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Black Passport
The archetype of the war correspondent is freighted with an outsize heroic mythos to which world-renowned conflict photographer Stanley Greene is no stranger. Black Passport is his autobiographical monograph-cum-scrapbook, and it transports the viewer behind the news as Greene reflects upon his career, oscillating between the relative safety of life in the West and the traumas of wars abroad. This glimpse of the polarities that have comprised Greene's life raises essential questions about the role of the photojournalist, as well as concerns about its repercussions: what motivates someone to willingly confront death and misery? To do work that risks one's life? Is it political engagement, or a sense of commitment to telling difficult stories? Or does being a war photographer simply satisfy a yearning for adventure? Black Passport offers an experience that is both exceptionally personal and ostensibly objective. Built around Greene's narrating monologue, the book's 26 short, nonsequential "scenes" are each illustrated by a portfolio of his work.
Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities
The Second Edition of the Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities provides chemists, technicians, and engineers with a thorough, lightening-quick resource to use during experimental preparation and in the event of an emergency. Includes: Hard-to-find data on over 11,000 chemical compounds 2,000 more chemical listings than the First Edition Alphabetical organization providing concise incompatibility profiles for thousands of commonly used commercial chemcials CAS Numbers to eliminate confusion among similar synonym names. A glossary of general chemical terms This expanded Second Edition, set out in a convenient, easy-to-use format, is an essential guide for all safety, first-response, and plant management professionals working with chemical materials.
Sittig's Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals
This reference handbook provides fully updated chemical, regulatory, health, and safety information on nearly 800 pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. The clear, consistent and comprehensive presentation of information makes Sittig's an essential reference for a wide audience including first responders, environmental and industrial health/safety professionals, the food industry, the agricultural sector and toxicologists. Detailed profiles are provided for each substance listed, including: usage; crop-specific residue limits; hazard ratings for long-term human toxicity; and endocrine disruptor and reproductive toxicity information. Every chemical profile contains references and web li...
STANLEY GREENE PHOTO POCHE
Les analystes les plus fins de la chose photographique, qu'ils commentent un livre ou une exposition, insistent volontiers sur le fait qu'une nouvelle ère s'ouvre à la photographie. Celle du concept. Quand ils ne l'expriment pas clairement, ils sous-entendent que la photographie de reportage est démodée et qu'une installation faite avec trois pavés et deux bouts de ficelle vaut tous les constats d'une actualité qui reste pourtant galopante. Stanley Greene est de ceux qui prouvent à l'évidence que les préceptes de la concerned photography n'ont rien perdu de leur acuité. Compagnon de route des ONG et des grandes organisations humanitaires ou caritatives, Stanley Greene considère son travail de photoreporter comme une mission. La chronique qu'il a consacrée, dix années durant, au martyre du peuple tchétchène, le situe parmi les grands témoins de son temps. Il mêle à un sidérant mépris du danger une profonde compassion pour ces civils et ces soldats qui brûlent au feu d'une tragique actualité. 64 photographies reproduites en duotone et en couleurs notices biographique et bibliographique.
A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals
In J. G. Francis' 'A Book of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals', readers are taken on a delightful journey through a series of charming and whimsical tales featuring a variety of lively animals. The book is written in a light-hearted and engaging style, making it perfect for readers of all ages. Each story is filled with vivid imagery and playful characters, creating a rich literary experience that transports the reader to a world of imagination and wonder. Francis' use of anthropomorphism adds a unique twist to each story, offering a fresh perspective on the relationships between humans and animals in literature. J. G. Francis, known for his creative storytelling and unique perspecti...
Mothers and Daughters of Invention
Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers.
States of Denial
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are ...
Bad Island
'Bad Island is an extraordinary, unsettling document: a silent species-history in eighty frames, a mute future archive. I can imagine it discovered in the remnants of a civilisation; a set of runes found amid the ruins. Stark in its lines and dark in its vision, Bad Island reads you more than you read it' Robert Macfarlane 'I've read lots of Stanley's stuff and it's always good and I am in no way biased' Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead From cult graphic designer and long-time Radiohead collaborator Stanley Donwood comes a starkly beautiful graphic novel about the end of the world. A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. Working in his distinctive, monochromatic lino-cut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerizing, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.
Chalk Lines
The results of years spent all along the Caucasus.
Travels With My Aunt
'The only book I have ever written just for the fun of it' Graham Greene Greene proves a wonderful storyteller in this hilarious tale of the eccentricity of families and the pomposity of the middle class. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life. In Travels With My Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
