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The Pencil

By: Paul Calle,Chris Calle

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The Pencil

By: Paul Calle,Chris Calle

Describes the use of pencils in art, surfaces of papers, fixatives and erasers. Also includes instruction on art basics of values, textures, shadows and edges, and principles of composition.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486838641

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Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

By: Chris Solarski

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Drawing Basics and Video Game Art

Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design

By: Chris Solarski

This book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming.” — John Romero, co-founder of id Software and CEO of Loot Drop, Inc. "Solarski’s methodology here is to show us the artistic techniques that every artist should know, and then he transposes them to the realm of video games to show how they should be used to create a far more artful gaming experience ... if I were an artist planning to do video game work, I’d have a copy of this on my shelf." — Marc Mason, Comics Waiting Room Video games are not a revolution in art history, but an evolution. Whether the medium is paper or canvas—or a computer screen—the artist’s challenge is to make something without depth seem like a window into a living, breathing world. Video game art is no different. Drawing Basics and Video Game Art is first to examine the connections between classical art and video games, enabling developers to create more expressive and varied emotional experiences in games. Artist game designer Chris Solarski gives readers a comprehensive introduction to basic and advanced drawing and design skills—light, value, color, anatomy, concept development—as well as detailed instruction for using these methods to design complex characters, worlds, and gameplay experiences. Artwork by the likes of Michelangelo, Titian, and Rubens are studied alongside AAA games like BioShock, Journey, the Mario series, and Portal 2, to demonstrate perpetual theories of depth, composition, movement, artistic anatomy, and expression. Although Drawing Basics and Video Game Art is primarily a practical reference for artists and designers working in the video games industry, it’s equally accessible for those interested to learn about gaming’s future, and potential as an artistic medium. Also available as an eBook

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Watson-Guptill

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0823098486

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9780823098484

Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

By: Chris L. Smith

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Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

By: Chris L. Smith

This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on late 20th- and 21st-century architecture, each chapter focuses on a core Deleuzian/Guattarian philosophical concept and one key work of architecture which evokes, contorts, or extends it. Challenging the idea that a concept or theory defines and then produces the physical work and not vice versa, Chris L. Smith positions the relationship between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and the field of architecture as one that is mutually substantiating and constitutive. In this framework, modes of architectural production and experimentation become inextricable from the conceptual territories defined by these two key thinkers, producing a rigorous discussion of theoretical, practical, and experimental engagements with their ideas.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350168505

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9781350168503

A History of Video Art

By: Chris Meigh-Andrews

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A History of Video Art

By: Chris Meigh-Andrews

A History of Video Art is a revised and expanded edition of the 2006 original, which extends the scope of the first edition, incorporating a wider range of artists and works from across the globe and explores and examines developments in the genre of artists' video from the mid 1990s up to the present day. In addition, the new edition expands and updates the discussion of theoretical concepts and ideas which underpin contemporary artists' video. Tracking the changing forms of video art in relation to the revolution in electronic and digital imaging that has taken place during the last 50 years, A History of Video Art orients video art in the wider art historical context, with particular reference to the shift from the structuralism of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the post-modernist concerns of the 1980s and early 1990s. The new edition also explores the implications of the internationalisation of artists' video in the period leading up to the new millennium and its concerns and preoccupations including post-colonialism, the post-medium condition and the impact and influence of the internet.

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A&C Black

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0857851896

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9780857851895

Medievalist Comics and the American Century

By: Chris Bishop

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Medievalist Comics and the American Century

By: Chris Bishop

The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged and endured, even thrived alongside their superhero counterparts. Chris Bishop presents a reception history of medievalist comics, setting them against a greater backdrop of modern American history. From its genesis in the 1930s to the present, Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant emerged from an America at odds with monarchy, but still in love with King Arthur. Green Arrow remains the continuation of a long fascination with Robin Hood that has become as central to the American identity as it was to the British. The Mighty Thor reflects the legacy of Germanic migration into the United States. The rugged individualism of Conan the Barbarian owes more to the western cowboy than it does to the continental knight-errant. In the narrative of Red Sonja, we can trace a parallel history of feminism. Bishop regards these comics as not merely happenchance, but each success (Prince Valiant and The Mighty Thor) or failure (Beowulf: Dragon Slayer) as a result and an indicator of certain American preoccupations amid a larger cultural context. Intrinsically modernist paragons of pop-culture ephemera, American comics have ironically continued to engage with the European Middle Ages. Bishop illuminates some of the ways in which we use an imagined past to navigate the present and plots some possible futures as we valiantly shape a new century.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496808533

