A Visual History of Graphic Design
- A comprehensive look at hundreds of landmark projects industry leaders profiles & illustrated
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In this second volume Jens Muller rounds off the most comprehensive exploration of graphic design to date With around 3500 seminal pieces & 78 landmark projects year-by-year spreads & profiles of industry leaders discover how graphic design shaped contemporary society from the 1960s until today from the hippie movement to new forms 480 pages Muller Jens ...

This hard hitting programme chronicles the history of heavy weight boxing one of the most dangerous exhilarating & often controversial sports To name a few Muhammad Ali Joe Frazer Rocky Marciano Floyd Patterson & Jack Dempsey are some of the big names & characters to have graced the spotlight in the ultimate physical contest Covering the origins of the sport & profiling the glorious careers & epic bouts including titanic clashes between Muhammad Ali & Cassius Clay Joe Frazer this DVD is jam packed with fighting footage An absolute must have for all boxing fans ...

Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical & intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization As she chronicles the clash of social movements ideas & armies that have played a part in this struggle Ishay illustrates how the history of human rights has evolved from one era to the next through texts cultural traditions & creative expression Writing with verve & extraordinary range she develops a framework for understanding contemporary issues from the debate over globalization to the intervention in Kosovo to the climate for human rights after September 11 2001 The only comprehensive history of human rights available this book will be essential reading for anyone concerned with humankind's quest for justice & dignity Ishay structures her chapters around six core questions that have shaped human rights debate & scholarship What are the origins of human rights? Why did the European vision of human rights triumph over those of other civilizations? Has socialism made a lasting contribution to the legacy of human rights? Are human rights universal or culturally bound? Must human rights be sacrificed to the demands of national security? & is globalization eroding or advancing human rights? As she explores these questions Ishay also incorporates notable documents
- writings speeches & political statements
- from activists writers & thinkers throughout history

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Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic-acclaimed by jazz critics & fans around the world Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date drawing on the latest research & revisiting virtually every aspect of the music past & present Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players the breakthrough styles & the world in which it evolved Here are the giants of jazz & the great moments of jazz history-Jelly Roll Morton Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan Stan Getz & Lester Young Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie's advocacy of modern jazz in the 1940s Miles Davis's 1955 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival Ornette Coleman's experiments with atonality Pat Metheny's visionary extension of jazz-rock fusion the contemporary sounds of Wynton Marsalis & the post-modernists of the current day Gioia provides the reader with lively portraits of these & many other great musicians intertwined with vibrant commentary on the music they created He also evokes the many worlds of jazz taking the reader to the swamp lands of the Mississippi Delta the bawdy houses of New Orleans the rent parties of Harlem the speakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age the after hours spots of corrupt Kansas city the Cotton Club the Savoy & the other locales where the history of jazz was made & as he traces the spread of this protean form Gioia provides much insight into the social context in which the music was born ...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 & winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The History of Love explores the lasting power of the written word & the lasting power of love Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time ' When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love ' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating she sets out in search of its author Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book & although he doesn't know it yet that book also survived crossing oceans & generations & changing lives ' Wonderfully affectingbrilliant touching & remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph'A tender tribute to human valiance Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday' Devastatingone of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction It takes one's breath away' Spectator ...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 & winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger The History of Love by bestselling author Nicole Krauss explores the lasting power of the written word & the lasting power of love ' When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love ' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating she sets out in search of its author Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer He spends his days dreaming of the love lost that sixty years ago in Poland inspired him to write a book & although he doesn't know it yet that book also survived crossing oceans & generations & changing lives ' Wonderfully affectingbrilliant touching & remarkably poised' Sunday Telegraph'A tender tribute to human valiance Who could be unmoved by a cast of characters whose daily battles are etched on out mind in such diamond-cut prose?' Independent on Sunday' Devastatingone of the most passionate vindications of the written word in recent fiction It takes one's breath away' Spectator Nicole Krauss is an American bestselling author who has received international critical acclaim for her first three novels Great House (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011) The History of Love & Man Walks into a Room (shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award) all of which are available in Penguin paperback ...

The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain It describes Prince&s sufferings as a slave in Bermuda Turks Island & Antigua & her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr Wood in 1828 Prince escaped from him & sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie) A moving & graphic document The History drew attention to the continuation of slavery in the Caribbean despite an 1807 Act of Parliament officially ending the slave trade It inspired two libel actions & ran into three editions in the year of its publication This powerful rallying cry for emancipation remains an extraordinary testament to Prince&s ill-treatment suffering & survival ...

Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised & understood in a multitude of ways; indeed mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed but are adapted & changed by their passage across periods & cultures In this Very Short Introduction Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical & cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day Arranged thematically to exemplify the varied contexts in which people have learned used & handed on mathematics she also

Includes:: illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times & places including early imperial China the medieval Islamic world & nineteenth-century Britain ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable

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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine such as the advent of hospitals & the rise of experimental medicine Bill Bynum offers insights into medicine's past while at the same time engaging with contemporary issues discoveries & controversies ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...