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Feng Shui and the City: The Private and Public Spaces of Chinese Geomancy
by Xiaoqing Zhang Manuela MadedduFeng Shui and the City analyses the past and contemporary influences of traditional geomancy on Chinese built environments across three domains: domestic spaces, spaces of commercial development and the public realm. Using Lefebvre’s notion of absolute and abstract space—spaces of ‘symbolic existence’ and ‘everyday life’ versus spaces of domination and control, it tracks evolving attachment to, and use of, Feng Shui in Guangdong and Hong Kong. The book seeks to understand the changing role of Feng Shui in modern urban development and its regulation, and to question what constitutes authentic Feng Shui today.
Feng Shui for Healing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Improving Wellness in Your Home Sanctuary
by Rodika TchiAccessible ancient wisdom for a happy modern home.Creating a powerful and healing home sanctuary is the essence of feng shui—the Chinese system of designing a space based on how energy flows. Feng Shui for Healing is a modern interpretation of this ancient wisdom, presented with empowering advice and step-by-step guidance for using your own space to nurture wellness and vitality.Improper feng shui can keep you from feeling comfortable in your home and keep you stuck in old thoughts, stubborn habits, and stalled health goals. But with this book, you can learn to free up that energy with simple, time-tested feng shui home edits—like adding imagery that fosters a lighter mood and happier relationships. When the energy in your space moves freely, you'll feel better inside and out.Feng Shui for Healing is your accessible guide to:Practical exercises—Discover simple rituals to sanctify your time and space, with actionable steps you can take right away.Mindful pauses—Simple breathing exercises are included throughout to help you slow down and check in with yourself as you take on this powerful home energy work.The 9 life areas—See how feng shui can enhance and protect family, friends, prosperity, health, reputation, career, creativity, relationships, and knowledge.Make your home more comfortable and restorative with this fun and easy start to feng shui.
Feng Shui para Occidente
by Terah Kathryn CollinsFeng Shui teacher Terah Kathryn explains why the arrangement of readers' homes and workplaces affects every aspect of their lives, including relationships, health, and finances. This informative text takes readers on a step-by-step journey through their home and office, opening their "Feng Shui eyes" to see the problems and the solutions in their environment.
Feng Shui that Makes Sense: Easy Ways to Create a Home that FEELS as Good as it Looks
by Cathleen MccandlessFinally, a feng shui book that replaces non-sense with common sense! You don't need to be a professional designer or a feng shui expert in order to have a beautiful, comfortable home. Feng Shui That Makes Sense takes you step-by-step through the process of using feng shui principles to easily create a home that will please your eye, relax your body, inspire your mind, and lift your spirit. This book will help you: * Easily create a home of beauty, harmony, and comfort * Learn basic feng shui principles that work every time in every space * Improve the look and feel of any room in your home * Discover the origins of popular feng shui myths and misunderstandings * Enhance the areas of your home relating to Love, Money, Health, Family, and more * Apply feng shui principles to your landscape and garden * Integrate nature and natural materials into your living space * Clear your home of unwanted energy * Create a home that nurtures and inspires you physically, mentally, and spiritually * Understand how and why your environment affects you the way it does
Feng Shui: Seeing Is Believing
by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Jampa LudrupIn this pithy and practical handbook, Ven. Jampa Ludrup lays out the fundamentals of feng shui without any of the opaque mysticism that sometimes clouds the practice. "The aim of this book," he writes, "is to help you have more happiness in your life." Through his easy-to-understand instructions, diagrams, and photos, Ludrup illustrates how simple alterations to the layout of your home can vastly improve specific areas of your life-romance, prosperity, health, or whatever is troubling you. With nothing more than this book and a good compass, you can rearrange your house, your fortune, and your life. The book comes with a handy pocket-sized chart that you can carry with you to job interviews or first dates - any important events - so that you can be confident that you will be able to achieve the best possible outcome.
