The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained …
This volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. The book presents the results of an international conference held in 2019 at Indiana University – Bloomington, in which Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology gathered in…
Germany is considered a lauded land of music: outstanding composers, celebrated performers and famous orchestras exert great international appeal. Since the 19th century, the foundation of this reputation has been the broad mass of musicians who sat in orchestra pits, played in ensembles for dances or provided the musical background in silent movie theatres. Martin Rempe traces their lives and …
Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, and the Natio…
This book is for people interested in drawing cartoons, whether they’re novices unsure where to start or pros who want to improve their art or find better ways to market themselves. Every top-selling cartoonist in the world started out as a beginner. It takes time, practice, and some talent to become a successful cartoonist, but it also takes determination and the desire to stick to it until …
Particular attention must be paid to the wheelchair, as it is considered to be part of the player. Contravention of the following rules will result in the wheelchair being banned from the game. A protective horizontal bar at the front/side of the wheelchair must be 11 cm from the floor at its most forward point and throughout its whole length. Such a bar may be straight, angled or curved betwee…
A skateboard is a four wheel mode of transportation made of multiple components. It has a wooden deck with grip tape applied to the top for better traction. This deck is mounted to two trucks. Trucks are the turning mechanisms of the skateboard that allow the skater to lean on one side of the deck or the other to turn the skateboard. Bearings are installed into the wheels, which are then applie…
This e-book contains tips and techniques of photography.
Industrial film, non-theatrical film, film studies and science and technology studies, economic history, visual culture
Once you decide to become a competitive archer, you need to focus on finding a coach, developing proper shooting technique, developing a solid mental program, and finding and tuning the right equipment. You must also determine your level of seriousness about archery, because a recreational archer will not necessarily have the same goals as an aspiring Olympian. Many top athletes and coaches wou…
The way in which Kyudo is performed has remained almost unchanged since the 15th century. There have been many schools, among them Ogaswara and Heki Ryu. The main concern of the Ogasawara Ryu was how to dress and how to move. During the Tokugawa Period in the first part of the 17th century the 3rd Shogun ordered the Ogasawara Ryu to define their own ceremony. The style of this school was develo…
The Football Australia Coaching Expertise Model was developed to give coaches and coach educators a clear picture of what knowledge and skills are required to operate effectively as a football coach. Our vision on how to play football has been well-documented, through the publication of the National Football Curriculum and Football Australia’s Building Blocks of player development. The next …
Swimming is one of the most popular sports in world. Unlike other sports, swimming is a life skill that is taught, first, to ensure safety and, secondly, for sports and competition purposes. This coaching guide will assist the coach in teaching skills and strategy that will allow the Special Olympics athlete to become a successful swimmer and competitor. Swimming is one of the most popular spor…
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) conducts a variety of underwater inspection and maintenance programs that include the use of divers. In order to ensure employee safety and regulatory compliance, Reclamation has developed this Diving Safe Practices Manual (DSPM). This manual is intended to be the baseline for diving policy and is designed to address the most common Reclamation diving act…
After you turn the power on, a small portion of the Final Fantasy story will be shown. Press the start button on controller #1 to advance to the continue/new game screen. Use the control pad to select new game (continue is used to continue a saved game) and press the start button. The basic controller functions are follows control pad, a button, b button, select, start.
Max Compact Exterior is a high-quality construction product which is used especially for long-lasting balcony and facade claddings. Max Compact Exterior panels are duromer high-pressure laminates (HPL) in accordance with EN 438-6 Type EDF with extremely effective weather protection. This weather protection consists of double-hardened acrylic polyurethane resins. They are produced in lamination …
Lampu meja dengan kap dari bahan kukusan ini dimaksudkan sebagai upaya alih fungsi kukusan yang sudah tidak lagi dipakai sebagai alat menanak nasi karena menanak nasi dewasa ini sudah menggunakan peralatan listrik seperti rice cooker atau magic com. Dengan sedikit inovasi pada bagian runicing, kukusan dapat dialihfungsikan menjadi kap lampu dan memiliki karakter yang unik, yaitu kualitas cahaya…
Who could have guessed breakdancing would become part of the Olympic games? Well, it is a reality now! The organizing committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic games has confirmed this progressive energy, putting together this artistic, well-liked physical activity with the Olympic games. Breakdancing is the kind of sport that allows new athletes to show their talent. Breakdancing is born in the str…
This ebook contains about animate a name cards design.
This book materialized at a quite precise moment, albeit the periodization and determinations of this moment remain fairly difficult to specify. It lies in the midst of a period when ‘cinema’ is being transformed, with the gradual abandonment of its original system of analogue image and sound recording on a photo-chemical base in favour of their digital coding and storage. This evolution ha…
Komik Si Juki berisi kumpulan cerita yang diangkat dari berbagai kisah seru dan isu terkini yang terjadi pada waktu tersebut.
Sultan Agung Anyakra Kusuma gemar sekali terhadap wayang, maka beliau banyak membuat wayang-wayang baru dengan babon (sumber) wayang kulit purwa Demak, Sang Prabu memantas wanda wayang (corak wayang), seperti membuat wayang Arjuna wanda jimat, Bima wanda mimis, Suyudana wanda jangkung, dll. Pada jaman kerajaan Mataram ini semua wayang tangan muka maupun belakang sudah dapat digerakkan. Sang pra…
This e-book contains how to painting the figure and informs color range for flesh tones.
