A collection of acclaimed essays explores the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence and authority of the photographic image in modern-day life, considers the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge, and examines the works of major photographers. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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A completely rewritten tutorial driven by examples helps the novice C++++ programmer solve problems in terms of choice of language features, implementation, and efficiency. Original. (Advanced).

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The November aces, daring pilots over war-torn Bosnia, fake a training flight and go in on their own, but when they are spotted, Selby must convince his friends to abort the mission--or shoot them down. Original.

Since publication of the first edition in 1995, there have been significant advances and understanding of chromatin structure and its relation to gene expression. These include a high-resolution structure of the nucleosome core, discovery of the enzymes and complexes that mediate histone acetylation and deacetylation, discovery of novel ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes, new insights into nuclear organization and epigenetic silencing mechanisms. In light of these advances, Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression (2ed.) includes updated chapters and additional material that introduce new concepts in the process of gene regulation in chromatin. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The first anthology of its kind, Illuminations presents a comprehensive selection of women’s writings on photography. It proposes a new and different history by demonstrating the ways in which women’s perspectives have advanced photographic criticism over the last 150 years...read more

Art of Interruption is the first major examination of the relationship between photography and art, and the philosophical and aesthetic categories of "realism" and the "everyday." Beginning with the massive reorientation of photographic practice during the Russian revolution and ending with contemporary debates on the body and digital technology, John Roberts presents the history of twentieth-century photography and art as an extensive interplay between "realism" and the "everyday." This book offers a history of how the uses and reception of photography has oriented itself to the world and the world of art. Roberts' claim, consequently, is to reinstate the long and troubled debate on realism in photography as fundamental to understanding the development and crises of art this century. He sets out to defend "realism" as a complex cultural and philosophical category.

The November aces, daring pilots over war-torn Bosnia, fake a training flight and go in on their own, but when they are spotted, Selby must convince his friends to abort the mission--or shoot them down. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Chicago's greatest blues artists are captured in Flerlage's photos, from Howlin' Wolf performing at legendary Pepper's Lounge to Otis Spann and James Cotton playing in Muddy Waters' basement. 150 photos. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the urban" has received little attention. Believing traditional accounts are limited by their reflection of a specific historical moment, Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter Ingenschay focus, by contrast, on transition...read more

A photographer offers a subtle, beautiful meditation on the art of photography and its role in her family through the casual photos she has shot around the house. (Fine Arts) (view table of contents)

Product Description: Our image of the world, our conduct and our thinking is to an increasing degree influenced and determined by visual media. Each day presents an ever larger amount of images and media messages to process--to cope, we develop mental filters that exclude unwanted visual impressions...read more

Product Description: Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards...read more

Product Description: August Sander quiso construir una especie de Gran Obra en torno a tres Alemanias: la de Guillermo II, la de Wimar y la de Hitler. Con una admirable obstinación, este maestro de la sociología sin palabras hizo el retrato de un país convulso y secreto, observando con la misma lucida atención a obreros y a banqueros, a burgue...read more

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