Visual Creativity

This book presents the latest research on hierarchical deep learning for multi-modal sentiment analysis. Further, it analyses sentiments in Twitter blogs from both textual and visual content using hie

Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters

We live in a visual culture. Today, people increasingly rely upon visuals to help them understand new and difficult concepts. The rise and stunning popularity of the Internet infographic has given us

The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt, enrich, and transform our understanding of what it means to be human.Can a

The national bestselling author of Chasers of the Light pulls back the curtain on his creative process to share how to unlock creativity and lead a more mindful and compassionate lifeEvery day, Tyler

An unprecedented book that discusses a decades long journey of understanding vision and visual impairment through working with patients with brain damage Edward de Haan, a noted clinical vision resear

Improve your bullet journals, to-do lists, class notes, and everything in between with The Art of Visual Notetaking and its unique approach to taking notes in the twenty-first century.

This book presents the history of modern human creativity/innovation through examples of solutions to basic human needs that have been developed over time. The title – Homo problematis solvendis – is

本書是根據教育部高教司關於非電腦專業電腦基礎教育的指導性意見，並依據全國電腦等級考試二級(Visual FoxPro)考試大綱要求，結合目前我國高等院校電腦課程開設的實際情況，融合編者多年從事電腦教學的實際經驗編寫而成的。 本書內容涵蓋了全國電腦等級考試二級Visual FoxPro 6.0大綱要求的相關內容，包括資料庫系統的基本理論知識、Visual FoxPro基本操作、表的維護及基本應用、V

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and imag

This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal communication on the other.

Have you ever wondered how we know so much about people and events from the past? Much of what we know comes from studying items that were used in the past. Research Visual Primary Sources: Photograph

Beauty of Cannabis is a visual journey into the spectacular marijuana strains being grown in the 21st Century. Award-winning photographer Spurs Broken takes us as deep as the lens will allow by direct

This handy visual dictionary covers the key topics in the core STEM subjects of biology, chemistry, and physics. The A-Z of Science brings the unique and popular Basher illustrative approach of captur

《Visual FoxPro程序設計與應用教程（第二版）》以VFP(Visual FoxPro)9.0為平臺，從方便學生自學的目的出發，由淺入深、循序漸進地介紹了VFP的知識點和使用中常見問題的解決辦法，針對學生的特點、結合大量的實際例子、將使用與理論相結合。《Visual FoxPro程序設計與應用教程（第二版）》採用圖文並茂的形式，結合大量實用、豐富多彩的實例、深入淺出地講述面向對象編程的概念，使讀者逐步掌握Visual FoxPro的基本操作及面向對象編程技術，並能獨立進行小型應用系統開發。考慮到自學的特點，在程序設計部分分兩種情況：先介紹面向過程的內容，再介紹面向對象的內容。 《Visual FoxPro程序設計與應用教程（第二版）》提供了大量的有針對性的習題供學習者鞏固知識使用。《Visual FoxPro程序設計與應用教程（第二版）》還有相應的實驗指導與習題教材，配套使用會使學習效果更佳。

This book examines the increasing popularity of creativity and play in tertiary learning, and how it can be harnessed to enhance the student experience at university. While play is often misunderstood

本書依據教育部關於程序設計技術課程的教學基本要求，兼顧計算機軟件技術的發展，以Visual Basic.NET 2013為開發工具進行講解。全書共分12章，內容包括：Visual Basic.NET編程基礎、順序結構程序設計、選擇結構程序設計、循環結構程序設計、程序調試與異常處理、數組、常用查找與排序算法、過程與函數、文件、Windows高級界面設計、ADO.NET數據庫編程以及ASP.NET動態

本書是結合多年教學和實踐經驗、參考國內外有關著作文獻而編寫的一本Visual C++面向對象編程實用教程。全書針對初學者的特點，由淺入深、系統地介紹了Visual C++面向對象編程的基本原理和方法，主要內容包括C++面向對象程序設計、可視化編程環境、WINDOWS編程基礎、MFC編程方法和Visual C++高級編程內容。全書共分9章，第1章介紹了Visual Studio集成開發環境；第2章對

