"Exploring Photography is an easy-to-understand text designed for beginning photographers at the high school and middle school levels. It presents basic coverage of photographic fundamentals, ranging from the care of memory cards and batteries to composing and properly exposing the photograph to printing and mounting. The majority of the textbook covers digital photography, but there is enough coverage of film photography to make this a ..."
Labyrinths of Deceit(1st Edition) Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies) by RichardJ. Walker Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by Liverpool University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85323-849-2, ISBN: 0-85323-849-9
"Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong currents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those undercurrents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that ..."
""We are in the presence of that uniquely photographic and uniquely American phenomenon: the documentary sublime. [Golden Gate] takes you, metaphorically and literally, as far west as you can get. Just as Frederic Edwin Church's colossal Niagara (1857) still surpasses the iconic familiarity of the location, so Misrach's pictures make us see an overphotographed subject in a new light; literally. But the light that shrouds, frames, drenche ..."
"These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which ..."
"The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, includi ..."
"Richard Misrach has spent much of his career photographing the intersection of man and nature. He has redefined contemporary landscape photography with images of the splendor and destruction of the American West. Each of his "cantos" considers another chapter in the epic story of humankind and the land. Golden Gate offers yet another dimension to Misrach's artistic output. Three years ago, he and his family moved into a house in the Ber ..."
"Jennifer M. Bonds-Raacke is a graduate student at Kansas State University. M.
Anne Britt is an assistant professor of cognitive psychology at Northern Illinois
University. Elizabeth T. Cady is a graduate student at Kansas State University.
Dennis J. Crouch is a research associate professor of pharmacology and
toxicology at the University of Utah. Frank A. Drews is an assistant professor of
cognitive psychology at the University of ..."