Nel 1972, David Bowie pubblicò il suo album rivoluzionario 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'. Con esso faceva la sua apparizione anche Ziggy Stardust, l'alter-ego di Bowie: un personaggio sessualmente ambiguo, ricoperto di glitter e con il mascara alle ciglia, che abbatté il confine tra uomo e donna, etero e gay, realtà e finzione scenica in un mutevole fenomeno di autoespressione in puro stile anni '70. Insieme, l'album e lo spettacolo trasformarono il timido cantante londinese in una delle più grandi star internazionali. Un compagno fondamentale in questo viaggio glam nella stratosfera è stato il fotografo, anche lui londinese, Mick Rock, il quale legò con Bowie sia artisticamente sia personalmente, entrando nella cerchia privata del cantante e, tra il 1972 e il 1973, lavorando come suo fotografo ufficiale. Questo libro raccoglie il meglio del portfolio di Mick Rock dedicato a Bowie con spettacolari fotografie di scena e intimi ritratti nel backstage. Con una copertina olografica composta da diversi scatti della testa di Bowie, il volume intende celebrare la coraggiosa e costante capacità di sperimentazione e reinvenzione dell'artista. Tra cordialità e distanza, serietà e gioco, scatti a sorpresa e pose pianificate, questo libro è un appassionato tributo a un artista eccezionale dotato di una visione creativa unica, eterna fonte di ispirazione.

L'Alpe di Siusi è il più grande altipiano d'Europa, annoverato in Alto Adige tra i più belli e affascinanti dal punto di vista panoramico. Da decenni Michael Trocker esplora ogni sfaccettatura di quest'alpe: paesaggio, fauna e flora, infatti, sono la sua passione. Come per magia è in grado di scattare fotografie diurne mistiche, ammalianti e profondamente toccanti. Il suo volume ritrae la bellezza di questa magnifica area durante le quattro stagioni e le immagini sono accompagnate dalle didascalie di Inga Hosp e Jul Bruno Laner, che talvolta invitano a riflettere e sorridere.

This illustrated essay traces the history of one of the leading exponents of
" Swiss Graphic Design " in the 1950s and 1960s. Josef Müller-Brockmann's
posters have become world famous for their ability to convey information with
great visual tension, a sense of drama, and an extreme economy of means.
He created a body of work in which timeless principles of visual communication
are inscribed. In addition to the posters, the image part presents examples
of logotypes, appearances, and exhibitions as well as numerous lesser-known
works in chronological order.

Navy Crazy is a different kind of war story depicting the backwardness of military medicine in the mid-1950s. A memoir of a young medical corpsman learning to survive on a locked psychiatric ward for Navy and Marine mental patients at the hospital on the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan from 1955-57. Rockland captures the ward's atmosphere, its flavor, its culture and its language. A raw personal history not filtered, not for the faint of heart.

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities.

Acclaimed by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts brings a tried and true program out of the medical field and into your home and neighborhood. Improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in just 12 weeks. Whether you are ill, suffering from emotional trauma, or looking to unite your community, the arts become the conduit to restore your wellness and thrive in life.

Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane created and developed this unique and powerful process to help anyone heal. Through innovative art projects—from the visual arts, movement and dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, readers learn to get in touch with their inner muse and inner healer. Based on years of research and experience in the medical community, Healing with the Arts sets the stage for a more meaningful and healthier existence.

In the tradition of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Michael Rock, principal and founder of 2x4 Design in New York, explores the history and development of twenty-first-century visual and design culture. This book presents a thoughtful and witty exploration of graphic design today produced by Michael Rock of 2x4, the powerhouse creative firm that partners with some of the most design-savvy brands and institutions in the world to develop design systems that draw on both modernist traditions and the exuberance of contemporary life. Set forth in an engaging and humorous way, Multiple Signatures examines all aspects of modern design, from typography to the evolution of screens in advertising to trusting one’s own creative instincts, through a series of smart and often irreverent essays and images. Using 2x4’s own collaborations and projects as examples, and drawing on the experience of the contributing authors, the result is not a clinical textbook, but a fantastic and thought-provoking work about the limitless applications of design. A must-have for design students and professionals, Multiple Signatures challenges standard ways of understanding design and inspires readers to think of graphic design as a building block for all creative disciplines.

It?s Christmastime in Boston, and this year the silver bells will be wedding bells as FBI agent Jules Cassidy ties the knot with the man of his dreams, Hollywood heartthrob Robin Chadwick.The pair plan a quiet, intimate ceremony, to be witnessed by family and close friends from the FBI, SEAL Team Sixteen, and Troubleshooters, Incorporated, including Sam Starrett and Alyssa Locke. But the holiday season brings more to the happy couple than they expect.A waterfall coming through their kitchen ceiling, a bat colony in the attic, old family tensions?even an international incident can?t dampen their spirits. But add to that a parade of unexpected guests, including a reporter looking for a scoop, an ex-lover hell-bent on causing trouble, and a dangerous stalker, and suddenly the wedding is poised to unravel in chaos.But nothing will stop Jules and Robin from getting their happy ending, because along with a guest list featuring the most elite counterterrorism force in the world, they have their own secret weapon - true love.

On February 15, 1865, eighteen anxious students gathered on the second floor of a stone building belonging to School District No. 1 of Lyon County to begin their quest for learning at the Kansas State Normal School. It was less than two years after Gov. Thomas Carney signed the bill creating what has become one of the most renowned teacher education universities in the nation. Despite economic setbacks and the loss of the main building to fire in the 1870s, the normal school attracted students from every county within the state. By the end of 1892, the board of regents reported that the Kansas State Normal School was the largest in the nation. In 1923, the school's name was changed to Kansas State Teachers College, recognizing its importance in teacher education. Today, Emporia State University continues to offer outstanding academic programs and an energetic campus environment that has been changing lives since that day in 1865.

No college is more intensely tied to the development of intercollegiatefootball than the University of Notre Dame. The NotreDame football program has the best winning percentage and hasproduced more All-Americans than any other school in the country.This newly revised edition is a compendium that spans thecareers of more than two thousand players. Fans will sit at the 50-yard line and witness more than a century of football, includingall the glorious victories, heroic comebacks, and agonizing defeats.The Notre Dame Football Encyclopedia captures the mystique ofthe Golden Dome as well as the fierce loyalty that countless NotreDame fans hold for this special place and its proud football tradition.Nowhere else can such a thorough and revealing history ofNotre Dame football be found.