Of all the long-distance trips we have taken together, the 14-day trip to Rajasthan was most impressive. We covered about 2500 km back with a rickety bus and were taken to numerous attractions. Highlights were the comfortable nights in magnificent maharaja palaces and in first class hotels. We were able to get over the efforts of the day quickly. Our tour started in New Delhi and - after visiting the magnificent Taj Mahal - we came back there again.
A new measurement concept was developed to determine the amount, variability and governing factors of evaporation from the Dead Sea. Additionally, a suitable indirect method to calculate evaporation is presented. Results show that vapour pressure deficit and wind speed are governing evaporation and that the diurnal cycle is determined by three distinct diurnal wind systems. The occurrence frequency and intensity of the wind systems are determined by local differential cooling and heating.
This book is the English translation of my already existing picture book "Encounters with beautiful horses". There is also special emphasis placed on excellent photos.
Although we were already in several cultures on the road, we found it in Morocco not easy to find our way with Islamic lifestyle. Even with our excursions we had the impression to be moved to an earlier time. This was very much on our trip from Agadir to the coastal town of Essaouira. The fear of the locals before the camera took us by surprise.
For the first time we took the bus with older peoples to Lake Garda. The efforts of arrival was compensated by the beautiful scenery and many recreational value indescribable. The coronation was a full-day tour of Lake Garda on the fast boat.
The search for "the face of the era" how typology influenced art of the Weimar Republic and beyond In Weimar Germany, portraits by New Objectivity artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen and Hanna Nagel were a testimony to the fascination with "types." This volume explores their relevance from the 1920s to the present day, underscoring the dilemma of stereotyping individuals.
The first English translation of a classic work in vision science from 1936 by a leading figure in the Gestalt movement, covering topics that continue to be major issues in vision research today. This classic work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and first published in 1936, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects themselves but perceptual effigies of those objects constructed by our brain according to natural rules. Gestalt concepts are currently being increasingly integrated into mainstream neuroscience by researchers proposing network processing beyond the classical receptive field. Metzger's discussion of such topics as ambiguous figures, hidden forms, camouflage, shadows and depth, and three-dimensional representations in paintings will interest anyone working in the field of vision and perception, including psychologists, biologists, neurophysiologists, and researchers in computational vision—and artists, designers, and philosophers. Each chapter is accompanied by compelling visual demonstrations of the phenomena described; the book includes 194 illustrations, drawn from visual science, art, and everyday experience, that invite readers to verify Metzger's observations for themselves. Today's researchers may find themselves pondering the intriguing question of what effect Metzger's theories might have had on vision research if Laws of Seeing and its treasure trove of perceptual observations had been available to the English-speaking world at the time of its writing.
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