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Gideon Bosker: Photopoesis, the Metapolitan Museum
Morphological photo-collages: an experiment in digital image manipulation American photographer Gideon Bosker draws on an archive of more than 100,000 photographs captured by him over the past 15 years, systematically deconstructing and reconstructing the images by manipulating their raw files to generate novel sequences and heavily layered compositions.
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The Beach
As dazzling and seductive as the landscape it celebrates, this book is the first to tell the story of the beach--its history, customs, spectacles, and scandals. 75 illustrations.
Pilgrimage
The authors of "Beaches" take a breathtaking photographic journey to places that have the ineffable power to revive and inspire the human spirit. The authors pair the images with poetry and reflections on the history and nature of pilgrimage.
Bowled Over
Bowled Over harks back to an earlier era when folks swarmed to gleaming bowling emporiums for fine cuisine, fancy cocktails, and stiff competition. Positively packed with bowling memorabilia and anecdotes, Bowled Over covers bowlings history, fashion, champs, surly pinboys, lady bowlerettes, and alley architecture along with important tips on scoring and alley etiquette. Featuring over 100 vintage images culled from the Inter-national Bowling Museum and Hall of Fames archives, this colorful compendium is a punchy tribute to the ever-popular tradition and culture of bowling.
The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland
“Explore[s] the ingenious outsider cooks, the obsessive impulses, and the raging gustatory dishes behind America’s newest food capitol.” —Mike Thelin, commentator for Unique Eats and co-founder of Feast Portland The Mighty Gastropolis goes deep behind the scenes to explore the kitchens, personal lives, and mindsets of Portland’s celebrated cooks to chronicle, with humor and panache, a people’s army of maverick chefs, artisans, obsessives, farmers, food carters, and plucky pioneers who have created a risk-taking, no rules food town unlike any other: one that is exporting its culinary ethos, innovations, and sensibilities to America’s gastronomic power zones in New York, LA, Chic...
Making Waves
Explores the design and manufacture of swimwear throughout the twentieth century and delves into the psychological and social roots of swimsuit styles and their appeal
Pills That Work, Pills That Don't
While powerful new superdrugs make headlines and physicians write out billions of prescriptions each year, our access to accurate, detailed medical information is increasingly denied by the healthcare establishment. Now Dr. Gideon Bosker offers a guide that gives the patient more control over the healing process. "Pills That Work, Pills That Don't" offers a gold mine of information: -- Which generic drugs are inefficient -- and how to get an HMO to pay for the better pills or nongeneric ones-- How to switch to medications that have been clinically proven to heal faster-- How to exchange more expensive medications for lower cost, more effective prescriptions-- Ways to build a safer drug regimen that eliminates toxic side effectsHere is the first authoritative guide to better health in the twenty-first century -- including a proven 12-Week Action Plan that will help patients and their physicians work together to produce sensible drug regimens that will do more with less.
White Sand Black Beach
Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Hariette V. Moore Award Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction In May 1945, activists staged a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach in Miami, protesting the Jim Crow–era laws that denied blacks access to recreational waterfront areas. Pressured by protestors in this first postwar civil rights demonstration, the Dade County Commission ultimately designated the difficult-to-access Virginia Key as a beach for African Americans. The beach became vitally important to the community, offering a place to congregate with family and friends and to enjoy the natural wonders of the area. It was also a tangible victory in the continuing stru...
The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behavi...
