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Visions in a Seer Stone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Visions in a Seer Stone

In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period...

How Artifacts Afford
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

How Artifacts Afford

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-11
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of Everyday Things, offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies—but, Jenny Davis argues in How Artifacts Afford, it is in need of a conceptual update. Davis provides just such an update, introducing the mechanisms and conditions framework, which offers both a vocabulary and necessary critical...

Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 890

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1881
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1444

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 615

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction and full annotation. The editor’s Introduction provides a rich historical and literary context for the plays’ composition and production. A glossary of frequently used words likely to be unfamiliar to general readers is also included.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart

Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.

Final Supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement for an Amendment to the Pacific Northwest Regional Guide: Appendices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 618
Telephone Directory - U.S. Civil Service Commission
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56

Telephone Directory - U.S. Civil Service Commission

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1975
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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First Marine Division Association, Inc.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

First Marine Division Association, Inc.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

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