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A considerable proportion of the authors of this book are either
Africans or live in Africa, and all of them carry out fieldwork
there. Its size and coverage allows not only a wide overview of
development in Africa from around 8000 BC to the present-day, but
also some review chapters and in-depth studies. Contrary to common
perception, it is intended that Africa's past should emerge as
anything but a vast barren area, open to all extraneous influence,
and eager to welcome incoming innovations and colonizers in order
to be pushed into some kind of development. Instead, the book aims
to show that the continent emerges as the possessor of a complex
interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising a diversity of
economic and social strategies in a number of environmental
situations. In some areas, hunting and gathering was a successful
adaptation, in some, pastoralism, in others, small agricultural
communities, and in still others, urbanism. The archaeology of
Africa has revealed enough of the continent's unwritten past to
confound many preconceptions about it.
Africa has a vibrant past. It emerges from this book as the proud possessor of a vast and highly complicated interweaving of peoples and cultures, practising an enormous diversity of economic and social strategies in an Extraordinary range of environmental situations. At long last the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound preconceptions about this continent and to upset the picture inferred from historic written records. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future.
This book's striking message is that palliative care does not
deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death
and dying a natural part of life. This book draws from wider social
science perspectives and critically and specifically applies these
perspectives to palliative care and its dominant medical model.
Applying Social Role Valorisation, the author argues for the
de-institutionalisation of palliative care and the development of
an alternative framework to the approaches found in hospices,
palliative care units and community-based palliative care services.
He offers a new conceptualisation of death and loss that refines
and expands modern understandings in a way that also resonates with
traditional religious views concerning death. Wide-ranging
recommendations advise fundamental change in the concept of
palliative care, the way support and services are organised and the
day to day practice of palliative care. Rethinking palliative care
will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in
palliative care as well as those in disability, social policy,
sociology, social work, religion, thanatology, nursing and other
health related fields.
Computer Arts Magazine, Dec 2001 If you use Photoshop and want to
progress your skills, this book will open your eyes
www.pixelsurgeon.com This book is a tempting, friendly design
gigolo, and will do absolutely anything you ask of it. DT & G
Magazine - www.Design-Bookshelf.com If you care for your craft,
you'd be foolish indeed to let this opportunity slip away. Book of
the year. Photoshop User Magazine, January 2002 The variety of
artwork and approaches is a definite plus. CGI Magazine, February
2002 Not just a book about graphics, it's a work of art in itself.
As a piece of software, Adobe Photoshop is rare - perhaps alone -
in evoking genuine passion from its users. As it evolves, it finds
its way into the lives of more and more professional creators,
tempting them away from their traditional materials, and expanding
their horizons. Yes, it can alter photographs. It can also alter
careers. New Masters of Photoshop is a showcase of Masters who use
Photoshop, and Masters of Photoshop use. The photographers,
animators, artists, and designers assembled here have a myriad of
different skills: some manipulate, some animate, some create from
scratch. All of them produce remarkable, beautiful things. In these
pages, the authors will demonstrate examples of their print work,
web work, public work, and private work, explaining the techniques
they use to achieve their results. More than that, though, they'll
tell you how they think: who their influences are, where their
ideas come from, and how they find inspiration when the well has
run dry. friends of ED has scoured the world for the leading
exponents of Photoshop technique. This book is a gallery of
Photoshop practice and theory, backed with essays on the influences
and inspirations that lie behind the sharpest digital art in
today's media-saturated world. The book deconstructs sophisticated,
complex, and astonishing Photoshop graphics, providing motivation,
skills and inspiration in equal parts. Support for this book is
available on the friends of ED web site (friendsofed.com). From the
Publisher Creating a Photoshop image is a process that occurs as
much in the head as it does on the screen. Uniquely, New Masters of
Photoshop documents it all, from the seeds of an idea, to the
outcome on screen, paper, or canvas. The projects include examples
of collage and montage that involve manipulation of whole images
and tiny fragments - working on a grand scale, and at a
pixel-by-pixel level. Layers and masks, with all their subtleties,
are used in fascinating ways; and filters are treated with the
sensitivity and discretion they require. The CD contains: Audio,
video, and written interviews with the authors Source files for the
tutorials Unflattened Photoshop files for closer inspection About
the Author Michael Cina Michael Cina is an artist and designer
living in a small village outside of minneapolis. he creates stuff
(mikecina.com) and things (trueistrue.com) out of his house in that
village. companies like mtv or adobe may even call him to do some
work. every now and then he leaves his village to speak at design
conferences. often he will leave his house to buy cds or books (or
both if he got paid). otherwise he rides his bike, fishes, chases
his cat or girlfriend, takes pictures, makes fonts, paints, e-mails
people, struggles over writing things like books and bios...
currently michael is working on his new company, weworkforthem.com,
with michael young. WeWorkForThem is half art and half design
studio. Mike Young Mike Young is an artist currently residing in
Washington, DC, USA. Mike has created and maintained sites such as
designgraphik.com and submethod.com, and is currently starting
weworkforthem.com with Michael Cina of trueistrue.com. While
working on these projects, Mike has also served as art director for
two years at Vir2l Studios, where he directed and designed on
projects such as vir2l.com, which won prestigious awards such as
the New York Festivals New Media Competition, Cannes Cyber Lion:
Gold, Clio Award, Art Directors Club, and also Invision Award. Not
only has Mike worked on many personal and experimental web
art-based projects, but also he has worked with clients such as
MTV, Dc Shoes, Mercury Automobiles, Dj Dieselboy, Dj Dara, Dj
Ak1200, and Walker Art Center. Jens Magnus Karlsson Jens Karlsson
is a Swedish digital artist and designer. He studied information
and advertising for four years, partly in the US, and later
graduated from Hyperisland School of New Media Design. At
Hyperisland, Jens worked as a freelance art director, along with
his studies, doing print, animation, and online work for clients
such as CBS, Sony, Volkswagen, and Digital Vision. From there he
moved on to a position as Senior Designer at Kioken Incorporated.
Jens is currently a freelance designer through Chapter3.net, and he
is actively involved in enriching the online design culture with
news, articles, and events, mainly as assistant creative director
at threeoh.com.
The Murray is a book about landscape and fish, about memory and
concepts, about imagination and desire. Through a complex
interweaving of history, poetry, art and individual memories, Paul
Sinclair has created an original and subtly conceived work,
offering imaginative space to think about land and water in new
ways. The focus is on shifts and changes: the brief heyday of the
riverboats and their transformation into a tourist attraction; the
decline of the mighty Murray cod and the rise of the European carp;
the alteration of flow patterns and species; the changing fortunes
of the river towns. The Murray offers a unique picture of
Australia's major river.
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