Download or read book Encyclopedia of nineteenth century photography written by John Hannavy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photograph up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come.
Download or read book Dark Writing written by Paul Carter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography and design do these ordinary experiences appear. This, Dark Writing argues, is a serious omission because they are designs on the world: architects and colonizers use their lines to construct the places where we will live. But the rectilinear streets, squares, and public spaces produced in this way leave out people and the entire environmental history of their coming together. How, this book asks, can we explain the omission of bodies from maps and plans? And how can we redraw the lines maps and plans use so that the qualitative world of shadows, footprints, comings and goings, and occasions—all essential qualities of places that incubate sociality—can be registered? In short, Dark Writing asks why we represent the world as static when our experience of it is mobile. It traces this bias in Enlightenment cartography, in inductive logic, and in contemporary place design. This is the negative critique. Its positive argument is that, when we look closely at these designs on the world, we find traces of a repressed movement form. Even the ideal lines of geometrical figures turn out to contain traces of earlier passages; and there are many forms of graphic design that do engage with the dark environment that surrounds the light of reason. How can this "dark writing"—so important to reconfiguring our world as a place of meeting, of co-existence and sustaining diversity—be represented? And how, therefore, can our representations of the world embody more sensuously the mobile histories that have produced it? Dark Writing answers these questions using case studies: the exemplary case of the beginnings of the now world-famous Papunya Tula Painting Movement (Central Australia) and three high-profile public place-making initiatives in which the author was involved as artist and thinker. These case studies are nested inside historical chapters and philosophical discussions of the line and linear thinking that make Dark Writing both a highly personal book and a narrative with wide general appeal.
Download or read book The A to Z of Spanish Cinema written by Alberto Mira and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but they are adopting Spanish producers and Spanish actors as their own. While Spanish cinema has been maturing for a long time and has been producing excellent directors, actors, and films for decades-including during the dark times of the Franco regime-only now is it winning numerous fans not only at home but also abroad. And with directors like Pedro Almodóvar, actors and actresses like Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, and films such as Abre los ojos and Alatriste to build upon, the outlook for Spanish Cinema appears brighter than ever. The A to Z of Spanish Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Spanish cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on producers, directors, film companies, actors, and films.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema written by Alberto Mira and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish cinema is emerging as one of the most exciting, fascinating, and special cinemas in the world. Not only are others viewing Spanish films, but they are adopting Spanish producers and Spanish actors as their own. While Spanish cinema has been maturing for a long time and has been producing excellent directors, actors, and films for decades_including during the dark times of the Franco regime_only now is it winning numerous fans not only at home but also abroad. And with directors like Pedro Almod-var, actors and actresses like Javier Bardem and PenZlope Cruz, and films such as Abre los ojos and Alatriste to build upon, the outlook for Spanish Cinema appears brighter than ever. The Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Spanish cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on producers, directors, film companies, actors, and films.
Download or read book FUNSAR Spanish Fundamentos de B squeda y Rescate Segunda Edici n written by National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FUNCIONES DINÁMICAS• Sugerencias de búsqueda y rescate• Los consejos de seguridad alertan al personal de SAR sobre los riesgos esperados y los potenciales imprevistos• Los recursos listados proporcionan sugerencias para profundizar en el estudio de los temas de cada capítulo• Las fotografías e ilustraciones a todo color apoyan y ayudan a aclarar el textoONTENIDO INTEGRALFUNCONTENIDO INTEGRAL• Lineamientos para asegurar que el personal de búsqueda y rescate (SAR) esté preparado física y mentalmente para la búsqueda y rescate• Consideraciones legales y éticas importantes para la búsqueda y rescate• Una extensa variedad de equipo de SAR, ropa y tecnología y cuando debe usarse cada uno• Métodos de supervivencia e improvisación en diversos ambientes• Métodos de seguimiento y herramientas de navegaciónFundamentos de Búsqueda y Rescate (FUNSAR), Segunda edición constituye un recurso integral para el personal nuevo y experimentado de búsqueda y rescate (SAR, por sus siglas en inglés). Proporcionando una visión general de los aspectos y procedimientos de búsqueda y rescate, FUNSAR enseña las técnicas esenciales empleadas de manera satisfactoria por casi todo el personal de búsqueda y rescate. FUNSAR ofrece un enfoque profundo y práctico para la búsqueda y rescate y es recomendado para todos los respondientes de emergencia.La Segunda edición ha sido actualizada en su totalidad para satisfacer las necesidades actuales del personal de búsqueda y rescate, destacando el equipo y la tecnología más recientes y enfocándose en las técnicas de búsqueda y rescate probadas y eficaces. Cubre todas las áreas de búsqueda y rescate, desde elegir la mejor ropa y calzado considerando el medio ambiente, hasta empacar ligero e improvisar, el seguimiento y la localización de sujetos. Ideal para profesionales remunerados y para voluntarios, este recurso esencial combina las características dinámicas con el contenido más reciente y completo.
Download or read book Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century written by Jill Kuhnheim and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has poetry lost its relevance in the postmodern age, unable to keep pace with other forms of cultural production such as film, mass media, and the Internet? Quite the contrary, argues Jill Kuhnheim in this pathfinding book, which explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental cultural debates of its time. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, Kuhnheim engages in close readings of numerous poetic works to show how contemporary Spanish American poetry struggles with the divisions between politics and aesthetics and between visual and written images; grapples with issues of ethnic, national, sexual, and urban identities; and incorporates rather than rejects technological innovations and elements from the mass media. Her analysis illuminates the ways in which contemporary issues such as indigenismo and Latin America's postcolonial legacy, modernization, immigration, globalization, economic shifts toward neoliberalism and informal economies, urbanization, and the technological revolution have been expressed in—and even changed the very form of—Spanish American poetry since the 1970s.
