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Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

Satellite images acquired at night provide a visually arresting perspective of the Earth and the human activities that light up the otherwise mostly dark Earth. These night-time light satellite images can be compiled into a geospatial time series that represent an invaluable source of information for both the natural and social sciences. Night-time light remote sensing has been shown to be particularly useful for a range of natural science and social science applications including studies relating to urban development demography sociology fishing activity light pollution and the consequences of civil war. Key sensors for these time-series include the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day/Night Band (Suomi NPP/VIIRS DNB). An increasing number of alternative sources are also available including high spatial resolution and multispectral sensors. This book captures key methodological issues associated with pre-processing night-time light data documents state of the art analysis methods and explores a wide range of applications. Major sections focus on NPP/VIIRS DNB processing; inter-calibration between NPP/VIIRS and DMPS/OLS; applications associated with socio-economic activities applications in monitoring urbanization; and fishing activity monitoring. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing. | Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

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Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is a combination of idea book design resource and product guide. It explores the transition in residential lighting from incandescent light sources to LEDs and how to apply LED lighting with great success. It begins with the fundamental characteristics of light including color temperature color rendering and spectral power distribution and how LEDs differ from older light sources. Combining innovative graphics with the enduring design principles of good lighting the book explains how to design with light layers light people and balance daylight and electric light. Every room of the house as well as exterior and garden spaces is addressed in 33 case studies of residential lighting with LEDs with a wide variety of lighting projects in different styles. Showcasing over 200 color photographs of dramatic interiors beautifully lit with LEDs and clear concise descriptions of design strategies and product specifications Beautiful Light helps both professionals and non-professionals successfully navigate the new era of LEDs in residential lighting. | Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

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Spatial Transparency in Architecture Light Layering and Porosity

Spatial Transparency in Architecture Light Layering and Porosity

This volume explores the concept of spatial transparency; a form of spatial continuity that articulates depth through permeable layered or porous three-dimensional organizations where interstitial light is present. Although transparency is a concept largely associated with the modern movement the use of glazed components and twentieth-century architectural discourse spatial transparency is a form of depth awareness through intermediate domains takes place through the interstitial fabric of a structure and occurs when several consecutive domains are spatially and visually connected. These immersive environments invite active participation not as one-way communication but as a series of visual and experiential exchanges interdependencies and relationships. Divided into four parts the book examines spatial transparency in massive opaque constructions light constructions glass assemblies and hybrid systems. It analyzes both the phenomenon of visual connectivity and continuity through intermediate spaces and spatial transparency’s capacity for promoting and enabling graded interflowing environmental transactions. Using historical and contemporary examples it catalogs some of the most common and recurring configurations that manifest these characteristics. Over 20 international case studies from the Americas to Japan are presented to argue that environments exist in porous mediums and that by studying the openings voids light and materials of layered and/or permeable organizations important insights about space making can be revealed. Written for students and academics this book explores various expressions of spatial transparency in architecture and helps connect their abstract ideas with significant built works analytical drawings and comparison charts. | Spatial Transparency in Architecture Light Layering and Porosity

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Nigerian and Ghanaian Women Working in the Brussels Red-Light District

Nigerian and Ghanaian Women Working in the Brussels Red-Light District

This book unravels the lives needs and experiences of Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in prostitution in Brussels. This volume casts a light on the working conditions and the experiences of 38 women of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin whose daily struggles and challenges are recalled from interviews in the field. Working within the red-light district of Brussels an area with high crime rates and lacking in basic healthcare provision the women are faced with a number of issues on a daily basis ranging from security and health-related concerns to work-related stress discrimination and perceived stigma. Full voice is given to their stories as well as contributions from state actors and local inhabitants with the chief aim of building safe and healthy places for both residents and workers alike. The authors conclude in presenting clear recommendations and tools for practitioners and policy makers designed to improve the outcomes of migrant women working not just within the red-light district of Brussels but also within wider European and global contexts. This book will be of particular interest for researchers and students of Migration Politics Development Studies Social Work and Sociology as well as a useful guide for policy makers and practitioners in the field. | Nigerian and Ghanaian Women Working in the Brussels Red-Light District