Feng Shui: The Living Earth Manual
by Stephen SkinnerThe ancient Chinese art of Feng-Shui, the basis of man's relationship with the land, has practitioners and followers throughout the Western world, from rural communities to big cities. Not just an Eastern practice any more, Feng-Shui can be found around the globe.Feng-Shui is an art that stresses the importance of living in harmony with nature. The Chinese believe that the earth has channels of energy known as 'dragon-lines', comparable with the meridians of the human body, and the buildings, towns and rooms should be designed and constructed so as not to obstruct these channels. According to the principles of Feng-Shui, living in harmony with the earth's field of energy will promote prosperity, peace and happiness.Living Earth Feng Shui is a fascinating book which outlines how Feng-Shui can be applied on a small or large scale, in the busiest cities or the smallest room. Author Stephen Skinner outlines its history and philosophy, clearly showing how it can be used to determine the site and arrangement of dwelling places in order to enhance the quality of life of the inhabitants. This is the perfect book for those new to Feng-Shui or someone who is interested in expanding their knowledge.
Fenway Park (Images of America)
by David Hickey Kerry Keene Raymond Sinibaldi Jim LonborgFive days after the sinking of the Titanic, Boston's Fenway Park held its grand opening. Since that day, millions have witnessed the Red Sox play baseball. Their "Royal Rooters" evolved into the "Fenway Faithful" and are now commonly referred to as "Red Sox Nation." Nine World Series have been staged upon Fenway's turf, along with three Major League All-Star Games. Aside from baseball, Fenway has been host to professional and amateur football games, ice hockey, basketball, soccer, lacrosse, hurling, boxing and wrestling matches, and even a circus. Music from concerts has reverberated across its lawn, religious services have been held, and political rallies staged--all adding patches to the quilt of Fenway's rich, illustrious history. The structure that noted author John Updike referred to many decades ago as "a lyric little band box" has become one of New England's most beloved historical landmarks.
Fenway Park (Images of Modern America)
by Raymond SinibaldiIn June 1967, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey declared Fenway Park outdated and stated that without help from the city for a new ballpark, he would consider moving his team. That same year, an impossible dream came true as the 100-1 underdog Red Sox won the pennant and a record-setting 1.7 million fans visited Fenway. Since then, approximately 110 million fans have watched the Red Sox play at what is now called "America's Most Beloved Ballpark." While Fenway Park was once known for simply resembling a warehouse, its nearby streets now hold a baseball festival every game. Those festivals have grown to include concerts, hockey, soccer, and high school football. The exterior walls of the park extoll the accomplishments of each Red Sox World Championship team and fly the banners of Red Sox Hall of Famers since the team's birth in 1901. Red Sox bronzed immortals stand watch at the entrance to Gate B.
Fenway Park: A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America
by John Powers Ron DriscollFenway Park. The name evokes a team and a sport that have become more synonymous with a cityOCOs identity than any stadium or arena in the country. aSince opening in the same week of 1912 that the Titanic sank, the parkOCOs instantly recognizable confines have seen some of the most dramatic happenings in baseball history, including Carlton FiskOCOs OC Is it fair?OCO home run in the 1975 World Series and Ted WilliamsOCOs perfectly scripted long ball in his final at-bat. For 100 years, the Fenway faithful have been tested. They have known triumph and heartbreak, miracles and cursesOCowell, one curse in particularOCoto such a degree that an entire nation of fans heaved a collective sigh of relief when Dave Roberts stole a base by a fingertip in 2004, triggering the most amazing comeback in the gameOCOs annals. aTo sit and watch a game at Fenway is to recognize that the pitcher is standing on the same mound where Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and Babe Ruth pitched, that a hitter is in the same batterOCOs box where Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron and Shoeless Joe Jackson dug in to take their swings. This is a ballpark that has embraced its odd construction quirks, including the bizarre triangle out in center field and the Green Monster that looms above the left fielder, and todayOCofor better and for worseOCoit remains largely unchanged from the day it opened. In its long history, Fenway has hosted football, hockey, soccer, boxing, and so much more. It has provided a backdrop to hundreds of historic events having nothing to do with sports, including concerts, religious gatherings, and political rallies. It was the site of Franklin Delano RooseveltOCOs