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An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the Present
Penny Sparke Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415263352 |
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The design of everyday goods, images and environments often goes unnoticed by the consumer, yet the impact of new materials and production processes, together with the changing nature of society and the consumption choices we make, presents designers with considerable challenges. Now in a completely new and updated edition, this book provides a history of the development of modern (and postmodern) design within its international cultural, social and economic context.
Divided into four parts, the book begins with the formative years 1900-1914. Two sections on design and modernity explore the periods 1915-1939 and 1939-1969, and a completely new section, design and postmodernity covers 1970 to the present. New themes explored include postmodernism and design, the alliance between technology and design, and the relationship between identity and design. A key theme is the development of a discourse of design that can be traced through different social periods, movements and cycles.
The author draws on a wealth of mass-produced artifacts, images and environments to illustrate the discussion including sewing machines, cars, chairs, televisions, fashion items, interiors, graphic communications, electronic and branded goods and exhibitions. She includes a full guide to further reading which will be of particular value to students.
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Step-by-step: Pack of Four: Papier Mache / Printing / Papermaking / Clay Modelling (Step-by-step)
Judy Balchin , Michelle Powell , David Watson , and Greta Speechley Manufacturer: Heinemann Educational Books - Library Division ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 043111174X |
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The Alternative Image II: Photography on Nonconventional Supports
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Manufacturer: John Michael Kohler Arts Center ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0932718167 |
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The second exhibition in the JMKAC series investigating the nature of photography and its continually expanding boundaries. The catalogue documents the use of nonconventional supports, including images on sensitized metal, glass, fabric, plastics, and ceramics and works on paper in which the support was dramatically transformed. Part I is devoted to nineteenth and early twentieth century precedents. Part II examines the radical transformation of photography in the 1960s and early 1970s with leading experimentalists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Betty Hahn, Robert Heinecken, and Jerry McMillan. Part III concentrates on current work by F. Deschamps, Catherine Jansen, Susan Rankaitis, Lou Brown DiGiulio, Yura Adams, John Bloom, Barbara DeGenevieve, and David Joyce, among others. A glossary and select bibliography are also included.
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The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
Suroosh Alvi , Gavin McInnes , Shane Smith , and Suroosh Avi Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0446692816 |
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What started out as a few twenty-something drug addicts writing a newsletter and scamming welfare-to-work programs in the mid-nineties has become a global empire of hedonism that includes a magazine, a chain of retail stores, a clothing line, Vice Films, Vice TV, Vice Records, and viceland.com. A compilation of the magazines best articles over the past decade, the book includes hilarious, edgy, and informative guides to sex, music and the party scene. With outtakes and photos from their most famous issues, The Vice Guide....is an irreverent look at an outrageous cultural phenomenon. The Vice Guide....will appeal to the same audience who made bestsellers of The Onion, The Darwin Awards, and The Hipster Handbook. With a circulation of 200,000 this free monthly had taken its place alongside Rolling Stone and Spin, establishing itself as the voice of a generation. It was named the #1 trendsetting magazine for females 19-24 and #2 for males 25-30 by the Cassandra Report marketing survey. The Vice web site, viceland.com, has 80,000 unique users per month. Vice has signed with New Line Cinema to write and produce their own feature films. They have also signed with Atlantic Records to develop their own label and with Showtime to develop a comedy series.Customer Reviews:
The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll.......2007-08-31
great leisure read.......2006-01-25
Ack! False drug infomation everywhere!.......2004-09-02
VICE IS NO FUN.......2004-03-26
Porcelain Classic.......2004-03-24
Vice is a vicious, free magazine that discourages subscriptions. The articles here vary from drug write-ups to profiles on black metal ghouls.
Vice is smart and sickly cynical. This is not Maxim or FHM.
Highly recommended. You can impress guests with this next to the Charmin.
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The Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0006394183 |
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TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion
Patrick Macias , Happy Ujihashi , Kinji Fukasaku , and Takashi Miike Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1569316813 |
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Patrick Macias' TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. TokyoScope is the first book of its kind: an elegantly designed, engagingly written introduction to the world of Japanese pop films covering Godzilla, karate, gangster, horror, Japan's infamous "pink" movies, and more.Did you know that Samuel L. Jackson's Biblical speech in Pulp Fiction was borrowed from the brain-damaged Sonny Chiba karate flick The Bodyguard? Or that the design for the Smog Monster in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster was based on a bathroom sketch of female anatomy? TokyoScope is a densely packed and illustrated volume full of trivia, biographies, poster art, and reviews of some 100 of the top films to see. It provides an attractive and accessible introduction to the world's most notorious movies and is an indispensable reference that belongs in the library of any true cult film fan.