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Not Light but Fire How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Not Light but Fire How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Do you know how to initiate and facilitate productive dialogues about race in your classroom? Are you prepared to handle complex topics while keeping your students engaged? Inspired by Frederick Douglass's abolitionist call to action it is not light that is needed but fire- author Matthew Kay demonstrateshow to move beyond surface-level discussionsand lead students through the most difficult race conversations. In Not Light But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom Kay recognizes we often never graduate to the harder conversations so he offers a method for getting them right providing candid guidance on: How torecognize the difference between meaningful and inconsequential race conversations. How tobuild conversational safe spaces - not merely declare them. How toinfuse race conversations with urgency and purpose. How tothrive in the face of unexpected challenges. How administrators mightequip teachers to thoughtfully engage in these conversations. With the right blend of reflection and humility Kay assertsteachers can make school one of the best venues for young people to discuss race. | Not Light but Fire How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

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Philanthropy and Light Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space

Philanthropy and Light Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space

Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935 yet Andrew Carnegie’s influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years. Through the first twenty years of his programme he supported the erection of almost three thousand public buildings across Britain and America. Though better acknowledged in the US than the UK this philanthropic contribution radically extended the scope of public provision and remains incomparable in its scale and scope in both nations. Frequently engraved with the self-deifying slogan Let there be Light open access to navigate these new interior public spaces after work coincided with the first provision of electric light. Towards the end of the nineteenth century professional groups had sought to specify minimum standards of natural light and air for schools and hospitals. However the commercial quantification of electricity accelerated the development of a readily comparable vocabulary to prescribe adequate quantities of light for all tasks regardless of their location or orientation. Seeking to gauge the extent of universal values this book concentrates on the design and performance of a handful of early Carnegie library buildings in Britain and America identifying their response to contemporary design theory but also by contrast to their respective local environmental contexts. It examines whether their standards of provision were equitable and if these privately financed public buildings were the first roots of generically standardised public environments to be shared transatlantically. The book also argues that the public library building type can provide a datum for acknowledging the twentieth century legacy of shared international environmental standards for public spaces more broadly. | Philanthropy and Light Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space

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Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark Living with Light

Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark Living with Light

Using case studies such as the use of candlelight and energy saving lightbulbs in Denmark this book unravels light’s place at the heart of social life. In contrast to common perception of light as a technical and aesthetic phenomenon Mikkel Bille argues that there is a cultural and social logic to lighting practices. By empirically investigating the social role of lighting in people's everyday lives Mikkel Bille reveals how and why people visually shape their homes. Moving beyond the impact of its use Bille also comments on the politics of lighting to examine how ideas of pollution and home act as barriers for technological fixes to curb energy demand. Attitudes to these issues are reflective of how human perceptions and practices are central to the efforts to cope with climate change. This ethnographic study is a must-read for students of anthropology cultural studies human geography sociology and design. | Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark Living with Light

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Shadow the architectural power of withholding light

Shadow the architectural power of withholding light

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks rather than as additional chapters in future editions allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Shadows may be insubstantial but they are nevertheless an important element in architecture. In prehistoric times we sought shade as a refuge from the hot sun and chilling rain. Through history architects have used shadows to draw to mould form to paint pictures to orchestrate atmosphere to indicate the passing of time … as well as to identify place. Sometimes shadow can be the substance of architecture. | Shadow the architectural power of withholding light

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Emerging Bond Markets Shedding Light on Trends and Patterns

Emerging Bond Markets Shedding Light on Trends and Patterns

The bond market is a key securities market and emerging economies present exciting new investment opportunities. This timely book provides insights into these emerging bond markets through empirical models and analytical databases i. e. Bloomberg Eikon Refinitiv and the Russian Cbonds. The book looks at the dynamics of the development of emerging bond markets their competitiveness features and patterns using macro and micro level data. It also takes into consideration various securities type i. e. government corporate sub-federal and municipal bonds to identify respective challenges and risks. The book also analyses factors that may inhibit or stimulate a well-balanced financial market. It includes case studies of Asian Latin American and Russian bond markets as also as cross-country comparisons. It will be a useful reference for anyone who is interested to learn more of the bond market and the modelling techniques for critical data analysis. | Emerging Bond Markets Shedding Light on Trends and Patterns

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Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities Out Of The Shadows Into The Light

Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities Out Of The Shadows Into The Light

This book provides an overview of dance movement psychotherapy for young people and adults with learning disabilities. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds examine their work with clients from across the disabilities spectrum ranging from mild to complex needs. The book chapters present theory and practice relating to the client group and subsequent therapy processes. This comprises psychotherapeutic interventions dance movement interventions theoretical constructs case study material practitioner care and practitioner learning and development related to individual and group therapy work. The logistics of a Dance Movement Psychotherapy intervention the intervention itself and the ripples of influence into the clients’ wider socio-cultural context are discussed. This stance speaks to current research and practice discourse in health and social care. The book champions acceptance of difference and equality in the health and social care needs for people with learning disabilities whilst emphasising the importance of dance movement psychotherapy for people with non-verbal communication. Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities: Out of the Shadows into the Light will provide a practical and theoretical resource for practitioners and students of dance movement psychotherapy as well as allied health professionals service providers and carers. | Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities Out Of The Shadows Into The Light

