A major new book from one of the world’s leading writers and art critics

One of the world’s most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. InPortraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Randa Mdah’s work about contemporary Palestine. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about art history, and artists both canonized and obscure,from Rembrandt, to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.

The first comprehensive monograph on the acclaimed American artist and architect, known for her environmental works and memorials that distill a tranquil yet texturally rich minimalism. Maya Lin is one of the most important public artists of this century. As an architecture student at Yale, Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a class project, entering it in the largest design competition in American history. Her winning proposal, a V-shaped wall of black stone etched with the names of 58,000 dead soldiers, has since become the most visited memorial in the nation’s capital.
This visually rich volume presents 50 projects from the last three decades that demonstrate the scope of Lin’s creative process, featuring her own sketches and drawings and linked by her ideal of making a place for individuals within the landscape. With her environmental works Storm King Wavefield, Eleven-Minute Line (Sweden), and Pin River–Yangtze (Beijing), Lin maintains a balance between art and architecture, drawing inspiration from culturally diverse sources.
From the moment she entered the national spotlight with her design for the Vietnam Memorial, Lin has been proposing ways of thinking and imagining that resist categories, genres, and borders.

Long awaited, this volume spans almost forty years of contemporary high design as masterminded by Ian Schrager. Known for being the originator of the mythical Studio 54, as well as a creator of the boutique hotel, Ian Schrager has done much more than create, design, and manage hotels, restaurants, clubs, residential buildings, and various real estate developments throughout the world—he has challenged and redefined the idea of luxury and glamour. These spaces are renowned destinations for evening social spaces and fabulous, memorable parties as well as restful, urban oases.This book presents many never-before-seen photographs from hotels such as the Morgans, Paramount, Delano, Mondrian, and the famed Gramercy Park Hotel in New York that Schrager collaborated on with the painter Julian Schnabel; residential properties, including 40 Bond Street and 50 Gramercy Park North; and the legendary club Studio 54.With more than 200 photographs and texts from the most important designers of our generation—including Philippe Starck, John Pawson, and Jacques Herzog, all of whom also have designed for Schrager—the book reveals some of the highest and most successful expressions of environmental curation to date. This volume will have an enduring impact on entrepreneurs, interior designers, industrial designers, and cultural communities alike.

A concordance is a key Bible study tool that absolutely must match the Bible translation you are using. The only concordance that provides an exhaustive indexing of every appearance of every word is theNIV Exhaustive Bible Concordance. This concordance gives complete access to every English word of the NIV text, as well as to the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

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Built on the model developed by James Strong over a hundred years ago, the Strongest series of Bible concordances by Zondervan is just that: the most powerful, most comprehensive, most useful and user-friendly line of concordances available.

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Un libro nomade, che viaggia attraverso l'Europa, dove storie apparentemente disparate si rivelano parti di un tutto, momenti perduti ritrovano il loro posto. Memorie sensuali del passato penetrano nel presente. Città - Madrid, Cracovia, Lisbona, Ginevra, Londra - costituiscono ibridi rievocativi di un vecchio e nuovo mondo. Lisbona è la cornice perfetta per un incontro, una passeggiata e un lungo dialogo con il fantasma della madre: "Una vecchia con l'ombrello sedeva immobile su una panchina del parco. Con quel tipo di immobilità che richiama l'attenzione. Seduta sulla panchina del parco, voleva farsi notare". A Ginevra vive la figlia dell'autore, e c'è la tomba di Jorge Luis Borges: "Le quattro parole sulla parte frontale della stele erano, abbiamo scoperto, in inglese antico (o arcaico). And Ne Forthtedon. Non avere paura". Non c'è autore che riesca, come John Berger, a raccontare l'altra faccia delle città, dei luoghi. Non quello che si può immaginare, ma quello che si riesce a vedere solo con gli occhi dell'immaginazione. Nell'attraversare confini e barriere temporali "Qui, dove ci incontriamo" è un romanzo giocoso e inatteso.

