A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments (Explorations in Anthropology)

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Offers a new approach to landscape perception.

This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and creating meaning in it.

A Phenomenology of Landscape is unusual in that it links two types of publishing which have remained distinct in archaeology: books with atmospheric photographs of monuments with a minimum of text and no interpretation; and the academic text in which words provide a substitute for visual imagery. Attractively illustrated with many photographs and diagrams, it will appeal to anyone interested in prehistoric monuments and landscape as well as students and specialists in archaeology, anthropology and human geography.

A Phenomenology of Landscape : Places, Paths and Monuments (Explorations in Anthropology)

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A Phenomenology of Landscape : Places, Paths and Monuments (Explorations in Anthropology)
Christopher Tilley
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000MUA27O

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The New Guide to Screenprinting (A Quarto Book)
Brad Faine
Manufacturer: Headline Book Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0747201560

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After giving us a background of network security, the book moves on to explain the basic technologies we will work with, namely netfilter, iproute2, NAT and l7-filter. These form the crux of building Linux firewalls and QOS. The later part of the book covers 5 real-world networks for which we design the security policies, build the firewall, setup the script, and verify our installation. These comprehensive set of set up scripts and set up guidelines to create firewall protection for various specific usage scenarios are unique and set this book apart.

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Pretty good book.......2007-01-11

Although I am an experienced Linux user and do some Admin, I'm on my current project developing a linux embedded system that will be a router. We have QoS and netfilter requirements and I found nearly all the data on QoS old and dated for the 2.4 kernel. Furthermore, due to lack of info I had a hard time developing basic test scenarios.

After reading this book, I feel much better preparred for the project. What I liked about the book was the real world examples with some sense of humor. Even on a dry subject like network packets I was able to read thru the book easily. The tc examples and kernel config was what I really needed, and the book handled that well. The book is based on kernel 2.6.14 at least in a few areas.

I'm giving the book 4 stars because I'm just starting. The book does have large and small examples but I haven't used them yet. As an intro I give it 5 stars.

The Photographer's Guide to Using Filters

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A decent guide, but not the best
This guy is a god! Learn from a master of light manipulation
Filters Shmilters...
Theory is fine, but example images could be better.
Outstanding

The Photographer's Guide to Using Filters
Joseph Meehan
Manufacturer: Amphoto Books
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ASIN: 0817454527

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No matter what camera format you shoot, this definitive reference is for any photographer who uses filters to make the best of available light or enhance natural or photographic light. Chock full of photographs illustrating filter effects.

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A decent guide, but not the best.......2007-04-20

This was a decent guide to filters, but most of the information you can find online for free. The book doesn't dive into enough details and most of the filters that are covered are pretty basic. If you are just getting started with filters this book might be an option for you. I was hoping for more advanced information and technique on filter use.

This guy is a god! Learn from a master of light manipulation.......2004-10-01

What's up with the three star reviews. This guy is everywhere now. He had his own filters made to alter light in an uniquely artistic way. Something different? Too much filtering? Heaven forbid something looks so good you wished you thought of it. If your not creative or don't wish to broaden your horizons - this isn't a book for you. Go home and put on your little tu- tu!

Excellent examples and explanations. Pick up any art or photo magazine and you'll see some of his work.

Filters Shmilters..........2002-07-16

I understand what the other reviewers have said about this book and agree that a good few images are heavily filtered to the point of extreme. On the other hand I think that this is necessary in the facilitation of understanding what effect certain filters can have when placed infront of the lens in different situations. More experienced photographers will be looking for the subtle and almost impercievable use of these wonderful photographic tools and I myself would have liked an emphasis on this area far more than on the bold approach. Nevertheless I feel that this is an excellent *general* work on filters and will be useful to the broadest possible audience.

There is some good technical information in here for beginners and intermediates who have little or no knowledge of filters and their uses. Meehan covers quite a bit of ground and does the usual stuff while he's at it. This is the stuff that photographers like myself see over and over again in almost every photography book which every photo book feels it necessary to reproduce over and over again adnausium. Some of the images in this book are excellent and the theory is right on, so if you are a photographer looking for a filter book that will rock your prospective bookshelf, maybe this isn't the book for you, but I have found it generally pleasing and it has it's place among my photo books without any complaints from me.

Theory is fine, but example images could be better........2002-01-21

I came across this book in the local library. The book has a fair amount of colour theory and some in depth coverage of the different filters available. Unfortunately the example images are another story. Most of them show heavy unnatural filtration and many pictures are really strange. For example, the picture of a building on page 40 has been shot with such heavy magenta filtration, I doubt anyone would attempt anything like this in real life. In the example on page 66, all the buildings have turned magenta. There are some more extreme examples on pages 31, 90 and 91.

In a book on filters, I would have expected such examples to be the exception rather than the norm (probably to illustrate what one can do with a strong red or magenta filter, etc). If the author wanted to show the effects of such heavy filtration, he could have chosen better or more appropriate examples.

Outstanding.......2001-02-26

... I have always been overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite number of
filters available and used by professionals. This is the first
material I have ever found that not only explains the different types
of filters but also explores the science how they work. I now feel
more confident using filters and am better able to anticipate their
effects. Far from being focused on "special effects", this
book is a great reference for anyone looking to enhance their
photographs through the use of filters.

