Product Description: Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan's best-selling novel, into a pioneering opera, which debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own words, captured by Ken Smith, Amy Tan and composer Stewart Wallace describe an incredible journey that took them to China, where local village traditions, as well as singers, musicians, and designers became an integral part of the creative process...read more

Product Description: Ken Smith was just a boy of 18 in 1951 when the government asked him to serve. Despite his flat feet, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and began a three-year adventure that took him from the frigid North Atlantic to a tiny atoll in the South Pacific called Ulithi...read more

Product Description: Ken Smith is unquestionably one of the most interesting voices in landscape architecture; his works reflect the intensity and energy of their surroundings and challenge the distinction between landscape and art form. Ken Smith Landscape Architects/Urban Projects focuses on three prominent works in New York City: his East River Project; his work for P...read more

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas in visual communication, and presents the research methods utilized in exploring how people see and how visual communication occurs. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication, this volume brings together significant and influential work in the visual communication discipline.The theory chapters included here define the twelve major theories in visual communication scholarship: aesthetics, perception, representation, visual rhetoric, cognition, semiotics, reception theory, narrative, media aesthetics, ethics, visual literacy, and cultural studies. Each of these theory chapters is followed by exemplar studies in the area, demonstrating the various methods used in visual communication research as well as the research approaches applicable for specific media types.The Handbook serves as an invaluable reference for visual communication theory as well as a useful resource book of research methods in the discipline. It defines the current state of theory and research in visual communication, and serves as a foundation for future scholarship and study. As such, it is required reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in visual communication, and it will be influential in other disciplines in which the visual component is key, including advertising, persuasion, and media studies. The volume will also be useful to practitioners seeking to understand the visual aspects of their media and the visual processes used by their audiences.

The author of Mental Hygiene and Ken's Guide to the Bible traces the damage done to English by infomercials and advertising, revealing those 'junk' words, phrases, and tendencies that have made the language euphemistic and vague. Original.

Product Description: The Peak District -Britain's first National Park - has some of Britain's richest archaeological landscapes. When this book was first published in 1997, in Batsford's English Heritage series, it revealed them for the first time in all their diversity...read more

Product Description: The poems in this collection arenot about something else. Rather, in the words of James Joyce, each poem is"the transient, constantly displaced, forever disappearing thing itself."

Product Description: Ken Smith has been accused of writing in the radical European/American (and most unEnglish) tradition of Borges, Brautigan, Burroughs, and Buster Keaton. `Shed' houses poems from all of Smith's Bloodaxe poetry books published in the last twenty years...read more

Examines the misuse and decay of the English language and analyzes the current dependence on euphemisms and jargon, such as the use of the word 'consumer' to replace 'people' or 'person.' (view table of contents)

Provides coverage of the Edexcel 2001 specification. This work features: past paper examination questions; worked examples showing the key technique; questions for practice; skills breaks that allow students to practise all they have learnt in a new context; and emphasis on building algebraic skills.

Product Description: User-friendly business book to be appreciated by both consumers and providers in the service industry. Years of training and motivational experience are presented in a humorous, common sense manner that anyone can relate to. Included are a Customer Frustration Survey, Customer's Bill of Rights, 4 service cartoons from the New Yorker Collection and an index...read more

This impressively diverse collection contains 44 selections from both academic and nonacademic sources. Coupled with thoughtfully crafted pedagogy, these readings ask students to examine the knowledge, experience, and assumptions they bring to their reading, to interpret the selections in conversation with other readings, and to respond in writing. With the Second Edition, the editors have strengthened the book's emphasis on literacy as a theme, incorporated more cross-disciplinary selections, and enriched the apparatus. These revisions reflect the editors' commitment to making Literacies the ideal choice for composition courses that emphasize academic discourse. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Think about what would happen to this world that we live in today, if a virus killed off all the males of the earth. Due to the continuing effects of the virus, women cannot have male children. Men, knowing they would all be dead within a couple of years, take steps to help the women survive after them...read more

Product Description: Between 1945 and 1970, millions of public school students were subjected to hundreds of films designed to keep them on the straight and narrow. These cultural gems "enlightened" the nation's youth about proper dating, good table manners, the evils of dope, and what happens to teens who drive too fast on prom night...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Brad leaves high school with a boyish innocence and enthusiasm. But when he meets a stranger in the woods one day, he finds himself attracted to the young man and a series of hot and scary adventures begins. This highly erotic novel charts the antics of Brad and this young companions as they come out into a world of gay sex...read more

Product Description: This book provides a detailed review of diagnostic tests used in the investigation and management of patients with renal disease. The book is aimed at postgraduate doctors, but the diversity of topics covered means that, in addition to nephrologists, it would be useful to doctors practising in a number of specialities involved in the diagnosis of renal disease, including immunology, radiology and pathology, and other health workers (e...read more

Product Description: British poet Ken Smith's new collection, Wild Root, was shortlisted for the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize. In it we find more journeys, more borders, more strange encounters, more transactions in the trade of languages. Here his wanderings take him further and further out, among the wastelands of Eastern Europe after Communism, and again to North America, where his as-if counterpart Eddie lives his imaginary lives, among other kinless wanderers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)