Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind, and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Forfatter: Oliver Sacks Sprog: Engelsk Antal sider: 384 Forlag: Picador Udgivelsesår: 2011 'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees - and these become the starting point for a meditation
En rektangulær sort træophæng med en inspirerende besked i hvid tekst på én side: 'Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.' citat af Claude T. Bissell. Tegn på brug med nogle overflade ridser og slidmærker.
Master valuable 3D modeling and animation skills to create spectacular visual effects with 3D Studio MAX R3 Bible. Each chapter in this authoritative guide helps you harness the power of MAX's specialized tools, effects, and utilities: * Familiarize yourself with the new features in R3, understand the interface, and discover how to configure and customize MAX. * Learn how to reference, select, transform, and modify models, cameras, lights, and any other object that can be viewed in a viewport. * Model objects by working on primitives, spline shapes, meshes, patches, NURBS, and a variety of specialized compound objects, including Lofts and Morphs. * Control light and cameras, as well as several lighting special effects and camera utilities. * Use particle systems and space warps to enhance any MAX scene. * Create animated scenes with keyframing, Track View, and Controllers. * Extend the f
A guide to the next great wave of technology—an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. "Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic." Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New forms of design and manufacture are appearing that lack historical precedent, he writes; but the production methods, using archaic forms of energy and materials that are finite and toxic, are not sustainable. The future will see a new kind of object; we have the primitive forms of them now in our pockets and brief
Historisk roman fra det 17. århundrede. Bogen skildrer adelskvinden Marie Grubbe (1643-1718), der socialt set går til bunds for sin kærligheds skyld Titel: Fru Marie Grubbe Genre: Historisk Sammendrag: Erotik bestemte Marie Grubbes liv. Hun var en stærk kvinde, der søgte at realisere sine voldsomme drifter og drømme. Som datter af herremanden på Tjele blev hun fint gift med Frederik 3.'s søn Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, men hverken dette eller hendes andet ægteskab førte lykke med sig. Marie havde adskillige elskere, men først da det begyndte at gå socialt ned ad bakke for hende, fandt hun en mand, hun kunne respektere: den primitive Søren, der var krovært og færgemand i Borrehuset ved Grønsund. Type: Paperback
Autentisk og selvbiografisk skildring af Zana Muhsen, en engelsk pige med arabisk baggrund, der som teenager bliver sendt til Yemen under påskud af ferie og familiebesøg. Her opdager hun, at hun og søsteren er blevet solgt til ægteskab med lokale mænd. Hverdagen udvikler sig til et mareridt af tvangsægteskab, fysisk og psykisk vold, seksuelle overgreb, hårdt arbejde og fødsler under primitive forhold. Zana fortæller om livet i en landsby præget af fattigdom, strenge traditioner og kvindeundertrykkelse, og om den langvarige kamp for at slippe fri, få kontakt til myndigheder i England og få sin sag hørt. Efter otte års kamp lykkes det hende at flygte tilbage til England, mens søsteren bliver tilbage. Bogen tematiserer moderne slaveri, børneægteskab, tvangsægteskab og kulturkonflikter mellem Vestens værdier og traditionel patriarkalsk æreskultur. Type: Paperback Personlig beretning af Zana
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On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields The audacious, gripping travelogue of a writer chasing the ghost of Graham Greene into the heart of Africa. The bestselling author of Blood River is back with a second thrilling adventure, illuminating the war-torn, complex and forbidding region of Sierra Leone and Liberia For many years war made Sierra Leone and Liberia too dangerous for outsiders to travel through. Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the devastation wrought by lawless militia, child soldiers, brutal violence, blood diamonds and masked figures who guard the spiritual secrets of remote jungle communities.On an epic journey that demands courage, doggedness and sheer luck, Butcher treks for 350 blistering miles through rainforest and malarial swamps to gain an extraordinary ground-level view of an over
