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For over 30 years, Stan Winston and his team of artists and
technicians have been creating characters, creatures and monsters
for the silver screen, from "The Terminator" and the
extraterrestrial monstrosities of "Aliens" and "Predator "to the
amazing dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park "and the fanciful character of
"Edward Scissorhands."
Now, at last, he's opening up the Stan Winston Studio to
collaborate on the first-ever book to reveal all the
behind-the-scenes secrets of his groundbreaking and hugely
influential artistry and effects work.
Featuring an extensive array of sketches, production art, and
photographs straight from the studio archives, this is the book his
fans have been waiting for!
Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study
describes the implications and applications of the precautionary
principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood
seems remote. This principle has been employed in the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the North
Atlantic Convention, yet it is not widely understood. This study
examines the history and context of the principle, and its
applications to law, governmental policies, business and
investment, scientific research and international relations.
James Cameron has blazed a trail through the cinematic landscape
with a series of groundbreaking films that have each become deeply
embedded in the popular imagination. But while Cameron has created
and employed advanced filmmaking technologies to realize his unique
vision, his process of creative ideation began with pen, pencil and
paints long before he picked up a camera. Inspired by his mother,
an artist, Cameron displayed remarkable ability at an early age,
filling sketchbooks with illustrations of alien creatures, faraway
worlds, and technological wonders. As he grew older, his art became
increasingly sophisticated, exploring major themes that would imbue
his later work-from the threat of nuclear catastrophe to the
dangers inherent in the development of artificial intelligence, to
a fascination with ecology that would foreshadow his storied career
in science and exploration. Working in the film industry in his
early twenties, Cameron supported himself by illustrating
theatrical posters and concept art for low-budget films before
creating the visionary concept pieces that would help greenlight
his first major feature, The Terminator. For the first time, Tech
Noir brings together a dazzling and diverse array of personal and
commercial art from Cameron's own collection, showing the
trajectory of ideas which led to such modern classics as The
Terminator, Aliens, Titanic and Avatar. Starting with his earliest
sketches through to unrealized projects and to his later work, the
book features the filmmaker's personal commentary on his creative
and artistic evolution throughout the years. A unique journey into
the mind of a singular creative powerhouse, Tech Noir is a true
publishing event and the ultimate exploration of one of cinema's
most imaginative innovators.
Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study
describes the implications and applications of the precautionary
principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood
seems remote. This principle has been employed in the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the North
Atlantic Convention, yet it is not widely understood. This study
examines the history and context of the principle, and its
applications to law, governmental policies, business and
investment, scientific research and international relations.
Measures for regulating the behaviour of nation states in relation
to the global environment have increasingly taken the form of
international treaties and conventions. Many have argued that this
has proved to be an ineffective way of halting unsustainable
development, for the provisions of these agreements are either too
weak or are flouted regularly by the parties concerned. This volume
seeks to address the crucial question of how compliance with these
agreements could be encouraged effectively without damaging the
fragile political consensus that is emerging on environmental
issues. With extensive use of case studies, Improving Compliance
will make stimulating reading for all students and researchers
working in this area, as well as for anyone concerned about the
effectiveness of international environmental measures.
Measures for regulating the behaviour of nation states in relation
to the global environment have increasingly taken the form of
international treaties and conventions. Many have argued that this
has proved to be an ineffective way of halting unsustainable
development, for the provisions of these agreements are either too
weak or are flouted regularly by the parties concerned. This volume
seeks to address the crucial question of how compliance with these
agreements could be encouraged effectively without damaging the
fragile political consensus that is emerging on environmental
issues. With extensive use of case studies, Improving Compliance
will make stimulating reading for all students and researchers
working in this area, as well as for anyone concerned about the
effectiveness of international environmental measures.
Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the
historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art;
this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her
work. The essays collected here form a tribute to Joanna Cannon,
whose scholarship and teaching have done so much to shape the
historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art.
Her teaching lies at the heart of this book, as its chapters are
all written by those who gained their doctorates under her
supervision. The reach of her interests and expertise is also
reflected in its range of subjects. The book is unified by its
concentration on Italian art, history, and material culture,
spanning the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries; but within that
scope the individual essays focus on an impressive variety of
subjects, across many media, including panel painting, wall
painting, architecture, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, and
gilded glass. Ranging across Italy, from Bologna, to Siena, to
Assisi, to Florence, they address key themes in the field, such as
artistic patronage, sainthood and sanctity, the visual culture of
the mendicant orders, devotional practice, and civic religion. Some
essays bring fresh approaches to familiar material (Ambrogio
Lorenzetti's Saint Nicholas panels, the frescoes in Siena's Palazzo
Pubblico, Simone Martini's Holy Family), while others illuminate
objects and images that are less well known (the central panel of
the Santa Chiara triptych in Trieste, and the statue of Saint
Francis in San Francesco in Siena). As a collection they combine to
make an important contribution to the study of Early Italian art,
seeking thereby to echo the extraordinary contribution of Joanna
Cannon's own work to that field.
Battleship Bismarck is a marine forensics analysis and engineering
study of the design, operation, and loss of Germany's greatest
battleship, drawing on survivors' accounts and the authors'
combined decades of experience in naval architecture and command at
sea. The investigation has covered fifty-six years of painstaking
research, during which the authors conducted extensive interviews
and correspondence with the ship's designers and survivors of the
Battle of Denmark Strait and Bismarck's final battle. Albert
Schnarke, former gunnery officer of DKM Tirpitz, sister ship of
Bismarck, aided greatly by translating and circulating early
manuscript materials to those who participated in the design and
operation. Survivors of Bismarck's engagements actively contributed
to this comprehensive study, including Vice Admiral (then
Lieutenant) D.B.H Wildish (RN), damage control officer aboard HMS
Prince of Wales, who located photographs of battle damage to his
ship.After the wreck of the Bismarck was discovered in June 1989,
the authors served as technical consultants to Dr. Robert Ballard,
who led three trips to the site. Filmmaker and explorer James
Cameron contributed a chapter of his comprehensive overview of his
deep-sea explorations of Bismarck, illustrated with his team's
remarkable photographs of the shipwreck. The result of these nearly
six decades of research and collaboration is an engrossing and
encyclopedic account of the events surrounding one of the most epic
naval battles of World War II. Battleship Bismarck has finally
resolved some of the major questions such as, Who sank the
Bismarck, the British or the Germans?
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