[PDF] A Beginners Guide To The Humanities eBook

Author : Philip E. Bishop
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780130193742

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An ideal supplemental text for any undergraduate course in humanities or Introduction to the Arts. This practical beginner's guide to appreciating and experiencing culture provides a handy introduction to the world of art that teaches students how to observe, enjoy, and analyze the arts. Professor Philip Bishop wrote this book because there was no concise handbook on the market covering the arts as a whole. His text provides a succinct and affordable guide to the arts and humanities geared to students who are starting from scratch in their study of the arts. Self-contained chapters provide an essential companion guide to understanding a specific discipline-including painting, sculpture, music, and theater-with a clear and insightful explanation of the discipline's process of creation. ... From publisher description.

Author : Philip Bishop
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN : 9780205665143

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An ideal supplemental text for any undergraduate course in Humanities or Introduction to the Arts. This practical beginner's guide to appreciating and experiencing culture provides a handy introduction to the world of art that teaches students how to observe, enjoy, and analyze the arts. Professor Philip Bishop wrote this book because there was no concise handbook on the market covering the arts as a whole. His text provides a succinct and affordable guide to the arts and humanities geared to students who are starting from scratch in their study of the arts. Self-contained chapters provide an essential companion guide to understanding a specific discipline--including painting, sculpture, music, and theater--with a clear and insightful explanation of the discipline's process of creation.

Author : Peter Cave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0861543572

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Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through reason, experience and shared human values. In this thought-provoking introduction, Peter Cave explores the humanist approach to religious belief, ethics and politics, and addresses key criticisms. Revised and updated to confront today’s great crises – the climate emergency and global pandemics – and the future of humanism in the face of rapid technological advancement, this is for anyone wishing to better understand what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Author : Claire Lemercier
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813942698

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This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification, "big data," or "digital humanities." The authors reveal quantification to be a powerful and versatile tool, applicable to a myriad of materials from the past. Their book, accessible to complete beginners, offers detailed advice and practical tips on how to build a dataset from historical sources and how to categorize it according to specific research questions. Drawing on examples from works in social, political, economic, and cultural history, the book guides readers through a wide range of methods, including sampling, cross-tabulations, statistical tests, regression, factor analysis, network analysis, sequence analysis, event history analysis, geographical information systems, text analysis, and visualization. The requirements, advantages, and pitfalls of these techniques are presented in layperson's terms, avoiding mathematical terminology. Conceived primarily for historians, the book will prove invaluable to other humanists, as well as to social scientists looking for a nontechnical introduction to quantitative methods. Covering the most recent techniques, in addition to others not often enough discussed, the book will also have much to offer to the most seasoned practitioners of quantification.

Author : Keith Knight
Publisher :
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art and society
ISBN :

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Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this comics-illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers.

Author : Jason M. Baxter
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493413104

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Dante's Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the most significant works of literature ever written. It is renowned not only for its ability to make truths known but also for its power to make them loved. It captures centuries of thought on sin, love, community, moral living, God's work in history, and God's ineffable beauty. Like a Gothic cathedral, the beauty of this great poem can be appreciated at first glance, but only with a guide can its complexity and layers of meaning be fully comprehended. This accessible introduction to Dante, which also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy, helps readers better appreciate and understand Dante's spiritual masterpiece. Jason Baxter, an expert on Dante, covers all the basic themes of the Divine Comedy, such as sin, redemption, virtue, and vice. The book contains a general introduction to Dante and a specific introduction to each canticle (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), making it especially well suited for classroom and homeschool use.

Author : Stefan Kottwitz
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1847199879

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Create high-quality and professional-looking texts, articles, and books for Business and Science using LaTeX.

Author : Silvio Levy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1441986545

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The last two decades have witnessed a revolution in the realm of typography, with the virtual disappearance of hot-lead typesetting in favor of the so-called digital typesetting. The principle behind the new technology is simple: imagine a very fine mesh superimposed on a sheet of paper. Digital typesetting consists in darkening the appropriate pixels (tiny squares) of this mesh, in patterns corresponding to each character and symbol of the text being set. The actual darkening is done by some printing device, say a laser printer or phototypesetter, which must be told exactly where the ink should go. Since the mesh is very fine-the dashes surrounding this sentence are some six pixels thick, and more than 200 pixels long-the printer can only be controlled by a computer program, which takes a "high-level" description of the page in terms of text, fonts, and formatting commands, and digests all of that into "low-level" commands for the printer. TEX is such a program, created by Donald E. Knuth, a computer scientist at Stanford University.

Author : Nijay K. Gupta
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493422200

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This accessible and balanced introduction helps readers sort out key views on the most important debated issues in New Testament studies. Well-known New Testament scholar Nijay Gupta fairly presents the spectrum of viewpoints on thirteen topics and offers reflections on why scholars disagree on these matters. Written to be accessible to students and readers without advanced training in New Testament studies, this book will serve as an excellent supplementary text for New Testament introduction courses.