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Author : Saint-Denys Garneau
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105027457
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Looking and Playing in Space written by Saint-Denys Garneau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486442446
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The New Ambidextrous Universe written by Martin Gardner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-06-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New Ambidextrous Universe was written by Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors,.
Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825075
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Play of Space written by Rush Rehm and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama.
Author : Maria do Rosário Monteiro
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040006981
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Time and Space written by Maria do Rosário Monteiro and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Time and Space has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.
Author : Sarah Menin
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415281256
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Nature and Space written by Sarah Menin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, this study offers an understanding about the diversity at the heart of modernism.
Author : Harriet Fasenfest
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0982569165
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)
Download or read book A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond written by Harriet Fasenfest and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when go local, organic food, and sustainability are one the tip of everyone's tongues, Harriet Fasenfest's A Householder's Guide to the Universe takes up the banner of progressive homemaking and urban farming as a way to confront the political, social, and environmental issues facing our world today. In A Householder’s Guide to the Universe, Harriet Fasenfest invites the reader into her home, garden, and kitchen. With brightness, joy, and humor, she shares advice and offers practical solutions organized according to season and presented in monthly installments—lessons she’s learned in how to shop, garden, preserve and cook food, and more, all of which pave the way for a life rooted in self-reliance, sustainability, and simplicity. It’s a book about making your house your home, finding certainty and comfort in an uncertain world, embracing the present and living where you are while preparing for a beautiful future.
Author : Chuck Keyes
Publisher : Larry Larson
ISBN 13 : 1452493081
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Apollo Beyond The Universe written by Chuck Keyes and published by Larry Larson. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Malone
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180694332
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Child Space written by Karen Malone and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on presentations at a session of the 15th IUAES-Intercongress held in 2003 at Florence.
Author : A. Bertram Chandler
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473211123
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Into the Alternate Universe written by A. Bertram Chandler and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rim ghosts are real! Intruders from alternate universes appearing where the fabric of space is thin. Sonya and John Grimes find themselves in an alternate universe.
Author : Guro Gravem Johansen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351199943
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music written by Guro Gravem Johansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music is a critical, research-based anthology exploring improvisation in music pedagogy. The book broadens the understanding of the potentials and possibilities for improvisation in a variety of music education contexts and stimulates the development of knowledge and reflection on improvisation. The book critically examines the challenges, cultural values, aims and methods involved in improvisation pedagogy. Written by international contributors representing a variety of musical genres and research methodologies, it takes a transdisciplinary approach and outlines a way ahead for improvisation pedagogy and research, by providing a space for the exchange of knowledge and critique. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of arts education, music education, improvisation, music psychology, musicology, ethnomusicology, artistic research and community music. It will also appeal to music educators on all levels in the field of music education and music psychology.
Author : Stanislas Dehaene
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123859492
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Space, Time and Number in the Brain written by Stanislas Dehaene and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of mathematical cognition and the ways in which the ideas of space, time and number are encoded in brain circuitry has become a fundamental issue for neuroscience. How such encoding differs across cultures and educational level is of further interest in education and neuropsychology. This rapidly expanding field of research is overdue for an interdisciplinary volume such as this, which deals with the neurological and psychological foundations of human numeric capacity. A uniquely integrative work, this volume provides a much needed compilation of primary source material to researchers from basic neuroscience, psychology, developmental science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and theoretical biology. The first comprehensive and authoritative volume dealing with neurological and psychological foundations of mathematical cognition Uniquely integrative volume at the frontier of a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field Features outstanding and truly international scholarship, with chapters written by leading experts in a variety of fields
Author : Asst Prof Maria Sachiko Cecire
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472420543
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present written by Asst Prof Maria Sachiko Cecire and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. The contributors, who include Philip Pullman discussing his relationship to space and locale, analyze works from a range of sources and traditions by Sylvia Plath, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jenny Robson, C.S. Lewis, and Elizabeth Knox, among others.