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Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness examining how we all make the “other” through “projection” (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves) our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue. All of us are faced daily with individual and collective manifestations of the Shadow – all that we fear despise and makes us feel ashamed. Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow emerging as it did from his personal confrontation with the realms of his unconscious self is one of the most important contributions he made to the understanding of humanity and to depth psychology that realm where the focus is on unconscious processes. The contributors to this book reframe his concept in the context of contemporary Jungian thinking exploring how the Shadow develops in an individual’s infancy and adolescence and its culmination where collective manifestations of the Shadow are addressed. The book offers a voyage through a series of fundamental Shadow concepts and themes including couples relationships disease organizations Evil fundamentalism ecology and boundary violation before ending with a chapter designed to help us integrate the Shadow and hold contra-positions with patience and a tilt towards mutual understanding rather than being locked in polarities. This fascinating new book will be of considerable interest to the general public Jungian analysts trainees scholars and therapists both in training and practice with an interest in the inner world. | Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

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Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

The present monograph primarily a collection of annotated translations of these recent studies is neither a new appraisal of Li Chih drawing on these materials nor a critical evaluation of the current Chinese scholarship on his life and thought. In a modest way it is an attempt to make these new sources of information more readily accessible to the sinological community to faciliate research. The divisions of this study are: two sections consisting of translations of new materials on Li Chih with an analytical introduction on the significance of these discoveries and two appendices of bibliographical accounts of primary and secondary sources down to recent times. | Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

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Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist: Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects (Second Edition) analyzes and explains traditional color theory for fine artists and applies it to make-up artistry. This beautifully illustrated guide begins with the basics of color theory – why we see color how to categorize and identify color and relationships between colors – and relates these concepts to beauty and special effects make-up. The book provides a wealth of information including how to mix flesh tones by using only primary colors how these colors in paints and make-up are sourced and created the reason for variations in skin colors and undertones and how to identify and match these using make-up while choosing flattering colors for the eyes lips and cheeks. Colors found inside the body are explained for special effects make-up like why we bruise bleed or appear sick. Ideas and techniques are also described for painting prosthetics in addition to using color as inspiration in make-up designs. The book also discusses how lighting affects color on film television theater and photography sets and how to properly light a workspace for successful applications. The second edition features: A brand-new chapter on color inspiration in make-up and design Additional and updated diagrams More real-life application photos and demonstrations including new examples of tattoo covering and prosthetic painting using optical mixtures airbrush and stippling Expanded discussion on undertones skin variations color correction pigments colored gels and more Filled with stunning photography and practical information Color Theory for the Make-up Artist provides guidance and inspiration for both professionals and beginners who wish to train their eye further to understand and recognize distinctions in color. | Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

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Understanding Design in Film Production Using Art Light & Locations to Tell Your Story

Understanding Design in Film Production Using Art Light & Locations to Tell Your Story

Great visual storytelling is possible on a minimal budget but you have to spend a lot of energy thinking and planning. In Understanding Design in Film Production author Barbara Freedman Doyle demonstrates how to use production design cinematography lighting and locations to create an effective and compelling visual story even on the tightest of budgets. Featuring in-depth interviews with production designers set decorators construction coordinators cinematographers costumers and location managers talking about the techniques of their craft it provides you with a feel for what everyone on the visual team does how they think and plan and how best to utilize the knowledge and skills they offer. This book guides you through how to find secure and manage the best locations how to create and dress a set and how to make old look new and new look old—all on a tight budget. With insights from experts at the top of their field sharing how they plan for the real-world application of large-scale ideas you’ll be able to see ways to apply their techniques to your own smaller-scale productions. Understanding Design in Film Production is a practical hands-on guide for any aspiring filmmaker who wants to understand the basic principles of visual design in order to create exceptional looking films. | Understanding Design in Film Production Using Art Light & Locations to Tell Your Story

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Aesthetic 3D Lighting History Theory and Application