This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television, and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our inc

Making connections between drama and drawing, Drawing as Performance introduces visual artists and designers to rehearsal techniques, theory, and games as ways of developing image-making and visual co

This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television, and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our inc

After the success of 2017’s Visual Thinking, the author noticed that people enjoy discovering how easy it is to use drawings in business communication. But they still have no guide to satisfy their de

Compiling best practices and original research, this book examines the factors that influence the sustainability of creativity and innovation in organisations and proposes a toolkit to assess gaps wit

Use graphic novels to teach visual and verbal literacy While our kids today are communicating outside the classroom in abbreviated text bursts with visual icons, teachers are required to teach them t

Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human ri

Excel VBA in easy steps neatly demonstrates VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) Macro programming in a clear and concise manner, so you can get more from the popular Microsoft Excel spreadsheet applic

Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of China, covering both the theory and pract

Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of China, covering both the theory and pract

Normal and Pathological Bronchial Semiology: A Visual Approach provides normal endobronchial aspects, including variations, anomalies and abnormal findings. Comprehensive coverage includes preoperativ

This book helps students and scholars get started on the exciting journey of using visual data in social research. It covers the many uses a researcher can make of images, from creating images as a pa

Would you like a hands-on look at creativity? Do You See What I See is a little philosophical, a little story-telling, a lot making! With creative suggestions, ideas, techniques and how-to step-by-st

Only a small percentage of people will visit space in their lifetime, but now you don't have to be an astronaut to see our universe in stunning detail! In Space: The Definitive Visual Catalog, you wil

Combines detailed photographs and graphics with concise, informative text to make the complex concepts of wound care easy to understand. Maximizes the power of visual thinking by showing as well

An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the beloved role-playing game told through the paintings, sketches, illustrations, and visual ephemera behind its creation, evolution, and continue

This book explores the Erie Railway's contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture by promoting scenic thinking in which closely viewed scenes and deep prospects became the basis for engagin

Innovators have long recognised that constraints very often stimulate or guide the process of creativity and innovation. When you work with limitation, creativity often comes to the surface organicall

Start on the path to art quilting success! For anyone inspired to make art quilts, this visual reference will help you gain the practical tools and inspiration you need to translate your ideas to fabr

Creativity is the development and use of imagination to solve current challenges or create innovative ideas for the future. The complexity and challenges of the contemporary world arguably require inc

The Arctic ecosystem is changing. The temperature is getting warmer, and the polar ice is melting. Polar scientists from around the world study the Arctic because changes there affect the entire planet. What have they found? Discover why it's so important to save the Arctic! Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this book builds students' literacy skills while fostering curiosity, creativity, and innovation. The hands-on STEAM challenge is ideal for makerspace activities, and guides students through every stage of the engineering design process. This book features: • Real-world examples provide insight into how the engineering design process is used to solve real-world problems• Content that highlights every component of STEAM: science, technology, engineering, art, and math• Career advice from Smithsonian employees working in STEAM fields• Dynamic images and text features enhance the reading experience and build visual literacy

Although Joyce was losing his sight when he wrote Ulysses, Stephen's and Bloom's visual experiences are extraordinarily rich and complex. Absorbing the influences of popular visual attractions such as dioramas, stereoscopes and mutoscopes, their perceptions of Dublin are shaped by what Walter Benjamin calls 'unconscious optics'. Analyzing closely the texture of their impressions and of Joyce's prismatic narrative styles, Philip Sicker explores the phenomenon of sight from a wide-ranging set of perspectives: eighteenth-century epistemology (Locke and Berkeley), theories of the flaneur (Baudelaire and Benjamin), Italian Futurist art (Marinetti and Boccioni), photography (Barthes and Sontag), and the silent films Joyce watched in Dublin and Trieste. The concept of 'spectacle' as a mechanically-constructed visual experience informs Sicker's examination of mediated perception and emerges as a hallmark of modernist culture itself. This study is an important contribution to the growing intere