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This is a hands-on guide to learning to draw in perspective. It is
partly about learning to draw a set of straight lines that meet at
a point. And it's partly about learning to look at what is around
you, and spot where those invisible straight lines might be
located. It's a book for anyone who wants to draw or paint-in any
genre and in any medium. And it's not weighed down with theory -
although everything you will need to know is explained. Most of
all, it gives you exercises to play with. You can put your
observational skills to the test with the "image quiz"
features-where you take a pen and draw in all the vanishing points
onto the book itself. Or use the special "perspective chambers" to
draw objects onto an existing scene, keeping it all in the right
perspective: think of it as a kind of 3D doodling. By the time you
get to the end of the book, you will understand how perspective
works and be able to apply it intuitively without a ruler or
drafting table. The whole concept will feel like a sixth sense. And
you can get on with being creative. There is also a 30-page
workbook to put your skills to the test!
This book focuses on education and power in Southeast Asia and
analyses the ways in which education has been instrumentalized by
state, non-state, and private actors across this diverse region.
Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society's
Globalization and Education SIG Book Award Cambodia for Sale:
Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a
post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of
private rather than public goods. Despite the government's best
efforts since the 1990s to re-constitute a functioning system of
public services, life remains organized around buying and selling
virtually everything, from humanitarian aid to schooling and from
religious good deeds to irrigation. Through an ethnography of one
village, Cambodia for Sale argues that efforts to rebuild Cambodia
after decades of conflict have resulted in various forms of
everyday privatization. Although this is most notable in the
education system, these practices of privatization can be found in
multiple institutions that constitute social life, from the
Buddhist pagoda to local government. The various efforts of
international development are as much at fault for this reality as
are the legacies of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. This argument
unfolds through the life stories of six residents of the Preah Go
village, who collectively depict everyday life through overlapping
village institutions, systems, and histories. This is an insightful
and valuable reference for scholars interested in educational
development, Southeast Asian studies, and comparative education.
What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant
inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity
reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology
by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in
France and the United States. Working between comparative
literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds
a bridge between visual culture and sound studies. Kaleidophonic
Modernity places the poet and inventor Charles Cros and his lover,
the celebrated concert pianist and salonniere Nina de Villard at
the heart of modern aesthetic and scientific vanguards. Cros's
scientific endeavors ranged from color photography, to
telecommunications, to mechanical sound reproducibility. In his
poetry the Surrealists found an ancestor and inspiration. His
literary and scientific works prove startling and relevant to
predicaments of technological media in his own time and ours. For
nearly twenty years Nina de Villard presided over a supremely
daring intellectual salon. There, she welcomed manifold literary,
artistic, and musical luminaries into a veritable crucible of the
artistic avant-garde and precursor to the famous Chat Noir cabaret.
Together, these two forgotten but pivotal figures, Cros and
Villard, help reframe our thinking on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles
Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman, icons of urban modernity who can now
be seen and heard in a kaleidophonic light, one that offers a
compelling new perspective on modern mediascapes. In elaborating
this transatlantic phenomenon, Kaleidophonic Modernity illuminates
the prehistory of the phonograph as it intersects with the
aesthetics of sound reproducibility, Franco-American literary
exchange, Poe's aesthetic and intellectual legacy, the sounds of
modern cities and technologies, and the genealogy of audiovisual
experimentation found in such movements as Dada, Futurism, and the
sound art of today.
Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society's
Globalization and Education SIG Book Award Cambodia for Sale:
Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a
post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of
private rather than public goods. Despite the government's best
efforts since the 1990s to re-constitute a functioning system of
public services, life remains organized around buying and selling
virtually everything, from humanitarian aid to schooling and from
religious good deeds to irrigation. Through an ethnography of one
village, Cambodia for Sale argues that efforts to rebuild Cambodia
after decades of conflict have resulted in various forms of
everyday privatization. Although this is most notable in the
education system, these practices of privatization can be found in
multiple institutions that constitute social life, from the
Buddhist pagoda to local government. The various efforts of
international development are as much at fault for this reality as
are the legacies of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. This argument
unfolds through the life stories of six residents of the Preah Go
village, who collectively depict everyday life through overlapping
village institutions, systems, and histories. This is an insightful
and valuable reference for scholars interested in educational
development, Southeast Asian studies, and comparative education.