Questa raccolta di testi e immagini in parte inediti ricompone per la prima volta i molti aspetti di un'opera che ha la caratteristica più unica che rara di presentarsi come dispersa nella sua molteplicità. Di volta in volta narratore, sceneggiatore cinematografico, autore teatrale, giornalista, critico letterario. Critico d'arte, sempre impegnato nelle grandi cause dell'umanità, dal destino dei lavoratori migranti in Europa alle recenti testimonianze sulla realtà palestinese, John Berger ha scelto la non specializzazione e la non professionalizzazione come stile di vita. E come il solo modo possibile per restare partecipe di una realtà fatta di rapporti personali, contatti fisici, scambi emotivi che escludono qualsiasi forma di astrazione ideologica, garantendo l'aderenza a una realtà colta sempre in modo diretto e personale. Tra i testi scelti e curati da Maria Nadotti, la testimonianza su Ramallah, l'intervista sulla collaborazione con il regista Alain Tanner o le pagine su Tiziano e Caravaggio danno un'idea della ricchezza e dell'altezza di ispirazione di uno dei più grandi autori contemporanei.

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story.

Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution.

A rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the innocence of their formative years.

This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source vs. proprietary software.

An understanding of the nervous system at virtually any level of analysis requires an understanding of its basic building block, the neuron. The third edition of From Molecules to Networks provides the solid foundation of the morphological, biochemical, and biophysical properties of nerve cells. In keeping with previous editions, the unique content focus on cellular and molecular neurobiology and related computational neuroscience is maintained and enhanced.

All chapters have been thoroughly revised for this third edition to reflect the significant advances of the past five years. The new edition expands on the network aspects of cellular neurobiology by adding new coverage of specific research methods (e.g., patch-clamp electrophysiology, including applications for ion channel function and transmitter release; ligand binding; structural methods such as x-ray crystallography).

Written and edited by leading experts in the field, the third edition completely and comprehensively updates all chapters of this unique textbook and insures that all references to primary research represent the latest results.

* The first treatment of cellular and molecular neuroscience that includes an introduction to mathematical modeling and simulation approaches

* 80% updated and new content

* New Chapter on "Biophysics of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels"

* New Chapter on "Synaptic Plasticity"

* Includes a chapter on the Neurobiology of Disease

* Highly referenced, comprehensive and quantitative

* Full color, professional graphics throughout

* All graphics are available in electronic version for teaching purposes

A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the birth of the Negritude movement. With unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, a bouquet of language-play, and deeply resonant rhythms, Césaire considered this work a "break into the forbidden," at once a cry of rebellion and a celebration of black identity.

More praise:

"The greatest living poet in the French language."--American Book Review

"Martinique poet Aime Cesaire is one of the few pure surrealists alive today. By this I mean that his work has never compromised its wild universe of double meanings, stretched syntax, and unexpected imagery. This long poem was written at the end of World War II and became an anthem for many blacks around the world. Eshleman and Smith have revised their original 1983 translations and given it additional power by presenting Cesaire's unique voice as testament to a world reduced in size by catastrophic events." --Bloomsbury Review

"Through his universal call for the respect of human dignity, consciousness and responsibility, he will remain a symbol of hope for all oppressed peoples." --Nicolas Sarkozy

"Evocative and thoughtful, touching on human aspiration far beyond the scale of its specific concerns with Cesaire's native land - Martinique." --The Times

An NYRB Classics Original

Winner of the 2013 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation from the French

Fear is a classic of war literature, a book to place on the shelf with Storm of Steel, A Farewell to Arms, and Going After Cacciato. Jean Dartemont, the hero of Gabriel Chevallier’s autobiographical novel, enters what was not yet known as World War I in 1915, when it was just beginning to be clear that a war that all the combatants were initially confident would move swiftly to a conclusion was instead frozen murderously in place. After enduring the horrors of the trenches and the deadly leagues of no-man’s-land stretching beyond them, Jean is wounded and hospitalized. Away from the front, he confronts the relentless blindness of the authorities and much of the general public to the hideous realities of modern, mechanized combat. Jean decides he must resist. How? By telling the simple truth. Urged to encourage new recruits with tales of derring-do service, Jean does not mince words. What did he do on the battlefield? He responds like a man: “I was afraid.”

