“…Likewise, after spending much of the twentieth century in proverbial exile as abstraction and Formalist aesthetics reigned supreme, representation has returned with a vengeance to contemporary visual art. Representational photography, video and ever-evolving forms of new media now figure prominently in the globalized art world, while this "return of the real" has re-energized problems of representation in the traditional media of painting and sculpture. …”

“…Thecollection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collageand mixed media. The book is a heterodox compendium of 'beasts ofwaste', playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on variouskinds of animal. …”

“…And once you’ve found your feet there, it’ll be time to get creative with home movies and photography, chat face-to-face live on video, communicate through email—the sky’s the limit! …”

“…Readership: All interested in tangible heritage in Cairo and Damascus, visual Orientalism (including photography), Islamic art collecting, and anyone concerned with commodification and intercultural contact zones…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Third-year publication of the Open Access Book Series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology” -- Part I: ICL Landslide Lesson -- Interpretation and mapping for the prediction of sites at risk of landslide disasters: from aerial photography to detection by DTMs -- Part II: Original Articles -- Observation of seismic ground motion and pore water pressure in lineated valley fill of Wakayama, southwest Japan -- Global warming may accelerate submarine landslides in the oceans -Possible disaster chain reactions -- Landslide hazard evaluation of a large waste landfill in Bogotá city -- Multiple Landslides in an Area Draped in Volcanic Matters: The Dual Impacts of Rains and Earthquakes -- Loess Landslides - Peculiarities of Deformation Mechanism -- Spatio-temporal distribution of rainfall-induced landslides in Nicaragua (2000-2022): Preliminary insights to communicate landslide disaster risk -- Emerging Seismicity Trends Linked to Catastrophic Landslides Behavior in Sri Lanka -- Centrifugemodeling of slopes subjected to groundwater flow and rainfall infiltration -- Evaluation of Assessment Models for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Permafrost Areas -- The slope monitoring using embedded system with optical-thermal image fusion and machine learning -- Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring Landslide Stakeholders' Contributions -- Influence of intra-particle saturation ratio on strength degradation of pumice soil -- Regional debris flow hazard assessment of the Grdelica Gorge (Serbia) -- Introducing Japanese Landslide Warning and Evacuation System to Sri Lanka: Field Survey of Social Aspect in the Arayanake Area -- Towards An Optimization of Foundation Anchors of Landslide-resisting Flexible Barriers: Dynamic Pullout Resistance of Anchors -- Part III: Review Articles -- Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Two years on P-LRT -- Landslide prediction model based upon intelligent processing of multi‐point monitoring information: A review -- Mud-mark-based Estimations of Mass-wasting Processes Caused by the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake, Japan -- Assessment of the Structural Geological, Hydrogeological, and Geomorphological Relationships of the Athwelthota Landslide, Sri Lanka -- Part IV: IPL Projects, World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction, and Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 -- Increasing the local road network resilience from natural hazards in municipalities in Serbia -- Recent UL FGG contributions to the 2020 Kyoto Commitment -- The integrated Landslides Monitoring System of Gimigliano Municipality, Southern Italy -- Part V: Technical Notes and Case sturdies -- Assessing landslide distribution for landform hazard zoning purposes: A case study on the western flank of Iztaccíhuatl volcano, Puebla, México -- Identification of potential natural slope failure zones by geomorphological analyses using raster slope shading of LiDAR; case study from Kegalle, Sri Lanka -- Assessing the potential rapidand long travelling landslides in Sri Lanka – A case study of Athwelthota landslide -- Experimental Study on Residual Shear Strength of Soil Using Undrained Ring Shear Apparatus -- Part VI: World Landslide Reports -- Physical mechanism and numerical simulation of landslide dam formation -- An integration of the Fractal method and the Statistical Index method for mapping landslide susceptibility…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- LA PAZ NEUTRA EN LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DE CONFLICTOS DE LÍMITES FRONTERIZOS: EL CASO DE CHILE Y PERÚ -- ESPACIOS Y FRONTERAS SENSIBLES: APROXIMACIONES HACIA LA ACCIÓN SOCIOEDUCATIVA PARA LA PAZ -- EL MEGA-CONFLICTO PALESTINO-ISRAELI: UN IMAGINARIO FRONTERIZO -- FRONTERAS, CONFLICTOS MIGRATORIOS Y SEGURIDAD HUMANA -- LAS FRONTERAS GEOGRÁFICAS Y CULTURALES DE ESPAÑA -- FRONTERAS CULTURALES Y EGOCENTRISMO -- FRONTIÈRES, CONFLITS ET PAIX -- ARGUMENTAIRE -- LES CONFLITS, LA PAIX ET LES FRONTIERES DE L'AGORA -- LES FRONTIÈRES 'POREUSES' DE SYRIE-PALESTINE D'APRÈS DEUX VOYAGEURS DU XII ÈME SIÈCLE -- FRONTIÈRES POLITIQUES -- FRONTIERES INTERIEURS: ART ET IDENTITE DANS L'ESPAGNE DES AUTONOMIES -- POUR UNE NOUVELLE ESTHÉTIQUE DES FLUX: PHOTOGRAPHIE, FRONTIÈRE ET DIVERGENCE -- FRONTIÈRES IMAGINAIRES DANS LA VISION DE L'INMIGATION RUSSE EN ESPAGNE -- FRONTIÈRES EPISTEMOLOGIQUES: (DE) COMMENT COLONISER LE SAVOIR DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT -- L'IMAGINAIRE DES CORPS A LA FRONTIERE: CONFLITS INTERIEURS OU DESAGREGATION RECONCILIATRICE? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Jérôme Alexandre -- L'évolution dy symbolisme dans l'oeuvre lyrique de Claudel / Jean-Pierre Lemaire -- Litanies por Ronchamp, un itinéraire musical / Emmanuel Bellanger -- Ouvrir à l'expérience esthétique: les enjeux d'une pédagogie / Stéphane Coviaux -- Les photographies de l'artiste comme réceptacle de son aura: le cas d'Yves Klein / Pierre-Emmanuel Perrier de la Bâthie -- Entre abandon au sensible et intelligence du monde / Rodolphe Olcèse -- Penser à l'épreuve du sensible: l'art contemporain en témoignage / Jean-Baptiste de Beauvais -- Postface: "la pensée du sensible?"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Doubling the image to face the obscenity of photography -- picture -- The image and the origin of its doubles -- picture -- The photographic obscenity -- Notes -- References -- ``Photobjet'' -- ``The un-possible image'' -- 2. …”