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9781496808530

Architecture and Identity

By: Chris Abel,Norman Foster

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Architecture and Identity

By: Chris Abel,Norman Foster

Instead of tuning the consumer to the machine we can now tune the machine to the consumer' This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and theoretical developments reshaping Modern architecture into a responsive and diverse movement for the twenty-first century. Chris Abel approaches his subject from a wide range of knowledge, including cybernetics, philosophy, new human science and development planning, as well as his experience as a teacher and critic on four continents. The result is a unique global perspective on the changing nature of Modern architecture at the turn of the millennium. Including two new chapters, this revised and expanded second edition offers radical insights into such topics as: the impact of information technology on customized architecture production; the relations between tradition and innovation; prospects for a global eco-culture, and the local and global forces shaping the architecture and cities of Asia. Chris Abel is an architectural writer and educator, based in Malta. He has taught at major universities in the UK, North and South America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East and is a contributor to numerous international journals and other publications. He currently holds visiting appointments at the University of Malta and the University of the Phillippines.

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Routledge

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1135141215

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9781135141219

Worldwide Destinations

By: Brian Boniface, MA,Chris Cooper,Robyn Cooper,Brian Boniface Ma

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Worldwide Destinations

By: Brian Boniface, MA,Chris Cooper,Robyn Cooper,Brian Boniface Ma

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism provides comprehensive coverage of worldwide tourism destinations, examining the basic principles underlying the geography of tourist demand, supply and transportation, together with a broad survey of world tourism generating and destination regions.

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Routledge

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1136347828

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9781136347825

Conservation Skills

Judgement, Method and Decision Making

By: Chris Caple

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Conservation Skills

Judgement, Method and Decision Making

By: Chris Caple

Conservation Skills provides an overview of the issues facing conservators of historic and artistic works. It not only describes the nature of conservation but also provides an ethical framework to which the conservation of objects can be related. Drawing on case studies of well-known objects such as the body of Lindow Man and the Statue of Liberty it addresses the following issues: * perception, judgement and learning * reasons for preserving the past * the nature and history of conservation * conservation ethics * recording, investigating, cleaning objects * stabilisation and restoration * preventive conservation * decision making and responsibilities.

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1134659431

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A Reckoning For Kings

A Novel of Vietnam

By: Chris Bunch,Allan Cole

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A Reckoning For Kings

A Novel of Vietnam

By: Chris Bunch,Allan Cole

A fictionalized account of the Tet Offensive beginning in October 1967, when the North Vietnamese Army crosses the border into South Vietnam, and ending when the Tet invasion erupts on January 30, 1968.

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Allan Cole

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1440109907

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On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Speaking of Lacan

By: Chris Vanderwees

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On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Speaking of Lacan

By: Chris Vanderwees

On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Jacques Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced psychoanalysts (who are also trained psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists). Chris Vanderwees presents conversations with clinicians about their psychoanalytic formation and about the development of Lacanian psychoanalysis in North America over the past several decades. With oral narrative brought out through the technique of free association, then transcribed and annotated, each discussion is a trace of Vanderwees’ encounter with each clinician and the result of collaborative efforts involving speech, writing, translation, and transmission. The conversational tone makes these discussions accessible not only for those already well-versed in Lacan’s thinking, but also for anyone discovering his work for the first time. The range of contributions spans both French and English-speaking Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Complemented by On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this book of conversations conveys the diversity of historical and pedagogical perspectives on theory and practice as inspired by Lacan’s system of thought. It will be of great interest to all psychoanalytic practitioners as well as academics and scholars of psychoanalysis.

