A set of mountaineering memoirs of one of Britain's leading mountaineers that was shortlisted for the Boardman/ Tasker Award. This work describes his development as a climber initially under the tutelage of his widowed father, then with school friends in London, then to Britain's esoteric haunts, & finally in the Alps, the Andes & the Himalaya. ...

US manufacturing export share of GDP grew by 140 percent between 1960 & 2006. At the same time, vertical specialisation (VS) trade, trade in goods incorporating imported inputs, has expanded rapidly. This book examines vertical specialisation & value-added trade & the significant change in the types of intermediate goods traded globally. ...

Morton Feldman is widely considered to be one of the most influential composers of the 20th-century. During his long career he was closely associated with a number of visual artists
- particularly those connected with the New York School. This catalogue examines the influence of modern abstract art on the music of Morton Feldman.
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Features Snow Management photographs, that creates an impressive document of the post-modern development of the Alps into a leisure theme park. This work also traces the remains of sublimity & mystery that the mountains have retained as a myth robbed of its magic in monochrome, black-&-white or delicately tinted light-dark images. ...

This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world
- India, Japan, China,
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At moments when reality shows itself to be unstable or uncanny, we experience a form of vertigo. This experience is further complicated when we try to transform experience into writing, & fact clashes with memory. Sebald's novel, part fiction, part travelogue explores this theme. ...

Released in 1958, Hitchcock's masterpiece is a pinnacle of the cinema. Barr documents the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppell & Samuel Taylor & explores the reasons why " Vertigo" has come to exert such a continuing fascination both on audiences & on a wide range of critics & theorists. ...

A classic study in obsession from Alfred Hitchcock. After his fear of heights indirectly causes the death of a colleague, San Francisco cop Scottie (James Stewart) retires. He is subsequently hired by magnate Gavin Elster to follow his wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak), as Elster says he fears for her life. Scottie becomes bewitched by Madeleine, falling in love with her after saving her from a suicide attempt. Then, when Scottie's vertigo prevents him saving Madeleine from a second attempt to kill herself, he becomes obsessed with recreating the dead woman's image. ...