Computer-Generated Images (CGIs) are widely used and accepted in the world of entertainment but the use of the very same visualization techniques in academic research in the Arts and Humanities remains controversial. The techniques and conceptual perspectives on heritage visualization are a subject of an ongoing interdisciplinary debate. By demonstrating scholarly excellence and best technical practice in this area, this volume is concerned with the challenge of providing intellectual transparency and accountability in visualization-based historical research. Addressing a range of cognitive and technological challenges, the authors make a strong case for a wider recognition of three-dimensional visualization as a constructive, intellectual process and valid methodology for historical research and its communication. Intellectual transparency of visualization-based research, the pervading theme of this volume, is addressed from different perspectives reflecting the theory and practice of respective disciplines. The contributors - archaeologists, cultural historians, computer scientists and ICT practitioners - emphasize the importance of reliable tools, in particular documenting the process of interpretation of historical material and hypotheses that arise in the course of research. The discussion of this issue refers to all aspects of the intellectual content of visualization and is centred around the concept of 'paradata'. Paradata document interpretative processes so that a degree of reliability of visualization outcomes can be understood. The disadvantages of not providing this kind of intellectual transparency in the communication of historical content may result in visual products that only convey a small percentage of the knowledge that they embody, thus making research findings not susceptible to peer review and rendering them closed to further discussion. It is argued, therefore, that paradata should be recorded alongside more tangible outcomes of research, preferably as an integral part of virtual models, and sustained beyond the life-span of the technology that underpins visualization.
Documented CHAOS is bringing you the professional pastry kitchen mindset into your home kitchen by locating ingredients & kitchen equipment from your local resources. Chef Drew Casteel will be showcasing his simple techniques that he uses in his day to day operation as an Executive Pastry Chef. You will learn how to balance the sweet, salty, sour & bitter elements to create an memorable dish for your family & friends. Thinking outside the box to bring the ordinary to the next level is key of becoming a bold baker. Chef Drew will share his ways of standing out from the crowd using stages of explosion, powerful flavors that hit your palate in excitement & expressing those moments where you just close your eyes to savor that 1st bite. 1st impressions are everything to Chef Drew as well as 1st bites, pastry chefs hold power to build memories and inside Documented CHAOS you will be given the power to create, express and elevate your daily treats.
The Little Duck Who Lost His Quack Quack is an interactive children's book about a little duck who lost his ability to quack quack after a frightening encounter with a alligator. He leaves his family to find it and makes friends with a tree frog along the way.
Series creator Joss Whedon unites with writers from the television series and comics creators to tell tales of the vampires and Slayers through time--including stories set during the New York Times bestselling Season 8! Buffy was never the first Slayer, nor will she be the last . . . Here we delve deep into the histories of the young women--Slayers--destined to fight against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. You'll find stories of Buffy, Nikki Wood, Melaka Fray, and even the primitive first Slayer, among others. In the tales of the vampires, you'll find stories of dungeon-dwelling vampires and also those in the modern age--including a few dealing with the latest in vampire trends from Season 8: living in the public eye. And you'll see some familiar vampires as well, like Angel, Spike, Drusilla, and Dracula . . . It's an anthology that explores the mythos of the Slayers and vampires, written by Joss Whedon, along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress, Amber Benson, the amazing writers of the television series including David Fury (24, Lost), Doug Petrie (Daredevil), Jane Espenson (Once Upon a Time, Battlestar Galactica), Rebecca Sinclair (Gilmore Girls), Drew Goddard (The Martian), the creator of The Tick, Ben Edlund (The Venture Bros., Firefly), novelist Jackie Kessler (Hell's Belles), and Becky Cloonan (Demo, Batman), and illustrated by comic book luminaries such as Cameron Stewart (Fight Club 2), Tim Sale (Batman), Alex Sanchez (Star Wars), Karl Moline (Fray), and Leinil Francis Yu (Ultimate Avengers).
Before Season Eight, Joss Whedon brought generations of Slayers and vampires to comics with the help of his acclaimed TV writing team and some of the best artists to ever grace the comics page. Now all those stories, plus selected stories from Season Eight, are collected in one deluxe collection with a new cover by Jo Chen. Joss writes multiple tales: a somber vamp tale, drawn by Cameron Stewart; the story of the first Slayer, drawn by Leinil Yu; and more. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales also reprints for the first time new Season Eight stories written by novelist Jackie Kessler (Hell's Belles) and awardwinning cartoonist Becky Cloonan (Demo), featuring vampires living in the public eye, killing Slayers and killing each other. * This book collects stories from MySpace Dark Horse Presents #31 and Tales of the Vampires: Carpe Noctem parts 1 and 2; Buffy: Tales of the Vampires oneshot; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Vampires #1#5; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers #1"Broken Bottle of Djinn"; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers TPB. Before Season Eight . . .
When seventeen-year-old Ryan Drake survives a fire in his house, his mother discloses a startling family secret: Ryan is part dragon! Although skeptical at first, Ryan begins to discover a remarkable power within him. However, before he can fully investigate it, his hometown is invaded by a swarm of powerful monsters! Ryan, a middle-aged wizard, and a sylph are all that stand between one city and its utter destruction...
In Drew Nelson's debut novel, Original Intent, North Carolina history meets a page-turning thriller. The novel reimagines the Revolutionary-era death of James Wilson, one of the principal authors of the Constitution, and weaves the fictional account of his death into a political plot based in present-day Washington, DC. Description of the Novel Judge William Iredell had political enemies. But it was an ally that poisoned him - on the same evening Iredell secured a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Reluctantly pulled to DC to represent an old friend accused of the Iredell poisoning, attorney Mark Ellis finds himself at the center of an expanding circle of seemingly unrelated crimes. As he's drawn deeper into the mystery, Ellis follows the trail of Iredell's murderer into the cold rooms of federal prison, through the shadows of Revolutionary history, and down the marbled halls of Congress, until he is ultimately brought face-to-face with an unsolved murder from his own past. At the same time, Judge Iredell's hastily executed poisoning sets the lives of John Baker, a Southern prosecutor, and Noah Augusteel, a uniquely trained clandestine operative, on an unavoidable collision course. Although each man has a compelling reason to distrust the other two, Baker, Augusteel, and Mark Ellis are forced into an uneasy alliance as they pursue William Iredell's killer.
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