Defiant Pose

Author : Stewart Home
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1301964499

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Defiant Pose by Stewart Home Pdf

Author : Stewart Home
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1193395697

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Defiant Pose by Stewart Home Pdf

Author : Gary Bettinson,James Udden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137553096

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The Poetics of Chinese Cinema by Gary Bettinson,James Udden Pdf

This book examines the aesthetic qualities of particular Chinese-language films and the rich artistic traditions from which they spring. It brings together leading experts in the field, and encompasses detailed and wide-ranging case studies of films such as Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Spring in a Small Town, 24 City, and The Grandmaster, and filmmakers including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, Chen Kaige, Fei Mu, Zhang Yimou, Johnnie To, and Wong Kar-wai. By illuminating the form and style of Chinese films from across cinema history, The Poetics of Chinese Cinema testifies to the artistic value and uniqueness of Chinese-language filmmaking.

Author : Anthony L. Brooks,Eva Brooks,Nikolas Vidakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319769080

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Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation by Anthony L. Brooks,Eva Brooks,Nikolas Vidakis Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of two conferences: The 6th International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2017) and the Second International Conference on Design, Learning and Innovation (DLI 2017). The event was hosted in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in October 2017 and attracted 65 submissions from which 50 full papers were selected for publication in this book. The papers represent a forum for the dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of arts, design and technology, including open related topics like interactivity and game creation.

Author : Roman Peters
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595415083

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Vampire World by Roman Peters Pdf

Eddie and his brother, Will are in the band Kismet. While playing at a popular college bar they meet Candy who wants Will, but Eddie doesn't feel right about Candy. Candy doesn't take no for an answer and follows the band home where trouble ensues which ends in murder. Eddie is wanted by the police and wanted by vampires for revenge, but Eddie must find a way to save his brother. Eddie discovers a bizarre underworld of murderous creatures who control the police. He also discovers he has unusual abilities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004358515

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Policing Literary Theory by Anonim Pdf

Policing Literary Theory is an exploration of the complex relationship between literature/literary theory and police/policing.

Author : James Farley,Matthew D. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000225761

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Redefining Propaganda in Modern China by James Farley,Matthew D. Johnson Pdf

Usage of the political keyword 'propaganda' by the Chinese Communist Party has changed and expanded over time. These changes have been masked by strong continuities spanning periods in the history of the People's Republic of China from the Mao Zedong era (1949–76) to the new era of Xi Jinping (2012–present). Redefining Propaganda in Modern China builds on the work of earlier scholars to revisit the central issue of how propaganda has been understood within the Communist Party system. What did propaganda mean across successive eras? What were its institutions and functions? What were its main techniques and themes? What can we learn about popular consciousness as a result? In answering these questions, the contributors to this volume draw on a range of historical, cultural studies, propa­ganda studies and comparative politics approaches. Their work captures the sweep of propaganda – its appearance in everyday life, as well as during extraordinary moments of mobilization (and demobilization), and its systematic continuities and discontinuities from the perspective of policy-makers, bureaucratic function­aries and artists. More localized and granular case studies are balanced against deep readings and cross-cutting interpretive essays, which place the history of the People's Republic of China within broader temporal and comparative frames. Addressing a vital aspect of Chinese Communist Party authority, this book is meant to provide a timely and comprehensive update on what propaganda has meant ideologically, operationally, aesthetically and in terms of social experience.

Author : Jarett Kobek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735222496

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The Future Won't Be Long by Jarett Kobek Pdf

“A brilliant re-creation of a disappeared New York of cheap rents, club kids and Bret Easton Ellis. . . . You can’t stop time’s passage, this absorbing novel reminds us. You can only find someone to love to help you survive it.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “Have you been pining for tales of drug-fueled big-city debauchery set in the pre-digital era, when MTV was king, people still used landlines and hookups were orchestrated on dance floors instead of dating apps? Look no further.” —The Washington Post “Hard not to recommend. . . . Full of delightfully cynical aphorisms. . . . At the heart of The Future Won’t Be Long is the friendship between Baby and Adeline—at once loving and destructive and convincingly drawn by Kobek.” —Kevin Nguyen, GQ.com A euphoric, provocative novel about friendship, sex, art, clubbing, and ambition set in 1980s and ’90s New York City, from the author of I Hate the Internet When Adeline, a wealthy art student, chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat, the two begin a fiery friendship that propels them through a decade of New York life. In the apartments and bars of downtown Manhattan to the infamous nightclub The Limelight, Adeline is Baby’s guardian angel, introducing him to a city not yet overrun by gentrification. They live through an era of New York punctuated by the deaths of Warhol, Basquiat, Wojnarowicz, and Tompkins Square Park. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby, even bringing him home with her to Los Angeles, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin, Baby relishes ketamine-fueled clubbing nights and acid days in LA, and he falls deep into the Club Kid twilight zone of sexual excess. As Adeline develops into the artist she never really expected to become and flees to the nascent tech scene in San Francisco, Baby faces his own desire for artistic expression and recognition. He must write his way out of clubbing life, and their friendship, an alliance that seemed nearly impenetrable, is tested and betrayed, leaving each unmoored as the world around them seems to be unraveling. Riotously funny and wise, The Future Won't Be Long is an ecstatic, propulsive novel coursing with a rare vitality, an elegy to New York and to the relationships that have the power to change—and save—our lives.

