Author: G. Bingham Powell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This text explores elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last 25 years, it examines the differences between two visions of democracy - the majoritarian vision and the proportional influence vision.
Elections as Instruments of Democracy
Author: G. Bingham Powell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This text explores elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last 25 years, it examines the differences between two visions of democracy - the majoritarian vision and the proportional influence vision.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080162
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This text explores elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last 25 years, it examines the differences between two visions of democracy - the majoritarian vision and the proportional influence vision.
Objects of Vision
Author: A. Joan Saab
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271088702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know). A. Joan Saab examines the scientific and socially constructed aspects of seeing in order to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating that what we see and how we see it are often historically situated and culturally constructed. Through a series of linked case studies that highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing—hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, to name just a few—she interrogates the relationship between “visions” and visuality. This focus on the strange and the wonderful in understanding changing notions of visions and visual culture is a compelling entry point into the increasingly urgent topic of technologically enhanced representations of reality. Accessibly written and thoroughly enlightening, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the connections between seeing and knowing that will appeal to students and teachers of visual studies and sensory, social, and cultural history.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271088702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know). A. Joan Saab examines the scientific and socially constructed aspects of seeing in order to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating that what we see and how we see it are often historically situated and culturally constructed. Through a series of linked case studies that highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing—hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, to name just a few—she interrogates the relationship between “visions” and visuality. This focus on the strange and the wonderful in understanding changing notions of visions and visual culture is a compelling entry point into the increasingly urgent topic of technologically enhanced representations of reality. Accessibly written and thoroughly enlightening, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the connections between seeing and knowing that will appeal to students and teachers of visual studies and sensory, social, and cultural history.
Image Processing with LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision
Author: Thomas Klinger
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 9780130474155
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book shows how LabVIEW and especially IMAQ Vision can be used for the realization of common image processing tasks. It covers key issues like image distribution and generation, and technologies such as FireWire and Camera Link are discussed in-depth.
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 9780130474155
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book shows how LabVIEW and especially IMAQ Vision can be used for the realization of common image processing tasks. It covers key issues like image distribution and generation, and technologies such as FireWire and Camera Link are discussed in-depth.
Vision and Its Instruments
Author: Alina Alexandra Payne
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271063898
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271063898
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value.
Catalogue of Ophthalmological Instruments and Equipment
Author: F.A. Hardy & Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ophthalmology
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ophthalmology
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue, and Other Laws
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1560
Book Description
Vision Through the Atmosphere
Author: W.E.K. Middleton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487586566
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In recent years, the problem of seeing through the atmosphere has been given intensive and costly consideration in several quarters, but particularly in the Untied States and Great Britain. A problem which once concerned mainly the meteorologists has become of great importance in military tactics as well as in peacetime transportation. The present volume is the only full account in English of the physical, physiological, and psychological factors which lie at the basis of the calculation of the range of vision through the atmosphere. There is an extended chapter on instruments and one on the author's own theory of the colours of distant objects. The figures are from many sources althrough many of them have been drawn specially for this book. The bibliography contains 420 entries nearly all of which are directly referred to in the text.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487586566
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In recent years, the problem of seeing through the atmosphere has been given intensive and costly consideration in several quarters, but particularly in the Untied States and Great Britain. A problem which once concerned mainly the meteorologists has become of great importance in military tactics as well as in peacetime transportation. The present volume is the only full account in English of the physical, physiological, and psychological factors which lie at the basis of the calculation of the range of vision through the atmosphere. There is an extended chapter on instruments and one on the author's own theory of the colours of distant objects. The figures are from many sources althrough many of them have been drawn specially for this book. The bibliography contains 420 entries nearly all of which are directly referred to in the text.
Vision and Its Instruments
Author: Alina Payne
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271063904
Category : Art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271063904
Category : Art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value.
Investigations Into the Super-physical
Author: Annie Besant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Future life
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Future life
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Visions and Revelations
Author: John Taylor Dean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description