Audio-Visualism follows on from Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice, which covered a broad history of live visual and audio-visual practice.This volume covers the contemporary audio-visual world in greater detail, focusing on the works of artists who work in the interstices between sound, video, light, immersion, virtuality, and social engagement. This book establishes how the relationship between sound and image continues to be a dominant theme in the 21st ce...

In absorbing style, we are told the story of the great but unheralded 19th-century Scot who created the means for large ships to be constructed on the Clyde and to reach Glasgow from the Atlantic - making Glasgow a city of enormous worldwide importance.

On a summer holiday in the countryside of England, five children suddenly find themselves without the supervision of their parents. Left alone with the housekeeper, the children anticipate a dull vacation. However, they soon find more adventure than they can handle. The first day after their parents leave, the children head for a gravel pit to pretend that they are at the beach. While digging in the sand they find a Psammead, or a sand fairy. The grumpy genie promises to grant the children...

Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire -- from spiritualist sénces to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics brings together an international panel of contributors to present a comprehensive overview of this important field within economics. Housing occupies an increasingly central role in modern society, dominating consumer assets and spending, forming an important part of social policy and being a large enough market to impact the macroeconomy. This handbook tackles these themes, along with other critical issues such as intergenerational hous...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.Covering a wide historical period from Pythagoras’s mathematics of music and colour in ancient Greece, to Castel’s ocular harpsichord in the 18th century, to the visual music of the mid-20th century, to the liquid light shows of the 1960s and finally to the virtual reality and ...

There are many who would burden the believer with rules and laws stating that they are "gospel issues". But in this collection of sermons from the emminent Puritan Hugh Binning he expounds from Scripture the primary obligation of the beleiver and how it should be lived out.Quotes:"If ye seek satisfaction in this present world, ye shall be disappointed.""A man cannot be happy in a marble palace, for the soul is created with an infinite capacity to receive God, and all ...

ALA Newbery Honor BookSchool Library Journal Best Books of the YearALA Notable Children's BooksBoston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor BookSCBWI Golden Kite AwardHalf moorfolk and half human, and unable to shape-shift or disappear at will, Moql threatens the safety of the Band. So the Folk banish her and send her to live among humans as a changeling. Named Saaski by the couple for whose real baby she was swapped, she growsup taunted and feared by the v...

There once was a young Millennial, fresh out of university, yet not really knowing what he wanted to do afterwards. The young Millennial knew only 1 thing - that he was restless and not yet ready to settle – and that he needed to do something about it. What better way then to overcome such a predicament than to hit the road and begin figuring out what on earth to do with the rest of one’s life! The young Millennial in question was me, nearly 10 years ago. Join me in recounting my big adven...

Sometimes things are not as they seem.Anya Stewart drinks too much, swears like a truck driver, hasn't had a date in ages, and you could say, isn't handling being "middle aged" very well. She's been living a fairly simple life in a small town, trying to make a difference in local politics but things in her life are about to change. Dramatically.When Anya decides out of the blue to travel to Paris for a much needed vacation and to find herself, she has no idea what she is in f...

In the past, most people encountered death at a relatively young age. Dying relatives were cared for at home, and mortality rates were higher. Today, there is much less familiarity with death, which increasingly takes place in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. This wide-ranging and enlightening book offers an exploration of death and dying as human conditions that impact on the individual, their significant others and those involved with their care and well-being. It is aimed at medical ...

Against Judicial Activism cites numerous cases to support this argument. For instance, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and Supreme Court read a ban on discrimination on the ground of transsexualism as being part of the province's human rights code. On the basis of this revision of the law, the tribunal ordered the Vancouver Rape Relief Society to pay $7,500 to a transsexual man in compensation for refusing to admit him into a training course for rape crisis counsellors.