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As I Found It: My Mother's House
As I Found It: My Mother's House (Twelve Point Books) is a highly focused photographic essay about memory and, in context, the ways in which dementia destroys identity and personal history. It is also an intimate study, through idiosyncratic objects and their settings, of an aging parent. Photographer, writer, and teacher Russell Hart created the book's photographs in his mother's house of over forty years, after cognitive decline made it impossible for her to stay. Some of the images show the home's interiors as he emptied it out for eventual sale, a process that took many months over the course of two years. Others are close-ups of some of the hundreds of boxed arrangements of objects, bot...
Tales of Adventure
Along with Alexander Dumas, Stevenson is one of the worlds great writers of adventure. From the gripping opening of Treasure Island to the unforgettable vignettes of the future Richard III in The Black Arrow his gift for a memorable phrase holds the attention from beginning to end. But Stevenson's storytelling abilities extended well beyond these two famous narratives. This volume is designed to showcase the full range of his talents as a writer of adventure featuring lesser known stories from 'Fables' and 'The New Arabian Nights'. This, the fourth volume in Canongate's series serves to expand once again our perception of Stevenson's range and genius.
The Savage View
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Photographing Your Artwork
With this book, artists can make their own slides for entering competitions, obtaining grants and commissions, and submitting their works to galleries. The book provides specific instructions for working with various types of art and avoiding common problems such as reflections, glare, and shadows. Starting with basics such as what cameras and tripods are best suited for this type of photography, the book progresses into more advanced areas including the ideal lighting for art slides and how to best make use of the latest advances in film technology.
The Last Shot
It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that -- for many young men it represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. In The Last Shot, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four of the neighborhood's most promising players. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are woefully inadequate schooling, family circumstances that are often desperate, and the slick, brutal world of college athletic recruitment. Incisively and compassionately written, The Last Shot introduces us to unforgettable characters and takes us into their world with an intimacy seldom seen in contemporary journalism. The result is a startling and poignant expose of inner-city life and the big business of college basketball.
Iron Muse
The construction of the transcontinental railroad (1865–1869) marked a milestone in United States history, symbolizing both the joining of the country’s two coasts and the taming of its frontier wilderness by modern technology. But it was through the power of images—and especially the photograph—that the railroad attained its iconic status. Iron Muse provides a unique look at the production, distribution, and publication of images of the transcontinental railroad: from their use as an official record by the railroad corporations, to their reproduction in the illustrated press and travel guides, and finally to their adaptation to direct sales and albums in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tracing the complex relationships and occasional conflicts between photographer, publisher, and curator as they crafted the photographs’ different meanings over time, Willumson provides a comprehensive portrayal of the creation and evolution of an important slice of American visual culture.
The Normandy Campaign 1944
With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign. It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and sometimes revisionist interpretations of key issues, such as the image of the Allied armies compared with the Germans, the role of air power, and the lessons learned by the military from their operations. As the Second World War is increasingly becoming a field of revisionism, this book sits squarely within growing debates, shedding new light on topics and bringing current thinking from our leading military and strategic historians to a wider audience. This book will be of great interest to students of the Second World War, and of military and strategic studies in general.
Neil M. Gunn
Neil Gunn has long been recognized in Scotland as one of the well-springs of the literary renaissance of the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties and is now generally accepted as the most significant novelist the Highlands of Scotland has produced. Yet his work has divided the critics: one view sees him as essentially a regional writer recreating the history of the Highlands and exploring the values of a traditional society. Another sees his greatest contribution in the later novels which deal with the deepest issues of the day in more exploratory and experimental fashion. This study demonstrates that in fact Gunn accepts no limitations in psychological and philosophical penetration, and deals always with the whole universe of man and the other landscape of the mind. The varied criticism of Gunn and the reasons for his neglect outside Scotland are sharply examined, and his status as a novelist of European stature is assessed.
Armor
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History of Penobscot County, Maine
History of Penobscot County, Maine, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches.