This book honors Jack W. Brehm's contributions to psychology, all
of which revolve around a central theme of motivation and social
behavior. It begins with two personal chapters and then presents a
collection of cutting-edge, substantive chapters authored by
researchers whose work Brehm has strongly influenced. It concludes
with a chapter by Jack Brehm that reflects on the field of
psychology, discusses a new theory of social influence, and offers
ideas about the direction in which our understanding of human
behavior could move. Motivational Analyses of Social Behavior will
be of value to research scientists, educators, and practitioners
interested in social motivational processes and those who developed
major theories in this area. Interested readers include individuals
specializing in social, clinical, organizational, personality,
health, and motivational psychology, and psychophysiology. The book
would also be ideal for advanced courses on social motivation and
the history of psychology.
In honour of Jack Brehm's contributions to contemporary psychology,
this volume revolves around the focus of most of his work -
motivation and emotion in social context. It demonstrates Jack
Brehm's enormous influence on the field by highlighting how others
have taken his ideas and expanded upon them, especially in the
areas of dissonance and reactance processes and motivational and
emotional intensity. influence. It begins with two personal
chapters, one written by the book's editors, and the other by
Jack's oldest friend in academia, Peter Schonbach. The remaining
chapters provide current and significant extensions of Jack Brehm's
work on social motivation. Jack's former students including Stephen
Worcel, Camille Wortman, Robert Wicklund, Tom Pyszczynski and Eddie
Harmon Jones, contribute over half of the chapters. A list of all
his PhD students is included. The book concludes with a chapter by
Jack Brehm, offering insight into his reflections on the field of
social psychology, an overview of his new theory on social
influence, and ideas for future study.
While recess provides children with a time to play and take a
break from the school day, research has shown that it is also a
necessary and vital part of their social, emotional, and academic
development. This book provides tools and strategies for school
mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators to
evaluate and improve the recess experience in order to ensure that
children benefit as much as possible from this important time.
Using a data-based problem solving strategy, the author presents
methods for assessing playgrounds, identifying features that may
negatively impact students and their social interactions,
intervening to modify and strengthen these features, and monitoring
to guarantee that the interventions have created successful
outcomes. An accompanying CD contains forms, examples, PowerPoint
presentations, and other resources to support the procedures
discussed throughout the book.
While recess provides children with a time to play and take a
break from the school day, research has shown that it is also a
necessary and vital part of their social, emotional, and academic
development. This book provides tools and strategies for school
mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators to
evaluate and improve the recess experience in order to ensure that
children benefit as much as possible from this important time.
Using a data-based problem solving strategy, the author presents
methods for assessing playgrounds, identifying features that may
negatively impact students and their social interactions,
intervening to modify and strengthen these features, and monitoring
to guarantee that the interventions have created successful
outcomes. An accompanying CD contains forms, examples, PowerPoint
presentations, and other resources to support the procedures
discussed throughout the book.
Trauma is a key concept in many fields of psychology and medicine.
Different understandings of trauma are at play here, which are
sometimes blurred and usually have little relation to each other.
In order to provide orientation in the discussion and to contribute
to a reflected use of the concept of trauma in research and
practice, this book presents central - clinical, psychosocial,
transgenerational and collective - trauma concepts and demonstrates
their significance in selected therapeutic, institutional, research
and socio-political fields of practice by means of case studies
Christian Berger hat die Neuauflage des bis zur 3. Auflage zusammen
mit Wolfgang Brehm bearbeiteten Lehrbuchs unter Einbeziehung der
neuen Rechtsprechung und Literatur umfassend überarbeitet. Das
Werk vertieft das Dritte Buch des BGB. Es behandelt dabei auch die
sachenrechtlichen Nebengesetze sowie die sachenrechtliche Bezüge
zum Zwangsvollstreckungs- und Insolvenzrecht. Die Hinweise auf
weiterführende Literatur gliedern sich nach wissenschaftlichen
Abhandlungen, Studienliteratur und Fallbearbeitung. Die Darstellung
will zum Mit- und Nachdenken anregen, auch Widerspruch
herausfordern.
Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of "The Oxford Book of
American Poetry", brought completely up-to-date and dramatically
expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume,
featuring the work of more than 200 poets - almost three times as
many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often witty head note
introducing each author, it is certain to become the definitive
anthology of American poetry for our time. Lehman has gathered
together all the works one would expect to find in a landmark
collection of American poetry, from Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn
Ferry" to Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West", and from
Eliot's "The Waste Land" to Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror". But, equally important, the editor has significantly
expanded the range of the anthology. The book includes not only
writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets
overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past, but
highly deserving of attention. The anthology confers legitimacy on
the Objectivist poets; the so-called Proletariat poets of the
1930s; famous poets who fell into neglect or were the victims of
critical backlash (Edna St. Vincent Millay); poets whose true worth
has only become clear with the passing of time (Weldon Kees). Among
poets missing from Richard Ellmann's 1976 volume, but published
here are: W. H. Auden, Charles Bukowski, Donald Justice, Carolyn
Kizer, Kenneth Koch, Stanley Kunitz, Emma Lazarus, Mina Loy, Howard
Moss, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, James Schuyler, Elinor Wylie,
and Louis Zukosky. Many more women are represented: outstanding
poets, such as Josephine Jacobsen, Josephine Miles, May Swenson.