final campaign address, as well as visits by music luminaries from Stevie Wonder to Bruce Springsteen to the Rolling Stones. aThrough it all, the Boston Globe has been the consistent, respected chronicler of every important moment in park history. In fact, the newspaper played a remarkable role in FenwayOCOs creation and evolution: the Taylor familyOCofounders and longtime owners of the GlobeOCoowned the ballclub in 1912, helped finance the new stadium, and renamed the team the OC Red SoxOCO. It is the GlobeOCOs insider perspective, combined with more than a century of exemplary journalism, that makes this book the definitive narrative history of both park and team, and a centennial collectorsOCO item unlike any other. Its pages offer a level of detail that is unmatched, with exceptional writing and hundreds of rarely seen photographs and illustrations. This is Fenway Park, the complete story, unfiltered and expertly told. "
Fern: My Story
by Fern BrittonThe much-loved TV star Fern Britten tells her story for the first time in her Sunday Times bestselling memoir.For years now, Fern Britton has been widely loved as the presenter ofReady Steady Cook, and, more recently, co-presenter of This Morning with Philip Schofield. Never one to shy away from a good laugh or cry on national TV, she has none-the-less never talked about herself to the public, preferring to keep her private life private. Her warmth and humour, empathy and compassion, have made her feel like a best friend to millions on a daily basis, but no one knows the woman behind the sparkling smile.Now, for the first time, she is going to tell her story. And it is one that will strike a chord with women everywhere. Life as a child was not always easy, and she faced private and public challenges with her personal life, appearance and her career as she climbed the ladder to fame. Now a full-time working mum, with a very happy marriage to her second husband Phil Vickery, she is at the top of her game, and ready to tell it like it is. So put your feet up and get ready for a great read with Fern Britten.Fern Britten grew up in Buckinghamshire, and started her career on Westward Television, before moving to GMTV and Ready Steady Cook. She later co-presented This Morning with Philip Schofield, and has become a much sought after presenter for shows including Have I Got News For You, Soap Star Superstar and Celebrity Mr and Mrs. She recently wowed audiences with her performance on Strictly Come Dancing. She lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband Phil Vickery and their four children.
Ferndale
by Ferndale MuseumThe enchanting "Victorian Village" of Ferndale in the Eel River Valley is designated a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is a California Historical Landmark. Named by its founders, the Shaw brothers, to honor the six-foot-tall ferns that once choked the thickly forested valley floor, the town became a vital center for goods bound by water for San Francisco and a crossroads for stages to Eureka and Bear River. For many years after the Shaws first paddled their canoe across the Eel River in 1852, travelers forded it by ferry. This changed when Fernbridge was constructed in 1911, at that time the longest reinforced concrete-arch span bridge in the world.
Ferns: Indoors - Outdoors - Growing - Crafting
by Mobee WeinsteinA concise, creative, practical guide to growing these amazing plants, drawn from the award-winning volume The Complete Book of Ferns.A more concise version of The Complete Book of Ferns, focused on practical use for gardeners, Ferns offers botanical information, indoor and outdoor growing and care information, details on propagation, display ideas, and even craft projects. With numerous color photos, it will help you add a new dimension to your home or backyard garden reflecting the beauty and wide variety of this hardy plant that dates back to before the time of the dinosaurs.Acclaim for The Complete Book of FernsWinner of an American Horticultural Society Book Award“A lovely and multifaceted exploration . . . as useful as it is educational.” —Publishers Weekly
Fernsehen und Klassenfragen
by Dagmar Hoffmann Florian Krauß Moritz StockDer Sammelband untersucht das Verhältnis von Klasse – einer nicht nur ökonomischen, sondern auch kulturellen und politischen Kategorie – und dem Fernsehen in seinen gegenwärtigen hybriden Formen vor allem aus vier Perspektiven: Erstens geht es um Klassenfragen im Fernsehen, auf der Ebene der Repräsentation, zweitens um Klassenfragen des Fernsehens auf der Seite der Produktion. Hier ist zum Beispiel zu analysieren, welche Klassen welches Fernsehen (für welche Klassen) entwickelt und herstellt. Unter drittens Klassenfragen beim Fernsehen fallen Beiträge, die sich auf die Seite der Rezeption fokussieren und zum Beispiel die Lesarten zu spezifischen Klassendarstellungen beleuchten. Viertens nimmt der Band Klassenfragen der Fernsehwissenschaft in den Blick und reflektiert in diesem Zusammenhang ihre Lücken und ihre Prägung durch Klassenzugehörigkeit.
