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Shadows of Progress

Author : Patrick Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838718133
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of Progress written by Patrick Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain emerged from war a changed country, facing new social, industrial and cultural challenges. Its documentary film tradition – established in the 1930s and 1940s around legendary figures such as Grierson, Rotha and Jennings – continued evolving, utilising technical advances, displaying robust aesthetic concerns, and benefiting from the entry into the industry of wealthy commercial sponsors. Thousands of films were seen by millions worldwide. Received wisdom has been that British documentary went into swift decline after the war, resurrected only by Free Cinema and the arrival of television documentary. Shadows of Progress demolishes these simplistic assumptions, presenting instead a complex and nuanced picture of the sponsored documentary in flux. Patrick Russell and James Piers Taylor explore the reasons for the period's critical neglect, and address the sponsorship, production, distribution and key themes of British documentary. They paint a vivid picture of institutions – from public bodies to multinational industries – constantly redefining their relationships with film as a form of enlightened public relations. Many of the issues that these films addressed could not be more topical today: the rise of environmentalism; the balance of state and industry, individual and community; a nation and a world travelling from bust to boom and back again. In the second part of the book, contributors from the curatorial and academic world provide career biographies of key film-makers of the period. From Lindsay Anderson's lesser-known early career to neglected film-makers like John Krish, Sarah Erulkar, Eric Marquis and Derrick Knight, a kaleidoscopic picture is built up of the myriad relationships of artist and sponsor.

In the Shadow of Progress

Author : Eric Cohen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458765628
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Progress written by Eric Cohen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of unprecedented human mastery - over birth and death, body and mind, nature and human nature. In every realm of life, science and technology have brought remarkable advances and improvements: we are healthier, wealthier, and more comfortable than ever before. But our gratitude for the benefits of progress increasingly mixes with concern about the meaning and consequences of our newfound powers. If we can dream about a new age of genetic medicine, we can also shudder at a new age of weapons of mass destruction. As we welcome longer lives, we wonder if we will still value human life as we should. In the Shadow of Progress is a deep and lively reflection on the moral challenges of the technological age. Eric Cohen, a leading voice in America's bioethics debates, offers a tour of the complex dilemmas at the intersection of science and morality, moving seamlessly from contemporary subjects like stem-cells and evolution to classic texts like the Hebrew Bible and Francis Bacon's ''New Atlantis.'' Why are the wealthiest people in human history the least likely to want children? What kind of civilization will we become if we seek cures for the sick by destroying human embryos? What is lost when we relieve human sadness by altering the chemical balance of the brain, or enhance human performance by altering the biological workings of the body? In this age of scientific wonders, have we forgotten what sets human beings apart from everything else in the natural world? Can the fruits of modern science ever satisfy our deepest longings - for love, for virtue, and for transcendence? In the end, Cohen argues, there are no easy answers. Our challenge is to live simultaneously with gratitude and fear, pride and shame, sobriety and hope, in this new age of technology.

In the Shadow of Lightning

Author : Brian McClellan
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250755700
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Lightning written by Brian McClellan and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage trilogy, comes the first novel in the Glass Immortals series, In the Shadow of Lightning, an epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource—and it’s running out. "Excellent worldbuilding and a truly epic narrative combine into Brian's finest work to date. Heartily recommended to anyone who wants a new favorite fantasy series to read."—Brandon Sanderson Demir Grappo is an outcast—he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out. Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it. "Powerful rival families, murderous conspiracies, epic battles, larger-than-life characters, and magic."—Fonda Lee, author of The Green Bone Saga "Engaging, fast-paced and epic."—James Islington, author of In The Shadow of What Was Lost "Clever, fun, and by turns beautifully bloody, In the Shadow of Lightning hits like a bolt through a stained glass window."—Megan E. O'Keefe, author of Chaos Vector At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In The Shadow Of The Banyan

Author : Vaddey Ratner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849837619
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book In The Shadow Of The Banyan written by Vaddey Ratner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday

The Grip of It

Author : Jac Jemc
Publisher : FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374716072
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Grip of It written by Jac Jemc and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Dan Chaon's Best of 2017 pick in Publishers Weekly, one of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Best Books of 2017, a BOMB Magazine "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. Jac Jemc's The Grip of It is a chilling literary horror novel about a young couple haunted by their newly purchased home Touring their prospective suburban home, Julie and James are stopped by a noise. Deep and vibrating, like throat singing. Ancient, husky, and rasping, but underwater. “That’s just the house settling,” the real estate agent assures them with a smile. He is wrong. The move—prompted by James’s penchant for gambling and his general inability to keep his impulses in check—is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to start afresh. But this house, which sits between a lake and a forest, has its own plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try to establish a sense of normalcy, the home and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The framework— claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms—becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wall—contracting, expanding—and map themselves onto Julie’s body in the form of painful, grisly bruises. Like the house that torments the troubled married couple living within its walls, The Grip of It oozes with palpable terror and skin-prickling dread. Its architect, Jac Jemc, meticulously traces Julie and James’s unsettling journey through the depths of their new home as they fight to free themselves from its crushing grip.

