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Book Alter Icons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 027103677X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Alter Icons written by Jefferson J. A. Gatrall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays by eleven scholars of Russian history, art, literature, cinema, philosophy, and theology that track key shifts in the production, circulation, and consumption of the Russian icon from Peter the Great's Enlightenment to the post-Soviet revival of the Orthodox Church"--Provided by publisher.

Book Absolute Beginner s Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista

Download or read book Absolute Beginner s Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista written by Shelley O'Hara and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual introduction to Microsoft's innovative new operating system, Windows Vista, includes coverage of such topics as Aero Glass design, security features for protecting the PC, instant searching, Windows Mail, parental control, Media Player 11, and Internet Explorer 7.

Book ReVisioning

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Romaine
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2014-05-20
  • ISBN : 1630871826
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book ReVisioning written by James Romaine and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art examines the application of art historical methods to the history of Christianity and art. As methods of art history have become more interdisciplinary, there has been a notable emergence of discussions of religion in art history as well as related fields such as visual culture and theology. This book represents the first critical examination of scholarly methodologies applied to the study of Christian subjects, themes, and contexts in art. ReVisioning contains original work from a range of scholars, each of whom has addressed the question, in regard to a well-known work of art or body of work, "How have particular methods of art history been applied, and with what effect?" The study moves from the third century to the present, providing extensive treatment and analysis of art historical methods applied to the history of Christianity and art.

Book Windows XP Power Hound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Preston Gralla
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2004-09-30
  • ISBN : 0596552297
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Windows XP Power Hound written by Preston Gralla and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windows XP can be a great tool, but it is all too easy to trip over Windows XP's annoying traits more often than you leverage its productivity. Windows XP power-users troll online resources, documentation, and the expertise (or lucky finds) of friends for valuable tips and tricks--a keyboard shortcut here, an undocumented double-click there--to eliminate annoyances, save time, and take control of their Windows XP. But what if there was an easier way?This new book presents literally hundreds of problems and solutions, amazing power tips, cool tricks, and clever workarounds in one clearly organized, easy to use, and portable resource. Truly insightful and amusing, Windows XP Power Hound gives Windows XP users practical hints for everything from the desktop to Office programs to the registry, and includes documented (but little-known) tips as well as previously undocumented tricks. Windows XP Power Hound moves far beyond mere productivity and explores what's possible with Windows XP--including cool things you probably never thought of doing.An understanding of Windows XP basics will get the job done. But discovering the most useful I didn't know that! tips and shortcuts will make using Windows XP a far richer and less frustrating experience. The practical, concise format of Windows XP Power Hound makes it easy to dip into for a quick tip from time to time; the warm, jargon-free tone makes it easy to read cover to cover.Anyone who wants to smooth out Windows XP's speed bumps and get some serious speed to accelerate through the bottlenecks will find that even a handful of these useful, to-the-point tips will make Windows XP Power Hound worth its weight in chocolate.

Book Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity

Download or read book Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity written by Jaś Elsner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the problems for studying art and religion in Eurasia arising from ancestral, colonial and post-colonial biases in historiography.

Book IT Principles for Office 2000

Download or read book IT Principles for Office 2000 written by David Broughton and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides all the knowledge and skills students need to complete level 2 qualifications. Written in simple, clear language using Office 2000 applications, the titles are full of exercises to help students get to grips fast with the skills they need for assessment.

Book Selected Essays  Volume II

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Louth
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-08-17
  • ISBN : 0192882821
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Selected Essays Volume II written by Andrew Louth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together, these two volumes collect seventy-five essays written by Professor Andrew Louth over a forty-year period. Louth's contribution to scholarship and theology has always been significant, and these essays have been collected from journals and edited collections, many of which are difficult to access, and are here made available over two thought-provoking and wide-ranging volumes. Volume II collects essays on a variety of theological topics, arranged chronologically, showing the development of Louth's thought since 1978. Throughout this collection the nature of 'theology', as it is understood within Orthodox tradition, is a constant concern. These essays offer distinctive reflections on categories -- such as 'development of doctrine' -- that have become foundational in modern western thought but which must be viewed rather differently from an Orthodox perspective. The legacy of modern Russian Orthodox thought -- especially the key figures of the twentieth century Russian diaspora -- is under constant consideration, and forms a constant dialogue partner.

