Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, from The Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest Eye, and many more. Along the way, he shows you how to mine these masterpieces for invaluable writing strategies that you can add to your arsenal and apply in your own writing. Once you've experienced X-ray reading, your writing will never be the same again.

When Jessica goes to the hospital after she breaks her arm, she learns about different X-ray techniques. Includes six actual X-ray images printed on film.

Set off on the adventure of a lifetime. Journey deep inside the workings of the human body - a machine designed for life.

Werner Schuster was a doctor long before he became an artist--but it was a childhood fascination with photography that drove him to study radiology in the first place, so it's only fitting that he should now be one of the most versatile and interesting artists working with x-ray photography today. This volume presents full-color reproductions of Schuster's photographs along with those of other photographers, from the pioneering x-ray creators of 1895 to present-day artists working in the medium. An essay by René Harather tells the history of x-ray photography and highlights the most important developments and proponents of the genre since its discovery. The second part of the book turns to Schuster's work, showing how he has expanded the boundaries of the medium and made creative use of the interplay between traditional and x-ray photography. A fascinating look at a stunning marriage of art and science, X-Ray is the first comprehensive representation of the history of x-ray photography.

A collection of photographs by world-renowned make-up artist Francois Nars. His aim was to create an art book containing over 200 elegant and unconventional images, featuring his favourite personalities from the worlds of fashion, design, film and music - and people who stood out on the street, personifying bold, audacious chic. Nars travelled the globe and invited each individual to sit for him, styling each portrait session according to the sitters metier, personality and elan. The result is a portait, or X-ray, of individuals who include: Alexander McQueen, Amber Valletta, Christy Turlington, Grace Jones, Angelica Houston, Anna Sui, Earth Kitt, Anita Pallenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Juliette Lewis, Lauren Hutton, Lauryn Hill, Manalo Blahnik, Paloma Picasso, Quentin Crisp and Nigel Coates.