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Quilting Basics: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-109 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)
by Debra Rogers-GilligSince 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
The Renaissance: From The 1470s To The End Of The 16th Century (Man And Music Ser.)
by Iain FenlonFrom the series examining the development of music in specific places during particular times, this book looks at European countries at the time of the Renaissance, concentrating on Italy. It is to be published in conjunction with a television series.
Reporting the Counterculture
by Richard P. GoldsteinOriginally published in 1989. Richard Goldstein, journalist with The Village Voice since the 1960s, has carefully selected some of his pieces for this book. Covering a varied range of topics (among the rock concerts, experimental theatre, political trials and cultural experiments) he has created a vivid cultural retrospective of a unique period. An introductory essay gives context to the articles and offers an assessment of the "new journalism" that sprang up in the 60s, and the role that journalism played in the social and cultural revolutions of the time.
Reporting the Counterculture
by Richard P. GoldsteinOriginally published in 1989. Richard Goldstein, journalist with The Village Voice since the 1960s, has carefully selected some of his pieces for this book. Covering a varied range of topics (among the rock concerts, experimental theatre, political trials and cultural experiments) he has created a vivid cultural retrospective of a unique period. An introductory essay gives context to the articles and offers an assessment of the "new journalism" that sprang up in the 60s, and the role that journalism played in the social and cultural revolutions of the time.
Richard Aldington: A Biography
by Charles DoyleThis is the first biography of Richard Aldington, contemporary and friend of Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot and notable as a poet, translator, editor, novelist, biographer and significant member of the Modernist era. A critical appraisal of his major writings is included.
Routledge Revivals: Volume III: National Fictions (Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series)
by Raphael SamuelFirst published in 1989, this is the third of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique. This volume studies some of the leading figures of national myth, such as Britannia and John Bull. One group of essays looks at the idea of distinctively national landscape and the ways in which it corresponds to notions of social order. A chapter on the poetry of Edmund Spenser explores metaphorical representations of Britain as a walled garden, and the idea of an enchanted national space is taken up in a series of essays on literature, theatre and cinema. An introductory piece charts some of the startling changes in the image of national character, from the seventeenth-century notion of the English as the most melancholy people in Europe, to the more uncertain and conflicting images of today.
Routledge Revivals: Volume III: National Fictions (Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series)
by Raphael SamuelFirst published in 1989, this is the third of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique. This volume studies some of the leading figures of national myth, such as Britannia and John Bull. One group of essays looks at the idea of distinctively national landscape and the ways in which it corresponds to notions of social order. A chapter on the poetry of Edmund Spenser explores metaphorical representations of Britain as a walled garden, and the idea of an enchanted national space is taken up in a series of essays on literature, theatre and cinema. An introductory piece charts some of the startling changes in the image of national character, from the seventeenth-century notion of the English as the most melancholy people in Europe, to the more uncertain and conflicting images of today.
Scarlett's Women: 'Gone With the Wind' and its Female Fans
by Helen TaylorOne of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.Seventy-five years on from the cinematic release of Gone with the Wind, Helen Taylor looks at the reasons why the book and film have had such an appeal, especially for women. Drawing on letters and questionnaires from female fans, she brings together material from southern history, literature, film and feminist theory and discusses the themes of the Civil War and issues of race. She has previously written Gender, Race and Region in the writings of Grace King, Ruth McEnery Stuart and Kate Chopin and The Daphne Du Maurier Companion.
Skills in Home Economics: Textiles
by Louise Davies Jenny RidgwellSkills in Home Economics is designed to prepare lower secondary pupils for the work they will encounter in GCSE and Standard Grade courses. Each book in the series covers a core area of Home Economics using a problem-solving investigative approach and the activities use real-life labels, data and packaging to introduce pupils to the world around them. The resources and information are all up to date and plenty of help is given to pupils so that they can develop techniques for recording and analysing the results of their investigations. Textiles looks at the use of textiles, different types of fibres, how fibres become fabrics, designing, and cleaning and caring for clothes. It also includes plenty of examples of how technology affects textiles.
Software-Entwicklung: Konzepte, Erfahrungen, Perspektiven Fachtagung, veranstaltet vom Fachausschuß 2.1 der GI Marburg, 21.–23. Juni 1989 Proceedings (Informatik-Fachberichte #212)
by Wolfram-M. LippeDieser Band enthält die Beiträge - darunter auch sechs eingeladene - zu einer Fachtagung, die der Fachausschuß 2.1 "Programmiersprachen und Software-Entwicklung" der Gesellschaft für Informatik in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Marburg vom 21. bis 23. Juni 1989 veranstaltet hat. Dabei wird sowohl über neue Konzepte auf dem Gebiet der Software-Entwicklung als auch über Erfahrungen mit bestehenden Systemen berichtet. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses stehen Aspekte der Software-Entwicklung: - Welche Leitlinien sollen zur Orientierung dienen, welche Methoden und Werkzeuge sind für welche Aufgabenstellungen am besten geeignet? - Wie lassen sich die speziellen Probleme bewältigen, die sich bei der Planung und Durchführung großer Software-Projekte ergeben, wie lassen sich Kosten und Termine abschätzen, große Entwickler-Teams führen, Systembausteine arbeitsteilig entwickeln und zusammenfügen, Dokumentationsmengen verwalten? - Mit welchen sprachlichen Ausdrucksmitteln und Interaktionsformen wird man zukünftig mit Computern umgehen, wie werden sie in Entwicklungsumgebungen verfügbar gemacht und diese wiederum durch Software realisiert? - Welchen Einfluß haben Software-Entwicklung und -Anwendung auf die beteiligten Menschen? - Wie gestaltet und verändert sich die Arbeitssituation und -qualität für Software-Entwickler und Benutzer? - Wie sind die Aufgaben zwischen Mensch und Maschine verteilt, welche Auswirkungen haben Automatisierungsvorhaben auf die Gesellschaft?
