This is Not a House

This is Not a House
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Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1907893024
ISBN-13 : 9781907893025
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis This is Not a House by : Edgar Martins

The US mortgage crisis exposed weaknesses in the regulation of the financial industry and the global financial system. At the end of 2008, as the fall-out from the crisis became increasingly widely felt, Edgar Martins was commissioned by New York Times Magazine to photograph its impact across the US in eight separate states and across 16 different locations. These carefully researched sites exposed the extent and impact of the credit crunch on the construction industry.

Edgar Martins

Edgar Martins
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106019596516
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Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Edgar Martins by : Edgar Martins

Text by John Beardsley. Interview by David Campany.

When Light Casts No Shadow

When Light Casts No Shadow
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Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 190458781X
ISBN-13 : 9781904587811
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis When Light Casts No Shadow by : Edgar Martins

A fascinating document of aviation history and a mesmerising study of image and light. Edgar Martins was granted special airside access to airports in Europe which retained great importance in aviation history, such as the Azores. Almost all his images were produced at night, using the aprons' floodlights, moonlight or long exposures. The result is incredibly abstract and arresting. In some, sky and ground merge in darkness - in others, the landscape of lights and signs read by pilots remains perplexing.

The Queen, the Chairman and I

The Queen, the Chairman and I
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Publisher : DEWI LEWIS
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1911306499
ISBN-13 : 9781911306498
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Queen, the Chairman and I by : Kurt Tong

The Queen, The Chairman and I is a saga of love, hope, and tragedy: a storybook that both uncovers family secrets and reveals the impact of political and economic forces on individuals. It deals with themes of multiculturalism and migration, heritage and empire. Kurt Tong's paternal grandfather was a deckhand who arrived in Hong Kong from Shanghai after the fall of the last imperial Chinese dynasty in 1911. His mother's family were landlords in Southern China. By coming to Hong Kong, they almost certainly escaped death at the hands of Mao's advancing Communist armies. Kurt Tong himself grew up in Hong Kong, singing the British National Anthem throughout his school years. At the age of 13, he moved to the UK to continue his education, before finally returning to Hong Kong in 2012. Tong has traced the history of his family in a bid to find out how two of the most influential people in history, Queen Victoria and Chairman Mao, had affected them. Giving equal importance to new photographs, found photographs and writing, the work reconnects him with the Hong Kong of the past, through the recollections of his extended family, humanising the political and social upheaval that took his family to Hong Kong and eventually to the United Kingdom.

Passage to the Millennium

Passage to the Millennium
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Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781466860872
ISBN-13 : 1466860871
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Passage to the Millennium by : Mary Ellen Carter

Cayce shines his intuitive light on the new millennium. Carter looks at the unprecedented changes taking place around the planet which were not envisioned by futurists, social planners, even as recently as a few years ago, and were foreseen by Cayce. This is Cayce's "New World Order", and how to survive in it.

A Poisoned Passion

A Poisoned Passion
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781429929486
ISBN-13 : 1429929480
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis A Poisoned Passion by : Diane Fanning

By the age of twenty-four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous... In the winter of 2005, Mike's wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported him missing. Wendi told police that Mike had been acting erratically—visiting local clubs, staying out late, sometimes not coming home at all. She filed for divorce the very next day. Eventually Mike's body turned up in a stock pond on a private ranch. Investigators described a corpse that was weighted down with two cinder blocks, a rock, a boat anchor, and other equipment. It had also been stabbed forty-one times with a knife. But an autopsy report told a different story: That the cause of death was exposure to pentobarbital and phenobarbital, drugs commonly used in veterinary medicine. All the evidence pointed to Wendi...and soon she would be found guilty of murder in the first degree. Diane Fanning's A Poisioned Passion is the true, shocking story of a war hero and a marriage that ended in cold-blooded murder.

Nowhere to Go But Everywhere

Nowhere to Go But Everywhere
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Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : 3868289755
ISBN-13 : 9783868289756
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Nowhere to Go But Everywhere by : Dotan Saguy

In-depth heartfelt documentary of a family who lives in an old converted school bus parked in Los Angeles

Bones in the Desert

Bones in the Desert
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781429944274
ISBN-13 : 1429944277
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Bones in the Desert by : Jana Bommersbach

Loretta Bowersock and her daughter, Terri, ran a multimillion-dollar furniture store based in Tempe, Arizona, where they were well-known and admired by many. Together, these two women seemed to be living the American Dream...until one man decided to take it all away. Over the course of two decades, Taw Benderly worked his way into Loretta's heart, home, and business. Though the couple appeared to be happy, their lives behind closed doors told another story. Terri had always known that the handsome, charming, and usually unemployed Taw was manipulating her mother—but she did not know the extent of the abuse or how far he would go to defraud her. Then, just before Christmas in 2004, Loretta went missing. It would be more than a year before Terri learned the shocking truth: That, before killing himself, Taw murdered the 69-year-old Loretta and left her. Bones in the Desert is the shocking story of a devoted mother and daughter, a successful business, and the man who would do everything to destroy it all ...

Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition

Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9781317817277
ISBN-13 : 1317817273
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Photography and the Contemporary Cultural Condition by : Peter D. Osborne

In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery. He examines how photography embodies, contributes to, and even in effect critiques how the contemporary social world is now imagined, how it is made present and how the concept and the experience of the Present itself is produced. Osborne bases his discussions primarily in cultural studies and visual cultural studies. Through an analysis of different kinds of photographic work in distinct contexts, he demonstrates how aspects of photography that once appeared to make it vulnerable to redundancy turn out to be the basis of its survival and have been utilised by much important photographic work of the last three decades.

Careless Whispers

Careless Whispers
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 0312977042
ISBN-13 : 9780312977047
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Careless Whispers by : Carlton Stowers

When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended the case indefinitely. Patrol Sergeant Truman Simons, who had been called to the scene that night, saw the carnage first-hand -- and vowed to find the ferocious killer or killers. He soon became a man with a mission, risking his career and his family's safety in search of evidence. Plunging himself into a netherworld of violence and evil, Simons finally got close enough to a murderous ringleader to hear his careless whispers--and ultimately, put him and his three accomplices behind bars for the brutal slayings. Now, in his Edgar Award-winning account of the Lake Waco killings, acclaimed true crime writer Carlton Stowers lays bare the facts behind the tragic crimes, the twisted predators, and the heroic man who broke the investigation--with important updated information based on new developments in the case.