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Uncredited
  • Language: en

Uncredited

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-21
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  • Publisher: Gingko Press

This publication examines how opening sequences in films, classic and contemporary, act as hooks to draw the viewer into the film, showing frame by frame how graphics, type and animation are used to create atmosphere, set tone, and lend impact to movies. From Hitchcock and Godard to Tarantino, Luc Besson, and Tim Burton, this large format coffee table book finally illuminates this critical role designers play in filmmaking and gives credit to those that often go uncredited.

A History of Computing Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

A History of Computing Technology

This revised edition of the popular reference and textbook outlines the historical developments in computing technology. It explains and describes historical aspects of calculation with an emphasis on the physical devices used in different times to aid people in their attempts at automating the process of arithmetic.

Tenniel's Alice
  • Language: en

Tenniel's Alice

This book explores the work of Sir John Tenniel, the artist who illustrated the first editions of Lewis Carroll's best-known works. Although Tenniel and Carroll parted ways after publication of Through the Looking-Glass, the artist's designs fixed in the public's mind images of Carroll's characters that thrive down to the present day.

Stop America's #1 Killer!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Stop America's #1 Killer!

According to national statistics, your odds of developing coronary heart disease may be greater than getting tails in a simple coin toss! Why leave it to chance? Learn how to avoid an expensive and painful trip to the cardiac intensive care unit and/or the cardiac surgical suite.

Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 697

Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Uninformed Consent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Uninformed Consent

Dr. Huggins and Dr. Levy assert that a large number of disorders are, though often incurable, easily preventable. He proposes that multiple sclerosis, lupus, leukemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson's disease, many mental disorders including Alzheimer's, and even major diseases like breast cancer are caused, in part, by the toxins we place in our bodies. Where do these toxins come from and how do they get into our bodies? You my be surprised to find that you have actually paid to have them put there. These dangerous materials--mercury, cadmium, beryllium, nickel, and others--are used in everyday dentistry to make up the fillings, root canals, and bridgework in our mouths, and are suppos...

Home-folks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Home-folks

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1900
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Love is Eternal" was the inscription Abraham Lincoln had engraved on the wedding ring he gave Mary Todd. This book tells Mary's own story, especially her romance with Abraham and her years of marriage which were happier than historians generally believe.

Sino-Tibetan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Sino-Tibetan

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Readings in Creole Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Readings in Creole Studies

Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formation and expansion. Part two deals with those pidgins and creoles lexically related to indigenous African languages, and with incipient features of creolization in African languages themselves; part three with those related to Romance languages, and part four with those related to English. Throughout the volume, several current debates are taken up, including the still unsettled issues of creole language origins and classification.

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Solos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Solos

This book and online audio presents solo guitar settings of thirteen Celtic and traditional compositions in standard notation and tablature. In addition to well-known Celtic tunes, the author offers a couple of original solos plus arrangements of tunes by the famed Irish harper-Turlough O’Carolan. It is intended for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. All of the arrangements were created with the guitar in an alternate tunings including: CGCGCD, CGDGCD (Orkney), DAAEAB, CFCGCD and DGDGCD. Includes access to online audio that contains all of the tunes in the book and should provide a welcome assist in learning these tasteful, sometimes challenging arrangements.