Aesthetic 3D Lighting History Theory and Application

Aesthetic 3D Lighting: History Theory and Application delves into the history the theory and the practical and aesthetic application of lighting in the fine arts and 3D animation. In this book animation industry veteran and lighting expert Lee Lanier examines the importance of lighting and its ability to communicate information to the viewer. Lee examines the history of lighting as applied to the fine arts film photography and 3D animation. He discusses the use of light color light location and direction and light shadow types to recreate specific locations and to generate moods. He includes guides for successful lighting in 3D animation. Software-agnostic examples lead you through useful 3D lighting set-ups. Chapter-long case studies step you through more complex 3D lighting projects in Autodesk Maya. An accompanying eResource (www. routledge. com/9781138737570) features 3D model files scene files and texture bitmaps allowing you to practice the discussed techniques in Autodesk Maya and many other 3D programs. The lighting techniques covered in this book include: History of lighting as used in the fine arts The scientific mechanisms of light Light types and light application in 3D programs Light qualities including shadows variations Basic and advanced 3D lighting approaches 1- 2- 3-point naturalistic and stylistic lighting techniques Replication of real-world lighting scenarios and locations Overview of advanced 3D lighting and rendering systems | Aesthetic 3D Lighting History Theory and Application

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The Bel Canto Violin The Life and Times of Alfredo Campoli 1906-1991

The Bel Canto Violin The Life and Times of Alfredo Campoli 1906-1991

First published in 1999 this biography from David Tunley draws on newly researched documentary evidence to chart Campoli’s early success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist. Campoli’s early success and his later struggle for recognition as a serious artist. Campoli’s career emerges as one particularly shaped and directed by the great economic and social forces of the first half of the century and the story here is as much that of his times as of his life. Described by Szigeti as ‘one of the last great individualists among violinists’ Alfredo Campoli was a household name in the field of British light music prior to the Second World War. Having made his début at the Wigmore Hall in 1923 Campoli toured with Melba and Butt then turned to light music during the Depression. He became one of Decca’s early recording artists and broadcast frequently for the BBC with his light music ensembles and pursued a long successful career as a distinguished international performer. | The Bel Canto Violin The Life and Times of Alfredo Campoli 1906-1991

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Studies on Ancient Christianity

Studies on Ancient Christianity

This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together a series of studies on Augustine written in light of the new texts now available and on other individual Christian authors of antiquity in other words of the age when Christianity was acquiring its now familiar shape. A number of papers published here appear in print for the first time or make accessible to English readers studies which first saw the light in German. These include a substantial discussion of the idea of conscience important in the highly ethical context of early Christianity and a study of ancient anthologies and are complemented by other essays on general themes in the history of the early Church. | Studies on Ancient Christianity

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Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience

Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience

Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE). This book examines the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty and the meaning of art in early Byzantium. Byzantine aesthetic thought is re-evaluated against late antique Neoplatonism and the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius that offer fundamental paradigms for the late antique attitude towards art and beauty. These metaphysical concepts of aesthetics are ultimately grounded in experiences of sensation and perception and reflect the ways in which the world and reality were perceived and grasped signifying the cultural identity of early Byzantium. There are different types of aesthetic data those present in the aesthetic object and those found in aesthetic responses to the object. This study looks at the aesthetic data embodied in the sixth-century architectural structure and interior decoration of Hagia Sophia as well as in literary responses (ekphrasis) to the building. The purpose of the Byzantine ekphrasis was to convey by verbal means the same effects that the artefact itself would have caused. A literary analysis of these rhetorical descriptions recaptures the Byzantine perception and expectations and at the same time reveals the cognitive processes triggered by the Great Church. The central aesthetic feature that emerges from sixth-century ekphraseis of Hagia Sophia is that of light. Light is described as the decisive element in the experience of the sacred space and light is simultaneously associated with the notion of wisdom. It is argued that the concepts of light and wisdom are interwoven programmatic elements that underlie the unique architecture and non-figurative decoration of Hagia Sophia. A similar concern for the phenomenon of light and its epistemological dimension is reflected in other contemporary monuments testifying to the pervasiveness of these aesthetic values in early Byzantium. | Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience

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Phenomenology of the Broken Body

Phenomenology of the Broken Body

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view various breakdowns are worth analyzing for their own sake and discussing them also opens up overlooked dimensions of our bodily constitution. This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body—its normality and abnormality health and sickness its activity as well as its passivity. The contributors integrate phenomenological insights with discussions about bodily brokenness in philosophy theology medical science and literary theory. Phenomenology of the Broken Body demonstrates how the broken body sheds fresh light on the nuances of embodied experience in ordinary life and ultimately questions phenomenology’s preunderstanding of the body.

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