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Mathematical Puzzles A Connoisseur's Collection

Mathematical Puzzles A Connoisseur's Collection

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler of Bell Labs dozens of elegant intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain but without this book devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or higher mathematics is necessary but your ability to construct a mathematical proof will be severly tested-even if you are a professional mathematician. For the truly adventurous there is even a chapter on unsolved puzzles. | Mathematical Puzzles A Connoisseur's Collection

GBP 180.00
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Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies Histories and Tragedies A Facsimile of the First Folio 1623

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies Histories and Tragedies A Facsimile of the First Folio 1623

For the first time a photographic facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays is available in one affordable volume. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies Histories and Tragedies gives actors directors and anyone interested in Shakespeare access to the plays as Shakespeare envisioned them. In returning to the original text actors and directors can find answers to the many problems they find preparing a play of Shakespeare. Included is the introduction to acting from the First Folio and its accompanying acting guide and glossary making this the most valuable tool for all who love the Bard. | Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies Histories and Tragedies A Facsimile of the First Folio 1623

GBP 180.00
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The Art of Music Publishing An Entrepreneurial Guide to Publishing and Copyright for the Music Film and Media Industries

The Art of Music Publishing An Entrepreneurial Guide to Publishing and Copyright for the Music Film and Media Industries

Do you want to pursue a career and succeed in the lucrative area of music publishing? The Art of Music Publishing provides real inspiration and a tangible hands on perspective to this exciting side of the high-risk high-reward music business. Prepare yourself for a career in music publishing and understand this complex but profitable part of the music business. Author Gammons walks you through all you need to know understanding the role of the publisher copyright managing rights income streams contracts. Learn how when and where income is generated in all the current areas of business as well as exploring the new industries offering new income streams and the business models that are developing. The supporting website includes video interviews and podcasts with music business legends. 'If there is anything that Helen Gammons doesn't know about music publishing it's probably not worth knowing! If you want to take it to the next level in music publishing - read this book. I know I'll be referring to it often. 'David 'Hawk' WolinskiComposer of Aint No Body (Rufus and Chaka Khan) and one of the most covered songs ever. Whether you're already a music publisher or would like to be one this book will give you a mass of useful information - fresh ideas up-to-date legal opinions video interviews with music biz legends provocative thoughts about where the business is heading and plenty of good anecdotes. From Simon Napier Bell Manager: The Yardbrids George Michael and Wham Marc Bolan. Japan. | The Art of Music Publishing An Entrepreneurial Guide to Publishing and Copyright for the Music Film and Media Industries

GBP 180.00
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Pixel Art for Game Developers

Pixel Art for Game Developers

Is the art for your video game taking too long to create? Learning to create Pixel Art may be the answer to your development troubles. Uncover the secrets to creating stunning graphics with Pixel Art for Game Developers. The premier how-to book on Pixel Art and Pixel Art software it focuses on the universal principles of the craft. The book provides an introduction to Pixel Art its utility foundational elements and concepts such as light and shadow. It offers tutorials on creating animations and serves as a functional guide for the most common methodology in 2D game development. Gamers love the retro feel of Pixel Art and lucky for you it is easy to create. You'll love the tiny file sizes that will reduce compile times and help your game run faster. Providing you with the skills to create the characters and environments needed for 2D games this book will help you: Create tilesets to build game environments Understand light and shadow Work efficiently with pixels Use atmospheric and linear perspective Create professional-quality Pixel Art This book has chapters dedicated to theory as well as step-by-step tutorials both of which describe the process explicitly. Whether you are an artist programmer indie developer or certified public accountant after reading this book you'll understand the steps necessary to create production-quality Pixel Art graphics. Praise for the Book:Pixel Art and Pixel Art games are very popular and the technique is a great way for independent creators to create very good-looking games with limited resources. It‘s frankly shocking that there hasn‘t been a resource like this before . a very timely book. Chris Totten George Mason University Washington DC USA

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment. Featuring multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies from the humanities and the social sciences it addresses the body and embodied religiosity in theological ethical and cultural contexts. Comprised of 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook is divided into four parts: Theology and Embodied Religiosity Gender Sexuality and Body Regulations Ritual and Performance Religion Healing and the Future of the Body Each part examines central issues debates and problems in relation to global belief systems including embodiments of love transfiguration the secular body disability body language maternal bodies embodied emotions celibacy ecology and the body reshaping the corporal body initiation rites physiology Tantra Reiki practice religious experience technological body modifications and ethics and the body. Providing a breadth of rich and innovative research it is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies theology philosophy sociology anthropology psychology history and cultural and gender studies.