This book is for all teachers for English as a Foreign Language working with young childern between the ages of four and twelve. It can be used by pre-school and primary school teachers as an extension of the general school curriculum as well as by parents in an informal private atmosphere. The games presented can stand alone or be used to complement an existing coursebook or syllabus. Games ca…
Christmas is a special time. A Time of rejoicing, of solemn thanksgiving, of gift-giving, of pleasures both modern and traditional, of feasting and of being together with family and friends. And christmas is a time of special music. What better way to celebrate the birthday of Jesus than to join together and raise our voices in the special songs of Christmas - or to tune our musical songs of Ch…
This book contains academic papers and posters of the Cumulus Antwerp conference, held in Antwerp on 12-15 April 2023. The Cumulus community, designers, artists, and educators were invited to submit contributions on how culture and creative industry can offer resilience, consolation, and innovation models on human scale, in line with the conference theme ‘Connectivity and Creativity in times …
The first modern English edition of Richard Wagner's essays on conducting, extensively annotated, with a critical essay on Wagner as conductor: his aesthetic, practices, vocabulary, and impact. Richard Wagner was one of the leading conductors of his time. Through his disciples Hans von Bülow, Hans Richter, Anton Seidl, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch, and their many notable protégés, a Wagnerian…
In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in Africa: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue. The image of the corridor, a central pathway of road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided the coordi…
As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient into focus. These diverse transgressions - medial and ontological - are the subject of this transdis…
Fictional Practices of Spirituality provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video games and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching prac…
Open Access Musicology (OAM) publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly essays primarily intended to serve students and teachers of music history, ethno/musicology, and music studies. The constantly evolving collection ensures that recent research and scholarship inspires classroom practice. OAM essays provide diverse and methodologically transparent models for student research, and they introduce diff…
Game studies, formalism, game analysis, aesthetic theory of games.
Meet EXO, a K-Pop sensation like no other, in the first unofficial biography of the band who have been topping charts and stealing hearts since 2012. Nine boys, from South Korea and China, are taking the world by storm. Their catchy songs, beautiful music videos and incredible live performances have won them millions of passionate fans who have stuck with them through the bad times and watched…
New York City's imposin skyscrapers and instantly recognizable skyline define the idea of the modern city, big, bold, beautifully designed and futuristic. This book describes over 50 seminal structures in authoritive and compelling style. The accompanying illustrations press out of the page, transforming your book into a cityscape to treasure and display.
London is by turns cutting edge and ancient, refined and gritty, and the streets of this city of contrasts are lined with idiosyncratic and beautiful architechture. This book describes over 50 key structures in authoritive and compelling style. The accompanying illustrations press out of the page, transforming your book into a cityspace to treasure and display.
For those who feel like there is no escape from the rigours of the modern-day office. Killer sudoku is the answer! Killer Sudoku is often seen as the most challenging Sudoku variant, and so this is the perfect puzzle book for anyone who loves to be tested in their spare time. With hundreds of tricky puzzles, you will require all of your logic and skill to solve them.
The capacity for sound to be powerfully evocative is unquestionable. An old photograph, or even a silent cine film from one’s childhood, brings back memories and can have strong emotional resonances. Listening to the ‘unseen sound’ of an old audio recording however, can almost without warning, engulf us in the feelings it triggers. The sound of a distant night-time …
Historically, the notion of man-made climate has been the decisive theo-retical interface along which the mutual appropriation of modern urban climatology and modern architecture and urban planning has taken place. Berlin and Vienna in particular were laboratories and intellectual centers of urban climatology in the 1920s and 30s, which can be ex-plained not least by the political conditions in…
On the outskirts of Oslo, there is a clearing in the woods. The tall trees that once grew here were felled in 2014, leaving a sharp border between the dark forest and the open space [figure 1]. In this clearing, a new gener-ation of Norwegian spruce is growing. The young trees are marked by red ribbons and, after growing for a hundred years, these trees will be felled, transformed into paper, a…
Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the late nineteenth century. With the global spread of ad agencies, moving image advertisements became a privileged cultural form to make people experien…
he concept of a ‘musical city’ is based on Henri Lefebvre’s philosophy of rhythmanalysis,2 developed in the 1980s by the French philosopher and urbanist as a way of understanding our cities through the experi-ence of its rhythms. He was to develop philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s rhythmic view of life as a composition of rhythms and apply it to …
Music practices, understood as activities connected to humanly organized sound, extend beyond enclosed spaces both physically and metaphorically, crossing borders of all kinds. When they cross the borders of national states and create stable networks among musicians, fans, people involved in the music business, etc., they can be considered transnational. Cen…
In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was exempt from original sin from the moment of her conception, and thereby a co-redeemer alongside her son. Praise for this complicated devotion took place in Europe throughout the medieval period and resounded in the Americas with the founding of the first convent in Mexico City u…
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits …
Time is running out to meet the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Despite efforts by some regions to decarbonise, transport emissions will not fall fast enough, as transport demand will grow in the years to come. By 2050, passenger demand will increase by 79% under the Current Ambition scenario and freight demand will…
asting a long shadow across the cinemagraphic landscape, the monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is arguably the most recognizable artefact in science fiction film. Simultaneously ancient and futuristic, this enigmatic signifier of the origin and evolution of homo technologus is an apropos ‘site’ to introduce the central concern of t…
Cover songs are a familiar feature of contemporary popular music. Musi-cians describe their own performances ascovers, and audiences use the cat-egory to organize their listening and appreciation. However, philosophershave not had much to say about them.A common philosophical approach is to consider historical positions—for example, asking what Plato or Kant said on a topic. That makes no h…
When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway journeys; those that celebrate the opening of a new line; work songs and blues describing the hardship of building the railroads, even the first…
Although not di-rectly related to GAS, it is worth mentioning that the German music instrument re-tailer Thomann (2019) hosts an annual summer camp as part of its ‘Gearhead Uni-versity’. YouTubers get the opportunity to review each piece of equipment in Thomann’s warehouse in a small village in southern Germany, document their ex-periences on video and share them online with fe…