Book The Icon and the Square

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Taroutina
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2018-12-17
  • ISBN : 0271082577
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Icon and the Square written by Maria Taroutina and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Icon and the Square, Maria Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century through a shared interest in the Byzantine past, offering a counternarrative to prevailing notions of Russian modernism. Focusing on the works of four different artists—Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Tatlin—Taroutina shows how engagement with medieval pictorial traditions drove each artist to transform his own practice, pushing beyond the established boundaries of his respective artistic and intellectual milieu. She also contextualizes and complements her study of the work of these artists with an examination of the activities of a number of important cultural associations and institutions over the course of several decades. As a result, The Icon and the Square gives a more complete picture of Russian modernism: one that attends to the dialogue between generations of artists, curators, collectors, critics, and theorists. The Icon and the Square retrieves a neglected but vital history that was deliberately suppressed by the atheist Soviet regime and subsequently ignored in favor of the secular formalism of mainstream modernist criticism. Taroutina’s timely study, which coincides with the centennial reassessments of Russian and Soviet modernism, is sure to invigorate conversation among scholars of art history, modernism, and Russian culture.

Book Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies

Download or read book Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies written by Janine Warner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a Web design newbie, Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies shows you the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on Dreamweaver. You’ll be able to create professional, great-looking, user-friendly websites in no time at all. Take advantage of the new, more customizable interface, improved integration with Flash and Photoshop, a handy new AJAX coding feature, and Live View, which lets you see your work as you create it. Understand Dreamweaver basics, set up your site and create new pages, and work with text, graphics, and links. You can manage, test, and publish a site, define and apply styles with CSS, coordinate your design work, add audio, video, and Flash files to your site, build a dynamic Web site, and use Dreamweaver’s database features. Know how to: Design, build, and deploy professional-looking Web sites Use Dreamweaver’s new, more versatile preset layouts Fine-tune styles with enhanced CSS support Keep your pages cutting-edge with SmartObjects Take advantage of the new, more customizable interface Understand browser differences, make the most of CSS, build dynamic sites Create and optimize Web graphics Learn to maximize Cascading Style Sheets and Dreamweaver’s Layers features for creating fluid layouts Complete with lists of ten resources, ten timesaving tips, and ten great Web sites designed in Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Dreamweaver.

Book Camtasia Studio 5

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Richard Park
  • Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 1598220578
  • Pages : 649 pages

Download or read book Camtasia Studio 5 written by Daniel Richard Park and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion CD includes a 30-day trial version of Camtasia Studio 5!Camtasia Studio 5: The Definitive Guide introduces readers to the latest features of Camtasia Studio, including the revamped Recorder application, automated zooming and panning with SmartFocus, and upload via FTP. Readers learn the entire process of creating top-notch software tutorials, marketing spots, and demonstrations, beginning with developing goals and determining the audience to scripting, recording, editing, producing, and sharing the video. Appropriate for users at all levels, this book provides a practical guide to getting the most out of Camtasia Studio.Learn how to record audio and video streams and add special effects with Camtasia Recorder; extend and split media clips, add callouts and Flash hotspots, and create quizzes and surveys; enhance your videos with a picture-in-picture track; convert your PowerPoint presentations to Camtasia Studio recordings; produce your videos for distribution via CD, DVD, the web, and portable media players

Book Camtasia Studio 4

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Park
  • Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 1598220373
  • Pages : 601 pages

Download or read book Camtasia Studio 4 written by Daniel Park and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion CD includes a trial version of Camtasia Studio 4!With the latest release of Camtasia Studio, TechSmith continues to enhance its industry-leading screen video recording and editing tool. Camtasia Studio 4: The Definitive Guide describes the newest features and takes the user through the entire process of creating top-notch software tutorials, marketing spots, and demonstrations. This book provides a practical guide to getting the most out of Camtasia Studio, with topics ranging from developing goals, determining the audience, and storyboarding to recording, editing, and producing.

