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Virtual Reality Software & Technology

Proceedings of the VRST '94 Conference, 23-26 August 1994, Singapore

By: Gurminder Singh,Steven K. Feiner,Daniel Thalmann

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Virtual Reality Software & Technology

Proceedings of the VRST '94 Conference, 23-26 August 1994, Singapore

By: Gurminder Singh,Steven K. Feiner,Daniel Thalmann

Few technologies in recent years have attracted as much scientific, media and public attention as Virtual Reality. By providing a profoundly new paradigm for human-computer interaction, it is fundamentally changing the way people use and think about computers. Despite being in its infancy, Virtual Reality has found applications in such varied fields as entertainment, interactive arts, medicine, architecture, security, education, and financial analysis.The articles collected here were selected after thorough review and describe the state-of-the-art in Virtual Reality software and technology. Included are the latest results in software architectures, interaction techniques and devices, modeling techniques, and applications.

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360

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World Scientific

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9810218672

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9789810218676

Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

By: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

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Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

By: Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

Debussy himself had little regard for Clair de Lune, and scholars have thus far followed suit--until now. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune is the first book wholly dedicated to an historical, cultural, and analytical investigation of the French composer's famous composition for piano. Author Gurminder Kaur Bhogal explores why, over any other piece in Debussy's repertoire for piano, Clair de Lune achieved stardom in the decades following the composer's death, and how, as the third movement of the Suite Bergamasque, it managed to almost fully eclipse the other movements. Drawing on a broad range of excerpts from classical and popular music, commercials, film, and video games, Bhogal examines the various ways in which listeners have engaged with the piece. She also places it in its proper artistic context, through analysis alongside the poetry of Paul Verlaine and the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau. A wide range of aural, visual, and video examples energize the narrative, and demonstrate how Clair de Lune has come to achieve an iconic status within and beyond Debussy's oeuvre.

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169

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Oxford University Press

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0190696087

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9780190696085

Connected Sociologies

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra

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Connected Sociologies

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series. Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past decades.

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190

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780931565

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9781780931562

Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra,John Holmwood

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Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra,John Holmwood

Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern society, which are organised instead around ideas of nation state and capitalist economy. Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood address this absence by examining the role of colonialism in the development of modern society and the legacies it has bequeathed. Beginning with a consideration of the role of colonialism and empire in the formation of social theory from Hobbes to Hegel, the authors go on to focus on the work of Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Du Bois. As well as unpicking critical omissions and misrepresentations, the chapters discuss the places where colonialism is acknowledged and discussed – albeit inadequately – by these founding figures; and we come to see what this fresh rereading has to offer and why it matters. This inspiring and insightful book argues for a reconstruction of social theory that should lead to a better understanding of contemporary social thought, its limitations, and its wider possibilities.

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204

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509541314

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9781509541317

Rethinking Modernity

Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra

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Rethinking Modernity

Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

By: Gurminder K. Bhambra

The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European ‘others’ have been rendered invisible to the standard narratives and analytical frameworks of sociological understandings of modernity. In challenging the dominant, Euro-centred accounts of the emergence and development of modernity, Bhambra puts forward an argument for ‘connected histories’ in the reconstruction of historical sociology at a global level. This updated version of the original, published in 2007, adds a new preface which explores key themes that Bhambra has further developed over the intervening years: specifically, how the rethinking of modernity enables us to reconstruct sociology and a call for a 'reparatory sociology' committed to the repair of the social sciences and the securing of global justice.

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288

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Springer Nature

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3031215370

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9783031215377

Let Leave the Book Open!

By: GURMINDER SINGH

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Let Leave the Book Open!

By: GURMINDER SINGH

Day-to-day struggles of life and engagements in choices between the city and village have complicated the life of the ordinary man. He is confused about what to choose and whom to listen. He is failing to adjust between old and new, everywhere seems disheartening; only his hope has kept him afloat and engaged.

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172

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Notion Press

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1948473607

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9781948473606

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Virtual Reality Software & Technology

Virtual Reality Software & Technology

Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune

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Connected Sociologies

Connected Sociologies

Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

Colonialism and Modern Social Theory

Rethinking Modernity

Rethinking Modernity

Let Leave the Book Open!

Let Leave the Book Open!

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