An overview of the prehistoric substance amber and its fossilized inclusions, this text describes how it is formed from the resin of ancient trees and where it is found. It tells how to distinguish genuine amber from fake, describes its uses, and recounts the search for DNA from insect inclusions.

Amber : The Natural Time Capsule

Andrew Ross

Natural History Museum UK

Amber is a remarkable substance that originates from the resin of trees that lived millions of years ago. Anything that became trapped in this sticky resin was fossilized and perfectly preserved. The insects and other inclusions found in amber today are providing scientists with unique insights into the history of life on Earth. In this new edition of "Amber", Andrew Ross provides an engaging overview of this prehistoric substance and its fossilized inclusions. The book explains how amber is formed, where it is found and how to distinguish genuine amber from fakes. It describes its many uses, both in art and science, and recounts the elusive search for DNA from fossilized insects. Detailed keys and stunning photographs, including previously unseen pieces of Burmese amber from the Museum's collections, guide the reader in the identification of species of insects and other amber inclusions. "Amber" is essential reading for all those with an interest in this natural time capsule.

Amber: The Natural Time Capsule

The Natural History Museum

Universal Abandon? The Politics Of Postmodernism

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

18 Greatest Irish Golf Holes is a wonderful golf gift. This collectible and timeless book details the greatest challenges in Irish golf. Ravely reviewed by The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The Golf Channel (to name just a few), it features interviews and contributions from Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, Sir Nick Faldo, Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell, (to name just a few). This book will transport you to the golf courses of Ireland. It is a dream of wind-whipped linksland and lush green parkland, a stimulating and stylish record of Ireland’s greatest golf holes... This large, luxurious book is elegant and beautiful, limited to 5,000 copies printed and hand-finished by one of the world’s finest print houses, each copy individually numbered. The courses featured are Portmarnock, The K-Club, The European, Old Head, Waterville, Adare Manor, Druid’s Glen, Killarney, Tralee, Ballybunion, Doonbeg, Lahinch, Enniscrone, Royal County Down, Portrush, Lough Erne

18 Greatest Irish Golf Holes

Sports & Outdoors

Craig Morrison

Golf

18 Greatest Golf

Helsinki is the chosen site for the Guggenheim Museum's latest effort to replicate the much-contested "Bilbao Effect." Advocates of better methods for fusing the arts and urbanism combined to launch an alternative design competition in 2015. The Next Helsinki helped to amplify a public debate about the role of culture in civic health and economic development that has consequences far beyond the Finnish case-study. 
 In addition to cataloging the hundreds of entries from dozens of countries, The Helsinki Effect includes essays by leading urbanists, artists, and architects about the significance of the competition and the principles that inspired it. 
 UR10 The Helsinki Effect 
 Editors: Terike Haapoja, Andrew Ross, and Michael Sorkin 
 Contributors: Miguel Robles-Durán; Terike Haapoja; Juhani Pallasmaa; Andrew Ross; Michael Sorkin; Kaarin Taipale; Mabel Wilson; Sharon Zukin 
 "Responding to a competition for the design of a new Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki, the authors contributing to this volume deconstruct the values underlying use of the arts to promote economic competitiveness. The uniqueness of this edited book lies in its focus on the commodification of artistic achievement and the ensuing failure to foster local creativity. In investigating the impact of brand-name institutions on construction labor, art markets, and city life, it is an important addition to the critical urban studies literature." --- Susan S. Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design 
 " The Next Helsinki showed that there is great potential for imagining a lively, attractive city that grows out of the unique culture of the region. The Helsinki Effect opens a needed view to global conversations in city planning and art. Recommended reading for everybody interested in art, Helsinki, or both! --- Ilona Anhava, Gallerist, Gallery Anhava, Helsinki

The Helsinki Effect: Public Alternatives to the Guggenheim Model of Culture-Driven Development

Michael Sorkin

Terike Haapoja

Terreform

It seems like pretty much everybody—homeowners, students, those who are ill and without health insurance, and, of course, credit card holders—is up to their neck in debt that can never be repaid. 77% of US households are seriously indebted and one in seven Americans has been pursued by debt collectors. The major banks are bigger and more profitable than before the 2008 crash, and legislators are all but powerless to bring them to heel. In this forceful, eye-opening survey, Andrew Ross contends that we are in the cruel grip of a creditocracy—where the finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. The implications of mass indebtedness for any democracy are profound, and history shows that whenever a creditor class becomes as powerful as Wall Street, the result has been debt bondage for the bulk of the population. Following in the ancient tradition of the jubilee, activists have had some success in repudiating the debts of developing countries. The time is ripe, Ross argues, for a debtors' movement to use the same kinds of moral and legal arguments to bring relief to household debtors in the North. After examining the varieties of lending that have contributed to the crisis, Ross suggests ways of lifting the burden of illegitimate debts from our backs. Just as important, Creditocracy outlines the kind of alternative economy we need to replace a predatory debt-money system that only benefits the one percent.

