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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

Yale University Press, 2019

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture...

QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Third Edition (QuickTime Developer Series)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

QuickTime is the industry standard for developing and distributing multimedia content on the Web and CD-ROM, for both Windows and Macintosh computers. Its powerful, extensible software architecture lets you deliver state-of-the-art digital content over the Web or on CD-ROM.

This third edition of the best-selling and award-winning...

Writing mental ray® Shaders: A Perceptual Introduction (mental ray® Handbooks)

Springer, 2008

The word "render" isn't unique to the vocabulary of computer graphics. We can talk about a "watercolor rendering," a "musical rendering" or a "poetic rendering." In each of these, there is a transformation from one domain to another: from the landscape before the painter to color on paper, from...

Women in Ming China (Asian Voices)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education,...

ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science

MIT Press, 2010

In ThermoPoetics, Barri Gold sets out to show us how analogous, intertwined, and mutually productive poetry and physics may be. Charting the simultaneous emergence of the laws of thermodynamics in literature and in physics that began in the 1830s, Gold finds that not only can science influence literature, but literature can influence...

Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business....

Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory

Indiana University Press, 1999

Computers were once thought of as number-crunching machines; but for most of us it is their ability to create worlds and process words that have made them into a nearly indispensable part of life. As Jacques Leslie puts it, if computers are everywhere, it is because they have grown into "poetry machines." The term "cyberspace"...

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4

Friends of Ed, 2009

If you're familiar with the basics of Flash, then The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 will take you further in all aspects of the application, animation, sound, 3D, Inverse Kinematics, the drawing tools, ActionScript, and much more. This book takes all the good bits of Flash CS4 and demonstrates them in methodical and intuitive exercises full of hints...

Russian For Dummies (Language & Literature)

For Dummies, 2006

Covers common expressions, conversations, and cultural notes

Your fun and friendly guide to communicating in Russian

Whether you're a student, a traveler, or a businessperson, or if you just want to speak basic Russian, you'll find this book packed with practical lessons...

Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore (Routledge Malaysian Studies)

Routledge, 2009

This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time....

Mapping Woody Guthrie (Volume 4) (American Popular Music Series)

University of Oklahoma Press, 2019

“I ain’t got no home, I’m just a-roamin’ round,” Woody Guthrie lamented in one of his most popular songs. A native of Oklahoma, he was still in his teens when he moved to Pampa, Texas, where he experienced the dust storms that would play such a crucial role in forming his identity and shaping his work....

Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism

MIT Press, 2006

"Bogost challenges humanists and technologists to pay attention to one another, something they desperately need to do as computation accelerates us into the red zones of widespread virtual reality. This book gives us what we need to meet that challenge: a general theory for understanding creativity under computation, one that will apply...

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