Author: Scott Curtis File Type: pdf In this exceptionally wide-ranging study, Scott Curtis draws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern conceptions of spectatorship. Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I, he follows specialists across disciplines as they debated and appropriated film for their own ends, negotiating the fascinating, at times fraught relationship between technology, discipline, and expert vision. As researchers, teachers, and intellectuals adapted film and its technology to their viewing practices, often emphasizing the formal connection between material and discipline, they produced new ideas of mass spectatorship that continue to affect the way we make and experience film. By staging a collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual instruction, and aesthetic contemplation, Curtis showcases both the full extent of early cinemaOs revolutionary impact on society and culture and the challenges the new medium placed on ways of seeing and learning.

Author: Satya Komatineni File Type: pdf From the leading publisher of Android books, Apress Expert Android gives you advanced techniques for customizing views, controls, and layouts. Youll learn to develop apps in record time using JSON, Advanced Form Processing, and the BaaS (Backend As A Service) platform Parse. The book also includes extensive coverage on OpenGL, Search, and Telephony. With these advanced and time saving technologies youll be able to release compelling mobile applications in Google Play and the Amazon Appstore at a rapid pace. In Expert Android, youll learn to Borrow, reuse, or build custom Android UI components Create 3D experiences using OpenGL ES 2.0 Write collaborative applications in the Parse cloud and communicate with your app user community through Parse Push Technology Reduce the time-to-market while creating rock solid apps for multiple devices Whether you are an individual or enterprise developer, in Expert Android youll find the advanced techniques and practices to take your mobile apps to the next level. Regardless of the Android release, this book serves as your definitive, capstone reference for your Apress Android experience. What youll learn How to deliver impactful Apps cheaper, better, and faster. How to develop for multiple devices and manage fragmentation in Android How to use Parse cloud for Storage, Collaborative Social Apps, and Push notifications How to create Custom Views, Controls, and Layouts How to create 3D experience with OpenGL ES 2.0 How to achieve speed to market through JSON, Form processing, and Parse How to eliminate memory leaks and poor-performing code Who this book is for This book is for advanced Android app developers who have readused Pro Android already by the very same authors that bring you Expert Android. Table of Contents01. Custom Views 02. Compound Views 03. Custom Layouts 04. Using JSON for On-Device Persistence 05. Programming for multiple devices 06. Advanced Form Processing for Android 07. Using the Telephony API 08. Advanced Debugging and Analysis 09. Programming in OpenGL ES 2.0 for Android 10. Android Search User Experience 11. Android Search Providers 12. Android Search Custom Providers 13. Cloud storage for Applications Parse.com 14. Enhancing Parse with Parcelables 15. Using Push Notifications with Parse

Author: Kevin P. Gallagher File Type: pdf Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world. As it grew into a major industrial power, it demanded enormous amounts of steel for new factories and cities, copper for electronic wires, petroleum for cars and manufacturing plants, and soybeans and cattle to feed its workers. By the 1990s, many Latin American countries were riding Chinas coattails and beginning to prosper from the new demand. Ever since China entered the World Trade Organization at the turn of the century, Latin America supplied China with more and more of the primary commodities it needs and more. That in turn has produced one the most impressive periods of economic growth on the continent in fifty years. And it was more evenly spread too - a region infamous for its extreme inequality saw it decline by a couple of percentage points over the course of the era. In The China Triangle, Kevin P. Gallagher traces the development of the China-Latin America trade over time and covers how it has affected the centuries-old (and highly unequal) US-Latin American relationship. He argues that despite these opportunities Latin American nations have little to show for riding the coattails of the China Boom and now face significant challenges in the next decades as Chinas economy slows down and shifts more toward consumption and services. While the Latin American region saw significant economic growth due to Chinas rise over the past decades, Latin Americans saved very little of the windfall profits it earned even as the region saw a significant hollowing of its industrial base. What is more, commodity-led growth during the China boom reignited social and environmental conflicts across the region. Scholars and reporters have covered the Chinese expansion into East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia, Africa, the US, and Europe. Yet Chinas penetration Latin America is as little understood as it is significant-especially for America given its longstanding ties to the region. Gallagher provides a clear overview of Chinas growing economic ties with Latin America and points to ways that Latin American nations, China, and even the United States can act in order to make the next decades of China-Latin America economic activity more prosperous for all involved. **

Author: Charles Thomas Taylor File Type: pdf In Ignes Fatui, Charles Thomas Taylor examines various misapprehensions and misconceptions that interfere with clear rational thought. The title of the book, a loanword from Medieval Latin, means foolish fireslights that occasionally appear in the nighttime over marshy ground and are frequently attributable to the combination of gases emitted by decomposed organic matter. The term is sometimes used in modern times to suggest deceptive thoughts, goals, or hopes. The first four chapters of Ignes Fatui consider various common illusions that interfere with sound objective thought in society. The fifth and final chapter considers the illusions that prevent and consequently forestall any form of effectual subjective thinking in personal life. The primary objective of the book is to attempt to improve rational thought and thereby reverse the general decline of faith in the power of reason today. **About the Author Charles Thomas Taylor has written books in various fields including ethics, aesthetics, religion, political science, and education. He lives in Colorado, where he is the director of finance for a small engineering firm. This is his seventh book.