Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Siglio Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781938221125
Published to accompany the exhibition "Wordplay: Matthais Buchinger's inventive drawings from the collection of Ricky Jay" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 5-April 11, 2016.
Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780374525705
A popular magician offers a guide to the most exotic entertainers in the history of showbusiness--from the amazing feats of handicapped individuals to the unusual talents of trained animals
Author : Elizabeth Ellcessor
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479867349
Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary and diverse, this collection weaves together work from scholars from a variety of disciplinary homes, into a broader conversation about exploring media artifacts in relation to disability. The book provides a comprehensive overview for anyone interested in the study of disability and media today. Case studies include familiar contemporary examples—such as Iron Man 3, Lady Gaga, and Oscar Pistorius—as well as historical media, independent disability media, reality television, and media technologies. The contributors consider disability representation, the role of media in forming cultural assumptions about ability, the construction of disability via media technologies, and how disabled audiences respond to particular media artifacts. The volume concludes with afterwords from two different perspectives on the field—one by disability scholar Rachel Adams, the other by media scholars Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne—that reflect upon the collection, the ongoing conversations, and the future of disability media studies. Disability Media Studies is a crucial text for those interested in this flourishing field, and will pave the way for a greater understanding of disability media studies and its critical concepts and conversations.
Author : Henry Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Abnormalities, Human
ISBN :
Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780446387569
A tongue-in-cheek look at the newest method of self-defense details the history of card-throwing, exercises to improve your throwing ability, and fantastic stunts
Author : Shi Kuo Chang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9810249748
This is the first handbook to cover comprehensively both software engineering and knowledge engineering -- two important fields that have become interwoven in recent years. Over 60 international experts have contributed to the book. Each chapter has been written in such a way that a practitioner of software engineering and knowledge engineering can easily understand and obtain useful information. Each chapter covers one topic and can be read independently of other chapters, providing both a general survey of the topic and an in-depth exposition of the state of the art. Practitioners will find this handbook useful when looking for solutions to practical problems. Researchers can use it for quick access to the background, current trends and most important references regarding a certain topic.The handbook consists of two volumes. Volume One covers the basic principles and applications of software engineering and knowledge engineering.Volume Two will cover the basic principles and applications of visual and multimedia software engineering, knowledge engineering, data mining for software knowledge, and emerging topics in software engineering and knowledge engineering.
Author : A. Mah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137283149
Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.
Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781593720124
An informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying, and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century broadsides from Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection.
Author : Ricky Jay
Publisher : Quantuck Lane Press& the Mill rd
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781593720001
This excursion into the history of bizarre entertainments includes armless calligraphers, mathematical dogs, tightrope-walking fleas and assorted quacks, flimflammers and charlatans of spectacle.
Author : J. Thompson Klein
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3034884192
What kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? In a game that knows no boundaries, a game that contaminates science, democracy and the market economy, how can we distinguish true needs from simple of fashion? How can we distinguish between necessity and fancy? whims How can we differentiate conviction from opinion? What is the meaning of this all? Where is the civilizing project? Where is the universal outlook of the minds that might be capable of counteracting the global reach of the market? Where is the common ground that links each of us to the other? We need the kind of science that can live up to this need for univer sality, the kind of science that can answer these questions. We need a new kind of knowledge, a new awareness that can bring about the creative destruction of certainties. Old ideas, dogmas, and out-dated paradigms must be destroyed in order to build new knowledge of a type that is more socially robust, more scientifically reliable, stable and above all better able to express our needs, values and dreams. What is more, this new kind of knowledge, which will be challenged in turn by ideas yet to come, will prove its true worth by demonstrating its capacity to dialogue with these ideas and grow with them.
