This volume examines the rich and varied cloth traditions of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. A wealth of illustrations, both contemporary and historical, introduce the reader to traditions that range from the blood-red, polished abaca cloths of the B'laan and the dazzling headcloths of the Tausug to the striking plaids in magenta and orange silk created by the Maguindanao. Essays explore in detail the textile traditions of the Bagobo, the B'laan, the Maguindanao, and the Maranao.

AWAKEN YOUR PSYCHIC ABILITIES is a sensible guide for beginners and teachers. The meditations and step-by-step instructions will strengthen your connection to your spirit guides and awaken your ability to learn clairvoyance; seeing in the minds eye, clairsentient; sensing feeling, clairaudient; hearing spiritual messages; mental telepathy, aura reading, psychometry, past-life recognition, automatic writing, psychic awareness, and much more. The result is a closer connection with your spirit guides. The purpose of psychic awareness is to transform your life in positive ways when using your natural intuitive perception. This book is a metaphysical teaching manual for individual exploration, group workshop, college, and classroom setting. All information is non-non-denominational. All references to God represent a universal consciousness that unites all people, of all faiths, alive or in spirit, in interconnected universal love. Whether you are a novice or want to teach the paranormal, this book is for you. Reviews Marie Kays book presents meditations, workshop with step-by-step exercises, and spiritual knowledge that will transform your life in a positive way. Kathy Nahtygal, healer and psychic. I, Susi Walter, have taught groups with the exercises and meditations fr om Awaken Your Psychic Abilities for three years. Most beginners sensed, heard, or saw, within their minds eye, and experienced spiritual guidance shortly aft er using these simple techniques. This book has significantly changed the lives of many people, including my own. Susi Walter, founder of: Intuitive Endeavors, Meditation on the Go! www.susiwalter.com. Marie Kay shares with the reader the many ways we can open up and enhance our spiritual gifts. She is an outstanding spiritual teacher and guide. Be prepared to expand your intuitive abilities and walk the spiritual path. Eric Alsterberg, Ph.D. psychologist and spiritual author Marie Harriette Kay was born in Detroit, Michigan. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, an artist,psychic, and medium. She has been a teacher of parapsychology for over forty years. She was married and raised three children. Marie can communicate with the dead, from which she has acquired much of the material for AWAKEN YOUR PSYCHIC ABILITIES. She has studied, taught, and lectured on many phases of parapsychology. Askaboutspirits.com Marie began her psychic training in 1970, with Mrs. June Black, who had her training in London, England, and had also been active in the field of paranormal for over forty years. Marie became Mrs. Blacks assistant and under her guidance for seven years, studied psychic awareness, meditation, mediumship, psychometry, healing, past-life regression, and much more.

If you’re in a hurry to learn D3.js, the leading JavaScript library for web-based graphics and visualization, this book is for you. Written for technically savvy readers with a background in programming or data science, the book moves quickly, emphasizing unifying concepts and patterns. Anticipating common difficulties, author Philipp K. Janert teaches you how to apply D3 to your own problems. Assuming only a general programming background, but no previous experience with contemporary web development, this book explains supporting technologies such as SVG, HTML5, CSS, and the DOM as needed, making it a convenient one-stop resource for a technical audience. Understand D3 selections, the library’s fundamental organizing principle Learn how to create data-driven documents with data binding Create animated graphs and interactive user interfaces Draw figures with curves, shapes, and colors Use the built-in facilities for heatmaps, tree graphs, and networks Simplify your work by writing your own reusable components

We live in a world of optical marvels - from the commonplace but beautiful rainbow, to the rare and eerie superior mirage. But how many of us really understand how a rainbow is formed, why the setting sun is red and flattened, or even why the sky at night is not absolutely black? This beautiful and informative guide provides clear explanations to all naturally occurring optical phenomena seen with the naked eye, including shadows, halos, water optics, mirages and a host of other spectacles. Separating myth from reality, it outlines the basic principles involved, and supports them with many figures and references. A wealth of rare and spectacular photographs, many in full color, illustrate the phenomena throughout. In this new edition of the highly-acclaimed guide to seeing, photographing and understanding nature's optical delights, the authors have added over 50 new images and provided new material on experiments you can try yourself.

Color is one of cinema’s most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stage ideas, and elicit feelings. But what if color is not—or not only—a formal system, but instead a linguistic effect, emerging from the slipstream of our talk and embodiment in a world? This book develops a compelling framework from which to understand the mobility of color in art and mind, where color impressions are seen through, and even governed by, patterns of ordinary language use, schemata, memories, and narrative. Edward Branigan draws on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and other philosophers who struggle valiantly with problems of color aesthetics, contemporary theories of film and narrative, and art-historical models of analysis. Examples of a variety of media, from American pop art to contemporary European cinema, illustrate a theory based on a spectator’s present-time tracking of temporal patterns that are firmly entwined with language use and social intelligence.

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