter, her calendar is bursting with holiday cheer—until she has to add in a murder investigation. The gardener at the nursing home has been found dead, and one of her very own craft students, eighty-seven-year-old Sofia Muniz, is the prime suspect. With the help of a friend and fellow crafter, Gerry turns the home upside down trying to clear Sofia's name. What she uncovers in this upscale community is not a tiny can of worms—it's more like a twisted bunch of foul snakes. And it's up to Gerry to shrink the mystery down to size...

Author : Margaret Grace
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564747594

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Mix-up in Miniature by Margaret Grace Pdf

Tiny Houses Can Hold Big Clues. Geraldine Porter is thrilled to meet bestselling author and miniatures enthusiast Varena Young. The celebrity seems to seek friendship with Gerry and her crafts group, and makes a generous offer of a house from her collection for a library fund-raiser. But Young is suddenly murdered. Gerry and her eleven-year-old granddaughter Maddie delve for information on Young�s mysterious past, and find a clue to her murder in a secret room... in a dollhouse. "Perfectly written, with a cast of wonderful characters. This series keeps getting better and better.” -- Hannah Reed, Mind Your Own Beeswax

Author : Jeanne M. Dams
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448300754

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Malice in Miniature by Jeanne M. Dams Pdf

When Dorothy Martin gets a call from her friend Ada Finch, whose gardener son has been arrested for the attempted theft of an antique dolls’ tea set from the Miniatures Museum at the imposing Brocklesby Hall, she doesn’t hesitate to offer her services to clear his name. But when theft leads to murder, Dorothy discovers there are big secrets hidden in the rooms filled with miniatures.

Author : Margaret Grace
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425223051

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Mayhem in Miniature by Margaret Grace Pdf

Between creating a miniature Victorian room box for the holiday auction and teaching crafts at an upscale retirement home, Geraldine Porter comes to the aid of one of her students, eighty-seven-year-old Sofia Muniz, who is accused of murdering the home's gardener. Original.

Author : Patrick Somerville
Publisher : featherproof books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982580899

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The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville Pdf

From award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville comes this genre-busting novel-in-stories that leaps between small-town suburbs and the outer reaches of outer-space. A cast of outcasts—including the world's angriest mercenary, a sad surrealist, and a messianic alcoholic lawyer—bind together in this surprisingly warm exploration of love and identity in the post-millennial world.

Author : Claude Boutet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1750
Category : Colors
ISBN : BL:A0021948428

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The Art of Painting in Miniature by Claude Boutet Pdf

Author : World
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591072251

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The world in miniature, ed. by F. Shoberl (W.H. Pyne). Containing a description of the manners, customs [&c.] of the inhabitants. With coloured engr. [35 vols. Wanting vol.1,2 of Africa]. by World Pdf

Author : Gerald Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0801970962

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Buildings in Miniature by Gerald Jensen Pdf

Author : Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Miniature books
ISBN : 1786270250

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My Miniature Library by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini Pdf

With stories ranging from illustrated fairytales to well-loved nonsense rhymes and books of butterflies, birds and flowers, plus blank books for you to complete yourself, you'll have everything you need to make a little library of beautifully illustrated books. The books are simple to make - just cut, fold and glue. The kit comes with a miniature bookshelf to press out and make, and easy-to-follow, fully illustrated instructions. Plus the box transforms into a beautiful library scene!

Author : Randall Olson
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781845841560

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GM in Miniature by Randall Olson Pdf

The world of rare hand-built General Motors scale replica cars and light trucks to 1954 awaits the reader, in the only publication ever devoted to the subject. A visual feast with more than 540 colour photographs of 1:43 scale model Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and GM light trucks & cars, plus historical and technical information, comprehensive lists of models, manufacturers and builders, pricing and sources, makes this book a MUST for serious GM fans and scale model collectors.