Author : Daniel P. O. Wiedemann
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752611405
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (526 download)
Download or read book Investigating Rollenwahrnehmung, Perspective and Space through Virtual Reality related Game Interfaces written by Daniel P. O. Wiedemann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the publication of my PhD dissertation and is written in the corresponding style. The included research provides explorations and investigative reflections on Rollenwahrnehmung (a newly coined phrase meaning role perception/fulfillment), Perspective and Space through Virtual Reality (VR) game interfaces. A number of important topics will be addressed, like the creation of new experiences in the context of VR, the extension and new development of various interaction paradigms, various User Experience (UX) aspects and user guidance in a sophisticated new medium. Placed in the field of design practice, this research focuses on the creation of digital gaming artifacts, while extrapolating insights and guidelines concerning VR interfaces. Hence, this practice-based research is derived from a portfolio of specifically developed interactive artifacts, following the methodological approach of Constructive Design Research. These include the VR related games Nicely Dicely, LizzE - And the Light of Dreams and Gooze. They were used for various Lab experiments and Showroom presentations, while continually being refined throughout an iterative process. Nicely Dicely is an abstract game based on physics. In Local Multiplayer, up to four players are able to compete or collaborate. It is not a VR game per se, but features both, Monoscopic and 3D Stereoscopic Vision modes, which were tested in an experiment on their effect on Player Immersion. LizzE - And the Light of Dreams is a Singleplayer 3rd Person Hack and Slay game based in a fantasy universe. In an experiment, the game was used to primarily investigate in which ways 3rd Person VR games can work for a broad audience, regarding camera behavior. Gooze is a 1st Person VR puzzle game, taking place in a realistic horror environment with supernatural aspects. It was designed with diverse VR interaction technologies in mind and offers users different options to play the game, depending on available hardware and preferences. The Locomotion and Virtual Object Interaction mechanics were tested in an experiment regarding their UX. In summary, this book illustrates various game, interface and VR designs, informing the emerging field of VR game development of the relationship between UX, interfaces and gameplay. Furthermore, guidelines for designing and developing specific aspects of VR games were identified and each single artifact can be used as a design and development precedent for practice and academia.
Author : Bruce A. Bergner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476603340
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Stage Space written by Bruce A. Bergner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes theatre scene design through the powers and characteristics of physical space. Physical space is central to creative composition in the theatre, but the author extends the reach of the book to individuals concerned with spatial design—architects, interior designers, industrial designers, artists and other performers. A theory is presented on how design, and its creative process, echo the process of human awareness and action. The book covers an array of considerations for the theatre designer—the observable features of given physical spaces, their layout, detailing and atmosphere—and presents these features from the points of view of various disciplines. There are chapters on the “physics” of space, the “geography” of space and the “music” of space. The author also speaks to the less tangible qualities sensed more personally, such as the “spirituality” or the “psyche” of space. A discussion of the collaborative process of creating space is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Chiara Tornaghi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317613015
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Public Space and Relational Perspectives written by Chiara Tornaghi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going dynamics between social actors, their cultures, and struggles. The key role of space in enabling spatial opportunities for social action, the fluidity of its social meaning and the changing degree of "publicness" of a space remain unexplored fields of academic inquiry and professional practice. Public Space and Relational Perspectives offers a different understanding of public spaces in the city. The aim of the book is to (re)introduce the lived experiences in public life into the teaching curricula of those academic disciplines which deal with public space and the built environment, such as architecture, planning and urban design, as well as the social sciences. The book presents conceptual, practical and research challenges and brings together findings from activists, practitioners and theorists. The editors provide eight educational challenges that educators can endorse when training future practitioners and researchers to accept and to engage with the social relations that unfold in and through public space. Cover image: KARO*
Author : K'an
Publisher : K'an Monastery
ISBN 13 : 1777441900
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (774 download)
Download or read book The Space Between Dreams written by K'an and published by K'an Monastery. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Space Between Dreams details the bizarre hallucinations, connections and coincidences culminating in the assassination of Howard Glass, an unwilling psychedelic messiah.
Author : Gregory Whistance-Smith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110723840
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Expressive Space written by Gregory Whistance-Smith and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial experiences they afford. Drawing on the emerging field of embodied cognition, this book explores the dynamic interplay between mind, body, and environment that sits at the heart of spatial communication. To capture the wide diversity of forms that spatial expression can take, the book builds a comparative analysis of twelve video games across four types of space, spanning ones designed for exploration and inhabitation, kinetic enjoyment, enacting a situated role, and enhancing perception. Together, these diverse virtual environments suggest the many ways that video games enhance and extend our embodied lives.
