On Disney: Deconstructing Images, Tropes and Narratives
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3662646242 | 248 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
Disney - This name stands not only for a company that has had global reach from its early days, but also for a successful aesthetic programme and ideological positions that have had great commercial success but at the same time have been frequently criticised. Straddling traditionalism and modernism, Disney productions have proven adaptable to social discourses and technical and media developments throughout its history. This volume brings together scholars from several European countries to explore various dimensions that constitute 'Disney.' In line with current media and cultural studies research, the chapters deal with human-human and human-animal relations, gender and diversity, iconic characters and narratives, Disney's contribution to cultural and visual heritage, and transmedial and transfictional spaces of experience and practices of participation associated with Disney story worlds.

Suchandana Chatterjee, "Images of the Post-Soviet Kazakshtan: A Cosmopolitan Space with Borderland Anxieties "
English | ISBN: 9386288028 | 2016 | 196 pages | EPUB | 1066 KB
The study revolves round the relationship between space and transitional identity in Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet period. Emergent discourses about cosmopolitanism suggest multiple interactions in a transitional space. The cosmopolitanism of our times implies the dynamic responses of communities in transition. The diversities and heterogeneities instead of the specifics, the encounters, the networks, the challenges, the ways of living, the multitude of fates need to be considered. The picture is far bigger as there are infinite ways of being and belonging.

Patrizia Calefato, "Fashion as Cultural Translation: Signs, Images, Narratives "
English | ISBN: 178527242X | 2021 | 158 pages | AZW3 | 398 KB
The book highlights how the signs of fashion showcase stories, hybridations, forms of feeling, from the classics of fashion in cinema, to fashion as cultural tradition in the global world, to digital media. Based on a strong socio-semiotic method (Barthes, The Language of Fashion is the main reference), the book crosses some of the main aspects of the contemporary culture of the clothed body: from time and space, to gender, to fashion as cultural translation, to the narratives included in the media convergence of our age. According to Jurji Lotman, fashion introduces the dynamic principle into seemingly inert spheres of the everyday. Fashion's unexpected function of overturning received meaning is conveyed through its collocation within the dynamic storehouse of what Lotman calls the "sphere of the unpredictable." In this horizon, the concept of fashion as a worldly system of sense (Benjamin) generates different "worlds" through its signs.

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Richard Hansen, Gladys Hansen, "1906 San Francisco Earthquake (Images of America)"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0738596582, 1531665314 | 128 pages | EPUB | 25.4 MB
The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 is an unparalleled disaster in the history of San Francisco. More than 4.5 square miles of San Francisco burned and crumbled into a windswept desert of desolation. We will see this scene from behind the camera, covering before the earthquake through the fire and into the rebuilding of the city. The waterfront in the east to Golden Gate Park in the west and the marina in the north to Mission District in the south will be viewed. City hall and along Market Street through the center of the city will be covered. Stories from survivors and new information, like doctored photographs, will be included. Thirty years of research will be merged to give you an accurate account.

The Space of Crisis: Images and Ideas of Europe in the Age of Crisis: 1914-1945 (Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes) By Vittorio Dini (editor), Matthew D'Auria (editor)
2013 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 2875740695 | PDF | 7 MB
Focusing on European cultural and intellectual history in first half of the twentieth century, The Space of Crisis investigates how notions of crisis and changing perceptions of space influenced the way Europeans imagined themselves, their past and their future. The book is an attempt to reassess some of the main assumptions of historians and political theorists about the way intellectuals, artists, legal theorists and historians interpreted Europe's crisis during the 1920s and 1930s. By so doing, it investigates the intellectual foundations of the ensuing federalist and Europeanist movements, highlighting the importance of the writings of those years in understanding today's Europe and its current predicaments.

Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images: An Introduction, Fourth Edition By Paul M. Mather, Magaly Koch(auth.)
2010 | 447 Pages | ISBN: 0470742399 | PDF | 90 MB
This fourth and full colour edition updates and expands a widely-used textbook aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in remote sensing and GIS in Geography, Geology and Earth/Environmental Science departments. Existing material has been brought up to date and new material has been added. In particular, a new chapter, exploring the two-way links between remote sensing and environmental GIS, has been added. New and updated material includes:A website at www.wiley.com/go/mather4 that provides access to an updated and expanded version of the MIPS image processing software for Microsoft Windows, PowerPoint slideshows of the figures from each chapter, and case studies, including full data sets, Includes new chapter on Remote Sensing and Environmental GIS that provides insights into the ways in which remotely-sensed data can be used synergistically with other spatial data sets, including hydrogeological and archaeological applications, New section on image processing from a computer science perspective presented in a non-technical way, including some remarks on statistics, New material on image transforms, including the analysis of temporal change and data fusion techniques, New material on image classification including decision trees, support vector machines and independent components analysis, and Now in full colour throughout. This book provides the material required for a single semester course in Environmental Remote Sensing plus additional, more advanced, reading for students specialising in some aspect of the subject. It is written largely in non-technical language yet it provides insights into more advanced topics that some may consider too difficult for a non-mathematician to understand. The case studies available from the website are fully-documented research projects complete with original data sets. For readers who do not have access to commercial image processing software, MIPS provides a licence-free, intuitive and comprehensive alternative.Content: Chapter 1 Remote Sensing: Basic Principles (pages 1-27): Chapter 2 Remote Sensing Platforms and Sensors (pages 29-66): Chapter 3 Hardware and Software Aspects of Digital Image Processing (pages 67-85): Chapter 4 Preprocessing of Remotely?Sensed Data (pages 87-124): Chapter 5 Image Enhancement Techniques (pages 125-145): Chapter 6 Image Transforms (pages 147-202): Chapter 7 Filtering Techniques (pages 203-228): Chapter 8 Classification (pages 229-284): Chapter 9 Advanced Topics (pages 285-323): Chapter 10 Environmental Geographical Information Systems: A Remote Sensing Perspective (pages 325-375):

Craig Campbell, "Agitating Images: Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0816681066, 0816681058 | PDF | pages: 272 | 5.8 mb
Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and '30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the Siberian North, a vast territory considered culturally and technologically backward by the revolutionary government, the Soviets confidently undertook the project of reshaping the ordinary lives of the indigenous peoples in order to fold them into the Soviet state. In Agitating Images, Craig Campbell draws a rich and unsettling cultural portrait of the encounter between indigenous Siberians and Russian communists and reveals how photographs from this period complicate our understanding of this history.

Final Days of the Reich (Images of War) by Ian Baxter
English | February 2, 2012 | ISBN: B0094JTQ1W | 170 pages | PDF | 7.97 Mb
The Final Days of the Reich is the latest in the popular Images of War series by Ian Baxter. Drawing on rare and previously unpublished photographs accompanied by in-depth captions and text, this book is a compelling account of the final weeks of the Nazis' struggle for survival against overwhelming odds. Each photograph fully captures the tension, turmoil and tragedy of those last, terrible days of war as Wehmacht, Waffen SS, Luftwaffe, Hitlerjungend, Volkssturm and other units, some of which where comprised of barely trained conscripts, fought out their last battles.

Sebastian Coxon, "Beards and Texts: Images of Masculinity in Medieval German Literature"
English | ISBN: 1787352226 | 2022 | 278 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A study of beard motifs in medieval German poetry.