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Taylor & Francis

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100096082X

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9781000960822

Fringe to Famous

Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries

By: Tony Moore,Mark Gibson,Chris McAuliffe,Maura Edmond

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Fringe to Famous

Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries

By: Tony Moore,Mark Gibson,Chris McAuliffe,Maura Edmond

Fringe to Famous examines exchange between small scenes of cultural production and mainstream institutions and markets. Drawing on Australian examples in music, streetwear, comedy, screen and digital games, it argues that there has been much greater crossover between the two than is generally recognized. The book resists a tendency to represent fringe and mainstream as abstract opposites, bringing a focus instead to concrete historical formations. It offers an alternative both to romantic celebrations of a 'pure' fringe – discredited now by half a century of critical responses to the counterculture – and to an increasingly hardened anti-romantic reaction. Drawing on extensive original interviews, Fringe to Famous offers an overview of transformations in Australian culture since the 1980s, concluding with suggestions for cultural policy 'after the creative industries'. It proposes an idea of 'generative hybridity' between fringe and mainstream that allows us to imagine new possibilities for arts and culture in the 2020s and beyond.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501334905

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9781501334900

Religions in the World

By: Chris Wright

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Religions in the World

By: Chris Wright

This volume covers the essence of six world religions: Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. The book is a course companion especially suitable for Years 7-9. It may be used alongside existing Religion for Today titles and titles for Key Stage 3.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199148236

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9780199148233

The Dramatic Portrait

The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow

By: Chris Knight

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The Dramatic Portrait

The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow

By: Chris Knight

Without light, there is no photograph. As almost every photographer knows, the word “photograph” has its roots in two Greek words that, together, mean “drawing with light.” But what is less commonly acknowledged and understood is the role that shadow plays in creating striking, expressive imagery, especially in portraiture. It is through deft, nuanced use of both light and shadow that you can move beyond shooting simply ordinary, competent headshots into the realm of creating dramatic portraiture that can so powerfully convey a subject’s inner essence, communicate a personal narrative, and express your photographic vision.

In The Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow, Chris Knight addresses portraiture with a unique approach to both light and shadow that allows you to improve and elevate your own portraiture. He begins with the history of portraiture, from the early work of Egyptians and Greeks to the sublime treatment of light and subject by artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. Chris then dives into a deep, hands-on exploration of light, shadow, and portraiture, offering numerous lessons and takeaways. He covers:

• The qualities of light: hard, soft, and the spectrum in between

• The relationships between light, subject, and background, and how to control them

• Lighting patterns such as Paramount, Rembrandt, loop, and split

• Lighting ratios and how they affect contrast in your image

• Equipment: from big and small modifiers to grids, snoots, barn doors, flags, and gels

• Multiple setups for portrait shoots, including those that utilize one, two, and three lights

• How color contributes to drama and mood, eliciting an emotional response from the viewer

• How to approach styling your portrait, from wardrobe to background

• The post-processing workflow, including developing the RAW file, maximizing contrast, color grading, retouching, and dodging and burning for heightened drama and effect p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; min-height: 13.0px}

• How all of these elements culminate to help you define your personal style and create your own narrative

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Rocky Nook, Inc.

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1681982161

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9781681982168

The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett

A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

By: Chris Ackerley,S. E. Gontarski

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The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett

A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

By: Chris Ackerley,S. E. Gontarski

From A to Z, this is an indispensable guide to the works, life, and thought of one of the most important writers of our time. The Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett was a literary treasure, and this work represents the only comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, Beckett. Painstakingly and lovingly compiled by acclaimed Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley and S. E. Gontarski, it is alphabetical, cross-referenced, and laid out in a very user-friendly format. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett provides an organized trove of information for students and scholars alike, and is a must for any serious reader of Beckett.

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Grove Press

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0802140491

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9780802140494

Under a Rock

A Memoir

By: Chris Stein

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Under a Rock

A Memoir

By: Chris Stein

Foreword by Debbie Harry "A Downtown Memory" by Romy Ashby Debbie Harry defined iconic band Blondie’s look. Chris Stein—her performing partner, lover, and lifelong friend—was its architect and defined its sound. “Parallel Lines”, their third album, catapulted to #1, sold 20 million copies, and launched singles like “Heart of Glass”, "Hangin' On the Telephone," and “One Way or Another”, providing the beat when Bianca Jagger and Halston danced at Studio 54 and the soundtrack to every 1970’s punk-soundtracked romance. Chris Stein knows how to tell a story. Under A Rock is his nothing-spared autobiography. It's about the founding of the band, ascending to the heights of pop success, and the hazards of fortune. Famous names march through these pages—Warhol, Bowie, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and more–but you can get famous names anywhere. What you can’t get anywhere else is a plunge into the moments that made a giant 1980's artistic sensation. Stein takes us there in this revelatory, propulsive, distinctive memoir.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250286735

