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Free Download This Ancient Heart: Landscape, Ancestor, Self edited by Paul Davies, Caitlín Matthews
English | October 30, 2015 | ISBN: 1782799672 | True EPUB | 207 pages | 1.9 MB
13 authors explore the threefold relationship between the landscape, the ancestors and ourselves. By focussing upon the essentials that shape Pagan and Heathen identity, this book reveals the connective pathways where beliefs, actions and metaphors lead to dynamic, practical and spiritual lives.

Free Download David John Arnold, K. Sivaramakrishnan, "The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0295993839, 029598581X | PDF | pages: 309 | 2.3 mb
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Through its close examination of the correlation between tropicality and "otherness," and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, the book offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. It will be of interest to historians of the environment, science, and colonialism; South Asianists; and cultural and environmental anthropologists and geographers.

Free Download Revolutionizing the AI-Digital Landscape:
A Guide to Sustainable Emerging Technologies for Marketing Professionals
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032688297 | 367 Pages | PDF (True) | 34 MB

Free Download William K Smith, Thomas C. Vogelmann, Christa Critchley, "Photosynthetic Adaptation: Chloroplast to Landscape (Ecological Studies, 178)"
English | 2004 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 1441919651, 0387220798 | PDF | 4,9 mb
The impacts of global change depend upon the capacity of plants for light and CO2 capture. This book thoroughly studies photosynthetic mechanisms at each structural level, from the cellular to leaves, crown, and canopy. The authors question whether photosynthetic adaptations take place primarily at the metabolic and biochemical level or through changes in structure and form, or both. In the interest of genetic engineering and agricultural applications, the relative importance of genes controlling both metabolic and light reactions as well as the structure, arrangement and orientation of photosynthesis are analyzed.

Free Download Meaningful places : landscape photographers in the nineteenth-century American West By Sailor, Rachel McLean
2014 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 082635422X | PDF | 54 MB
The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era. Art historian Rachel Sailor points out that most photographers in the West were engaged in producing images for their local communities. These pictures didn’t just entertain the settlers but gave them a way to understand their new home. Photographs could help the settlers adjust to their new circumstances by recording the development of a place–revealing domestication, alteration, and improvement. The book explores the cultural complexity of regional landscape photography, western places, and local sociopolitical concerns. Photographic imagery, like western paintings from the same era, enabled Euro-Americans to see the new landscape through their own cultural lenses, shaping the idea of the frontier for the people who lived there.

Free Download Barbara Cave Henricks, "Mastering the New Media Landscape: Embrace the Micromedia Mindset"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0369381289 | EPUB | pages: 340 | 2.6 mb
The world of mass media, in which a few, prime national outlets controlled the messages we all see and hear, has largely vanished. The giant boulders you once had to move to get coverage – Oprah, the New York Times, CNN – have been smashed by the Internet, supplanted (but not entirely replaced) by scores of pebbles: the web sites, social media, blogs, podcasts and more that ace publicists Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton call micromedia. This new breed of outlets is key to capturing public attention. Henricks and Shelton urge you to think less like a marketer and more like a media executive. Using real world examples and colorful anecdotes, they explain how to build a direct channel to your audience that you own. They offer tips for making the best use of rented space on forums like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, among others. Further, they illustrate how attention in the online world can help you get the earned media attention of the still powerful outlets in the traditional space. This book puts you at the controls of creating momentum and building a personal audience. It allows you to take action, rather than wait for the media gatekeepers to unlock their doors or the general public to create the groundswell of ””going viral.”” Henricks and Shelton look past the attention – getting stunts to reveal the solid strategies and tactics that work.

Free Download Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib (Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies) by Abbey Stockstill
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 0271096764 | True EPUB/PDF | 168 pages | 67.2/54 MB
Over the course of the Almoravid (1040-1147) and Almohad (1121-1269) dynasties, medieval Marrakesh evolved from an informal military encampment into a thriving metropolis that attempted to translate a local and distinctly rural past into a broad, imperial architectural vernacular. In Marrakesh and the Mountains, Abbey Stockstill convincingly demonstrates that the city’s surrounding landscape provided the principal mode of negotiation between these identities.

Free Download Lens, Laboratory, Landscape: Observing Modern Spain By Ramón y Cajal, Santiago; Schaefer, Claudia
2014 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 143845273X | EPUB | 4 MB
An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.Lens, Laboratory, Landscape focuses on competing views about the power of vision in Spain between the 1830s and the 1950s. The photographic lens, laboratory microscope, "retinal vision" of philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, and the topographical studies of Manuel de Terán are woven together in and around a European cultural milieu that gave observation primacy. For once, Spain-now bereft of its empire-was not on the outside of such debates. Whether in the laboratory, family home, darkroom, art gallery, or on the road, in Cuba or Zaragoza, Madrid or Massachusetts, Spanish artists and scientists were engaged with the social and economic power of observation at a time when the speed of modern life made observing a challenge. Claudia Schaefer brings the technologies of the eye-photograph, microscope, lens, tools for land surveying-to light as markers on the nation’s touted path to modernity

Free Download Sjoerd Kluiving, "Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach "
English | ISBN: 9089644180 | 2012 | 560 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Researchers in landscape archaeology use two different definitions of landscape. One definition (landscape as territory) is used by the processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers within this volume. By contrast, post-processual archaeologists, new cultural geographers and anthropologists favour a more abstract definition of landscape, based on how it is perceived by the observer. Both definitions are addressed in this book, with 35 papers that are presented here and that are divided into six themes: 1) How did landscape change?; 2) Improving temporal, chronological and transformational frameworks; 3) Linking landscapes of lowlands with mountainous areas; 4) Applying concepts of scale; 5) New directions in digital prospection and modelling techniques, and 6) How will landscape archaeology develop in the future?

Free Download Exploring Place in the Australian Landscape: In the Country of the White Cockatoo
by David S. Jones
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811932123 | 509 Pages | True PDF | 12.7 MB