Numerous African-American poets receive their due, and unexpected
figures, such as the musicians Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Robert
Johnson have a place in this important work. This stunning
collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its
origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It is a
must-have anthology for anyone interested in American literature
and a book that is sure to be consulted, debated, and treasured for
years to come.
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Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering - 5th International Conference, ERP Future 2016 - Research, Hagenberg, Austria, November 14, 2016, Revised Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Felix Piazolo, Verena Geist, Lars Brehm, Rainer Schmidt
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This book constitutes revised and peer reviewed contributions from
the Research part of the ERP Future 2016 conference held in
Hagenberg, Austria, in November 2016. The ERP Future Research
conference is set up as a platform for scientific discussion on
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, business intelligence
(BI) systems, business process management (BPM) systems and
information technology systems. The conference acts as a discussion
and communication platform for business and technological topics
covering ERP systems. The 7 full and 5 short papers presented in
this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29
submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections:
introduction of enterprise systems; business processes; production
processes; and IT-trends.
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Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering - 4th International Conference, ERP Future 2015 - Research, Munich, Germany, November 16-17, 2015, Revised Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Michael Felderer, Felix Piazolo, Wolfgang Ortner, Lars Brehm, Hans-Joachim Hof
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This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of
the 'ERP Future 2015' conference held in Munich, Germany on
November 16-17, 2015. The ERP Future 2015 Research conference is a
scientific platform for research on enterprise information systems
in general and specifically on core topics like business process
management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) and enterprise
resource planning (ERP) systems. Besides the scientific community
the event also addresses businesses developing, implementing and
using enterprise information systems. The 7 full papers and 5 short
papers accepted for ERP were selected from 23 submissions. The
papers consider topics in education in enterprise systems; business
process management; enterprise systems and solution providers; and
IT-trends.
This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to
variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of
the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and
syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the
contributions that strong empirical research can make to our
knowledge of the development of English grammar, especially as
realized in lexical development. In illustration of contemporary
research trends, the articles in the collection make strong use of
extralinguistic factors to discuss language change as well as argue
for internal and structural development. The authors are drawn from
nine different countries, and each article is followed by a
commentary and response that provide actual dialogue about the
issues in the field, thus representing world-wide discussion of
issues in the history of English. The essays recognize the
different audiences for historical variation and change - formal
linguists, sociolinguists, and lexicographers - and specifically
address the interests and discourse in those areas. The volume
shows how historical studies of English are increasingly engaged
with contemporary trends in linguistics, at the same time as
demonstrating how empirical and other methods can bring classical
philology fully into the sphere of contemporary linguistics without
abandoning its traditional concerns.
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High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2007 - Transactions of the Third Joint HLRB and KONWIHR Status and Result Workshop, Dec. 3-4, 2007, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching/Munich, Germany (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Siegfried Wagner, Matthias Steinmetz, Arndt Bode, Matthias Brehm
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For the fourth time, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and
the Com- tence Network for Technical, Scienti c High Performance
Computing in Bavaria (KONWIHR) publishes the results from scienti c
projects conducted on the c- puter systems HLRB I and II (High
Performance Computer in Bavaria). This book reports the research
carried out on the HLRB systems within the last three years and
compiles the proceedings of the Third Joint HLRB and KONWIHR Result
and Reviewing Workshop (3rd and 4th December 2007) in Garching. In
2000, HLRB I was the rst system in Europe that was capable of
performing more than one Tera op/s or one billion oating point
operations per second. In 2006 it was replaced by HLRB II. After a
substantial upgrade it now achieves a peak performance of more than
62 Tera op/s. To install and operate this powerful system, LRZ had
to move to its new facilities in Garching. However, the situation
regarding the need for more computation cycles has not changed much
since 2000. The demand for higher performance is still present, a
trend that is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Other
resources like memory and disk space are currently in suf cient
abundance on this new system.
