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Games --- Miniature objects. --- Toys.
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Dollhouses --- Miniature objects --- Bibliography --- Bibliography
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Toys --- Toys --- Miniature objects --- Miniature objects --- Catalogs. --- History --- Sources. --- Catalogs. --- History --- Sources.
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Miniature objects. --- Miniature cases. --- Miniature craft. --- Art, Modern
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"In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the "mother of forensic science," who built intricate dollhouses to solve crimes. Whether examining Honey I Shrunk the Kids, the Schoenhut Toy Piano dynasty, portrait miniatures, diminutive handwriting, or Jonathan Swift's and Lewis Carroll's preoccupation with tiny people, Browning shows how a preoccupation with all things tiny can belie an attempt to grasp vast, and even cosmic, realities."--
Miniature objects in literature. --- Literature --- History and criticism.
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The tribology of miniature systems is quite different from the tribology of large machinery. This is the first publication to cover on an academic level both the basic concepts of the tribology of miniature systems and some areas of its practical application. A comprehensive survey is given on the specific problems encountered in this field, providing a volume that will be useful in solving professional engineering problems in the fast growing field of precision engineering and microtechnology.
Miniature objects. --- Tribology. --- Friction --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Miniatures --- Objects, Miniature --- Tiny objects --- Art objects --- Miniature craft --- Toys --- Miniature objects --- Tribology
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Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.
Miniature objects. --- Material culture --- Social aspects. --- Miniatures --- Objects, Miniature --- Tiny objects --- Art objects --- Miniature craft --- Toys --- Miniature objects
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Votive offerings --- Miniature objects --- Offrandes --- Objets miniatures --- Rome --- Europe --- Religion --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Antiquités
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