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Age of Discovery

Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

By: Ian Goldin,Chris Kutarna

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Age of Discovery

Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance

By: Ian Goldin,Chris Kutarna

The present is a contest between the bright and dark sides of discovery. To avoid being torn apart by its stresses, we need to recognize the fact—and gain courage and wisdom from the past. Age of Discovery shows how. Now is the best moment in history to be alive, but we have never felt more anxious or divided. Human health, aggregate wealth and education are flourishing. Scientific discovery is racing forward. But the same global flows of trade, capital, people and ideas that make gains possible for some people deliver big losses to others—and make us all more vulnerable to one another. Business and science are working giant revolutions upon our societies, but our politics and institutions evolve at a much slower pace. That’s why, in a moment when everyone ought to be celebrating giant global gains, many of us are righteously angry at being left out and stressed about where we’re headed. To make sense of present shocks, we need to step back and recognize: we’ve been here before. The first Renaissance, the time of Columbus, Copernicus, Gutenberg and others, likewise redrew all maps of the world, democratized communication and sparked a flourishing of creative achievement. But their world also grappled with the same dark side of rapid change: social division, political extremism, insecurity, pandemics and other unintended consequences of discovery. Now is the second Renaissance. We can still flourish—if we learn from the first.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250085101

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9781250085108

Making up the Mind

How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

By: Chris Frith

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Making up the Mind

How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

By: Chris Frith

Written by one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account of experimental studies showing how the brain creates our mental world. Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments and studies of patients to explore the relationship between the mind and the brain Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physical comes to us through models created by our brain Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mind to another possible

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118697480

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9781118697481

On Spiritual Warfare

22 Warning Orders for Virtuous Warriors

By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman,Sgt. Chris Pascoe

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On Spiritual Warfare

22 Warning Orders for Virtuous Warriors

By: Lt. Col. Dave Grossman,Sgt. Chris Pascoe

Answer God’s call to arms. Evil from the world, the flesh, and the devil preys on those we love and stalks our every move. If we’re not fighting back, we’re losing. In On Spiritual Warfare, the sequel to On Spiritual Combat, Dave Grossman and Chris Pascoe guide Christians through operations of advanced spiritual warfare. Battle the forces of evil with twenty-two intensely practical WARNORDS, or military “warning orders,” drawn from the writings of Luther and Erasmus. These strategic warnings and tactical orders will equip you to ● recognize and fearlessly confront evil, ● confess and repent of your own sin, ● serve others as you become sanctified, and ● mature into a triumphant spiritual warrior of God. Filled with Scripture, powerful hymns, battle prep questions, and practical direction, On Spiritual Warfare is the map you need to successfully complete your mission from God. You become victorious as a Christian by living virtuously. Victory through virtue!

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BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

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1424566231

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9781424566235

A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

By: Chris Harman

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A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

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Verso Books

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1844672387

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Art and Death

By: Chris Townsend

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Art and Death

By: Chris Townsend

This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses but moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality - in particular the experience of other people's death - brings us face to face with profound ethical and even political issues. He looks at personal responses to death in the work of artists as varied as Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Derek Jarman, whose film 'Blue' is discussed here in depth. Exploring the last body of work by the the Kentucky-based photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Jewish American installation artist Shimon Attie's powerful memorial work for the community of Aberfan, Townsend considers death in light of the injunction to 'love they neighbour'.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857724622

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Living Souls in the Spirit Dimension

The Afterlife and Transdimensional Reality

By: Chris H. Hardy

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Living Souls in the Spirit Dimension

