All six episodes of the BBC4 series tracking the history of the most influential art form of the present day. The series explores every aspect of photography from daguerreotype to digital, portraits to photo-journalism & art to advertising, &

Includes:: interviews & encounters with some of the world's greatest living photographers including William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, William Klein, Martin Parr, Sally Mann, Robert Adams, Juergen Teller, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall & many others. Episodes are: ' Fixing the Shadows', ' Documents for Artists', ' Right Place, Right Time?', ' Paper Movies', ' We Are Family' & ' Snap Judgements'.

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Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilisation deserve to survive? These are the unnerving questions raised by the Great Crash of 2009. In this book, the author insists that global society has only begun to realise its full potential. ...

Offers a comprehensive review of the life & art of Alex Toth. Covering the years from the 1960s to Toth's poignant death in 2006, this book features artwork & stories from Toth's latter-day work at Warren, DC Comics, Red Circle, Marvel, & his own creator-owned properties, as well as samples of his animation work for Hanna-Barbera & others. ...

Published in association with the Science Museum, London, this title gives readers insight into the minds & lives of some of the great men & women who have helped shape the modern world. It also

Includes:: timelines that explain the development of an invention & pay homage to some of the other great inventors that came before & after.

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Kamishina Fuuto would like to think he's a normal boy, but he is the reincarnation of the High Priest of Darashaal, a tiny Asian country that has just celebrated the inauguration of its new high priest. Clearly, only one of them is the true priest, & unfortunately for Kamishina, it is he. ...

Fuuto's plastering across television has only brought him problems. The overnight celebrity now must help a friend he hasn't seen in five years escape his room. Not only that, the young ladies have taken a liking to him. &, one in particular, seems to be dead set on getting him. ...

Valentine's Day is around the corner, Fuuto smells the love in the air. He plans a romantic interlude with Mayu in hopes of getting some sweet chocolate. On his way to meet her, Yakuza henchmen kidnap him. As Fuuto faces his final hour, he receives a rude awakening in his present life & his past one. ...

Fuuto is back in action. This time he is on the heels of a murderer! Not, just any murderer, but one that slaughters the animals around town. While Fuuto is preoccupied with catching this animal-killing villain, Sohki is preparing to slaughter Fuuto. ...

Fuuto's classmate Eriko has to sneak out of town to escape the collection agency that has been harassing her family ever since her father disappeared, leaving behind a huge debt. Using his power, Fuuto locates Eriko's father
- who is just about to commit suicide.
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