Creditocracy

Business & Money

Economics

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

"The groups' action has been carefully organized, effectively executed and persistent, as any protest that's going to work must be." — Holland Cotter, art critic, The New York Times
On Saadiyat Island, just off the coast of Abu Dhabi, branches of iconic cultural institutions, including the Louvre, the Guggenheim, the British Museum and New York University, are taking shape to the designs of architects such as Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid, and Norman Foster. In this way, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) seeks to burnish its reputation as a sophisticated destination for wealthy visitors and residents. Beneath the glossy veneer of the Saadiyat real estate plan, however, lies a tawdry reality. Those laboring on the construction sites are migrant workers who arrive from poor countries heavily indebted as a result of recruitment and transit fees. Once in the UAE the sponsoring employer takes their passports, houses them in sub-standard labor camps, pays much less than they were promised, and enforces a punishing work regimen. If they protest publicly, they risk arrest, beatings, and deportation. For five years, the Gulf Labor Coalition, a cosmopolitan group of artists and writers, has been pressuring Saadiyat's Western cultural brands to ensure worker protections. Gulf Labor has coordinated a boycott of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and pioneered innovative direct action that has involved several spectacular museum occupations. As part of a year-long initiative, an array of artists, writers, and activists submitted a work, a text, or an action. Contextualized by essays that trace how Gulf Labor has evolved, their contributions are reproduced in this book. The result is a compelling chronicle of a campaign at the forefront of a new wave of world-wide cultural activism.

The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor

OR Books

Celebration Chronicles

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Verso

The release of Carry On Sergeant in 1958 saw the beginning of one of the most iconic film series in British cinema history. The ensuing 30 films and many Christmas specials spanned two decades and produced some of the most memorable comedy actors ever to appear on our screens. Who can forget such all-time greats as Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor and Sid James? Carry On Actors brings all these stars and more together in one book for the first time. With comprehensive biographies on all the main Carry On stars combined with little-known facts about the hundreds of supporting actors who helped to bring these much-loved films to life, Carry On Actors is packed with information. The book also reveals those celebrities whose appearances in this classic series never made it into the final films, as well as bringing the Carry On story right up to date with details of reunions and recent events. With numerous quotes from the Carry On actors and series producer, the late Peter Rogers, this book is an essential reference for all fans of Carry On and a must-have read for anyone interested in the history of British comedy.

Carry On Actors: The Complete Who's Who of the Carry On Film Series

Fenella Fielding

Humor & Entertainment

Apex Publishing Ltd, Essex

“Politics and aesthetics morph seamlessly in a world where politics confuses itself with representation, where all attention is swallowed in the communication of a message rather than in the intensity of an event.... In Meckseper's gallery installation, where fashion images share space with protest documentation, where an idea of relational space rubs shoulders with an idea of lifestyle or boutique design, where an idea of the social morphs into an idea of the commodity relation, many of the elements on display also double as mechanisms of display: shelves, rugs, windows, magazine covers, and wallpaper are the products here. Here, display displays itself. Covers and wrappings conceal nothing, they only reveal themselves. And, reappropriating the very mechanisms of commodity transmission in this way, and in particular by conflating politicized symbols with such functions..., by relocating non-art in art and vice versa, by this orgiastic displacement, this diabolical Feng Shui of signifying forms and materials, the artist also goes to work (like the peasant in her field, the posing model) in the production of her anti-world.” John Kelsey
This book constitutes the first monograph on New York-based artist Josephine Meckseper, with essays by writer/filmmaker John Kelsey and Andrew Ross, Professor in the American Studies program at New York University.

The Josephine Meckseper Catalog (German and English Edition)

Arts & Photography

John Kelsey

Josephine Meckseper

Individual Artists

Sternberg Press

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