Download or read book Reversible Monuments written by Mónica de la Torre and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Poetry has flourished during the last thirty years, and this ambitious multi-lingual anthology surveys the vibrant and eclectic work of poets born after 1950. The poetry of this new generation reflects a wealth of backgrounds, regions, styles, and especially influences -- including traditional and inventive narrative, formalism, lyrics, suites, and experimental verse. This is also the first generation of Mexican poets to hold in common an international perspective. Unlike anthologies offering only one or two poems by each author, Reversible Monuments affords its poets space enough to present larger-than-usual selections, allowing readers to more fully realize the individual voices. The translations, by both distinguished translators and brilliant new practitioners, are concise and transparent, and most are published here for the first time. In addition, several indigenous poets who write in Zapotec, Tzeltal, and Mazatec are presented tri-lingually. Book jacket.
Download or read book American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas 1554 1700 written by Bruce Stanley Burdick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magisterial annotated bibliography of the earliest mathematical works to be printed in the New World challenges long-held assumptions about the earliest examples of American mathematical endeavor. Bruce Stanley Burdick brings together mathematical writings from Mexico, Lima, and the English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. The book provides important information such as author, printer, place of publication, and location of original copies of each of the works discussed. Burdick’s exhaustive research has unearthed numerous examples of books not previously cataloged as mathematical. While it was thought that no mathematical writings in English were printed in the Americas before 1703, Burdick gives scholars one of their first chances to discover Jacob Taylor’s 1697 Tenebrae, a treatise on solving triangles and other figures using basic trigonometry. He also goes beyond the English language to discuss works in Spanish and Latin, such as Alonso de la Vera Cruz's 1554 logic text, the Recognitio Summularum; a book on astrology by Enrico Martínez; books on the nature of comets by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Eusebio Francisco Kino; and a 1676 almanac by Feliciana Ruiz, the first woman to produce a mathematical work in the Americas. Those fascinated by mathematics, its history, and its culture will note with interest that many of these works, including all of the earliest ones, are from Mexico, not from what is now the United States. As such, the book will challenge us to rethink the history of mathematics on the American continents.
Download or read book A New Spanish Reader written by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El Mega Libro de las Ideas Equivocadas written by James Egan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El deporte más peligroso no es el fútbol americano. Es volar una cometa. El mapa del mundo es impreciso. Los silenciadores no existen. Todos pronuncian "Monte Everest" incorrectamente. El Viejo Oeste no era nada como lo imaginamos. Los Illuminati existieron durante solamente ocho años. Los satanistas no adoran a Satanás. A Abraham Lincoln no le importaba la gente de color. Amelia Earhart no desapareció misteriosamente. Egipto no tiene no la mayor cantidad de pirámides ni la más grande. La radiación no es peligrosa. No sabemos nada de los druidas. Las Cataratas del Niágara no son las más altas cascadas. Las Islas Canarias no se llaman así por los canarios. No todos los piratas eran criminales. Algunos de ellos eran agentes del gobierno. Los Rastafari no se llaman a sí mismos "Rastafari". El sol no está ardiendo. Los amish (menonitas) sí usan electricidad.
Download or read book ALPINISTAS DE CORAZ N written by and published by Editorial San Pablo. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alpinistas del corazón está dirigido no sólo a los jóvenes, sino a quienes tienen un corazón joven, para que vivan intensamente las virtudes teologales: la fe en Cristo, la esperanza en el Espíritu y la caridad en el Padre. Es una invitación a decir NO a tantos caminos que atentan contra la dignidad humana y, por tanto, contra la vida misma; y a decir SÍ a la fuerza del espíritu que anima y vence con radicalidad.
Download or read book Percepciones Originales written by Alcides Vidal and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percepciones Originales Tiene la buena intención de hacer entender el origen de la vida corpórea-energética a través de retrospectivos viajes mentales de rastreo en el tiempo, ingresando hasta en los inicios del florecer de la vida, en los momentos cuando se está engendrando un nuevo ser, el que embrionariamente comienza a brotar y a desarrollarse, cargándose energéticamente. Alcides G. Vidal La obra induce realizar voluntarias y misteriosas aventuras mentales, en cortos y rápidos recorridos hasta el interior de un longevo pasado, para poder revivir esas fantásticas épocas. Igualmente contiene complejos casos de una natural e ingenua comunicación telepática y de percepción. Como todo buen trabajo no deja de presentar algunas misteriosas incógnitas, formulando nuevas interrogantes; donde lo más importante es que devela una línea intuitiva para el raciocinio de las épocas vividas. El libro también pregunta: ¿Puede el cuerpo humano, al nacer, adquirir características que hasta pudieran marcarle fronteras energéticas mensurables? ¿Existen nuevas fuerzas energéticas actuando en nuestro alrededor y cuerpo, desde mucho tiempo antes del alumbramiento? Aunque muchos de los casos presentados en esta obra serán considerados como familiares y comunes, otros seguramente resultarán novedosos. El Dr. Hugo Salinas, desde Francia dice: “El libro es bastante original. Es un tema bastante atrayente. En casi todo concuerdo con el planteamiento del autor”. Publicaciones del Autor, en Portugués: “Frutos Do Passado Sementes Do Futuro”, “Terceirização”; “Cartas na Mesa – Empresa, Empresário, Informática”; en Español: “Del Sueño a la Realidad – Los Inmigrantes USA”.
Download or read book The Poems of Octavio Paz written by Octavio Paz and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz’s poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus new translations based on Paz’s final revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinberger—who has been translating Paz for over forty years—The Poems of Octavio Paz also includes translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and Charles Tomlinson. Readers will also find Weinberger’s capsule biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Paz’s own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long and singular life.
Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