The Afterlife and Transdimensional Reality

By: Chris H. Hardy

An examination of our consciousness’s ability to pass between dimensions, both in life and after death, and how to communicate with spirits • Reveals that all beings exist simultaneously in the material dimension and in the soul hyperdimension and that our consciousness transcends death • Provides evidence that the deceased keep in contact with their loved ones and are able to visit them as apparitions, give them advice, and protect them • Offers rigorous scientific analysis of paranormal occurrences, including evidence of life after death, house spirits, near-death and out-of-body experiences, and communication with the souls of the deceased In this exploration of consciousness, after-death communication, and the validity of near-death and out-of-body experiences, Chris H. Hardy, Ph.D., a former researcher at Princeton’s Psychophysical Research Laboratories, reveals that all beings exist simultaneously in the material dimension and in the soul hyperdimension. During life, we can access the soul hyperdimension through heightened states of consciousness and dreams. After death, we cease to physically exist, but our consciousness continues on in the hyperdimension as a living soul, a complete personality able to perceive and even affect the material world. Through rigorous scientific analysis of psi experiences and surveys, the author shows that the deceased keep contact with the living by visiting them as apparitions, protecting them from harm, and even interceding to solve family problems or resolve their own unfinished business. She details her own psi and spiritual experiences, such as interactions with a house spirit, clairvoyance in lucid dreams, and her decades of communication with the souls of the deceased, including her own parents and scientific geniuses, and provides empirical evidence to support their reality. Moreover, Hardy offers tested methods for gaining access to the soul dimension and explores what can be accomplished there, including communicating with those who exist beyond our own matter world. Sharing her breakthrough understanding of the soul dimension as a hyperdimension pervading the universe, where our consciousness lives on after physical death, Hardy shows that we are all transdimensional beings and that the living souls of the spirit dimension welcome our interaction.

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Simon and Schuster

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1591433738

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9781591433736

The Mud and the Snow

A Tale of the United States Army

By: Chris Durer

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The Mud and the Snow

A Tale of the United States Army

By: Chris Durer

A fictional account of the U.S. Army 16th Engineer Group's occupation of a town in West Germany from 1956 to 1958. It is the time of the draft in the United States, and the personnel of the 16th is inevitably comprised of a multitude of men from different backgrounds. As a cross-section of American society, the Group's interaction with the French army and the local German population is a paradigm for the United States' development of international relations during this critical time in American history.

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Ivy House Publishing Group

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1571974725

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9781571974723

The Vansellars

Story of a New York Family

By: Chris Durer

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The Vansellars

Story of a New York Family

By: Chris Durer

Chris Durer's third novel, The Vansellars, is at once a tragedy and a moving tale of hope and redemption. It is an epic story spanning several decades and generations, focusing on the joys and disasters that bless and befall one family that dwells in the very highest echelons of New York society.Beginning in World War II and culminating in the final days of the Reagan administration, The Vansellars focuses on dynamic characters including Jake, a WWII veteran turned Secret Service officer, Julie, a murderous aristocrat, and Amanda, an ambassador's wife with a tawdry past. Through it all-including war, disaster, and death-the family maintains an unbreakable bond that pulls them together even under the most trying of circumstances.

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1571974911

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Jesus for Today

By: Chris Wright

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Jesus for Today

By: Chris Wright

Jesus' life and teaching are examined and linked with contemporary issues to encourage students to reflect thoughtfully about Jesus and his significance. A complete topic on each double-page spread Activities to encourage students to make links between their own experiences and those encountered in religions Factual information to ensure depth as well as breadth of knowledge Colourful illustrations, diagrams and stunning photographs bring religions to life

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LabOratory

Speaking of Science and Its Architecture

By: Sandra Kaji-O'Grady,Chris L. Smith

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LabOratory

Speaking of Science and Its Architecture

By: Sandra Kaji-O'Grady,Chris L. Smith

An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. The laboratory building is as significant to the twenty-first century as the cathedral was to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contemporary science laboratory is built at the grand scales of cathedrals and constitutes as significant an architectural statement. The laboratory is a serious investment in architectural expression in an attempt to persuade us of the value of the science that goes on inside. In this lavishly illustrated book, Sandra Kaji-O'Grady and Chris L. Smith explore the architecture of modern life science laboratories, and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding. Looking at the varied designs of eleven important laboratories in North America, Europe, and Australia, all built between 2005 and 2019, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith examine the relationship between the design of contemporary laboratory buildings and the ideas and ideologies of science. Observing that every laboratory architect and client declares the same three aspirations—to eliminate boundaries, to communicate the benefits of its research programs, and to foster collaboration—Kaji-O'Grady and Smith organize their account according to the themes of boundaries, expression, and socialization. For instance, they point to the South Australian Health and Medical Institute's translucent envelope as the material equivalent of institutional accountability; the insistent animal imagery of the NavarraBioMed laboratory in Spain; and the Hillside Research Campus's mimicry of the picturesque fishing village that once occupied its site. Through these and their other examples, Kaji-O'Grady and Smith show how the architecture of the laboratory shapes the science that takes place within it.

