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High Notes
Selected Writings of Gay Talese
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A selection of classic high points in the illustrious career of Gay Talese.
"[High Notes] reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made Talese a paragon of the New Journalism.†? -New York Times Book Review
Admired by generations of reporters,...
Notes from the Cévennes
Half a Lifetime in Provincial France
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic.
In...
Looking for the Big B
Bollywood, Bachchan and Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
'Jessica,' he pronounced, 'you have known me for seven years. My life has changed seven times. You will never finish this book.'
There is no reason why Amitabh Bachchan and I should appear in the same sentence. He is India's most legendary film star - a mixture of Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino...
by K V Sridhar
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The book will be a landmark in itself because it will be the first to cover behind the scenes of every loved ad, right from the Doordarshan days to today's YouTube; right from 'Chal meri luna' to 'Airtel smartphone ads'. It will cover interviews of creative heads and directors of all generations,...
Reportage Illustration
Visual Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The power of reportage drawing is in the immediacy of the images that are created and the feeling of the illustrator's presence on location. Comparable in some ways to photojournalism, reportage illustrators are acting as visual journalists, proactively creating narrative work about issues and subjects,...
Photographs, Museums, Collections
Between Art and Information
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy...
Advertising Menswear
Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
In what was a golden age of British advertising, the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures. Based on a detailed study of rich archival material, this...
Last Testament
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Pope Benedict XVI, the only modern-day Pope to retire whilst in office, now finally breaks his silence.
Since retiring from the papacy in 2013, the first Pope in over 700 years to do so, Pope Benedict has lived quietly in a convent in the Vatican gardens in Rome. He has devoted himself to a...
Mao's Great Famine
The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy...
Photography
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Providing a thorough and comprehensive introduction to the study of photography, this second edition of Photography: The Key Concepts has been expanded and updated to cover more fully contemporary changes to photography.
Photography is a part of everyday life; from news and advertisements,...
Between Film, Video, and the Digital
Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Encompassing experimental film and video, essay film, gallery-based installation art, and digital art, Jihoon Kim establishes the concept of hybrid moving images as an array of impure images shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different media, while also using it to explore various theoretical...
Helium
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
On 1 November 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, a nineteen-year-old student, Raj, travels back from a class trip with his mentor, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tire over him, douses him in gasoline, and...
by Mirabel Osler
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters would rescue her mother from a twilight life; Stella Bowen, Phyllis's lifelong friend and fellow student under Ezra Pound, their introduction to the...
The Song Before It Is Sung
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He found the main conspirators, and quickly had them strung up on meat hooks. Axel, Count von Gottberg, was one of those hanged by Hitler. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior, a former student of one of Axel's most trusted friends,...