A Short History of Natural Science, and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day, Etc

Author : afterwards FISHER BUCKLEY (Arabella Burton)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Natural Science, and of the Progress of Discovery from the Time of the Greeks to the Present Day, Etc written by afterwards FISHER BUCKLEY (Arabella Burton) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Shadow of the Great War

Author : Jochen Böhler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789209404
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Great War written by Jochen Böhler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the region into a laboratory for state-building. Employing a bottom-up approach to understanding everyday life, these studies trace the contours of individual and mass violence in the interwar era while illuminating their effects upon politics, intellectual developments, and the arts.

The Idea of Progress

Author : John Bagnell Bury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by John Bagnell Bury and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Universal Laws and Spiritual Progress

Author : Erkki Lehtiranta
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 952998328X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Universal Laws and Spiritual Progress written by Erkki Lehtiranta and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a guided tour of the 12 universal laws! This book is a messenger. The messages are the Universal Spiritual Laws, the ultimate rules of reality, and the basic principles of creation. These are the ways and means that the universe uses to converse with us every day, every hour - right now. The Universal Laws are the great lesson of humanity and breaking them is at the base of the great problems of our time. On the other hand understanding them and complying with them guarantees your maximum spiritual progress, integration, the expansion of your consciousness, and your well-being. These cosmic principles are the unchanging factors behind all change. Of course you can live without knowing about them or you can even turn your back on them, but knowing, studying, and following the Universal Laws makes your life much more meaningful, joyful and excellent. If you want profound knowledge about the nature of reality, this is the book just for You!

The Progress of the Century

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Progress of the Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521281997
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress written by Paul Griffiths and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.

The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography. Ed. by William Crookes, and by G. Wharton Simpson

Author : William Crookes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography. Ed. by William Crookes, and by G. Wharton Simpson written by William Crookes and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Progress and Confusion

Author : Olivier Blanchard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262333449
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Progress and Confusion written by Olivier Blanchard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”? What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will it be forced to contend with a post-crisis “new normal”? Have we made progress in addressing these issues, or does confusion remain? In April of 2015, the International Monetary Fund gathered leading economists, both academics and policymakers, to address the shape of future macroeconomic policy. This book is the result, with prominent figures—including Ben Bernanke, John Taylor, and Paul Volcker—offering essays that address topics that range from the measurement of systemic risk to foreign exchange intervention. The chapters address whether we have entered a “new normal” of low growth, negative real rates, and deflationary pressures, with contributors taking opposing views; whether new financial regulation has stemmed systemic risk; the effectiveness of macro prudential tools; monetary policy, the choice of inflation targets, and the responsibilities of central banks; fiscal policy, stimulus, and debt stabilization; the volatility of capital flows; and the international monetary and financial system, including the role of international policy coordination. In light of these discussions, is there progress or confusion regarding the future of macroeconomic policy? In the final chapter, volume editor Olivier Blanchard answers: both. Many lessons have been learned; but, as the chapters of the book reveal, there is no clear agreement on several key issues. Contributors Viral V. Acharya, Anat R. Admati, Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Ben Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Marco Buti, Ricardo J. Caballero, Agustín Carstens, Jaime Caruana, J. Bradford DeLong, Martin Feldstein, Vitor Gaspar, John Geanakoplos, Philipp Hildebrand, Gill Marcus, Maurice Obstfeld, Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Rafael Portillo, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, Robert E. Rubin, Lawrence H. Summers, Hyun Song Shin, Lars E. O. Svensson, John B. Taylor, Paul Tucker, José Viñals, Paul A. Volcker

Poems of Progress

Author : Lizzie Doten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems of Progress written by Lizzie Doten and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications

Author : José Ruiz-Shulcloper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642418279
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications written by José Ruiz-Shulcloper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 8258 and 8259 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2013, held in Havana, Cuba, in November 2013. The 137 papers presented, together with two keynotes, were carefully reviewed and selected from 262 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mathematical theory of PR, supervised and unsupervised classification, feature or instance selection for classification, image analysis and retrieval, signals analysis and processing, applications of pattern recognition, biometrics, video analysis, and data mining.

A harlot's progress

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A harlot's progress written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Progress in Electro-Optics

Author : Ezio Camatini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468427903
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Progress in Electro-Optics written by Ezio Camatini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in systems technology are creating the need for alphanumeric displays and component technology to satisfy this need. The field of alphanumeric displays covers appli cations from the single character lift indicator to the thousand-plus character computer read out. A survey of the state of alphanumeric displays helps the user of display devices to make a choice, for a particular application, between the various devices available now or in the near future. It is essential to consider the circuits and the display device together in order to obtain a clear picture of the economics of the different techniques. In general, a display module is controlled by binary input signals at normal logic pow ers and may be subdivided into five basic elements: 1) data memory, 2) character generator, 3) driving circuits, 4) scanning circuits, and 5) display device. The data memory is essential to make the display module independent of the system. Normally, this will be an electronic memory, but in some cases, the display device will have an inherent memory. The character generator must perform two functions: 1) convert the binary code to a 'lout of n' form to select the chosen character out of the on' available, and 2) create the character format, although in some cases this is inherent in the display device.