Filter Design for Signal Processing using MATLAB and Mathematica

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Filter Design for Signal Processing using MATLAB and Mathematica
Miroslav D Lutovac , Dejan V. Tosic , and Brian L. Evans
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0201361302

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A complete up-to-date reference for advanced analog and digital IIR filter design rooted in elliptic functions. Revolutionary in approach, this book opens up completely new vistas in basic analog and digital IIR filter design--regardless of the technology. By introducing exceptionally elegant and creative mathematical stratagems (e.g., accurate replacement of Jacobi elliptic functions by functions comprising polynomials, square roots, and logarithms), optimization routines carried out with symbolic analysis by Mathematica, and the advance filter design software of MATLAB, it shows readers how to design many types of filters that cannot be designed using conventional techniques. The filter design algorithms can be directly programed in any language or environment such as Visual BASIC, Visual C, Maple, DERIVE, or MathCAD. Signals; Systems; Transforms; Classical Analog Filter Design; Advanced Analog Filter Design Case Studies; Advanced Analog Filter Design Algorithms; Multi-criteria Optimization of Analog Filter Designs; Classical Digital Filter Design; Advanced Digital Filter Design Case Studies; Advanced Digital Filter Design Algorithms; Multi-criteria Optimization of Digital Filter Designs; Elliptic Functions; Elliptic Rational Function.

Using filters (The Kodak workshop series)

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Using filters (The Kodak workshop series)

Manufacturer: Consumer/Professional & Finishing Markets, Eastman Kodak Co
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Binding: Paperback

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Analog and Digital Filter Design Using C

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Highly professional and informative.
Excellent Text Book

Analog and Digital Filter Design Using C
Les Thede
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Textbook Binding

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ASIN: 0133526275

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Highly professional and informative........1999-07-02

Working with numerous analog circuits in the day to day workplace, I found that this book was very helpful. A nicely written and understandable reference.

Excellent Text Book.......1998-06-10

I used this book for a recent class in Analog Filter Design. This book is an excellent reference and learning tool for filter design. Overall This is the best textbook I have used.

Interference Suppression for Spread Spectrum Signals Using Adaptive Beamforming and Adaptive Temporal Filter

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Interference Suppression for Spread Spectrum Signals Using Adaptive Beamforming and Adaptive Temporal Filter

Manufacturer: Storming Media
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Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423574044

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A563123. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Interference and jamming signals are a serious concern in an operational military communication environment. This thesis examines the utility and performance of combining adaptive temporal filtering with adaptive spatial filtering (i.e. adaptive beamforming) to improve the signal-to-jammer ratio (SJR) in the presence of narrowband and wideband interference. Adaptive temporal filters are used for narrowband interference suppression while adaptive beamforming is used to suppress wideband interference signals. A procedure is presented for the design and implementation of a linear constraints minimum variance generalized sidelobe canceler (LCMV-GSC) beamformer. The adaptive beamformer processes the desired signal with unity gain while simultaneously and adaptively minimizing the output due to any undesired signal. Using the LCMV-GSC beamformer with a least mean squares (LMS) adaptive algorithm, it was shown that the tapped delay line (TDL) adaptive antenna array is more effective for the suppression of wideband jammer suppression than the linear array sensors (LAS) adaptive antenna array. Also a new technique for adaptive beamforming is presented which improves wideband interference suppression in a frequency-hopped environment. The output SJR improvement for the new technique compared to the conventional technique is as much as 15dB. Sometimes, multipath signals and jammers generated by a smart enemy are correlated with the desired signal which destroys the traditional beamformer's performance.

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Cokin Filter System for Photo and Video
Heiner Henninges
Manufacturer: Hove Foto Books
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ASIN: 0906447682

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Great Instructional Book!
Good Book
Good tips -- loaded with ideas for beginners, intermediates

Using Filters
Eastman Kodak Company
Manufacturer: Eastman Kodak Co.
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ASIN: 0879855142

Book Description

Gives creative and technical advice that explains how filters work and how you can use them to capture extraordinary images in color and black and white. Shows how to create mood, add dazzle, render normal colors under artificial lighting, and more. 96 pages (over 180 illustrations), 8-1/2 x 11.

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Great Instructional Book!.......2005-06-14

Great Instructional Book, I knew nothing about using filters until I purchased this book. Money well Spent! As a beginner it's made a fabulous reference, and I'm sure it's on the desks of many top Photographers!

Good Book.......2003-01-19

I'd give it five stars if there were a few more pages with more exampes..., but this book very definetly gives you the basics of using filters to creare moods, and correct for unusual lighting you may encounter...or desire... If you want to move beyond the basics of point, click and hope, this will take you where you want to go!!!

Good tips -- loaded with ideas for beginners, intermediates.......2001-01-09

This book contained lots of useful tips and ways to make filters at home. Can save a lot of money by not buying the expensive filters and just making your own.

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Purple Ronnies unique style of humour has made him the favourite poet of love-struck romantics and heart-throbs everywhere. Love Poems collects together some of his most popular verses and offers a hilarious and charming insight into all kinds of love from soppy love and loving your friends to hugging, snogging and, of course doing it. Following the success of Purple Ronnies History of the World, and his four mini books, this is the ideal Valentines Day present, and will be adored by starry-eyed lovers and hopeless romantics everywhere.

Purple Ronnie's Little Book of Poems to Say I Love You (Purple Ronnies)

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Purple Ronnie's Little Book of Poems to Say I Love You (Purple Ronnies)

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The million selling series of must have advice is back as Purple Ronnie casts his knowledgable hand to the art of love. In Little Poems to Say I Love You, there are poems to tell the people who really matter just how much you mean to them. It is an indispensable tool for expressing your love or a crafty book of excuses when you're in someone's bad books! Boxtree's Purple Ronnie books have sold over 1,000,000 copies and continue to sell, and the great man himself has earned a unique place in Macmillan's history by earning a Golden Ronnie in acknowledgement of this achievement. A little Hugging Poem: I want you to know That I think you are great And although I'm a bit of a mug If you ever need me I'll always be near To come round and give you a hug

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Purple Ronnie's Little Book of Poems to
Giles Andreae
Manufacturer: BOXTREE (MACM)
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K299N2

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