From the camera lucida to the latest in digital image making & computer manipulation photographic technology has dramatically changed throughout its nearly 200-year history as succinctly explained & powerfully illustrated in A World History of Photography Thanks to the unique immediacy with which photography captures perspective & history the popularity & use of the camera spread rapidly around the globe Today photography is ubiquitous from newspapers & fashion magazines to billboards & the film industry cultures worldwide have embraced this malleable artistic medium for a limitless variety of purposes Naomi Rosenblum's classic text investigates all aspects of photography -- aesthetic documentary commercial & technical -- while placing photos in their historical context Included among the more than 800 photographs by men & women are both little-known & celebrated masterpieces arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power Authoritative & unbiased Rosenblum's chronicle of photography both chronologically & thematically traces the evolution of this still-young art form Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communication of ideas Rosenblum devotes special attention to topics such as portraiture documentation advertising & photojournalism & to the camera as a means of personal artistic expression The revised fourth edition

Includes:: updates on technical advances as well as a new chapter on contemporary photographers Armed with the expressive vigor of its images this thorough & accessible volume will appeal to all

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A World History of Rubber helps readers understand & gain new insights into the social & cultural contexts of global production & consumption from the nineteenth century to today through the fascinating story of one commodity Divides the coverage into themes of race migration & labor; gender on plantations & in factories; demand & everyday consumption; World Wars & nationalism; & resistance & independence Highlights the interrelatedness of our world long before the age of globalization & the global social inequalities that persist today Discusses key concepts of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries including imperialism industrialization racism & inequality through the lens of rubber Provides an engaging & accessible narrative for all levels that is filled with archival research illustrations & maps ...

An essential anthology of fifteen short stories which provides students with an international selection of works by acclaimed modern writers from Nobel Laureates (Nadine Gordimer V S Naipaul) to masters of the short story (Raymond Carver Mavis Gallant William Trevor) to a younger generation of writers on their way to establishing worldwide reputations (Zadie Smith Ana Menendez) Featuring the theme of 'difference' each story has something to say about cultural encounters often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting Their predominantly realist temper promotes vivid imaginative connections between the worlds of fiction & the worlds of its readers This is an ideal primary set text for modules on Modern Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Contemporary Fiction Postmodern Fiction Postcolonial Literature International Literature or The Short Story which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate or taught postgraduate Literature degree ...

Inspire students to enjoy literature while helping them to prepare effectively for the CSEC (R) examination; ensure coverage of all prescribed poems for the revised CSEC (R) English A & English B syllabuses with an anthology that has been compiled with the approval of the Caribbean Examinations Council by Editors who have served as CSEC (R) English panel members ...

The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918 368 pages Schoenpflug Daniel ...

It's all happy ever after in the School for Good & Evil or is it? The second title in the NYT bestselling fantasy adventure series
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Disney takes the classic sci-fi adventure A Wrinkle in Time to the silver screen! With an all-star cast that

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A WRINKLE IN TIME is a classic sci-fi adventure for children by bestselling US author Madeleine L& Engle & is now major new motion picture from Disney films When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a &wrinkle in time& for his lost father he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain known as & It& How Charles his sister Meg & friend Calvin find & free his father makes this a very special & exciting mixture of fantasy & science fiction which all the way through is dominated by the funny & mysterious trio of guardian angels known as Mrs Whatsit Mrs Who & Mrs Which Madeleine L& Engle lived in New York & wrote over 60 books for children including A WRINKLE IN TIME the first in her Time Quintet series & winner of the highly prestigious Newbury Medal ...

Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded in 1941 Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for Red Star the Red Army newspaper observing on the Eastern front with a writer's eye the most pitiless fighting ever known Grossman witnessed almost all the major events the appalling defeats & desperate retreats of 1941 the defence of Moscow & fighting in the Ukraine In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad where he remained during four months of brutal street-fighting He was present at the battle of Kursk the largest tank engagement in history & as the Red Army advanced he reached Berdichev where his worst fears for his mother & other relations were confirmed A Jew himself he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned His supremely powerful report ' The Hell of Treblinka' was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal Based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material A Writer at War offers the one outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front & perhaps the best descriptions ever of what Grossman called 'the ruthless truth of war' ...

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