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Sammie Crowder
Blender is the most important up-and-coming 3D software package in the world. EEVEE, a state-of-the-art real-time rendering engine is a fairly new addition to Blender and provides the capacity to create artwork at blazing speed, almost 12 times faster than Cycles.Lighting, Shading, and Rendering with Blender’s EEVEE provides a high-level overview of what EEVEE is capable of, then teaches users about Geometry Nodes, Rendering Techniques, using shortcuts like Kitbashing and Alphas to speed up scene creation, volumetrics, reflections, adding lights, cameras and even special effects like fire and smoke, all in EEVEE. All of this is in the context of creating actual scenes that readers will work through from start to finish. By the time a Blender Artist completes the book, they will have created three separate works that have challenged them to iterate and design with the full power of Blender’s EEVEE.
Robert E. Howard
Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November, 1935. Its original title was The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimmerian character himself.
Charles Williams
The plot of Shadows of Ecstasy is based on the fact that the madman decided to destroy Western civilization. The author could easily punish such a madman. However, as in many of his stories, a person receives forgiveness from God. The plot of the novel is tense, supporters of paganism are trying to protect their world.
Willa Cather
This is a historical fiction book depicting the French colonization of Canada and life in Quebec in the late 1600s. Euclid Auclair is a father and a widower. The little daughter took over the running of their home after the death of her beloved mother two years ago. She is twelve. Euclid and his family, wife and daughter, had come to Quebec eight years earlier, hired by the Governor General to be his physician.
Shakespeare 2014. W 450. rocznicę urodzin
Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney, Monika Sosnowska
W książce przedstawiono wyniki interdyscyplinarnych badań nad dziełami i obecnością wielkiego dramaturga elżbietańskiego w Polsce w zmieniającym się kontekście historycznym i kulturowym. Jest ona po części efektem dyskusji naukowych prowadzonych w Międzynarodowym Centrum Badań Szekspirowskich utworzonym w Uniwersytecie Łódzkim w 2012 r. Interesująca tematyka (m.in. „mit Hamleta” w kulturze polskiej, sprawa autorstwa sztuk Szekspira i teoria spiskowa, Szekspir w Teatrze Telewizji Polskiej) oraz sposób, w jaki przedstawione zostały metamorfozy pisarza i jego twórczości w literaturze, filmie, telewizji i malarstwie, czynią z książki pasjonującą lekturę, która też pobudza refleksję nad kulturotwórczą funkcją dzieł Szekspira i coraz nowymi znaczeniami wydobywanymi z jego sztuk scenicznych. Światowe kultury uznano za uzasadnione płaszczyzny kulturowe, które nieustannie określają tożsamość, znaczenie i wartość dzieł Szekspira. Jakakolwiek praca poświęcona badaniu obecności Szekspira w kulturze światowej staje się źródłem wiedzy o wielokulturowości, demonstrując, jak powiedział to parę lat temu Terence Hawkes, nie tylko „[c]o Szekspir chciał nam powiedzieć”, lecz „[c]o my chcemy powiedzieć przez Szekspira”. Do tej kolorowej mozaiki kultur należy także polski Szekspir, ze swą odmiennością m.in. polityczną, socjologiczną oraz zdobyczami artystycznymi i filozoficznymi.
Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety. Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of His Death
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney, Grzegorz Zinkiewicz
The great asset of Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety is its wide historical and geographical range - that is, from the time of the Bard himself to the latest metamorphoses of meanings new electronic media made available. Every reader, depending on his/her age and prior experience with Shakespeare, is at a different moment of this great historical-theoretical continuum of world culture. Everyone can also begin one’s own intellectual journey through cultural history - any time, any place. [...] Despite the once popular but now outdated post-truths, history has not ended. This volume testifies to the benefits of combining historical perspective in its fairly elementary version, which is a linear sequence of events, with an in-depth analysis of the transformations in understanding, exhibiting, and using (appropriating) Shakespeare’s works in our rapidly changing reality. Prof. Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk
Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety. Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of His Death. Second Edition
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney, Grzegorz Zinkiewicz
The great asset of Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety is its wide historical and geographical range - that is, from the time of the Bard himself to the latest metamorphoses of meanings new electronic media made available. Every reader, depending on his/her age and prior experience with Shakespeare, is at a different moment of this great historical-theoretical continuum of world culture. Everyone can also begin one’s own intellectual journey through cultural history - any time, any place. [...] Despite the once popular but now outdated post-truths, history has not ended. This volume testifies to the benefits of combining historical perspective in its fairly elementary version, which is a linear sequence of events, with an in-depth analysis of the transformations in understanding, exhibiting, and using (appropriating) Shakespeare’s works in our rapidly changing reality. Prof. Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk
Shapes in the Fire. Being a Mid-Winters Nights Entertainment in Two Parts and an Interlude
M.P. Shiel
M.P. Shiel, who wrote science fiction, mystery, and other genre fiction from the 1890s through 1930s, first established himself as a member of a Decadent movement in England. He was influenced by the Decadent movement lastingly than most of his contemporaries, in part because the tenets of Decadence resonated with his own personal history and racial views. As the movement faded, Shiel built on the underlying logic of Decadence to create adventure novels involving race-based conflict. Shiels racism is disturbing but complex, ultimately leading toward a vision of union between Self and Other. Shiels developing views are evident in five of his works from 1895-1901. Shapes in the Fire: Being a Mid-Winter-Nights Entertainment in Two Parts and an Interlude is one of these works that highly recommended for reading!