Fernsehwelten
by Thorsten Quandt Jürgen Wilke Christine Heimprecht Thilo PapeDer Band vermittelt ein eindrückliches Bild vom Stand der Auslandsberichterstattung im deutschen Fernsehen. Auf der Basis inhaltsanalytischer Untersuchungen, einer Repräsentativbefragung unter deutschen Fernsehzuschauern sowie Leitfadeninterviews mit Journalisten aus den produzierenden Redaktionen werden die Erkenntnisse eines umfassenden Projekts zur Erforschung der Auslandsnachrichten im deutschen Fernsehen diskutiert.
Fernsehwissenschaft und Serienforschung: Theorie, Geschichte und Gegenwart (post-)televisueller Serialität
by Dominik Maeder Denis Newiak Herbert SchwaabFernsehserien erfreuen sich einer ungebrochenen - populären wie wissenschaftlichen - Aufmerksamkeit. Dabei erstaunt, dass in medien- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zur Serialität fernsehwissenschaftliche und -geschichtliche Ansätze noch immer eine eher kleine Rolle spielen. Dabei ist Serialität stets vom Fernsehen her zu denken, sind doch beide schon immer unauflösbar miteinander verwoben gewesen – ökonomisch, technisch und ästhetisch. Doch was macht darüber hinaus das Serielle im Fernsehen aus und wie verändert es sein Gesicht in Zeiten von Digitalisierung, Streaming und Interaktivität? Lässt sich eine genuine Serientheorie des Televisuellen denken – und was lässt sich daraus wiederum für die Serialität jenseits des Fernsehens lernen? Die fernsehwissenschaftlichen Aufsätze dieses Bandes leisten einen Beitrag dazu, das Serielle als Kernprinzip des Fernsehens neu zu beleuchten und anhand vielfältiger Beispiele aus dem aktuellen Fernsehserienangebot neue Impulse für eine Fernsehtheorie des Seriellen zu setzen.
Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
by Robert DanceRobert Dance’s new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and—while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life—focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and as a woman who mastered the studio system with a rare combination of grit, determination, beauty, and talent.Crawford’s remarkable forty-five-year motion picture career is one of the industry’s longest. Signing her first contract in 1925, she was crowned an MGM star four years later and by the mid-1930s was the most popular actress in America. In the early 1940s, Crawford’s risky decision to move to Warner Bros. was rewarded with an Oscar for Mildred Pierce. This triumph launched a series of film noir classics. In her fourth decade she teamed with rival Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, proving that Crawford, whose career had begun by defining big-screen glamour, had matured into a superb dramatic actress. Her last film was released in 1970, and two years later she made a final television appearance, forty-seven years after walking through the MGM gate for the first time. Crawford made a successful transition into business during her later years, notably in her long association with Pepsi-Cola as a board member and the brand’s leading ambassador. Overlooked in previous biographies has been Crawford’s fierce resolve in creating and then maintaining her star persona. She let neither her age nor the passing of time block her unrivaled ambition, and she continually reimagined herself, noting once that, for the right part, she would play Wally Beery’s grandmother. But she was always the consummate star, and at the time of her death in 1977, she was a motion picture legend and a twentieth-century icon.
Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog (Visible Evidence #27)
by Eric AmesOver the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999, the filmmaker declared: &“There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.&” Ferocious Reality is the first book to ask how this conviction, so hostile to the traditional tenets of documentary, can inform the work of one of the world&’s most provocative documentarians.Herzog, whose Cave of Forgotten Dreams was perhaps the most celebrated documentary of 2010, may be the most influential filmmaker missing from major studies and histories of documentary. Examining such notable films as Lessons of Darkness (1992) and Grizzly Man (2005), Eric Ames shows how Herzog dismisses documentary as a mode of filmmaking in order to creatively intervene and participate in it. In close, contextualized analysis of more than twenty-five films spanning Herzog&’s career, Ames makes a case for exploring documentary films in terms of performance and explains what it means to do so. Thus his book expands the field of cinema studies even as it offers an invaluable new perspective on a little studied but integral part of Werner Herzog&’s extraordinary oeuvre.
Ferrocement: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium
by R. N. Swamy Pj. NedwellFerrocement is a versatile, construction material, with applications in low cost housing, rehabilitation, strengthening and repair of structures. This book presents the latest developments in research and application of the material.
Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh
by Deirdre BoyleFerryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh is an unconventional book about an unconventional filmmaker. Rithy Panh survived the Cambodian genocide and found refuge in France where he discovered in film a language that allowed him to tell what happened to the two million souls who suffered hunger, overwork, disease, and death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. His innovative cinema is made with people, not about them—even those guilty of crimes against humanity. Whether he is directing Isabelle Huppert in The Sea Wall, following laborers digging trenches, or interrogating the infamous director of S-21 prison, aesthetics and ethics inform all he does. With remarkable access to the director and his work, Deirdre Boyle introduces readers to Panh’s groundbreaking approach to perpetrator cinema and dazzling critique of colonialism, globalization, and the refugee crisis. Ferryman of Memories reveals the art of one of the masters of world cinema today, focusing on nineteen of his award-winning films, including Rice People, The Land of Wandering Souls, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, and The Missing Picture.
Fertigungsverfahren 2: Zerspanung mit geometrisch unbestimmter Schneide (VDI-Buch)
by Fritz KlockeBand 2 des f#65533;nfb#65533;ndigen Werks f#65533;r Ingenieure und Studenten stellt die Verfahren mit geometrisch unbestimmten Schneiden vor. Das Buch wurde zur 4. Auflage umfassend bearbeitet und erheblich erweitert. Ausgehend von den Grundlagen des Schneideneingriffs beim Schleifen werden Aufbau, Eigenschaften und Herstellverfahren der Werkzeuge sowie der K#65533;hlschmierstoffe vorgestellt. Die Schleifbarkeit unterschiedlicher Werkstoffe (Stahl-, Eisenguss-, Nickel-, Titan- und spr#65533;dharte Werkstoffe) wird behandelt. F#65533;r K#65533;hlschmierstoffe werden neben den Grundlagen der K#65533;hlschmierung beim Schleifen jetzt auch anwendungsbezogene Aspekte behandelt. Neben den g#65533;ngigen Schleifverfahren werden auch spezielle Verfahrensvarianten, etwa zur Zahnradbearbeitung, dargestellt. Anwendungsbeispiele nach DIN 8589 wurden erg#65533;nzt. Zum Polieren finden neue praxisbezogene Erkenntnisse Ber#65533;cksichtigung. Sonderverfahren wie das ultraschallunterst#65533;tzte Schleifen sowie das Trennen mit geometrisch unbestimmten Schneiden sind ebenfalls neu hinzugekommen. Das Buch ist ein Referenzwerk und zur spezialisierten Vertiefung des Wissens sehr geeignet.
