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Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017, this is a powerful and captivating story about Alice, reaching out to express herself through her beautiful-broken words, and Manny, running to escape his past. Published as a novel for teens, but with writing and themes that reach well beyond those years.
Blurry, out of focus, streaked with light and distorted. While these are adjectives you might not associate with quality photography, these are the quintessential characteristics of photography produced by toy cameras. While generic, commercial, travel photography based on stock has become the norm, Toy Tokyo captures the exhilaration of travel photography and life on the road, in one of the worlds most intense and photogenic locations. First in a series of location specific photography books using toys cams. Included are introductions, interviews with the founders of, and photos of factory visits with makers of the most iconic toy and simple system cameras, such as the Holga, Zero pinholes and the original Diana in Hong Kong, the LOMO LC-A and Horizon in Russia, Japan's Fuuvi, Impossible films and of course, the folks at lomography.
Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
_______________ WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2022 WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE SHADOWERS' CHOICE AWARD 2022 _______________ 'A very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status' - The Times Children's Book of the Week 'A modern classic ... relevant, comforting and life-affirming' - Scotsman 'The perfect Autumn read' - Primary Teacher Bookshelf _______________ A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD. October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is. Until the year October turns eleven. That's the year October rescues a baby owl. It's the year Dad falls out of the biggest tree in their woods. The year the woman who calls herself October's mother comes back. The year everything changes. Written in Katya Balen's heart-stoppingly beautiful style, this book is a feast for the senses. And, as October fights to find the space to be wild in the whirling chaos of the world beyond the woods, it is also a feast for the soul.
A story book for children three and up, teaching them about caring for animals.
"Ethics and robotics are two academic disciplines, one dealing with the moral norms and values underlying implicitly or explicitly human behavior and the other aiming at the production of artificial agents, mostly as physical devices, with some degree of autonomy based on rules and programmes set up by their creators. Robotics is also one of the research fields where the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science is currently taking place with large societal and legal implications beyond traditional industrial applications. Robots are and will remain -in the foreseeable future- dependent on human ethical scrutiny as well as on the moral and leg...
Does Architecture Shape the City or Vice Versa? Architecture is a visual object that most strongly shape the face of any city. And in this 3 volume, Archinesia trying to discusses cities in their relation to architecture with seven urban experts to give an answer about the architecture of Jakarta. Completed with written interview with Syed Sobri Zubir (associate professor at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UTM) Malaysia, to gain a clearer perspective of this edition’s main topic “Does Architecture Shape the City or Vice Versa?”; Current Project From Southest Asia : Andra Matin DCM Jakarta Indra Tata Adilaras Wilkinson Eyre Architects DP Architects Ong & Ong Singapore Bangkok Project Company Limited Openbox / Thailand Vo Trong Nghia / Vietnam a21 Studio / Vietnam Moh Hack & Partner / Brunai
An account of Matt Pointon's journey in 2013 from Konotop in Ukraine to Bucharest in Romania visiting places like Chernobyl, Kiev, Odessa, Chisinau, Tiraspol, Iasi and Suceava.
Proceedings of the International Seminar, held at The Hague, The Netherlands, November 14-16, 1983
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