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The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame,...
Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking
Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking
This book was born out of the Deaf Studies Think Tank, a three-day symposium in the summer of 2002 sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Gallaudet University’s Provost’s Offi ce, and the Gallaudet Research Institute. The Deaf Studies Think Tank convened twenty scholars to debate, discuss, and explore the issues and...
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
It is our intention in this book to avoid the limits of academic writing in favor of a more experimental, speculative approach. To that end, we adopt a two - tier format. Throughout Part I, “Nodes,” you will find a number of condensed, italicized headers that are glued together with more standard prose. For quick immersion, we suggest...
Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar
Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar

Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year

Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression,
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Understanding Atmospheric Dispersion of Accidental Releases
Understanding Atmospheric Dispersion of Accidental Releases
As introduction to the subject of this document, dispersion from accidental releases encompasses many different aspects. It includes the methods of classical air pollution modeling used in estimating the dispersion of dilute air pollutants, but also encompasses the more complex physics of dense-vapor and high-momentum releases, boiling and...
Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures
Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures
While there is no "perfect" solution or absolute zero risk, engineering design can significantly reduce risk potential in the CPI. In Guidelines for Design Solutions to Process Equipment Failures, industry experts offer their broad experience in identifying numerous solutions to the more common process equipment failures including...
The BetterPhoto Guide to Creative Digital Photography: Learn to Master Composition, Color, and Design (BetterPhoto Series)
The BetterPhoto Guide to Creative Digital Photography: Learn to Master Composition, Color, and Design (BetterPhoto Series)

Master composition and design to take your photos from okay to wow  
 
You already own the most important photography tool—your creative eye. With this book, you’ll learn how classic design and composition principles can be applied to a wide range of photographic situations to create images
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Professional Techniques for the Wedding Photographer (Practical Photography Books)
Professional Techniques for the Wedding Photographer (Practical Photography Books)
A manual on wedding photography, organized as a detailed "shooting script" for a typical wedding day. Over 150 photographs take the reader step-by-step through all the pictures that clients expect to see in their albums, from formal portraits to candid shots at the reception. The revised edition includes information on digital imaging and...
Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)
For serious amateur photographers who already shoot perfectly focused, accurately exposed images but want to be more creative with a camera, here’s the book to consult. More than seventy techniques, both popular and less-familiar approaches, are covered in detail, including advanced exposure, bounced flash and candlelight, infrared, multiple...
Mathematics for the Analysis of Algorithms
Mathematics for the Analysis of Algorithms

"The book presents a welcome selection and careful exposition of material that can be (and is) covered in a single course...In this reviewer's opinion, this would be an interesting text to use with a group of advanced students well-grounded in undergraduate mathematics and computer science, and would produce a valuable course for the...

Geometric Problems on Maxima and Minima
Geometric Problems on Maxima and Minima
Questions of maxima and minima have great practical significance, with applications to physics, engineering, and economics; they have also given rise to theoretical advances, notably in calculus and optimization. Indeed, while most texts view the study of extrema within the context of calculus, this carefully constructed problem book takes a...
Approximation Theory: From Taylor Polynomials to Wavelets (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)
Approximation Theory: From Taylor Polynomials to Wavelets (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)

This concisely written book gives an elementary introduction to a classical area of mathematics – approximation theory – in a way that naturally leads to the modern field of wavelets.  The exposition, driven by ideas rather than technical details and proofs, demonstrates the dynamic nature of mathematics and the...

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