Understanding and Treating RSI

Dr Paul Vincent Anthony MacLoughlin

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The Chelsea Press

Product Description The twentieth century was both the brightest period in the evolutionary journey of humankind and the darkest. Heir to four centuries of discovering what the mind can do, humanity used that growing awareness to virtually end the timeless cycles of famine and epidemics of disease, to invent and mass produce countless labor and lifesaving technologies, and to discover nature's most intimate secrets. These are magnificent accomplishments. And yet, these same miraculous gifts were placed in the service of chauvinistic ambitions that twice plunged the world into paroxysms of death and destruction on unprecedented scales. This is the great enigma of human existence, its agony and its ecstasy. Triumph and Tragedy traces the course of the scientiﬁc, industrial, and cultural revolutions that set the stage for humanity's deadliest century. It describes the political movements that sponsored the development of a new generation of weapons enabled by the newly available technologies and how governments mobilized their populations to fight a new kind of war, one dominated by machines. Rare historical photographs bring the story to life and give the personalities a human face. The weapons themselves are shown in brooding, high-resolution detail using advanced, stochastic half-toning in a gallery chapter with over a hundred of the author's award-winning photographs, serving as reminder and metaphor of our brilliance and folly. Review Bronze Medal in Oversized History Book Category —2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsBronze Medal in Non-Fiction Book Series Category (with The Neutron's Long Shadow and Weapons of Mass Destruction)—2022 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book AwardsSilver Prize Winner in Documentary Photography Book Category—2021 Tokyo International Foto AwardsAs its title suggests, Miller's blunt, gorgeous photographic history of twentieth century war machines is as pained as it is impressive, as its parade of mighty tanks, planes, cannons, and more—all shot by the author in vivid black and white—stirs both awe at humanity's power to create and disquiet at its zeal to destroy. "In studying this long sweep of history, one cannot help but be struck by the extreme spasms of violence and destruction that occurred in the twentieth century," Miller notes, before considering, in several persuasive text chapters, the forces that brought about this era of "unprecedented calamity": mass production, improved mass transit, crucial cultural and scientific developments, and, fascinatingly, the improvements in public health that allowed populations to surge. The third book in a trilogy on twentieth century war weapons (after The Neutron's Long Shadow and Weapons of Mass Destruction), Triumph and Tragedy lays out a clear, compelling history of the development of war technology, with welcome attention paid to the political, economic, and cultural currents powering a series of international arms races before, during, and after the World Wars. Miller appreciates that war machines aren't produced in a vacuum, and his attention to sneaky business like the self-serving relationship between Bethlehem Steel and the secretary of the U.S. Navy during the Cleveland administration is welcome and clarifying, as is his depiction of the deployment of these weapons by often reckless actors working from perceived national interests. Miller supplements this rich material with accounts of the changing nature of war, often with telling quotes from the people who lived and died in the shadows of these machines. The star, though, is Miller's photography, plus a host of well-selected archival images and documents. He offers a succession of marvelous photos, often beautiful and barbarous at once, the killing machines looming and unmanned, the gray bolts, treads and gun barrels mute testament to our ingenuity-and appetite for power. Takeaway: This beautiful, outraged photographic survey of twentieth century war machines will dazzle

Triumph and Tragedy: The Evolution and Legacy of 20th Century War Machines

Arts & Photography

Martin Miller

Photography & Video

―Bronze Medal Winner, Fine-Art Book Category, 2022 Tokyo International Foto Awards 
―Bronze Medal Winner, Fine-Art Book Category, 2022 Budapest International Foto Awards 
―Bronze Medal Winner, Fine-Art Book Category, 2022 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris\nIntimations is a visual ode to the strange workings of the human mind. Mystery and foreboding wind through the book like the serpentine image on the book's dust jacket. The result of fifty years of wrestling with how the mind perceives the implacable world in which it finds itself, the book comprises a collection of eight selected photographic portfolios. Each portfolio is introduced by a short essay expressing the motivation behind the images. The early work, entitled "Resonances," establishes the dominant thread that binds the portfolios into a rich tapestry of ideas and imagery. Through selective composition and tonal remappings, Miller strives to capture significance apart from the literal meanings of the object before his lens. He likens the process of significance recognition to the experience of déjà vu, a flash of awareness, of meaning pointing beyond subject, of resonance with the unconscious mind. It is not without precedent. Alfred Stieglitz called it "equivalence." Edward Weston called it "the flame of recognition—relating obvious reality to the esoteric." For Clarence John Laughlin it was "transcendence of the object."\nThe book begins with early work of nature-inspired subjects, passes through a fantastical series of symmetrical, or near symmetrical, landscapes aptly named "Phantasms" to an imaginative sequence of "Asteroids" threatening the continuance of life on earth. On then, to the down-to-earth, apocalyptic artifacts of the Cold War, which could well have ended civilization as we know it, in a portfolio titled "The Dark Side." From there through a dramatic series of composite images of giant gear wheels, serving as surprising metaphors for military regimentation—the only portfolio that is expressed in color. Continuing the thread of menace is the chilling "Pestilence" portfolio of deadly pathogens, including that causing COVID-19—all digitally derived from microscopic studies by the CDC. Next, an intensely personal portfolio, "Portals and Passages" portrays the labyrinthine 19th-century forts along the Gulf of Mexico coastline as metaphors for life's unexpected challenges. Lastly, an extraordinary portfolio of composite images is presented with the intriguing title of "Contending Realities" that blends modern weapons of war with neolithic stone carvings. The irrational beliefs lurking in the minds of individuals responsible for the design of these sophisticated war machines contend uneasily with the rational technological mindsets required to create them. Together, the essay and images of this last portfolio make a fitting finale to an eerily disquieting, stunningly creative, thought-provoking, and beautiful body of work. Here is an exceptional contribution to photographic art, created through the contemplative discipline imposed by large-format cameras and reproduced using an advanced stochastic half-toning process that preserves amazing detail and tonal subtleties.\nFor more books by Martin Miller, click on the blue author link under the title above.

Intimations: Intuitions beyond Subject

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