Un'interessante raccolta di respiro internazionale di progetti innovativi in un settore della grafica sempre in crescita come è quello della creazione di copertine e del packaging di DVD. Dal packaging di prodotti musicali a quelli cinematografici, 'DVD Art' esplora sia la fase creativa che precede il progetto sia le considerazioni pratiche e le limitazioni che caratterizzano la sua realizzazione. Nel valicare il confine tra le due e le tre dimensioni e nel procedere verso forme grafiche sempre più dinamiche, questo settore offre enormi possibilità al grafico che vuole sperimentare nell'ambito di lavori commerciali e innovativi al tempo stesso.

Nonostante i dischi di vinile continuino ad essere prodotti, vendano bene e rimangano i preferiti di molte persone, il compact disc ne è divenuto il sostituto ufficiale. Dopo la sua nascita negli anni '80, mentre gli stessi pezzi continuavano ad essere prodotti in contemporanea in vinile, su cd e audiocassetta, la reazione della maggior parte delle etichette era quella di ridurre semplicemente il layout della copertina del disco in vinile adattandola al cd. Tuttavia il cd è diventato il supporto dominante così che i designer hanno cominciato a studiare questo tipo di supporto per creare copertine che potessero sfruttarne al meglio le caratteristiche.

La tragica scomparsa del marito Peter, ritrovato assassinato in un bosco della Provenza, precipita la giovane moglie Laura in una spirale di scoperte agghiaccianti quanto inaspettate: marito e padre perfetto, in realtà Peter non solo era sull'orlo del fallimento economico, ma da tempo aveva un'amante francese, proprietaria di un ristorante, con la quale progettava di scappare in Sudamerica per rifarsi una vita, abbandonando la moglie e la figlioletta di pochi anni. Ormai priva di punti di riferimento affettivi e psicologici, stordita da una catena di omicidi che, a parte il caso di Peter, hanno come vittime giovani donne e che la polizia ritiene siano tutti concatenati, Laura si illuderà di trovare un sostegno nel migliore amico del marito.

Estate in Provenza: Rebecca Brandt, vedova disperata, ha preso la decisione estrema di porre fine ai suoi giorni, ma viene distolta dal suo proposito dall'arrivo imprevisto di Maximilian Kemper, il miglior amico del marito. Maximilian non è solo: con lui viaggiano due studenti di Monaco, Inga e Marius, un ragazzo chiuso e aggressivo. Intanto, a centinaia di chilometri di distanza, a Monaco, un'anziana coppia viene trovata brutalmente assassinata. Vicende che apparentemente non hanno nulla a che fare l'una con l'altra, ma che a poco a poco, in un gioco di apparenti coincidenze, riveleranno un intreccio mortale che coinvolge il passato e il presente di tutti i protagonisti: chi nasconde un segreto terribile, chi ignora di essere il bersaglio di un rancore mai sopito, chi non ha mai ricevuto risposta a una richiesta di aiuto... Nessuno è mai veramente innocente. E tutte le tracce avrebbero potuto farlo capire.

La stima e l'apprezzamento di sé sono elementi fondamentali per imparare, crescere, vivere bene. Soprattutto nei bambini e negli adolescenti; e un concetto positivo di se stessi li aiuta a diventare individui forti, sensibili e responsabili. Questo libro intende guidare, con esempi e storie vere, tanto i genitori quanto gli educatori, a capire e accettare il modo in cui i bambini guardano la realtà, e a scoprire le vie per portarli a essere fiduciosi, sicuri e responsabili applicando le regole dell'autostima nelle situazioni di ogni giorno.

In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed both as a feminist classic and a key text in the American literary canon.
This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews with incisive commentary, providing:

• an introduction to the political, biographical and medical contexts in which Gilman was writing
• a publishing and critical history of the work with extracts from the earliest reviews through to recent criticism
• a chronology of key biographical and contextual events
• an annotated guide to further reading
• original illustrations and photographs of the author and figures related to the story.

The volume also constitutes an important critical edition, reprinting the complete original text as published in the New England Magazine in 1892, with extensive commentary.

This long-awaited text explains, examines, and discusses various aspects of accounting in international petroleum operations. The authors discuss and illustrate international petroleum contracts and related contract accounting issues that arise and contrast U.S. accounting standards with those of other countries which are likely to be applicable to companies operating in international settings. Also included are discussions of petroleum tax regimes encountered around the world.

An ideal introduction to the key artists and uses of photography in contemporary art. Includes more than 200 examples of important work.

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Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale of a simple servant woman and her life-long search for love meant something else to Flaubert. Written near the end of his life, the work was meant to be a tribute to George Sand—who died before it was finished—and was written in answer to an argument the two were having over the importance of realism. Although the tale displays his virtuosic gift for telling detail, and is based on one of his actual servants, Flaubert said it exemplified his belief that 'Beauty is the object of all my efforts.' This sparkling new translation by Charlotte Mandell shows how impeccably Flaubert achieved his goal.

From the maverick author of the international bestseller Who Killed Daniel Pearl? — 'a gripping blend of reportage and philosophy,' according to The New York Times — comes another startlingly original work of literature.

In WAR, EVIL AND THE END OF HISTORY, Bernard-Henri Lévy continues his daring investigation into the breeding grounds of terrorism with a series of riveting first-person reports from five of the world's most horrific 'forgotten' war zones. In Sri Lanka, he conducts a clandestine interview with a terrified young woman escaped from a suicide-bomber training camp . . . he journeys, blindfolded, into the Colombian jungle to interview a psychotic drug lord who considers himself the successor to Che Guevara and fronts a bloodthirsty 'guerilla' army . . . Lévy surreptitiously observes the nameless slaves working the diamond mines that fund an endless war in Angola . . . airdrops into a rebel stronghold in the blockaded Nuba mountains of the Sudan . . . and reports on the ongoing carnage in Burundi between Hutus and Tutsis. But Lévy is more than just a journalist: as France's leading philosopher, he follows the reports with a series of intensely personal and probing 'reflections' considering how, in an enlightened, cultured, and well-informed society, these wars have acquired such a perverse 'non-meaning.' He considers war literature from Stendhal, Hemingway, Proust and others, and issues an excoriating response to those who have glorified it. He reconsiders his own background as a student revolutionary in Paris in May 1968, and as a 22-year-old war reporter in Bangladesh. And, in one of the book's most moving passages, he recounts his travels with Ahmad Massoud, the anti-Taliban Afghan leader assassinated hours before the September 11 attacks. Already a huge bestseller in Europe, WAR, EVIL, AND THE END OF HISTORY is the work of a scintillating intellect at the height of its powers. Bernard-Henri Lévy's previous book foresaw today's headlines about Pakistan's secret trading of nuclear technology and the nexus of terrorist groups behind the murder of Daniel Pearl. WAR, EVIL, AND THE END OF HISTORY is his brilliant foray into the next danger zones.

Rachel Whiteread has expanded the parameters of contemporary sculpture with her casts of the outer and inner spaces of familiar objects, sometimes in quiet monochrome, sometimes in vivid jewel-like colour. She won the Turner Prize in 1993, the same year as her first large-scale public project, House, a concrete cast of a nineteenth-century terraced house in London's east end. Further site-specific projects include Holocaust Memorial in Vienna's Judenplatz and Water Tower in New York. With 100 colour illustrations, this book is a survey that examines Whiteread's career to date.