Acclaimed as “the most beautiful book ever written on the tragic events that blood-stained Europe” for five years, prosecuted on first publication as an act of sedition, Fear appears for the first time in the United States in Malcolm Imrie’s poetic and prizewinning translation on the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, the conflict with which the twentieth century came into its own. Chevallier’s masterpiece remains, in the words of John Berger, “a book of the utmost urgency and relevance.”

"The first critical examination of Picasso's use of religious imagery and the religious import of many of his works with secular subject matter. Though Picasso was an avowed aetheist, his work employs themes of spirituality -- and, often, traditional religious iconography. In five engagingly written, accessible chapters, the authors address Picasso's cryptic 1930 painting of the Crucifixion; the artist's early life in the catholic church, trained as a religious painter; elements of transcendence in Guernica; Picasso's fraught relationship with the church, including a commission to paint murals for the War and Peace Chapel in France in the 1950s; and the centrality of religious themes and imagery in bullfights, subject of countless Picasso drawings and paintings. The book will shed new light on a little-known or discussed aspect of one of the central figures of 20th-century art"--

This book provides a new approach to assessment that draws on the assessments that occur naturally and internally for students every day. All learners continually assess the quality of their work, skills, understanding, and behavior and decide what is good enough. They assess and decide when written work is good enough to turn in; when they have put enough effort into a reading assignment or math test; when they understand a concept sufficiently; and whether they have been respectful and helpful to others. But for a variety of reasons, students and teachers often don’t tap into this level of assessment and learn how to capitalize on it. Teachers frequently fall into the trap of simply saying “try harder,” without giving students specific targets, feedback, time to revise, and encouragement. What students really need are tools to assess and improve their own learning and the motivation to do so.

Leaders of Their Own Learning offers school leaders and classroom teachers a new way of thinking about assessment based on the celebrated work of Expeditionary Learning Schools across the country. Student-Engaged Assessment is not a single practice. It is an approach to teaching and learning that equips and compels students to understand goals for their learning and growth, track their progress toward those goals, and take responsibility for reaching them. This requires a set of interrelated strategies and structures and a whole-school culture in which students are given the respect and responsibility to be meaningfully engaged in their own learning.

This book provides everything teachers and school leaders need to implement a Student-Engaged Assessment system in their schools. It contains chapters on eight key practices that will engage students in making academic progress, improve achievement, and involve families and communities in the life of the school. Each chapter describes a practice, gives advice on how to begin, and explains what teachers and school leaders need to put into practice in their own classrooms and schools. The chapters include descriptive text, resources, advice, and stories from schools successfully using the practice. The companion DVD offers compelling video clips that illustrate each key strategy in real schools with real students—to serve as models, raise questions, and stimulate discussion.

Leaders of Their Own Learning shows educators how to ignite the capacity of students to take responsibility for their own learning, meet Common Core and state standards, and reach higher levels of achievement.

Perché complicare a tal punto un'esperienza che facciamo più volte ogni giorno: l'esperienza di guardare una foto? Perché l'ingenuità con cui di solito la affrontiamo è dispendiosa e disorientante. Pensiamo alle fotografie come a opere d'arte, come prova di una particolare verità, come simulacri, come nuovi oggetti. Di fatto ogni fotografia è un mezzo per verificare, confermare e costruire una visione totale della realtà.

"This introduction to construction safety for construction management personnel takes a project-based approach to present potential hazards in construction and their mitigation or prevention. After introducing Accident Prevention Programs and OSHA compliance requirements, the book integrates safety instruction into the building process by following a building project from site construction through interior finish. Reinforcing this applied approach are photographs, drawings, contract documentation, and anonline 3D BIM model to help visualize the onsite scenarios"--