GBP 190.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history major topics and controversies in philosophical work on friendship. It gives both the advanced scholar and the novice in the field an overview and also an in-depth exploration of the connections between friendship and the history of philosophy morality practical rationality value theory and interpersonal relationships more generally. The Handbook consists of 31 newly commissioned chapters by an international slate of contributors and is divided into six sections:I. Historical PerspectivesII. Who Can Be Our Friends?III. Friendship and Other RelationshipsIV. The Value and Rationality of FriendshipV. Friendship Morality and VirtueVI. New Issues in Philosophy of Friendship This volume is essential reading not only for anyone interested in the philosophical questions involving friendship but also for anyone interested in related topics such as love sex moral duties the good life the nature of rationality interpersonal and interspecies relationships and the nature of the person. | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters this work enters the field of emotion from a range of angles. Named emotions – love anger fear – highlight how particular categories have been deployed to make sense of feeling and their evolution over time. Geographical perspectives provide access to the historiographies of regions that are less well-covered by English-language sources opening up global perspectives and new literatures. Key thematic sections are designed to intersect with critical historiographies demonstrating the value of an emotions perspective to a range of areas. Topical sections direct attention to the role of emotions in relations of power to intimate lives and histories of place as products of exchanges across groups and as deployed by new technologies and medias. The concepts of globalisation and modernity run through the volume acting as foils for comparison and analytical tools. The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of emotions across the world from 1700.

GBP 205.00
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Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video

Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video Fifth Edition is the definitive book on the subject for the serious film student or beginning filmmaker. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both the producer and director and clearly explains how their separate roles must work together to create a successful short film or video. Through extensive examples from award-winning shorts and insightful interviews you will learn about common challenges the filmmakers encountered during each step of filmmaking process from preproduction to production postproduction and distribution and the techniques they used to overcome them. In celebrating this book‘s twentieth anniversary this edition has been updated to include: Two all-new in-depth cases studies of esteemed short films Memory Lane and the Academy Award-winning God of Love A revised chapter progression that reinforces the significance of the actor - director relationship Interviews with the filmmakers integrated alongside the text as well as new images and behind-the-scenes coverage of production processes Revamped sections on current financing strategies postproduction workflows and the wide variety of distribution platforms now available to filmmakers A Where are They Now appendix featuring updates on the original filmmakers covered in the first edition An expanded companion website (www. focalpress. com/cw/rea) containing useful forms and information on distributors grants and financing sources film and video festivals film schools internet sources for short works and professional associations

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion

The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion

The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice. Propelling forward the study of material religion the Handbook first reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics such as queer materialities inescapable material entanglements and hyperobjects that explode the small-scale personal view on religions. The Handbook comprises thirty chapters written by an international team of contributors who offer a global perspective of religious pasts and presents divided into four thematic parts: Genealogies of Material Religion Materializing the Terms of the Study of Religion Entanglements Entrapment Escaping Hyperobjects or How Ginormous Things Affect Religions In these four parts the study of material religion is redirected towards systematic critical interrogations of the imbrication of religious structures of power with racial economic political and gendered forms of domination. From Spinoza’s political theology to African philosophies of ubuntu; from the queer materialities of Mesoamerican religion to the Satanic Temple of the United States; from Islamic love and sacrifice in human-animal entanglements to Shia militants’ attachment to weaponry; from epidemic cataclysm in Latin America to vast infrastructures and the gathering of millions in India’s Kumbh Mela the study of material religion proves to be the study par excellence of the human condition. The Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies anthropology history and media studies and will also be of interest to those in related fields such as archeology sociology and philosophy.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East

The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East

This in-depth exploration of emotions in the ancient Near East illuminates the rich and complex worlds of feelings encompassed within the literary and material remains of this remarkable region home to many of the world’s earliest cities and empires and lays critical foundations for future study. Thirty-four chapters by leading international scholars including philologists art historians and archaeologists examine the ways in which emotions were conceived experienced and expressed by the peoples of the ancient Near East with particular attention to Mesopotamia Anatolia and the kingdom of Ugarit from the Late Uruk through to the Neo-Babylonian Period (ca. 3300–539 BCE). The volume is divided into two parts: the first addressing theoretical and methodological issues through thematic analyses and the second encompassing corpus-based approaches to specific emotions. Part I addresses emotions and history defining the terms materialization and material remains kings and the state and engaging the gods. Part II explores happiness and joy; fear terror and awe; sadness grief and depression; contempt disgust and shame; anger and hate; envy and jealousy; love affection and admiration; and pity empathy and compassion. Numerous sub-themes threading through the volume explore such topics as emotional expression and suppression in relation to social status gender the body and particular social and spatial conditions or material contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East is an invaluable and accessible resource for Near Eastern studies and adjacent fields including Classical Biblical and medieval studies and a must-read for scholars students and others interested in the history and cross-cultural study of emotions.

GBP 205.00
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