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Metamorphosen Metamorphoses
Photographic meditations on the transient beauty of flora This clothbound volume compiles German photographer Herlinde Koelbl's (born 1939) vivid portraits of flora in various states of bloom or decay: light piercing a broken leaf revealing a network of fine veins; a lemon like a porous stone; petals curled in erotic shapes.
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Fascination of Science
An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science, an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with sixty pioneering scientists of the twenty-first century. Koelbl’s approach is intimate and accessible, and her highly personal interviews with her subjects reveal the forces (as well as the personal quirks) that motivate the scientists’ work; for ...
Hair
"Hair and the contact with hair are part of our humanity, accompanying us from birth to death. Our relationship with hair is one of the most intimate, most sensual elements in our most personal lives. Herlinde Koelbl's latest book is the product of six years of travel on four continents. In it we rediscover hair as a universal symbol of beauty, power, and sensuality, as a sign of femininity and of masculinity, and, above all, as the outer expression of an inner reality. The art of Herlinde Koelbl is to convey, in an intimate and at times disturbing manner, the role hair plays in establishing our individual social and personal identities: as a coat of protective armor, a gateway to inhibitions, a source of temptation, or a means of seduction." "Who better than author Bernhard Schlink to put into words the mysterious effect of a woman's hair on the senses of men? His poetic prose, as well as two essays by art historians Gabriele Betancourt Nunez and Silke Andrea Schuemmer, serve as guides on a fascinating photographic journey into the magic world of hair. Features 176 pages, 159 illustrations, 84 in color, 75 in duotone."--BOOK JACKET.
The Chancellor
A New York Times Notable Book The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton set out to pierce the mystery of how Angela Merkel achieved all this. And she found the answer in Merkel's political genius: in her willingness to talk with adversaries rather than over them, her skill at negotiating wit...
Insiders and Outsiders
Insiders and Outsiders addresses various aspects of Jewish and Gentile interaction since the development of the German-Jewish literary and cultural identity in the early nineteenth century. Containing the work of prominent scholars, critics, and journalists involved with German-Jewish studies from around the world, this ambitious anthology of literary and cultural criticism suggests a reevaluation of important cultural and literary issues, including the problem of cultural diversity with regard to German-speaking countries and the question as to what constitutes German cultural identity in multicultural central Europe. This volume highlights the centrality of the Jewish presence in the heart...
Women Photographers
This introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 60 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments.
Empirical Inference
This book honours the outstanding contributions of Vladimir Vapnik, a rare example of a scientist for whom the following statements hold true simultaneously: his work led to the inception of a new field of research, the theory of statistical learning and empirical inference; he has lived to see the field blossom; and he is still as active as ever. He started analyzing learning algorithms in the 1960s and he invented the first version of the generalized portrait algorithm. He later developed one of the most successful methods in machine learning, the support vector machine (SVM) – more than just an algorithm, this was a new approach to learning problems, pioneering the use of functional ana...
Becoming Madam Chancellor
The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel's career and influence.
