Secrets in the Studio: A New Inquiry into Oil Painting Materials and Techniques by Kevin Todd
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09ZL4FDSZ | 185 pages | EPUB | 4.75 Mb
The first step in learning the art of oil painting is to understand how an oil painting is built up? What materials are used and what are the steps? An oil painting consists of four major layers: the support layer, the base layer, the painting layer and the protection layer. The base layer can be divided into a gum base layer and a painting base layer, and the painting layer can be divided into a paint layer and an overpainting layer. Whether using traditional painting methods or direct painting methods, whether classical realism or contemporary painting, it is impossible to break away from this structure. Any oil painting that goes against this structure will have various problems.

Mazlish Bruce, "In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry"
English | ISBN: 1138525944 | 2017 | 212 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography, nor a clinical psychoanalysis, at the time of its initial publication, In Search of Nixon launched a new genre of scholarship; the "psycho-historical inquiry." Mazlish offers insight into the subtle interplay between Nixon the man and Nixon the public figure.

Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time by Maria Stavrinaki, translated by Jane Marie Todd
English | May 24, 2022 | ISBN: 1942130651 | True PDF | 448 pages | 621 MB

English | August 08, 2017 | ASIN: B074G4BVQL | MP3 | M4B | 12h 5m | 330 MB
Author: Aaron James | Narrator: Tristan Morris
From the best-selling author of A**holes: A Theory, a book that - in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - uses the experience and the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy.

Ursula Damm, "Shared Habitats: A Cultural Inquiry into Living Spaces and Their Inhabitants "
English | ISBN: 3837656470 | 2021 | 320 pages | PDF | 20 MB
The interactions between artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to this volume either relate to theoretical discourses raised by artworks, show how young artists today approach cultural issues, or develop situations of living together with other species. All the contributions to this publication by writers, artists, technologies, and other organisms invite the reader into new experiences and new imaginaries. The reader is also invited to rethink the role of art and the role of the artist within umwelts, milieus, and habitats.

Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative Research
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1108421644 | 683 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
Fairfield and Charman provide a modern, rigorous and intuitive methodology for case-study research to help social scientists and analysts make better inferences from qualitative evidence. The book develops concrete guidelines for conducting inference to best explanation given incomplete information; no previous exposure to Bayesian analysis or specialized mathematical skills are needed. Topics covered include constructing rival hypotheses that are neither too simple nor overly complex, assessing the inferential weight of evidence, counteracting cognitive biases, selecting cases, and iterating between theory development, data collection, and analysis. Extensive worked examples apply Bayesian guidelines, showcasing both exemplars of intuitive Bayesian reasoning and departures from Bayesian principles in published case studies drawn from process-tracing, comparative, and multimethod research. Beyond improving inference and analytic transparency, an overarching goal of this book is to revalue qualitative research and place it on more equal footing with respect to quantitative and experimental traditions by illustrating that Bayesianism provides a universally applicable inferential framework.

Knowing What Things Are: An Inquiry-Based Approach
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031073649 | 258 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
​This book provides an account of what is to know what things are, focusing on kinds, both natural (such as water) and social (such as marriage). It brings tools from an area that has received much attention in recent years, the epistemology of inquiry. The knowledge of what things are is to be understood as resulting from successful inquiries directed at questions of the form 'What is x?', where x stands for a given kind of thing. The book also addresses knowledge-wh in general (which includes knowledge-who and knowledge-where), as well as the phenomenon of ignorance regarding what things are and our obligations in respect to knowing what things are. It also brings to light new avenues of research for those interested in the relation between the knowledge of what things are and concept possession and amelioration.

Youth Community Inquiry: New Media for Community and Personal Growth (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies) By Bertram Bruce (editor), Ann Peterson Bishop (editor), Nama R. Budhathoki (editor)
2014 | 195 Pages | ISBN: 1433124041 | PDF | 7 MB
Youth Community Inquiry offers a detailed look at how young people use new media to help their communities thrive. Chapters address questions about learning, digital technology, and community engagement through the theory of community inquiry. The settings range from a small farming town, to a mostly immigrant community, to inner-city Chicago, and include youth from ages eight to 20. Going beyond works on social media in a narrow sense, the projects in these settings involve the use of varied technologies, such as GPS/GIS mapping tools, video production, use of archives and databases, podcasts, and Internet radio. The development of inquiry-based activities serves as a record of the diverse experiences and a guide to future projects. The book concludes with an overview of a curriculum that readers may adapt for their own settings.

Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle : Strategies, Tactics, Objectives
by Robert Ovetz
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0745340849 | 288 Pages | True ePUB | 0.75 MB

John G. Gunnell, "Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry: Channeling Wittgenstein"
English | ISBN: 022666127X | 2020 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1011 KB
When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive practices.