Unwanted childlessness affects approximately one in six couples
worldwide. - though the exact proportion of the predominant cause
of the problem remains controversial, according to the World Health
Organization (WHO), in nearly 40% of cases the cause can be
attributed to the female, in 20% to the male, in 25% to both, and
in 15% the cause remains unknown. Based on these ?gures, the -
cidence of male factor infertility in the general population is
approximately 7%. The majority of these men, approximately 30%,
experience irreversible idiopathic infertility and cannot father
children without some form of medical intervention. Male factor
infertility, in addition, may be caused by testicular germ cell
cancer, which is known to represent the most common cancer among
young men, aged 15 to 35 years, in Western industrialized
countries. The number of affected men has increased dramatically
over the past 50 years. There is now growing evidence that human
testicular germ cell cancer originates from fetal germ cells
exhibiting an aberrant programme of gene expression, and tumour
progression may be favoured by an aberrant Sertoli cell-germ cell
communication.
For nine years, Stephen Colbert's persona "Colbert"-a Republican
superhero and parody of conservative political pundits-informed
audiences on current events, politics, social issues, and religion
while lampooning conservative political policy, biblical
literalism, and religious hypocrisy. To devout, vocal, and
authoritative lay Catholics, religion is central to both the actor
and his most famous character. Yet many viewers wonder, "Is Colbert
a practicing Catholic in real life or is this part of his act?"
America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself) examines the
ways in which Colbert challenges perceptions of Catholicism and
Catholic mores through his faith and comedy. Religion and the
foibles of religious institutions have served as rich fodder for
scores of comedians over the years. What set "Colbert" apart on his
Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report, was that his critical
observations were made more powerful and harder to ignore because
he approached religious material not from the predictable stance of
the irreverent secular comedian but from his position as one of the
faithful. He is a Catholic celebrity who can bridge critical
outsider and participating insider, neither fully reverent nor
fully irreverent. Providing a digital media ethnography and
rhetorical analysis of Stephen Colbert and his character from 2005
to 2014, author Stephanie N. Brehm examines the intersection
between lived religion and mass media, moving from an exploration
of how Catholicism shapes Colbert's life and world towards a
conversation about how "Colbert" shapes Catholicism. Brehm provides
historical context by discovering how "Colbert" compares to other
Catholic figures, such Don Novello, George Carlin, Louis C.K., and
Jim Gaffigan, who have each presented their views of Catholicism to
Americans through radio, film, and television. The last chapter
provides a current glimpse of Colbert on The Late Show, where he
continues to be voice for Catholicism on late night, now to an even
broader audience. America's Most Famous Catholic (According to
Himself) also explores how Colbert carved space for Americans who
currently define their religious lives through absence,
ambivalence, and alternatives. Brehm reflects on the complexity of
contemporary American Catholicism as it is lived today in the
often-ignored form of Catholic multiplicity: thinking Catholics,
cultural Catholics, cafeteria Catholics, and lukewarm Catholics, or
what others have called Colbert Catholicism, an emphasis on the joy
of religion in concert with the suffering. By examining the humor
in religion, Brehm allows us to see clearly the religious elements
in the work and life of comedian Stephen Colbert.
What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant
inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity
reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology
by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in
France and the United States. Working between comparative
literature, the history of science, and urban studies, Brehm builds
a bridge between visual culture and sound studies. Kaleidophonic
Modernity places the poet and inventor Charles Cros and his lover,
the celebrated concert pianist and salonnière Nina de Villard at
the heart of modern aesthetic and scientific vanguards. Cros's
scientific endeavors ranged from color photography, to
telecommunications, to mechanical sound reproducibility. In his
poetry the Surrealists found an ancestor and inspiration. His
literary and scientific works prove startling and relevant to
predicaments of technological media in his own time and ours. For
nearly twenty years Nina de Villard presided over a supremely
daring intellectual salon. There, she welcomed manifold literary,
artistic, and musical luminaries into a veritable crucible of the
artistic avant-garde and precursor to the famous Chat Noir cabaret.
Together, these two forgotten but pivotal figures, Cros and
Villard, help reframe our thinking on Edgar Allan Poe, Charles
Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman, icons of urban modernity who can now
be seen and heard in a kaleidophonic light, one that offers a
compelling new perspective on modern mediascapes. In elaborating
this transatlantic phenomenon, Kaleidophonic Modernity illuminates
the prehistory of the phonograph as it intersects with the
aesthetics of sound reproducibility, Franco-American literary
exchange, Poe’s aesthetic and intellectual legacy, the sounds of
modern cities and technologies, and the genealogy of audiovisual
experimentation found in such movements as Dada, Futurism, and the
sound art of today.
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