Boken består av tre delar: publicerade texter, anteckningar samt samtal. De tidigare opublicerade anteckningarna kommer till största delen från anteckningsböcker och häften som Alberto Giacometti trodde hade försvunnit och som sedan återfunnits, vilket är anledningen till att den franska org[...]

Island of the Sun recounts the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo's return to Peru in search of the Quechua Indian shaman Don Jicaram. The authors' earlier book, Dance of the Four Winds, described Villoldo's first initiation, under Don Jicaram, into the secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel and the[...]

Physics tells us that we're dreaming the world into being with every thought. This book tells us how to dream our world with power and grace. It reveals ancient wisdom teachings that explain how to birth reality from the invisible matrix of creation and reveals how we can interact with this matrix t[...]

"Discursive yet aglitter with images, often abstract and yet insistently regional, the ninth collection from the Arizona-based Rios includes something for almost everyone."--"Publishers Weekly""Wonderfully odd, sometimes sad, never predictable... Rios continually surprises us in the way he stretches[...]

Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the p[...]

Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, with hundreds of millions of children around the world enduring tremendous suffering and deprivation of their most basic needs. Despite its long history, research on poverty and development has only relatively recently examined the issue o[...]

This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and expecta[...]

Prepare to be enthralled by this lyrical, achingly human debut novel about a young girl's remarkable resilience in the face of loss. Struggling to cope as her family falls apart, eleven-year-old Luz Maria Castillo retreats into her beloved set of Loteria cards--a Mexican game featuring riddles and v[...]

A guide to the implementation of image processing and computer vision techniques. It helps to develop working techniques, with usable code provided throughout and working Matlab and Mathcad files on the web. Focusing on feature extraction, it covers issues and techniques such as image acquisition, s[...]

This book is an essential guide to the implementation of image processing and computer vision techniques, with tutorial introductions and sample code in Matlab. Algorithms are presented and fully explained to enable complete understanding of the methods and techniques demonstrated. As one reviewer n[...]