Battle Royale director Kinji Fukasaku, who penned the Foreword to TokyoScope, writes, "In this book you will find as good an analysis of what we were trying to do as I have ever read. Patrick Macias has written very keenly and with much understanding about Japanese films, mine included."
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Macias' Masterpiece.......2007-05-19
A Genius book which they should make another..........2007-03-17
educational even for a Japanese cinemaphile.......2003-08-21
Disapointing.......2003-04-19
I did like the presentation though
Fully satisfying!.......2003-02-07
Boasting scads of reviews for dozens of films I've never had the pleasure of seeing, TokyoScope is a terrific step in the right direction for folks who want to associate themselves with the multifaceted cinema from the Land of the Rising Sun. (ISBN: 1569316813)
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Beethoven (Introducing Composers)
Roland Vernon Manufacturer: Belitha Press Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1841384674 |
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More about the live and times of Beethoven than the music.......2003-02-05
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Introducing Beethoven
Paula Harris Manufacturer: Roy Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007ECJYE |
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Beethoven: A dramatized episode from his life, in one act, introducing his two songs, "Adelaide," and "Joyful and mournful." From the German of Dr. Hugo Mùˆller, (Acting edition of Neville Lynn)
Hugo Mùˆller Manufacturer: A.& R. Milne ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008CABXG |
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A Simplified Guide to Custom Stairbuilding and Tangent Handrailing
George R. Di Cristina Manufacturer: Linden Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0941936635 |
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In order to construct continuous climbing-turn handrail sections for a staircase, the basic elements of tangent handrailing must be understood. This guide to building custom staircases, including elliptical stairs and continuous incline stairs, explains the tangent principle for the advanced woodworker. Covering everything from locating risers in a curved stairway to the installation of balusters, this simple method enables the craftsperson to make distinctive, personalized stair and handrail designs that are not available from stock staircase companies.Customer Reviews:
Custom Stairbuilding and Tangent Handrailing.......2007-08-28
Not an "eleventh hour" how-to.......2006-06-26
Impossible to follow.......2006-02-24
The really useful book out there.......2003-09-13
A Little Misleading.......2002-11-21
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A Simplified Guide to Custom Stairbuilding and Tangent Handrailing
George R. di Cristina Manufacturer: Linden Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MBMAKK |
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Coronation Street: the Way to Victory
Christine Green Manufacturer: Magna Large Print Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0750517913 |
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Coronation Street: The Way to Victory
Christine Green Manufacturer: Andre Deutsch ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQ9N5S |
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Symptoms of Withdrawal : A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption
Christopher Kennedy Lawford Manufacturer: Amazon Remainders Account ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: B000GG4LRG |
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Symptoms of Withdrawal : A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption .......2007-10-05
A Fast Read.......2007-07-09
A Tale of Camelost.......2007-07-02
A Different Opinion.......2007-05-13
Wonderfully Honest.......2007-04-15
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Symptoms Of Withdrawal : A Memoir Of Snapshots And Redemption
Christopher Kennedy Lawford Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF2WXE |
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Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939: The Road to War
Gerhard L. Weinberg Manufacturer: Enigma Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1929631278 |
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An updated edition in a single volume of the only complete history and analysis of Hitler's foreign policy from his rise to power to the outbread of World War II.Customer Reviews:
The Definitive Work.......2007-03-19
Eminent historian's work remains unsurpassed in scope and scholarship.......2005-08-10
Don't buy this rubbish.......2005-07-21
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Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict
Daniel Hellinger Manufacturer: Lynne Rienner Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1588262979 |
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Good Research Material.......2005-09-10
A judiscious look at an increasingly important country.......2004-01-02
But trouble really began with the 1988 election of Carlos Andres Perez of the AD who had been president previously from 1974 to 1979 at the height of the country's oil boom. He explicitly promised not to enact massive cuts in social spending and privatization in government owned industries. Shortly after assuming power in February 1989, he announced that he had reached an agreement with international lending institutions to do exactly that. The ensuing weeklong protests, riots and clashes with police may have killed thousands. Daniel Hellinger in Chapter three quotes a statistic that the percentage of the population living below the poverty line went from 36 percent in 1984 to 66 percent in 1995. In 1981, the bottom forty percent of the population had 19.1 percent of the wealth where as in 1997 it had only 14.7 percent of the wealth. The top ten percent of the country saw its wealth increase from 1981-97 from 21.8 to 32.8 percent. Tariffs were eliminated that protected key domestic industries from foreign competition. Presumably this played a role in the ruining of the agriculture sector. 600,000 people left the countryside for the cities between 1989 and 1992. The percentage of the workforce employed in the precarious informal sector of the economy jumped from 34.5 percent in 1980 to 53 percent in 1999. Rafael Caldera won the 1994 elections after Perez was impeached, running on an anti-neoliberal platform but he decided to continue Perez's privatization policies in 1996.
