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Outsider Art: From the Margins to the Marketplace

Reaktion Books, 2010

The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Yet the idea of such a raw, untaught creativity remains a...

The Borgias: Power and Fortune

Atlantic Books, 2019

The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.

The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But the story of this...

Data Compression: The Complete Reference

Springer, 2004

Giambattista della Porta, a Renaissance scientist, was the author in 1558 of Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), a book in which he discusses many subjects, including demonology, magnetism, and the camera obscura. The book mentions an imaginary device that has since become known as the “sympathetic telegraph.” This device was to have...

PIC Robotics: A Beginner's Guide to Robotics Projects Using the PIC Micro

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Complete, do-it-yourself robotics projects!

SMART 'BOTS!

* Artificial vision system that uses a CCD camera to track and follow brightly colored objects
* Bi-pedal robots that walk upright
* Functional robotic arm
* Easily programmed behavior-based robots
* Complete parts...

The Art and Science of HDR Imaging (The Wiley-IS&T Series in Imaging Science and Technology)

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Rendering High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenes on media with limited dynamic range began in the Renaissance whereby painters, then photographers, learned to use low-range spatial techniques to synthesize appearances, rather than to reproduce accurately the light from scenes. The Art and Science of HDR Imaging presents a unique scientific...

Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms: Building an Education Renaissance After a Global Pandemic

Springer, 2020

This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines...

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

Green Tea, 2002

Benjamin Crowell, in "The Assayer", book reviews and discussion for the free-information renaissance
...There's ... emphasis on teaching computer science not just as a technical trade but as a mental discipline.

Guido van Rossum, creator of...

Digital Nature Photography: The Art and the Science

Focal Press, 2007

Over 50,000 photographers cant be wrong! John and Barbara Gerlach finally write the book their workshop attendees have been asking for!

Digital Nature Photography is a how-to guide for photographers who want to take their work to the next level. Written by professionals with over 20 years experience, the Gerlachs reveal enlightening...

Circuit-Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments (ExtremeTech)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Fans will get bent out of shape if they miss the first book to cover circuit-bending-""bending,"" for short-the method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound Written by the inventor of the technology, this book covers the tools of the...

Digital Da Vinci: Computers in Music

Springer, 2014

The Digital Da Vinci book series opens with the interviews of music mogul Quincy Jones, MP3 inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg, Tommy Boy founder Tom Silverman and entertainment attorney Jay L. Cooper. A strong supporter of science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in schools, The Black Eyed Peas founding member will.i.am...

Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium

Princeton Press, 2021

An in-depth exploration of documentary forgery at the turn of the first millennium

Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began...

Insulin & Related Proteins _ Structure to Function and Pharmacology

Springer, 2002

This book contains contributions presented at the last of the Alcuin Symposia, held in April 2000, as a Festschrift to honour Prof. Axel Wollmer on the occasion of his retirement from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen. The Alcuin Symposia were initially held alternatively in York and Aachen, in recent years...

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