Over the past twenty-five years, the internationally renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been an explorer of unfamiliar places where human activity has reshaped the surface of the land. His astonishing large-scale color photographs of the landscapes of mining, quarrying, railcutting, recycling, oil refining, and shipbreaking uncover a stark, almost sublime beauty in the residue of industrial “progress.” The implicit social and environmental upheavals that underlie these images make them powerful emblems of our times. This handsome catalogue of the first major retrospective of Burtynsky’s work features essays by Lori Pauli, Kenneth Baker, and Mark Haworth-Booth, as well as a wide-ranging interview with the artist by Michael Torosian. The book includes sixty-four color plates.

Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Arts & Photography

HAWORTH-BOOTH, Mark

BAKER, Kenneth

Burtynsky, Edward

Pauli, Lori

Torosian, Michael

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

A profoundly timely and moving personal essay by one of America’s leading art critics Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the 20th century's most significant works of art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) installed in a grid measuring one mile by one kilometer. A sculpture to be explored on foot, The Lightning Field is intended to be experienced over an extended period of time. 
Critic Kenneth Baker visited The Lightning Field numerous times over the course of the past 30 years in order to write this text. Inspired and challenged by this remarkable artwork, Baker speculates on the course of our contemporary human condition. But, rather than building on ideas in narrative sequence, he deploys quotation to effect multiple perspectives and points of view. Baker's citations and elegantly crafted prose are arrayed––in a metaphorical parallel to De Maria's choreographing of the vast landscape of the American Southwest––to create a compelling text.

The Lightning Field

The misfortunes and missteps of the "last King of America" told through the cartoons of the day. George III enjoyed one of the longest reigns in English history (1760-1820) at a time when both England and the world were undergoing drastic changes. Yet he remains a dim figure, remembered mainly for his failures (losing America) and his "madness" (which turns out to have been not mental but physical). He was highly unpopular for much of his reign, and this judgment is spectacularly endorsed by hundreds of contemporary caricatures, many reproduced here for the first time. Among George's enemies were some of the wittiest artists of any age, and few took the trouble to be fair. This was the way the English nation saw its king, adding a new dimension to what is ultimately a tragic story. 200 color illustrations.

George III: A Life in Caricature

Biographies & Memoirs

Thames&Hudson

Ideal for students in managment and engineering, OPTIMIZATION MODELING WITH SPREADSHEETS (WITH CD-ROM) covers model building and include tutorials on the use of Excel's Solver, and, at a more advanced level, Frontline Systems' Premium Solver.

Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets (with CD-ROM) (Duxbury Applied Series)

Business & Money

Education & Reference

Cengage Learning'

Parody is a well-established literary form and this anthology of parodies shows both old and new examples of the form, side by side with the poems they take off. The parodists range from Sir Walter Raleigh to Roger Woddis and Lewis Carroll.

Unauthorized Versions: Poems and Their Parodies

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Faber&Faber

Kenneth Baker, former Conservative Party Chairman, reveals Mrs Thatcher's strengths and weaknesses, and charts the mixture of accident, mistake, ambition, intrigue, slighted pride, misplaced optimism and faulty judgement which led to her decline. Drawing on the diaries he kept over 13 years, Baker gives blow-by-blow accounts of key meetings and conversations, providing an insider's view of the triumphs and failures of this controversial period. His own career at the heart of British politics gives a perspective on the crucial political decisions of the last decade and a half, from infighting within the cabinet to educational reform.

The turbulent years

Community & Culture

This anthology is a celebration of the landscape of both Britain and Ireland, and of the poetry this has inspired throughout seven centuries.

The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry

Poetry

Faber and Faber

A second book of favorite folk songs, popular songs and standards arranged for all organs with chord names and lyrics.

The Joy Of More Organ Music (Joy of Organ Music)(Book 2)

Music

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

(Music Sales America). Designed to help you become a complete, all-around pianist. Can be used by anyone who has followed The Complete Piano Player or a course of similar standards. Teaches seventeen styles which are played today, from boogie-woogie to the Richard Clayderman style. Based on famous hit songs and popular standards.

The Complete Piano Player: Style Book

Humor & Entertainment

Hal Leonard

Includes books 1 through 3 of The Complete Keyboard Player. Teaches you to play any make of electronic keyboard using the music of today.

THE COMPLETE KEYBOARD PLAYER: SONGBOOK 2

Omnibus Pr

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