The Spectacular Spectrum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spectacular Spectrum write by Nila Mitra. This book was released on 2014-09-04. The Spectacular Spectrum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The geography and natural beauty I have seen on my way and the people I met printed a deep and everlasting impression in my mind. This travel fiction is the outcome of the magnificent experience of nature and the loving memory of its people I left behind. I tried reveal that nature is my main character. In the cities and towns , we are not very much in touch with nature, but sometimes we forget that there is an eternal bond between the soul of a man and the spirit of nature, to see and to feel its existence all around us. It stands as an animate entity for us through we can acquire wisdom of its creator who created all of it, as if as a scientist or as an artist, but above all we need to revitalize of our knowledge of the creator of all creation.
Rise of the Spectacular
Rise of the Spectacular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rise of the Spectacular write by John Hannigan. This book was released on 2021-08-29. Rise of the Spectacular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this prequel to Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), his acclaimed book about the post-industrial city as a site of theming, branding and simulated spaces, sociologist John Hannigan travels back in time to the 1950s. Unfairly stereotyped as ‘the tranquillized decade’, America at mid-century hosted an escalating proliferation and conjunction of ‘spectacular’ events, spaces, and technologies. Spectacularization was collectively defined by five features. It reflected and legitimated a dramatic increase in scale from the local/regional to the national. It was mediated by the increasingly popular medium of television. It exploited middle-class tension between comfortable conformity and desire for safe adventure. It celebrated technological progress, boosterism and military power. It was orchestrated and marketed by a constellation, sometimes a coalition, of entrepreneurs and dream merchants, most prominently Walt Disney. In this wide-ranging odyssey across mid-century America, Hannigan visits leisure parks (Cypress Gardens), parades (Tournament of Roses), mega-events (Squaw Valley Olympics, Century 21 Exposition), architectural styles (desert modernism), innovations (underwater photography, circular film projection) and everyday wonders (chemistry sets). Collectively, these fashioned the ‘spectacular gaze’, a prism through which Americans in the 1950s were acculturated to and conscripted into a vision of a progressive, technology-based future. Rise of the Spectacular will appeal to architects, landscape designers, geographers, sociologists, historians, and leisure/tourism researchers, as well as non-academic readers who are by a fascinating era in history.
The Spectacular Sea
The Spectacular Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spectacular Sea write by Gregory L Kinney. This book was released on 2020-03-15. The Spectacular Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the same book with alternate cover design, so that the customer has two different cover designs to choose from. On this cover, it's a painting by the author's mother, Marjorie Kinney, who is a well-known artist. Please take a look at www.marjoriekinney.com. On the other cover, it's of a photograph taken by the author while on a hiking trail between Little Harbor and Two Harbors on the island of Catalina.
Spectacular Nature
Spectacular Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spectacular Nature write by Susan G. Davis. This book was released on 2023-09-01. Spectacular Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale—as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds—the park represents a careful coordination of shows, dioramas, rides, and concessions built around the theme of ocean life. Susan Davis analyzes the Sea World experience and the forces that produce it: the theme park industry; Southern California tourism; the privatization of urban space; and the increasing integration of advertising, entertainment, and education. The result is an engaging exploration of the role played by images of nature and animals in contemporary commercial culture, and a precise account of how Sea World and its parent corporation, Anheuser-Busch, succeed. Davis argues that Sea World builds its vision of nature around customers' worries and concerns about the environment, family relations, and education. While Davis shows the many ways that Sea World monitors its audience and manipulates animals and landscapes to manufacture pleasure, she also explains the contradictions facing the enterprise in its campaign for a positive public identity. Shifting popular attitudes, animal rights activists, and environmental laws all pose practical and public relations challenges to the theme park. Davis confronts the park's vast operations with impressive insight and originality, revealing Sea World as both an industrial product and a phenomenon typical of contemporary American culture. Spectacular Nature opens an intriguing field of inquiry: the role of commercial entertainment in shaping public understandings of the environment and environmental problems.
The Spectacular Sea
The Spectacular Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spectacular Sea write by Gregory L. Kinney. This book was released on 2020-01-13. The Spectacular Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here's a quick description of the stories from shortest to longest, without giving anything away: SEASHELL JARS: A flash fiction piece about going to the tide pools. Very family friendly. Timeless. LAILAMINDI THE MERMAID: A short story about a young man who regularly enjoys his secret cove and adventurous activities only to encounter the mythical lady of the sea. Time period: Late 1970s. HIDDEN COVE LIGHTHOUSE: A short story about a pretty widow, her sweet little artistic daughter, a lighthouse, and a man who's in the process of demolishing it. Time period: 1968. PIRATE SKULL: A short story about an old man telling the tale of his pirate adventures in the Caribbean, mostly when he was nineteen. Time period: 1722 and beyond. CAPTAIN MONTY'S SUBMARINE: A short story about an eccentric inventor, his engineering friend and business partner, and the submarine they manufactured for the primary purpose of pleasure excursions. Time period: 1861 to 1910. LOST TREASURE ISLAND: A novelette about two men, a 23-year-old and a 75-year old, who set out to find gold that was buried on an island that, after many years and many searches, remained lost. Time period: 1967 to 2019. SABOT TO SUPERTANKER: A novella about a 12-year old runaway who attempts to circumnavigate the world and make it back in time for the release of his adoptive parents from prison. Time period: 2013 to 2019.