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MIT Press

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0262551136

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Objects

Reluctant Witnesses to the Past

By: Chris Caple

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Objects

Reluctant Witnesses to the Past

By: Chris Caple

An invaluable field textbook, Objects examines detailed case studies to provide a brilliantly clear and comprehensible guide to the different methods and approaches (cultural, forensic, and technical) which can and have been used to study ancient artefacts. From the Bayeux Tapestry to small medieval brass pins, medieval wooden doors to Saxon jewellery, Chris Caple’s integral text deals with a full range of materials and clearly and simply explains key scientific techniques, technology, anthropological jargon and historical approaches. Key demonstrations include: how information from objects builds into a picture of the ancient society that made and used it the commonly used scientific techniques for object analysis how and why object typologies work how cultural and economic factors as well as the material properties influences what objects are made of how simple observation of an object can build its biography. Revealing answers to crucial questions – such as: Can DNA be obtained from objects? Why do people x-ray ancient artefacts? Can you determine the source of metal objects from their trace elements? – Objects is an absolutely essential text for students of archaeology, museum studies, and conservation.

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Routledge

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1134403097

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9781134403097

The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763

By: Chris Cook,Philip Broadhead

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The Routledge Companion to Early Modern Europe, 1453-1763

By: Chris Cook,Philip Broadhead

Covers the events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.

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Routledge

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0415409578

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See, Live, Eat

Globetrotting with a Fork and a Conscience

By: Chris Sarcletti

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See, Live, Eat

Globetrotting with a Fork and a Conscience

By: Chris Sarcletti

See, Live, Eat takes the reader on a fun, tasty and entertaining ride to many venues you may have thought of visiting and others you may have never considered. Whether it's sipping wine in Italy, paragliding in Argentina or visiting food markets in every city he sets foot in, Chris' stories are sure to entertain you and leave you with tidbits of new information. Chris enjoys his food and drink and does his best to sample the delicacies of each locale he visits whether it be bowls of soup in the markets of Mexico City, the culinary delights of New Orleans or seeing his lunch flop to its death before arriving on his plate in the form of sashimi in Seoul. Sit back and enjoy Mr. Sarcletti's adventures which stretch across the globe from the Turkish baths in Istanbul right back to your couch and the book in your hands.

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Author House

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1481704125

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9781481704120

Being British

Our Once And Future Selves

By: Chris Parish

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Being British

Our Once And Future Selves

By: Chris Parish

Being British: Our Once & Future Selves is a journey into British culture and identity today, outlining a welcome new story for ourselves in these times of lack of belonging. It's a book for the liberally minded, and those who feel themselves to be post-traditional, not defined by nationality. The book takes a thought-provoking angle, which is neither Left nor Right, but instead brings the novel lens of a developmental view. It connects the dots between past, present and future, integrating the shadow side, and draws on many unusual examples. This is a fresh story of what it means to be British, where the author is included in the narrative. Without being nostalgic, it restores a sense of rootedness and helps us appreciate our British qualities, incrementally built over a millennium and a half. It celebrates being British as elective and not based on race, and demonstrates how to have pride in our nationality in a post-traditional way.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1785353292

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9781785353291

Suicide of the West

By: Richard Koch,Chris Smith

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Suicide of the West

By: Richard Koch,Chris Smith

A large degree of success in Western civilization can be traced to six principal ideas - Christianity, optimism, science, economic growth, liberalism, and individualism. In theory, a synthesis of these ideas could provide a way for the West to recover its nerve and integrity. But in practice? This book seeks to find the answer.

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A&C Black

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0826490239

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9780826490230

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