Chavez set out to democratize the country's main trade federation the CTV, long controlled by the AD. Direct elections were ordered for its leadership, which had previously been handpicked. However, writes Steve Ellner in chapter nine, these elections in late 2001 were marked by disruption and accusations of fraud. Carlos Ortega, the AD's candidate, was declared to be elected as CTV leader in spite of only four of the members of the new electoral commission for union elections certifying his victory.
Chavez's health, education and credit programs for the general population seemed to improve their plight by 2000, much of it carried out by the military. This was particularly the case in the region of Vargas, wracked by severe floods and mudslides in late 1999, The army was accused of engaging in extra-judicial executions in attempts to restore order there. These accusations were repeated in early 2000, notes Deborah Norden in Chapter 5, by the foreign minister and the interior minister (both civilians), which resulted in a split in much of the military officers in Chavez's movement as Chavez refused to condemn the accusations.
Chavez's key principle of "participatory democracy" has been given small attention in practice. Chavez's congress has avoided handing over to committees of citizens to choose candidates for the supreme court, the attorney general and other positions. Maria Pilar Garcia Guadilla in chapter ten notes that Chavez denounced opponents in the Grand Sabana region who objected to a plan he had to deliver energy across their region to Brazil. They objected on ground of its violation of indigenous people's rights and environmental principles and their feelings should have led to the calling of public assemblies on the issue but Chavez condemned them as "traitors, spies and foreigners."
Julia Buxton describes Chavez's land reform law which limited the amount of hectares in land one could hold (ranging from 100 to 5000 hectares) and set a tax on landowners who let more than 20 percent of their land sit idle. Presumably land exceeding the former provision would be redistributed (under government trusteeship) to the landless. This really made the elite crazy and dire predicitons of impending communist dictatorship intensified. All Chavez was actually doing was taking mild steps towards rectifying the severely unequal distribution of land in Venezuela (3 percent of the people own 70 percent of the land).
The writers note that it has been pre-dominantly the upper and middle class minority of the country which has engaged in the protests against Chavez. As Steve Ellner notes in Chapter nine it was difficult to tell exactly what the workers thought of engaging in strikes to protest Chavez since companies in FEDECAMERAS, the country's main business federation, all induced work stoppages by giving their workers days off with pay. Nonetheless, the CTV, notes Ellner, had great trouble bring out workers in the streets to support the U.S. backed coup attempt of April 2002. Many unions condemned the CTV for seeking an alliance with the country's main business federation FEDECAMARAS. The U.S. backed coup placed FEDECAMARAS head Pedro Carmona in power for two days but he was removed by a mass uprising of Caracas's poor. The coup leaders, Buxton notes in chapter six, were "overwhelmingly white, elite...[they] represented a return to the exclusion and inequality of the fourth republic."
Patricia Marquez in Chapter 11 discusses Chavez's persona of being a dashing caudillo devoting his life to the poor. Chavez receives thousands of requests every day from ordinary people. Marques gives the example of Chavez paying for the repairs of the motorcycle of a slum-dweller who called up his radio show.
Chavez will no doubt become an official U.S. bugaboo if covert action dosen't work against him and the Venezuelan elite is not able to overthrow him.
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Caring for Cows (Animals)
Valerie Porter Manufacturer: Whittet Books, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0905483944 |
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