Book Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art

Download or read book Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art written by Louise Hardiman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations at the dawn of the twentieth century, their relationship with ‘the spiritual’ – broadly defined – was inextricably linked to their roles as pioneers of modernism. This diverse collection of essays introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Ten chapters from emerging and established voices offer new perspectives on Kandinsky and other familiar names, such as Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova, and introduce less well-known figures, such as the Georgian artists Ucha Japaridze and Lado Gudiashvili, and the craftswoman and art promoter Aleksandra Pogosskaia. Prefaced by a lively and informative introduction by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow that sets these perspectives in their historical and critical context, Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives enriches our understanding of the modernist period and breaks new ground in its re-examination of the role of religion and spirituality in the visual arts in late Imperial Russia. Of interest to historians and enthusiasts of Russian art, culture, and religion, and those of international modernism and the avant-garde, it offers innovative readings of a history only partially explored, revealing uncharted corners and challenging long-held assumptions.

Book Windows 7  The Missing Manual

Download or read book Windows 7 The Missing Manual written by David Pogue and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hardnosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users. Windows 7 fixes many of Vista's most painful shortcomings. It's speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features, including better organization tools, easier WiFi connections and home networking setup, and even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware. With this book, you'll learn how to: Navigate the desktop, including the fast and powerful search function Take advantage of Window's apps and gadgets, and tap into 40 free programs Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8, and learn the email, chat, and videoconferencing programs Record TV and radio, display photos, play music, and record any of these to DVD using the Media Center Use your printer, fax, laptop, tablet PC, or smartphone with Windows 7 Beef up your system and back up your files Collaborate and share documents and other files by setting up a workgroup network

Book MegaFox

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcia Akins
  • Publisher : Hentzenwerke
  • Release : 2002-01-28
  • ISBN : 9781930919273
  • Pages : 714 pages

Download or read book MegaFox written by Marcia Akins and published by Hentzenwerke. This book was released on 2002-01-28 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its native data engine, rich object oriented language, and capabilities to produce COM servers and consume Web services, Visual FoxPro is the single most flexible programming tool available to a software developer. But nothing stands alone anymore. This book will show you how to extend the scope and power of Visual FoxPro as a development tool by integrating it with other software and technologies.

Book A Public Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ekaterina Pravilova
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-22
  • ISBN : 0691180717
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book A Public Empire written by Ekaterina Pravilova and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the public" through the reform of property rights.

Book Virtual Airplane vol  1  Preparations

Download or read book Virtual Airplane vol 1 Preparations written by Witold Jaworski and published by Witold Jaworski. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four volumes of the "Virtual Airplane" series will teach you how to create the model shown on the cover. This guide assumes that you may know nothing about the 3D modeling software, so it starts the course from the very basics. In subsequent chapters the author builds a computer model of the P-40B fighter, gradually introducing new methods and tools. Every step of this workflow is shown in numerous illustrations. This first volume ("Preparations") describes how to prepare and verify the reference drawings, which you need to build a 3D model. "Preparations" also discusses various methods of checking and enhancing these reference images. It can be useful, as a guide on its own, for all who would like to draw accurate scale plans. You can learn there how to use photos and original aircraft documentation (including manufacturer's blueprints).

Book Modern Art and the Life of a Culture

Download or read book Modern Art and the Life of a Culture written by Jonathan A. Anderson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today Book of the Year Award of Merit - Culture and the Arts For many Christians, engaging with modern art raises several questions: Is the Christian faith at odds with modern art? Does modernism contain religious themes? What is the place of Christian artists in the landscape of modern art? Nearly fifty years ago, Dutch art historian and theologian Hans Rookmaaker offered his answers to these questions when he published his groundbreaking work, Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, which was characterized by both misgivings and hopefulness. While appreciating Rookmaaker's invaluable contribution to the study of theology and the arts, this volume—coauthored by an artist and a theologian—responds to his work and offers its own answers to these questions by arguing that there were actually strong religious impulses that positively shaped modern visual art. Instead of affirming a pattern of decline and growing antipathy towards faith, the authors contend that theological engagement and inquiry can be perceived across a wide range of modern art—French, British, German, Dutch, Russian, and North American—and through particular works by artists such as Gauguin, Picasso, David Jones, Caspar David Friedrich, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Warhol, and many others. This Studies in Theology and the Arts volume brings together the disciplines of art history and theology and points to the signs of life in modern art in order to help Christians navigate these difficult waters. The Studies in Theology and the Arts series encourages Christians to thoughtfully engage with the relationship between their faith and artistic expression, with contributions from both theologians and artists on a range of artistic media including visual art, music, poetry, literature, film, and more.