“…The role of optical instruments is very important and affects all areas of human activity, from scientific analysis (such as spectrometry) to recreation and leisure pursuits like photography and television. Optical components are often an essential part of the instrument, but are not always visible. …”

“…The study utilizes satellite imagery, aerial photography, geological surveys, and multivariate statistical analysis to model the karst features and tectonic structures. …”

“…The magazine's award-winning team of editors and contributors seek to engage readers with great writing, arresting photography, intelligent analysis, bold campaigns and trenchant argument…”

“…Working from different disciplinary angles, contributors reflect on figuration and sensation in biblical culture, medieval Jewish culture, the imagination of the unseen in Islamic settings, Christian assaults on 'idolatry' in Africa, baroque and modern Church art, contemporary Eastern Orthodox tradition, photography on the East African coast, European opera and literature, and more. …”

“…Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital video, and MP3s against the backdrop of earlier media such as television, film, photography, and print. The essays provide new benchmarks for evaluating all those claims--political, social, ethical--made about the digital age. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents -- List of figures -- List of table -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE Fashion and fashion theories -- Introduction -- 1 Explaining it Away -- 2 The Empire of Fashion: Introduction -- 3 Adorned in Zeitgeist -- 4 Haute Couture and Haute Culture -- PART TWO What fashion is and is not -- Introduction -- 5 Fashion -- 6 Art -- 7 Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation -- 8 Fashion -- 9 Extract from Fashion and Anti Fashion -- PART THREE Fashion and (the) image -- Introduction -- 10 Fashion Photography -- 11 Going Beyond 'The Fashion System': A Critique -- 12 'Doing Fashion Photographs' -- 13 Introduction: Aboud Sodano and Paul Smith -- PART FOUR Sustainable fashion -- Introduction -- 14 Consumers' Perceptions of 'Green': Why and How Consumers Use Eco-Fashion and Green Beauty Products -- 15 Fashion, Needs and Consumption -- 16 Fashion and Sustainability: Repairing the Clothes we Wear -- PART FIVE Fashion as communication -- Introduction -- 17 Social Life as a Sign System -- 18 The Analysis of the Rhetorical System -- 19 Do Clothes Speak? …”

