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Book Scream from the Shadows

Download or read book Scream from the Shadows written by Setsu Shigematsu and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sustained analysis of the Japanese women's liberation movement of the '70s, with its lessons for contemporary politics

Book Out of the Shadows  Into the Streets

Download or read book Out of the Shadows Into the Streets written by Sasha Costanza-Chock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism. For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media—newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know that social media enhance, rather than replace, face-to-face organizing. The revolution will be tweeted, but tweets alone do not the revolution make. In Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Costanza-Chock traces a much broader social movement media ecology. Through a richly detailed account of daily media practices in the immigrant rights movement, the book argues that there is a new paradigm of social movement media making: transmedia organizing. Despite the current spotlight on digital media, Costanza-Chock finds, social movement media practices tend to be cross-platform, participatory, and linked to action. Immigrant rights organizers leverage social media creatively, even as they create media ranging from posters and street theater to Spanish-language radio, print, and television. Drawing on extensive interviews, workshops, and media organizing projects, Costanza-Chock presents case studies of transmedia organizing in the immigrant rights movement over the last decade. Chapters focus on the historic mass protests against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner Bill; coverage of police brutality against peaceful activists; efforts to widen access to digital media tools and skills for low-wage immigrant workers; paths to participation in DREAM activism; and the implications of professionalism for transmedia organizing. These cases show us how savvy transmedia organizers work to strengthen movement identity, win political and economic victories, and transform public consciousness forever.

Book Earth and the Sun

Download or read book Earth and the Sun written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the relationship between the earth and the sun.

Book Moving In Shadows

    Book Details:
  • Author : P.J. Lawton
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2013-09-27
  • ISBN : 1304562239
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book Moving In Shadows written by P.J. Lawton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Para-Normal Anthology of Nine Stories, Stories of the Strange, the Unexpected and the Unexplained, Stories that ask, what if?

Book Shadows

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberto Casati
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2004-08-10
  • ISBN : 0375707115
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Shadows written by Roberto Casati and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world. For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and folklore, physics and metaphysics, and architecture and urban planning. From shadows puppets and the psychology of shadows to the role of shadows in astronomy and the influence of shadows on the architectural profiles of our cities, Roberto Casati awakens our fascination in this tour-de-force of investigation and imagination.

Book The Visual World of Shadows

Download or read book The Visual World of Shadows written by Roberto Casati and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and Patrick Cavanagh examine how the perception of shadows, as studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system. Shadows are at once a massive problem for vision—which must distinguish them from objects or material features of objects—and a resource, signaling the presence, location, shape, and size of objects. Casati and Cavanagh draw up an inventory of information retrievable from shadows, showing their amazing variety. They present an overview of the visual system, distinguishing between measurement and inference. They discuss the shadow mission, the work done by the visual brain to parse, and perhaps discard, the information from shadows; shadow ownership, the association of a shadow with the object that casts it; shadow labeling, the visual system's ability to tell shadows from nonshadows; and the shadow concept, our knowledge about shadows as a category. Casati and Cavanagh then apply the theoretical apparatus they have developed for shadows to other phenomena: illumination, reflection, and transparency. Finally, they examine the art of the shadow, paying tribute to artists' exploration of shadow, analyzing a series of artworks (reproduced in color) from a rich and fascinating art historical corpus.

Book The Practitioner

Download or read book The Practitioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadows of a Fleeting World

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Francis Martin
  • Publisher : Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780295990859
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Shadows of a Fleeting World written by David Francis Martin and published by Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In association with University of Washington Libraries and the Henry Art Gallery."

Book Time in the Shadows

Download or read book Time in the Shadows written by Laleh Khalili and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detention and confinement—of both combatants and large groups of civilians—have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions "protect" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of concentration camps, strategic hamlets, "security walls," and offshore prisons has come to be. Time in the Shadows investigates the two major liberal counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars, to Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus, and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria. Khalili deftly demonstrates that whatever the form of incarceration—visible or invisible, offshore or inland, containing combatants or civilians—liberal states have consistently acted illiberally in their counterinsurgency confinements. As our tactics of war have shifted beyond slaughter to elaborate systems of detention, liberal states have warmed to the pursuit of asymmetric wars. Ultimately, Khalili confirms that as tactics of counterinsurgency have been rendered more "humane," they have also increasingly encouraged policymakers to willingly choose to wage wars.

