Автор: Derek Lea
Издательство: Focal Press
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 024052134X
Количество страниц: 429
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
If you are a digital artist, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic artist, designer, or serious hobbyist looking for new and interesting ways to use Photoshop, this is the book for you! You already know how to use Photoshop as an image editing tool; now, challenge yourself and discover the more artistic aspects of the program with one of the world's best teachers by your side. In addition to four brand new chapters on real world projects, this new edition of award-winning digital artist Derek Lea's bestselling Creative Photoshop contains several brand new features such as "What you'll learn in this chapter" summaries, so you can quickly find projects using the specific tools you'd like to focus on, and supplementary information at the end of each chapter, containing useful resources and additional gallery images to provide further study and inspiration. As you work through Derek's fantastic artistic methods, be sure to visit www.creativephotoshopthebook.com for more information, including the project files for each chapter, available for download for you to work with, a reader forum, and more. *Stunning images from award winning digital artist Derek Lea inspire you to push your own creativity further than you even thought possible *Compatible with previous versions of Photoshop *Explore Photoshop from an entirely unique perspective as you learn how to create graffiti, antique effects, stencil art, and so much more *Fully updated throughout for CS4, plus four brand new chapters on real world projects that combine traditional art methods with Photoshop to create tactile images.
Автор: И. И. Донскова
Издательство: Вече
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 978-5-9533-2758-9
Количество страниц: 318
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
Шотландия - страна с удивительно бурной и богатой историей, Уникальная, непохожая на другие, полная контрастов и противоречий. Каждому человеку известны имена Роберта Брюса, Мак-Лаудов, Марии Стюарт, Карла I и многих других великих деятелей шотландской истории. Поразительна и разнообразна природа страны: от мягких пасторальных пейзажей Лоуленда до суровой красоты скалистых Хайлендз; от долины Плача - Гленку до острова Скай; от уходящих за горизонт фиолетовых вересковых пустошей до захватывающих дух видов океана. В голубых озерах, укутанных туманом, обитают древние монстры во главе с легендарной Несси, среди зеленых холмов скрываются от людских глаз феи и эльфы, а в развалинах старинных аббатств и в стенах величественных замков бродят пугающие гостей привидения. Шотландия романтических поэм Бёрнса и приключенческих романов Вальтера Скотта и Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона, предстанет перед вами на страницах этой книги. Вы сможете отправиться в увлекательное путешествие по туристским тропам Древней Каледонии, вересковым пустошам и скалам - родине гордых горцев в неизменных килтах, познакомиться с наследием загадочных кельтов и пиктов, окунуться в атмосферу старинных замков и леденящих кровь историй с привидениями, совершить виртуальный тур по знаменитым вискикурням и узнать об особенностях национальной рыбалки и охоты.
Автор: Р.Ю. Почекаев
Издательство: Евразия
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 978-5-91852-010-9
Количество страниц: 408
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
Книга представляет собой серию очерков о ханах и правителях Золотой Орды. Каждый очерк посвящен отдельному монарху или правителю, его происхождению, приходу к власти, истории правления и обстоятельствам кончины. Четырнадцать биографических очерков хронологически охватывают практически всю историю этого государства (середина XIII - начало XVI вв.), включая все важнейшие события, связанные с его возникновением, расцветом, упадком и крушением. Значительное внимание уделяется также внешней политике ордынских правителей, их взаимоотношениям с Русью, странами Европы и мусульманского Востока.
Автор: Harry S. Anderson
Издательство: Chelsea House Publications
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 160413190X
Количество страниц: 116
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
Starting with the final expedition of John Franklin, 19th-century England's most honored and respected Arctic explorer, the opening of the polar regions resulted in the establishment of the multitudes of research stations that produce observations, measurements, and data crucial to all areas of scientific inquiry. The first mariners to venture south signed on for voyages that lasted for years with no guarantee they would return. If they did come back from the frigid zones, it was with their health permanently damaged by bouts of scurvy and months of inadequate diet. Yet, there was never a shortage of eager, courageous men willing to replace the unfit. "Exploring the Polar Regions, Revised Edition" tells the story of polar exploration and the men who wittingly put themselves in danger to take on the unknown frozen straits. Coverage of this title includes: the mythical stories of a 'Great Southern Continent' and the numerous Spanish, French, and British explores who searched for it; a description of the race to the North Pole, including various explorers' theories on how to achieve this goal; Roald Amundsen's and Robert Scott's race to the South Pole in 1911 and 1912; how developments in equipment, machines, and communications changed exploration; and, Ernest Shackleton's epic voyage between 1914 and 1916 to Antarctica Aerial exploration of Antarctica.
Автор: Kenneth M. George
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 0691113459
Количество страниц: 200
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld explores issues of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization through the life and work of the prominent contemporary Indonesian artist Abdul Djalil Pirous. • Presents a unique addition to the anthropology of art and religion • Demonstrates the impact of Islam, ethnicity, nationalism, and globalization on the work and life of an internationally recognized postcolonial artist • Weaves together visual and narrative materials to tell an engrossing story of a cosmopolitan Muslim artist • Looks at contemporary Islamic art and the way it has been produced in the world’s largest Muslim nation, Indonesia
Автор: Christopher C. Joyner
Издательство: Greenwood Press
Год издания: 1990
isbn: 0313267103
Количество страниц: 272
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The stability of the Persian Gulf is of great importance to the economies of the entire world--as amply demonstrated by recent events. This collection of essays surveys the state of the Persian Gulf in the wake of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. By evaluating the geopolitical landscape of the Gulf, the book places into a clearer perspective the political, security, and diplomatic dimensions of the war. It also serves as a guide for reassessing those factors that affected the conflict's outcome and that will continue to influence developments in the region.
Автор: Adrienne Mayor
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год издания: 2005
isbn: 0691113459
Количество страниц: 488
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.
Автор: Geoffrey Horrocks
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 1405134151
Количество страниц: 528
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the second millennium BC to the current day. Offers a complete linguistic treatment of the history of the Greek language Updated second edition features increased coverage of the ancient evidence, as well as the roots and development of diglossia Includes maps that clearly illustrate the distribution of ancient dialects and the geographical spread of Greek in the early Middle Ages
Автор: Carina Hoorn, Frank Wesselingh
Издательство: Wiley-Blackwell
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 1405181133
Количество страниц: 464
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution is written with the following aims: To explain the geological processes that formed Amazonia; To explore the extent to which Amazonian biodiversity can be explained through pre–Quaternary processes; To show how our understanding of the evolution of the Amazonian landscape, flora and fauna can be improved by combining geological and biological research; To provide a starting point for future research in Amazonia.
Автор: Dave Doody
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 3540895094
Количество страниц: 440
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Deep Space Craft opens the door to interplanetary flight. It looks at this world from the vantage point of real operations on a specific mission, and follows a natural trail from the day-to-day working of this particular spacecraft, through the functioning of all spacecraft to the collaboration of the various disciplines to produce the results for which a spacecraft is designed. These results are of course mostly of a scientific nature, although a small number of interplanetary missions are also flown primarily to test and prove new engineering techniques. The author shows how, in order to make sense of all the scientific data coming back to Earth, the need for experiments and instrumentation arises, and follows the design and construction of the instruments through to their placement and testing on a spacecraft prior to launch. Examples are given of the interaction between an instrument’s science team and the mission’s flight team to plan and specify observations, gather and analyze data in flight, and finally present the results and discoveries to the scientific community.
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