Specialist Floor Finishes: Design and Installation
by D CattellFirst Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Specialist Floor Finishes: Design and Installation
by D CattellFirst Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
State-of-the-art in Computer Animation: Proceedings of Computer Animation ’89
by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann Daniel ThalmannSelected topics and papers from the first international workshop on computer animation, held in Geneva in 1989, provide a comprehensive overview of the problems encountered in the rising field of computer animation. To foster interactive links between researchers, end-users, and artists, roundtables and discussions have been included as well as presentations of concepts and research themes such as keyframe to task-level animation, artificial intelligence, natural language and simulation for human animation, choreography, anthropometry for animated human figures, facial animation and expressions, the use of dynamic simulation, motion control and blur, and data-base oriented animation design.
Studying Plays
by Mick Wallis Simon ShepherdNow in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, the book explores the essential elements of play texts, from character, dialogue and plot to theatrical space. With more in depth guidance on how to study plays in and as performance, both live and in recordings available online, the 4th edition of Studying Plays now includes: · new examples throughout the book drawn from a range of 21st-century plays by established and emergent writers for diverse theatres and companies · new explorations of how plays structure and engage audience response · a complete new section on the analysis of theatre of witness and testimony; monodrama; and postdramatic texts.
Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition, Vol. II
by Francis A. Davis Russell SturgisVolume 2 of monumental 3-volume classic offers comprehensive and detailed coverage of architectural terms, individuals and national styles. Total in set: over 100 photographs and more than 1000 illustrations. Bibliography.
The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages
by Gail McMurray GibsonIn this interdisciplinary study of drama, arts, and spirituality, Gail Gibson provides a provocative reappraisal of fifteenth-century English theater through a detailed portrait of the flourishing cultures of Suffolk and Norfolk. By emphasizing the importance of the Incarnation of Christ as a model and justification for late medieval drama and art, Gibson challenges currently held views of the secularization of late medieval culture.
Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling
by Wolfgang Straßer Hans-Peter SeidelThis book is a result of the lectures and discussions during the conference "Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling". The event has been organized by the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut fiir Informatik, Universitat Tiibingen and took place at the Heinrich-Fabri-Institut in Blaubeuren from October 3 to 7, 1988. The conference brought together leading experts from academic and industrial research institutions, CAD system developers and experien ced users to exchange their ideas and to discuss new concepts and future directions in geometric modeling. The main intention has been to bridge the gap between theoretical results, performance of existing CAD systems and the real problems of users. The contents is structured in five parts: A Algorithmic Aspects B Surface Intersection, Blending, Ray Tracing C Geometric Tools D Different Representation Schemes in Solid Modeling E Product Modeling in High Level Specifications The material presented in this book reflects the current state of the art in geometric modeling and should therefore be of interest not only to university and industry researchers, but also to system developers and practitioners who wish to keep up to date on recent advances and new concepts in this rapidly expanding field. The editors express their sincere appreciation to the contributing authors, and to the members of the program committee, W. Boehm, J. Hoschek, A. Massabo, H. Nowacki, M. Pratt, J. Rossignac, T. Sederberg and W. Tiller, for their close cooperation and their time and effort that made the conference and this book a success.
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
by Jim CollinsJim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
by Jim CollinsJim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.
Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History (PDF)
by John Michael MontiasThis book is not only a fascinating biography of one of the greatest painters of the seventeenth century but also a social history of the colorful extended family to which he belonged and of the town life of the period. It explores a series of distinct worlds: Delft's Small-Cattle Market, where Vermeer's paternal family settled early in the century; the milieu of shady businessmen in Amsterdam that recruited Vermeer's grandfather to counterfeit coins; the artists, military contractors, and Protestant burghers who frequented the inn of Vermeer's father in Delft's Great Market Square; and the quiet, distinguished "Papists Corner" in which Vermeer, after marrying into a high-born Catholic family, retired to practice his art, while retaining ties with wealthy Protestant patrons. The relationship of Vermeer to his principal patron is one of many original discoveries in the book.
Visual and Other Pleasures (Language, Discourse, Society)
by Laura MulveyThe essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics.
Visualisierung in Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften: Bremer Computergraphik-Tage 1988
by Hartmut Jürgens Dietmar SaupeDas Buch gibt einen Querschnitt durch das Spektrum der Anwendungen der Computergraphik in Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften. Dabei werden auch neue computergraphische Algorithmen, komplexe Anwenderpakete und sogar Hardwarelösungen diskutiert. Die Beiträge in diesem Band, die auf Vorträgen der ersten Bremer Computer-Graphik-Tage vom Juli 1988 basieren, sind entsprechend vielfältig: Sie reichen von der Berechnung und Visualisierung mathematischer Objekte und Fraktale über Probleme des Medical Imaging bei der Darstellung volumetrischer Daten, Untersuchungen von Oberflächentexturen für Bildsynthese bis hin zur Diskussion verschiedener Ansätze der Parallelisierung computergraphischer Algorithmen. Bei der Darstellung neuer Lösungswege für komplexe Probleme der Visualisierung wurde besonderer Wert auf die praktischen Details gelegt, so daß der interessierte Leser diese Lösungen auch in einer eigenen Implementierung nachvollziehen kann.
