Product Description: * Provides frameworks and methodology for solving problems astechnology continues to advance* Starts with the overall business problem, and then shows howtechnology can solve the problem* Provides an in-depth applied understanding of the technologycovered and is targeted to the IT employees who actually build thenetworks* Business-oriented, problem-solving approach, including realbusiness case studies stressing the business impact of datacommunication...read more

A comprehensive look at photographs of Indians by both Native and Anglo Americans, from 1840 to the present, offers an informative history of the traditional life of the Native American and the cultural and political role of the photograph. UP.

Product Description: An intimate look into three Victorian photo-settings, Pleasures Taken considers questions of loss and sexuality as they are raised by some of the most compelling and often misrepresented photographs of the era: Lewis Carroll’s photographs of young girls; Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs of Madonnas; and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, a "maid of all work," who had herself pictured in a range of masquerades, from a blackened chimney sweep to a bare-chested Magdalene...read more

As photography grew more popular following its invention in 1839, its admirers did not understand how a medium that rendered shapes and textures in exquisite detail could fail to render them in realistic color. Also disappointing was the tendency of the captured images to fade over time. Photographers, ever eager to please their public, began "painting" their photographs with substances ranging from water colors and oil to chalk and crayon. Images were enlarged, enhanced, and framed, to simulate the splendors of the traditional portrait.With its rich variety of illustrations in color and duotone, The Painted Photograph is the first comprehensive history of overpainting, from its origins to World War I. The 131 illustrations featured draw upon original nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources, most from America and Britain, but also representing Japan, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Poland, Canada, Bohemia, India, Australia, Norway, Holland, and Russia.In describing a multitude of early techniques, the authors survey overpainting on various types of photographs, including daguerreotypes, tintypes, and imprinted porcelain, milk glass, enamel, magic lantern slides, and textiles. Particularly fascinating are discussions of overpainted death portraits, most commonly those of children, and the origins of popular "picture postcards" featuring overpainted landscape scenes. The Henisches address also the eager acceptance of the painted photograph throughout the world, despite the hostility of the art-critical establishment.The Painted Photograph will appeal to a wide public interested in photography, history, sociology, social anthropology, folk art, popular fashion, and antiques.

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Women’s Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists linked by time, interaction, influence, and friendship—one that included Gertrude Käsebier, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Laura Gilpin.Women’s Camera Work ranges from American women’s photographic practices during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to a study of landscape photography. Using contemporary cultural studies discourse to critique influential male-centered historiography and the male-dominated art world, Davidov exhibits the work of these women; tells their absorbing stories; and discusses representations of North American Indians, African Americans, Asian Americans, and the migrant poor. Evaluating these photographers’ distinct contributions to constructions of Americanness and otherness, she helps us to discover the power of reading images closely, and to learn to see through these women’s eyes.In presenting one of the most important strands of American photography, this richly illustrated book will interest students of American visual culture, women’s studies, and general readers alike. (view table of contents)

Product Description: An introduction to and selections from the photographs of legendary photographer Francis Frith from the years 1856-1860

Product Description: When it comes to the grand old ballparks that have been home to Major League Baseball through the years, few have had the endurance and historical significance of Tiger Stadium in Detroit, which hosted its last game at the end of the 1999 baseball season...read more

Provides information on where to stay and eat, what to do and see, combined with comments and advice on British Columbia and its attractions

When a beautiful, fiery-eyed brunette wheeled a pram into Dominic Hunter's office, claiming he was the baby's father, he knew he could not have forgotten making love to her! But Tina was convinced that Dominic, a successful stockbroker, was Bonnie's father -- and she was determined to make this heartless seducer face up to fatherhood.Heartless? Even Dominic couldn't resist baby Bonnie, whether she was his or not, and never before had he wanted a woman -- Tina -- so much...

The world that made Mandela, written by the author, a personal friend of Nelson Mandela, is a piece of social history. It takes the reader through a journey of heritage sites of significance in South Africa from the 1900s to the present day.

Product Description: Barbara E. Savedoff seeks to discern the distinctive character of photography as an art. Why, she asks, do similar images in paintings and photographs strike us differently? How is our reaction to a photograph of a painting unlike our response to the "real" painting? In this imaginative and beautifully illustrated book, she argues that the way we look at and understand photographs varies dramatically from the way we view other images...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The emphasis of the textbook is on understanding the definitions and principles of trigonometry and their application to problem solving. Identities are introduced early in Chapter 1. They are reviewed often and are then covered in more detail in Chapter 5. Also, exact values of the trigonometric functions are emphasized throughout the textbook. There are numerous calculator notes placed throughout the text.

The photojournalist whose credits include 'Life,' 'Time,' and 'Fortune,' recalls the major personalities of his era, including Judy Garland, Liberace, Marlon Brando, Nelson Algren, Marcel Marceau, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, and Mahalia Jackson. (view table of contents)

This work provides a fascinating insight into Germany's L. Fritz Gruber photography collection; from conceptual art to abstraction, all the major movements and genres are represented via a vast selection of the century's most remarkable photographs.

Product Description: The books in this series are accessible, collectable pocket books which present the best and most interesting figures in photography worldwide, and since the medium began, to established and new audiences.

Celebrates Aperture magazine and the photographers it has presented for the past fifty years.