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Название: Image and Graphics Technologies, IGTA 2018
Автор: Yongtian Wang, Zhiguo Jiang
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 32 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2018, held in Beijing, China in April, 2018. The 64 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology; image analysis and understanding; computer vision and pattern recognition; big data mining, computer graphics and VR; as well as image technology applications.

Название: Marketing Manipulation: A Consumer's Survival Manual
Автор: Michael Kamins
Издательство: World Scientific Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 38 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Marketing Manipulation deals with the tactics and strategies used by marketers that prey on human cognitive, social and memory based biases ultimately influencing consumer behavior in their favor. Kamins focuses on examples from academic research where consumers have been found to be susceptible to bias and therefore have made less than optimal purchase decisions. Particularly, academic research in the area of Pricing, Product, Promotion, Sales and marketing research. Written in an accessible manner, this book puts the consumer (you!) in the center and aims to helps making all of us a better decision maker when confronted with a range of stimuli in a marketing environment.

Название: Проза и публицистика
Автор: И. В. Федоров-Омулевский
Издательство: М.: Советская Россия
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 370
Размер: 16.1 MB
Язык: Русский

Творчество Иннокентия Васильевича Федорова-Омулевского {1836—1883) — заметная и яркая веха в истории передовой русской литературы XIX века.

Название: Prime Movers
Автор: Ferdinand Mount
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 42 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia. In this fascinating, and provocative book, he examines the proposals for a political theory from a number of widely different historical figures. Twelve key people, from the great orator and statesman of Ancient Greece (Pericles) to the inspiration of the founding of the state of Pakistan (Muhammad Iqbal) we take a colourful and rip-roaring journey through the historical figures who have both inspired and provoked Mount in equal measure.

Название: The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Автор: Max Boot
Издательство: Liveright
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 43 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)
New York Times Bestseller

In chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War.

Название: The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture
Автор: Vincent Scully
Издательство: Trinity University Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 50 Мб
Язык: английский / English

When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness. Subsequently, this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site-planning has been widely accepted as a landmark of architectural history, for it offers an inspired and arresting insight into nature and function of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully, one of America's most brilliant and articulate scholars, understands the temples as physical embodiment of the gods in landscapes that had for the Greeks divine attributes and sacred connotations.

Название: Чехословацкие находки
Автор: Л.С. Кишкин
Издательство: М.: Советская Россия
Год: 1985
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 257
Размер: 27.7 MB
Язык: Русский

Книга написана ученым-специалистом, долгие годы занимающимся изучением чехословацко-русских культурных связей. Она является своеобразным итогом его работы по разысканию пушкинских материалов в Чехии и Словакии. Автор рассказывает об оказавшейся в Праге уцелевшей части знаменитой библиотеки издателя А. С. Пушкина - А. Ф. Смирдина, которую считали бесследно пропавшей...

Название: The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
Автор: Anne Baker , Beppie van den Bogaerde
Издательство: John Benjamins Publishing
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Размер: 47 Мб
Язык: английский / English

How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the brain? These questions and many more are addressed in this introductory book on sign linguistics using examples from more than thirty different sign languages. Comparisons are also made with spoken languages. This book can be used as a self-study book or as a text book for students of sign linguistics. Each chapter concludes with a summary, some test-yourself questions and assignments, as well as a list of recommended texts for further reading.

Название: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing: More than 200 drawing techniques, tips & lessons
Автор: Walter Foster Creative Team
Издательство: Walter Foster Publishing
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Размер: 38 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing is a comprehensive guide to drawing a vast array of subjects, from landscapes and flowers to animals and portraits. This helpful resource begins with a thorough introduction to the essential tools and materials artists need to get started, including different types of pencils, sketchbooks, papers, and other tools. Additionally, artists will learn the fundamentals of drawing, as well as a variety of drawing techniques, including rendering realistic textures, creating volume, and capturing perspective.

Название: Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation, ArtsIT 2017
Автор: Anthony L. Brooks, Eva Brooks
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 51 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book constitutes the proceedings of two conferences: The 6th International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (ArtsIT 2017) and the Second International Conference on Design, Learning and Innovation (DLI 2017). The event was hosted in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in October 2017 and attracted 65 submissions from which 50 full papers were selected for publication in this book. The papers represent a forum for the dissemination of cutting-edge research results in the area of arts, design and technology, including open related topics like interactivity and game creation.