Product Description: University of California, Los Angeles. New edition of a synopsis in outline format on the diagnosis and management of allergic diseases and immunologic dysfunctions. For students, residents, and practitioners. Wire spiral binding. Previous edition 1988. 36 U.S. contributors. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In On Doubt, Vilém Flusser refines Martin Heidegger’s famous declaration that “language is the dwelling of Being.” For Flusser, “the word is the dwelling of being,” because in fact, in the beginning, there was the word...read more

Product Description: This publication introduces two pioneers of new media: Zbigniew Rybczynski, from Poland, and Gábor Bódy, from Hungary. Rybczynski (born 1949) is a creator of experimental animations and a multimedia artist. Bódy (1946–1985) was considered one of the most important Hungarian filmmakers...read more

Product Description: Variantology 4 revisits the early western encounter with the technological marvels of early Arabic culture. It presents scholarship on a range of subjects relating to the overlap between the arts and the sciences, from musical automata to theories of music and dance...read more

The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision -the media vanishing point of the 20th century. Very little will remain unchanged. The classic institutions for the mediation of film - cinema and television - are revealed to be no more than interludes in the broader history of the audiovisual media. This book interprets these changes not simply as a cultural loss but also as a challenge: the new audiovisions have to be confronted squarely to make strategic intervention possible.Audiovisions provides a historical underpinning for this active approach. Spanning 100 years, from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century, it reconstructs the complex genesis of cinema and television as historically relative - and thus finite - cultural forms, focussing on the dynamics and tension in the interaction between the apparatus and its uses. The book is also a plea for "staying power" in studies of cultural technology and technological culture of film.Essayistic in style, it dispenses with complicated cross references and, instead, is structured around distinct historical phases. Montages of images and text provide supplemental information, contrast, and comment. (view table of contents)