Book The Child Life Quarterly

Download or read book The Child Life Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadows Of The Circle  From Conic Sections To Planetary Motion  Second Edition

Download or read book Shadows Of The Circle From Conic Sections To Planetary Motion Second Edition written by Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greeks were the first to seriously ask for scientific explanations of the panorama of the heavens based on mathematical ideas. Ever since, mathematics has played a major role for human perception and description of the outside physical world, and in a larger perspective for comprehending the universe. This second edition pays tribute to this line of thought and takes the reader on a journey in the mathematical universe from conic sections to mathematical modelling of planetary systems.In the second edition, the four chapters in the first edition on conic sections (two chapters), isoperimetric problems for plane figures, and non-Euclidean geometry, are treated in four revised chapters with many new exercises added. In three new chapters, the reader is taken through mathematics in curves, mathematics in a Nautilus shell, and mathematics in the panorama of the heavens. In all chapters of the book, the circle plays a prominent role.This book is addressed to undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers interested in the geometry of conic sections, including the historical background and mathematical methods used. It features selected important results, and proofs that not only proves but also 'explains' the results.

Book In the Shadows of Birmingham

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brandon Curnel
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-05-04
  • ISBN : 9781532889318
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book In the Shadows of Birmingham written by Brandon Curnel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study examines the Huntsville Civil Rights Movement and what made the movement both unique and an overwhelming success. The work analyzes the impact Project Paperclip, the relocation of Nazi scientists, had on the Huntsville area and the movement toward civil rights and social justice for African Americans living in the "Rocket City". The book details why Huntsville was a prime location for a groundbreaking movement leading to Huntsville being the first desegregated city in the state of Alabama and home to the first integrated public school system in the "Heart of Dixie". This examination of events involving Huntsville and Madison County concludes that because of the influx of Nazi scientists coupled with the development of NASA and the businesses that followed, Huntsville was more apt to accept a civil rights movement, ultimately leading to the achievement of integration compared other cities in the Deep South.

Book Epoch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Percy MacKaye
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 666 pages

Download or read book Epoch written by Percy MacKaye and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliography: v.2 p. CIV-CVII.

Book Running Through Shadows

Download or read book Running Through Shadows written by Herbert Stickney and published by Herbert Stickney. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Running Through Shadows" invites readers on an exhilarating journey through the hidden recesses of the human experience. This gripping tale interweaves elements of mystery, suspense, and self-discovery, exploring the intricate dance between light and darkness that defines our lives. As the protagonist navigates through enigmatic events, they uncover secrets that challenge their perceptions and reshape their understanding of reality. The story unfolds in a setting where shadows hold more than just the absence of light; they are repositories of forgotten truths and latent fears. The protagonist, driven to uncover the truth, ventures into these shadowy realms, confronting external threats and internal demons. Each step taken in the shadows reveals layers of the past, interlacing personal history with broader, more universal themes of loss, betrayal, and redemption. Characters in "Running Through Shadows" are meticulously crafted, each with hidden depths and motivations. Their interactions bring to light the complex nature of human relationships, where trust is hard-won and quickly shattered. The protagonist’s journey is not just a physical quest but an emotional and psychological odyssey, testing their resilience and capacity for forgiveness. The narrative deftly explores the grey areas of morality, illustrating that the line between right and wrong is often blurred in the shadows. Richly atmospheric and profoundly moving, "Running Through Shadows" is a testament to the power of perseverance and the human spirit’s ability to find light even in the darkest places. It challenges readers to look beyond the surface, embrace the unknown, and find strength in vulnerability. As the protagonist runs through shadows, they discover that the journey through darkness is as transformative as the light they seek. This novel is compelling for anyone who has ever grappled with their shadows, seeking to uncover the hidden truths.

Book Lighting Dance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Flaviana Xavier Antunes Sampaio
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-10-15
  • ISBN : 1000627373
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Lighting Dance written by Flaviana Xavier Antunes Sampaio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances. Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as painting, film, and dance pieces from Loie Fuller, the Russell Maliphant Dance Company, Elevenplay, Pilobolus, and the Tao Dance Theater served to inspire and contextualise the study. From lighting to psychology, from reviews to academic books, shadows are examined as a symbolic and manipulative entity. The book also presents the dance solo Sombreiro, which was created to echo the experiments with light, shadow, and movement aligned to an interpretation of cultural shadow (Jung 1954, in Samuels, Shorter, and Plaut 1986; Casement 2006; Ramos 2004; Stein 2004; and others). The historical development of lighting within dance practices is also outlined, providing a valuable resource for lighting designers, dance practitioners, and theatre goers interested in the visuality of dance performances.

Book Visual Perception

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vicki Bruce
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2014-08-27
  • ISBN : 1136917144
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Visual Perception written by Vicki Bruce and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision. In Part I, the treatment of visual physiology has been extensively revised with an updated account of retinal processing, a new section explaining the principles of spatial and temporal filtering which underlie discussions in later chapters, and an up-to-date account of the primate visual pathway. Part II contains four largely new chapters which cover recent psychophysical evidence and computational model of early vision: edge detection, perceptual grouping, depth perception, and motion perception. The models discussed are extensively integrated with physiological evidence. All other chapters in Parts II, III, and IV have also been thoroughly updated.

Book Edinburgh Medical Journal

Download or read book Edinburgh Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: