Perceiving Reality

This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programing, from Finding S

This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programing, from Finding S

Based on Cy Wakeman’s popular book Reality Based Leadership, this workshop conveys her candid, humorous approach to organizational dynamics. The Reality Based Leadership model challenges traditional p

Based on Cy Wakeman’s popular book Reality Based Leadership, the Reality Based Leadership workshop conveys her candid, humorous approach to organizational dynamics. The Reality Based Leadership model

"International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television enterta

By formulating a notion of 'filmic reality', The Reality of Film offers new ways of understanding our relationship with cinema. It argues that cinema does not merely refer to, reproduce or represent r

Discusses the social effects of reality television and the issues surrounding the genre, including if it has lowered television standards, if it exploits its reality television personalities, and if i

A magical struggle for reality - whose reality will prevail?

Discusses the history of reality television programs, the five basic genres of programming, and positive and negative perceptions of reality television.

Reality, Religion, and the Mind examines metaphysics, the basic, broad study of reality. The field encompasses such fundamental questions as the following: Is there really a God? Is there life on othe

"Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Industry" collects the proceedings of the 2nd Sino-German Workshop on the same topic held in Shanghai on April 16-17, 2009. The papers focus on the latest V

Set behind the scenes of America's most popular guilty pleasure—reality TV—Reality Jane delivers a high-spirited, delicious tale of finding love and a career in Hollywood while juggling lipo envy, sin

Learn to create augmented reality apps using Processing open-source programming languageAugmented reality (AR) is used all over, and you may not even realize it. Smartphones overlay data onto live cam

Create amazing mobile augmented reality apps with junaio, Layar, and Wikitude!Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones guides you through creating your own augmented reality apps for th

Every era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, corporate advertisers now devise the imagined lands

A step-by-step approach that guides reality show producers and creators on how to write effective pitch packets and business plans for reality shows. This book features information and details on eve

In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities t

In Reality and Its Appearance, Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function

Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a fresh approach to philosophy: a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, reality, and the relations between them. Horwich

Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a fresh approach to philosophy: a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, reality, and the relations between them. Horwich

Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy shifts current discussions of media and reality from the informative to the affective, from knowledge to feelings. In reality television, Misha Kavka argues, ev

Do you have a concept for a reality TV show, but aren't sure about the next steps? Loaded with practical, step-by-step advice on the art and business of reality TV producing, and featuring insights fr

Virtual reality techniques are increasingly becoming indispensable in many areas. This book looks at how to generate advanced virtual reality worlds. It covers principles, techniques, devices and math

Virtual reality isn't just for video games anymore. Westwood (with a biomedical communications company in San Luis Obispo, CA) shares his vision of making virtual reality-based medical innovations ava

Trent Tucker, the protagonist of this hilarious satire, hates reality TV. Unfortunately, his job at Nova Consulting involves the creation of new reality shows that are even more outrageous and excessi

Arguing against the idea that sometimes there is too much reality, this collection illuminates the burgeoning field of augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality by describing the neglected area of interfac

With a growing need for understanding the process involved in producing and perceiving spoken language, this timely publication answers these questions in an accessible reference. Containing mat

Reality TV restores a crucial, and often absent, element to the critical debate about reality television: the voices of people who watch reality programmes.From Animal Hospital to Big Brother, Annette

Arguing that the public loss of confidence in biotechnology is largely due to mainstream scientists incorrectly perceiving that biotechnology big business is leaving them behind, academic, government,

A groundbreaking Virtual Reality textbook is now even better Virtual reality is a very powerful and compelling computer application by which humans can interface and interact with computer-generated

An updated edition of the best-selling guide to overcoming creative blocks identifies the perceptual, environmental, emotional, and intellectual blocks that obstruct people from correctly perceiving p

Introduces the notion of a reality that has emerged as an alternative and antagonist to the aristocratic reality articulated by Immanuel Kant and the bourgeois reality embodied in the modern concept o

This Set contains: Reality Rules, Picturing the World in Mathematics, Volume 1, The Fundamentals by John Casti; Reality Rules, Picturing the World in Mathematics, Volume 2, The Frontier by John Casti

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.

Do human beings have a special place in reality? Thomas Hofweber argues that we are special because there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. His form of idealism hol

Since the mid-2010s, virtual reality (VR) technology has advanced rapidly. This book explores the many opportunities that VR can offer for humanities and social sciences researchers. It provides a user-friendly, non-technical methods guide to using ready-made VR content and 360° video as well as creating custom materials.

Considering the overall situation of the current pandemic and pertinent recommendations, this book focuses on the use of Augmented Reality (AR) applications for COVID-19 outbreak along with techniques, tools and platforms to achieve social distancing and sanitization. It contains theoretical and practical knowledge of AR and remedies on how to cope with the technology including multiple use cases along with a set of recommendations. It illustrates application building using open source softwares with an interactive interface to aid the impaired users. The initial part of the book emphasizes on the basic knowledge of AR, technology, devices and rest of the relevant theories. Aimed at Researchers, students in augmented reality, technical healthcare professionals, practitioners, this book: Focusses on realization and visualization of Covid-19 pandemic using Augmented Reality (AR).Discusses how different AR Visualization techniques is implemented in different scenarios.Provides in-depth kn

The eagerly anticipated third instalment in the fast-paced Last Reality seriesSimon, Kat, Busara, and Elvis are on the run with the tech super-villains at the Company hot on their heels. The new VR ga

With his new artist's book The Fabric of Reality, Beat Streuli for the first time lays a trail leading through his oeuvre. Following Public Works (JRP Ringier, 2012), which delivered an overview of St

New technologies and ongoing developments in the fields of Virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence are changing the ways in which we facilitate learning. Recognising the positi