Author : Diana Hiller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565844

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"Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350?490 " by Diana Hiller Pdf

Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely considered effect of gender on the profoundly contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images in surprisingly different physical and cultural refectory environments. In addition to offering detailed visual analyses, the author draws on a broad spectrum of published and unpublished primary materials, including monastic rules, devotional tracts and reading materials, the constitutions and ordinazioni for individual houses, inventories from male and female communities and the Convent Suppression documents of the Archivio di Stato in Florence. By examining the original viewers? attitudes to images, their educational status, acculturated pieties, affective responses, levels of community, degrees of reclusion, and even the types of food eaten in the refectories, Hiller argues that the perceptions of these viewers of the Last Supper frescoes were intrinsically gendered.

Author : Claire Hilton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030548711

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Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War by Claire Hilton Pdf

This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this study uncovers the mental wellbeing of civilians during the war. It provides the first comprehensive account of wartime asylums in London, challenging the commonly held view that changes in psychiatric care for civilians post-war were linked mainly to soldiers’ experiences and treatment. Drawing extensively on archival and published sources, this book examines the impact of medical, scientific, political, cultural and social change on civilian asylums. It compares four asylums in London, each distinct in terms of their priorities and the diversity of their patients. Revealing the histories of the 100,000 civilian patients who were institutionalised during the First World War, this book offers new insights into decision-making and prioritisation of healthcare in times of austerity, and the myriad factors which inform this.

Author : Oded Goldreich
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781450372695

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Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography by Oded Goldreich Pdf

Cryptography is concerned with the construction of schemes that withstand any abuse. A cryptographic scheme is constructed so as to maintain a desired functionality, even under malicious attempts aimed at making it deviate from its prescribed behavior. The design of cryptographic systems must be based on firm foundations, whereas ad hoc approaches and heuristics are a very dangerous way to go. These foundations were developed mostly in the 1980s, in works that are all co-authored by Shafi Goldwasser and/or Silvio Micali. These works have transformed cryptography from an engineering discipline, lacking sound theoretical foundations, into a scientific field possessing a well-founded theory, which influences practice as well as contributes to other areas of theoretical computer science. This book celebrates these works, which were the basis for bestowing the 2012 A.M. Turing Award upon Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. A significant portion of this book reproduces some of these works, and another portion consists of scientific perspectives by some of their former students. The highlight of the book is provided by a few chapters that allow the readers to meet Shafi and Silvio in person. These include interviews with them, their biographies and their Turing Award lectures.

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781667624587

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Second Form at St. Clare's by Enid Blyton Pdf

The Second Form at St. Clare's is the fourth novel in the St. Clare's series of children's school stories by Enid Blyton. The series is about the boarding school adventures of twin girls Patricia and Isabel O'Sullivan. Their form mistress is now Miss Jenks and they no longer have to bear the severeness of the first form mistress, Miss Roberts – who is extremely sarcastic and firm but can be kind when she feels like it, a bit like Mam'zelle, the French teacher that used to teach and is still teaching the girls.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000090499520

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AF Press Clips by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mislav Grgic,Kresimir Delac,Mohammed Ghanbari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642028991

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Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications by Mislav Grgic,Kresimir Delac,Mohammed Ghanbari Pdf

The rapid increase in computing power and communication speed, coupled with computer storage facilities availability, has led to a new age of multimedia applications. This book presents recent advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications.

Author : Bob E.J.H. Becking,Anna-Marie J.A.C.M. Korte,Lucien van Liere
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004337459

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Contesting Religious Identities by Bob E.J.H. Becking,Anna-Marie J.A.C.M. Korte,Lucien van Liere Pdf

In Contesting Religious Identities, scholars of religion offer new pathways to rethink the place of religion in modern, secular societies.