“…Twenty short profiles are presented in the introduction, with a single iconic photograph and a concise, informative text; the interiors are arranged by chronological order, with superb colour photography and texts recounting the stories of these remarkable designs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…In : Le Courrier de l'UNESCO 5, no 3 (1952) -- Part III: REFLECTIONS / RÉFLEXIONS -- UNESCO's Archival Collections: A Rich Source for Telling the Gripping Story of the Fight against Illiteracy in Southern Italy / Les collections d'archives de l'UNESCO : une source précieuse pour raconter l'histoire passionnante de la lutte contre l'analphabétisme dans le sud de l'Italie / The "Agony of the School" in Southern Italy in the Images of Italian Photojournalists, 1940s-1950s / « L'agonie de l'école » en Italie du sud dans les photographies de photojournalistes italiens, des années 40 aux années 50 / Carlo Levi and Chim: Ethics, Empathy, and Politics - A Journey into the Mezzogiorno / Carlo Levi et Chim : éthique, empathie et politique - un voyage dans le Mezzogiorno / David Seymour's Album on the Fight against Illiteracy in Calabria as a Tool of Mediatization: Material Traces of Editing and Visual Storytelling / L'album de David Seymour sur la lutte contre l'analphabétisme en Calabre en tant qu'outil de médiatisation : traces matérielles de la rédaction et de la narration visuelle / Acknowledgements -- Remerciements -- Contributors / Auteurs -- Picture Credits / Crédits photographiques -- Text Credits / Copyrights des textes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Conclusion: documents of suffering and the future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Ludic space in horror fiction -- Urban space in 'The Shadow over Innsmouth' -- Formalizing action in video games -- Virtual spaces in horror literature -- Conclusion: horror fiction and vulnerability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Ludography -- 9 Graphic stories of resistance: a comic memoir of becoming -- The dignity to fail and to differ Writing in a minor key -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 The cryptographic narrative in video games: the player as detective -- Narrative cryptography -- Structure of cryptographic narrative within video games -- The function of cryptographic narrative in video games -- The case of Five Nights at Freddy's -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Gameography -- 11 Narrating pornographic images: photographic description and ekphrasis in De fotograaf by Jef Geeraerts -- Visuality in pornographic prose -- Literature and photography…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…part 1 Part I: Geometry Manipulation / chapter I 1: Dynamic GPU Terrain / chapter I Bandwidth-Eifficient Procedural Meshes in the GPU via Tessellation / chapter I 3: Real-Time Deformation of Subdivision Surfaces on Object Collisions / chapter I 4: Realistic Volumetric Explosions in Games / part 2 Part II: Rendering / chapter II 1: Next-Generation Rendering in Thief / chapter II 2: Grass Rendering and Simulation with LOD / chapter II 3: Hybrid Reconstruction Antialiasing / chapter II 4: Real-Time Rendering of Physically Based Clouds Using Precomputed Scattering / chapter II Sparse Procedural Volume Rendering Doug McNabb -- part 3 Part III: Lighting -- chapter III 1: Real-Time Lighting via Light Linked List / chapter III Deferred Normalized Irradiance Probes John Huelin, Benjamin Rouveyrol, and Bartlomiej Wron ́ski -- chapter III Volumetric Fog and Lighting Bartlomiej Wron ́ski -- chapter III Physically Based Light Probe Generation on GPU Ivan Spogreev -- chapter III 5: Real-Time Global Illumination Using Slices / part 4 Part IV: Shadows / chapter IV Practical Screen-Space Soft Shadows Ma ́rton Tama ́s and Viktor Heisenberger -- chapter IV Tile-Based Omnidirectional Shadows Hawar Doghramachi -- chapter IV 3: Shadow Map Silhouette Revectorization / part 5 Part V: Mobile Devices / chapter V 1: Hybrid Ray Tracing on a PowerVR GPU / chapter V 2: Implementing a GPU-Only Particle-Collision System with ASTC 3D Textures and OpenGL ES 3.0 / chapter V 3: Animated Characters with Shell Fur for Mobile Devices / chapter V 4: High Dynamic Range Computational Photography on Mobile GPUs / part 6 Part VI: Compute / chapter VI 1: Compute-Based Tiled Culling / chapter VI 2: Rendering Vector Displacement-Mapped Surfaces in a GPU Ray Tracer / chapter VI 3: Smooth Probabilistic Ambient Occlusion for Volume Rendering / part 7 Part VII: 3D Engine Design / chapter VII 1: Block-Wise Linear Binary Grids for Fast Ray-Casting Operations / chapter VII 2: Semantic-Based Shader Generation Using Shader Shaker / chapter VII 3: ANGLE: Bringing OpenGL ES to the Desktop…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Remediating Green Practices : Landscape Photography and Nature Documentary Filmmaking in Video Games -- Index of Games -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…In direction to sustainable eco resortsDisruptive innovation and learning to create architectural forms; Additive manufacturing as a social inclusion tool; The Olivetti factory as a paradigm of sustainable growth; Avieiro Boat-its recovery as a strategic factor for a sustainable development process; Patterns of sustainability in textile design use of traditional technologies; A visual impaired children photography's catalogue as an inclusive tool; Back to craft; Urban Nomads-smart and flexible design strategies for a sustainable future; Energy efficiency…”