Fertigungsverfahren 4: Umformen (VDI-Buch)
by Fritz KlockeDer 4. Band "Umformtechnik" fasst die B#65533;cher "Massivumformung" und "Blechbearbeitung" in eins. Neue Kapitel und moderne Methoden in aktueller Darstellung s#65533;mtlicher Verfahrensvarianten mit Gestaltungsregeln und Produktionsbeispielen. Aktualisiert, erweitert um neue Inhalte: u. a. Metallographie, Analyse, Werkstoffe, Finite-Elemente-Methode, Thixoformen. Neu aufbereitete Sonderverfahren: Innenhochdruck- und Hochgeschwindigkeitsumformung.
Fertigungsverfahren 5: Urformtechnik, Gießen, Sintern, Rapid Prototyping (VDI-Buch)
by Fritz KlockeDie Autoren beschreiben klassische und moderne Verfahren, jeweils auf dem neuesten Stand und für die Anwendung in der industriellen Fertigung. Im Einzelnen werden Tief-, Kragen- und Streckziehen, Drücken, Biegen und Schwenkbiegen, Verfahrensvarianten, Formänderungen, Prozesskräfte und Fertigungsbeispiele beschrieben. Für die Neuauflage wurden viele Kapitel erweitert und neue hinzugefügt, u. a. zum Abkühlungsvorgang aus der Schmelze, zu Kristallisation und Kristallwachstum, zu Gusswerkstoffen, oder der Simulation bei der Auslegung und Fertigung.
Fertile Ground in Middle Level General Music
by Stephanie CronenbergFertile Ground in Middle Level General Music guides music educators to inspire their middle level students (grades 5–8) to engage more deeply in the general music classroom, where students are given the opportunity to "try on" a range of roles: musician, composer, listener, and critic. The book outlines the Fertile Ground Framework, a teacher's aide for curricular decision-making that unites the middle level concept with the National Core Arts Standards while emphasizing the developmental needs and cultural identities of students. This resource-rich book provides teachers with an array of adaptable classroom support tools, including: Lesson sequences Activity ideas Teacher resources and worksheets "Do-Now" exercises Featuring the real-world perspectives of thirteen music educators, Fertile Ground in Middle Level General Music is both practical and theoretical, presenting methods for creating rich, inspiring learning environments in middle level general music classrooms of all shapes and sizes, and highlighting the unacknowledged strengths that already exist therein. Focused on the aim of motivating students to pursue lifelong music learning, this book helps instructors find joy and excitement in teaching a wide array of musical topics to diverse groups of middle level music students.
Fertile Ground in Middle Level General Music
by Stephanie CronenbergFertile Ground in Middle Level General Music guides music educators to inspire their middle level students (grades 5–8) to engage more deeply in the general music classroom, where students are given the opportunity to "try on" a range of roles: musician, composer, listener, and critic. The book outlines the Fertile Ground Framework, a teacher's aide for curricular decision-making that unites the middle level concept with the National Core Arts Standards while emphasizing the developmental needs and cultural identities of students. This resource-rich book provides teachers with an array of adaptable classroom support tools, including: Lesson sequences Activity ideas Teacher resources and worksheets "Do-Now" exercises Featuring the real-world perspectives of thirteen music educators, Fertile Ground in Middle Level General Music is both practical and theoretical, presenting methods for creating rich, inspiring learning environments in middle level general music classrooms of all shapes and sizes, and highlighting the unacknowledged strengths that already exist therein. Focused on the aim of motivating students to pursue lifelong music learning, this book helps instructors find joy and excitement in teaching a wide array of musical topics to diverse groups of middle level music students.
Festival Architecture (The Classical Tradition in Architecture)
by Sarah Bonnemaison Christine MacyWith contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to contemporary architecture and urban design ideas and theories. Illustrated with a wealth of unusual and rarely-seen images from the European festival tradition, this is a fascinating outline of the history of festival architecture ideal for postgraduate architecture and urban design students.