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Free Download Paul Murdin, "Planetary Vistas: The Landscapes of Other Worlds"
English | ISBN: 3319152416 | 2015 | 196 pages | PDF | 12 MB
The word "landscape" can mean picture as well as natural scenery. Recent advances in space exploration imaging have allowed us to now have landscapes never before possible, and this book collects some of the greatest views and vistas of Mars, Venus’s Titan, Io and more in their full glory, with background information to put into context the foreign landforms of our Solar System. Here, literally, are ‘other-worldly’ visions of strange new scenes, all captured by the latest technology by landing and roving vehicles or by very low-flying spacecraft.

Free Download Jessica Joyce Christie, "Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops"
English | ISBN: 0739194887 | 2015 | 316 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops: From Past to Present presents a comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the Andean highlands during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Inka history, a detailed analysis of the techniques and styles of carving, and five comprehensive case studies. It opens in the Inka capital, Cusco, one of the two locations where the geometric style of Inka carving was authored by the ninth ruler Pachakuti Inka Yupanki. The following chapters move to the origin places on the Island of the Sun in Lake Titicaca and at Pumaurqu, southwest of Cusco, where the Inka constructed the emergence of the first members of their dynasty from sacred rock outcrops. The final case studies focus upon the royal estates of Machu Picchu and Chinchero. Machu Picchu is the second site where Pachakuti appears to have authored the geometric style. Chinchero was built by his son, Thupa Inka Yupanki, who adopted his father’s strategy of rock carving and associated political messages.

Free Download Asma Hichri Samira Mechri, "Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics"
English | ISBN: 1443873330 | 2017 | 201 pages | PDF | 911 KB
This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of space and place to explore how the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics. In this volume, scholars from different academic fields contest new territories for critical expression, venturing into a geocritical discussion of notions of identity, borders, territory, cognitive geographies, glocal cultural mobility, gendered spaces, (post)colonial cartographies, and spaces of resistance. These brilliant discussions of the postmodern dialectics of space and place invite a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities, thus extending the geographical imagination beyond its physical and territorial manifestations and investigating its hitherto uncharted spiritual, psychic, emotional, literary, and symbolic terrains. Bringing together theoretical and critical contributions in the fields of culture, history, politics, and literature, this engaging work invites readers to think geocritically about the significance of space and place in the postmodern age. It represents essential reading for students, critics, and scholars from various academic fields and disciplines, including history, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science, literature and critical theory.

Free Download Rural Landscapes of Community Health: The Community Health Assessment Sustainable Education (CHASE) Model in Action by Jean Ross, Samuel Mann, Keith Whiddon
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 257 Pages | ISBN : 3031432002 | 69.9 MB
The book describes a novel method of engaging rural communities in partnership initially with nurse learners to research and employ the Community Health Assessment Sustainability Education (CHASE) model. CHASE provides a consolidated structure that immerses nurse learners in community development in partnership with their group peers, community organisations and educational supervisors. The book engages with community development practitioners, community activists including rural health practitioners who provide services to rural populations, undergraduate health disciplines, postgraduate learners, educators, and researchers.

Free Download Christine Lai, "Landscapes"
English | ISBN: 038568424X | 2023 | 296 pages | EPUB | 1250 KB
A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught with ecological collapse and geopolitical upheaval, Landscapes explores memory, empathy, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal.In a ruinous country house in the now barren English countryside-decimated by heat and drought-and in a dusty library damaged by earthquake and floods, Penelope archives what remains of the estate’s once notable, now diminished, art collection. As she delves into the objects and images, she also keeps a diary of her final months in the dilapidated estate that has been her home for two decades and a refuge for those who have been displaced by disasters. Out of necessity, Penelope and her partner, Aidan, have sold the house and with its scheduled demolition comes this pressing task of building the archive. But with it also comes the impending arrival of Aidan’s brother, Julian, who will return to have one final look at his childhood home. Penelope suffered at the hands of Julian twenty-two years ago during a brief but violent relationship, and as his visit looms large over her, she finds herself unable to tamp down the past in her efforts to build a possible, if uncertain, future.In this elegiac and spellbinding blend of narrative, essay and diary, Penelope’s past, present and future collide as fear and loss close in around her, and she clings to art as a means of understanding, of survival, and of reckoning. Recalling the works of Rachel Cusk and Kazuo Ishiguro, Landscapes is an evocative reinvention of the pastoral and the country house novel for our age of catastrophe, and announces the arrival of an extraordinarily gifted new writer.

Free Download Landscapes of the Anthropocene with Google Earth by Andrew Goudie
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 3031453840 | 530.7 MB
This book considers the meaning of the term, considers the value and characteristics of Google Earth, and discusses the main driving forces of landscape change. Google Earth provides a means whereby one can identify changes in the landscapes of Earth over recent decades. This has been a time of great human activity, and landscapes have been transformed as a result of such factors as land use and land-cover change, climate change, the intensive harnessing of new energy sources, population pressures, and globalization. Many geologists now believe that the whole Earth System is being changed and that there is thus a need to introduce the concept of the Anthropocene. It then looks at specific landscape types, including rivers, coasts, lakes, deserts, tundra, and glaciers.

Free Download European Glacial Landscapes
by Palacios, David;Hughes, Philip D.;Jomelli, Vincent;Tanarro, Luis M.;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0323997120 | 637 pages | True PDF | 36.87 MB

Free Download Mastering Atmospheric Natural Landscapes in Watercolor
Published 10/2023
Created by Watercolour Mentor
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 32 Lectures ( 10h 8m ) | Size: 13 GB

Free Download 9 Days Of Sketchbook Landscapes Acrylic Painting
Published 10/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 12.91 GB | Duration: 10h 1m
All your sketchbook painting questions demystified, learn painting 9 landscapes & start filling your sketchbook!

Free Download The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes by Geoff Bailey
English | EPUB | 2020 | 521 Pages | ISBN : 3030373665 | 192.4 MB
This volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with unique conditions of preservation.