Evocative objects : things we think with / edited by Sherry Turkle. - ix, 385 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-363) and index.

Introduction : the things that matter / My cello / Knots / The archive / Stars / Keyboards / Ballet slippers / The elite glucometer / The yellow raincoat / The datebook / My laptop / Blue cheer / The radio / The bracelet / The axe head / Dit da jow : bruise wine / The vacuum cleaner / The Melbourne train / 1964 Ford Falcon / The synthesizer / Murray : the stuffed bunny / The world book / The silver pin / Death-defying superheroes / The SX-70 instant camera / Salvaged photographs / The rolling pin / The painting in the attic / The suitcase / Chinese scholars' rocks / Apples / The mummy / The geoid / Foucault's pendulum / Slime mold / What makes an object evocative? / Sherry Turkle -- Tod Machover -- Carol Strohecker -- Susan Yee -- Mitchel Resnick -- Howard Gardner -- Eden Medina -- Joseph Cevetello -- Matthew Belmonte -- Michelle Hlubinka -- Annalee Newitz -- Gail Wight -- Julian Beinart -- Irene Castle McLaughlin -- David Mitten -- Susan Spilecki -- Nathan Greenslit -- William J. Mitchell -- Judith Donath -- Trevor Pinch -- Tracy Gleason -- David Mann -- Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Henry Jenkins -- Stefan Helmreich -- Glorianna Davenport -- Susan Pollak -- Caroline A. Jones -- Olivia Daste -- Nancy Rosenblum -- Susannah Mandel -- Jeffrey Mifflin -- Michael M. J. Fischer -- Robert P. Crease -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- Sherry Turkle.

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Transitional objects (Psychology)

BF175.5.T73 / E96 2007

155.91