A handsome facsimile of conceptualist Luigi Ghirri\'s poetic narrative of 1970s pop culture Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-92) made Cardboard Landscapes (Paesaggi di cartone) during his travels around Europe, coining the term \"sentimental geography\" to describe his unique artistic approach of examining the ordinary to prove it remarkable. The original handmade album features over 100 chromogenic

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.In the early twentieth century, the picture postcard was a revolutionary way of combining short messages with an image, making use of technologies

White Folks explores the experiences and stories of eight white people from a small farming community in northern Wisconsin. It examines how white people learn to be \'white\' and reveals how white racial identity is dependent on people of color--even in situations where white people have little or no contact with racial others. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Delores, Frank, William, Erin, Robert,

The application of solid-state electronics for controlling and converting electric power is referred to as power electronics. Modern power electronics systems use semiconductor switching devices such as diodes, thyristors and power transistors to perform the conversion. The power conversion systems can be classified into various categories such as AC to DC, DC to AC, DC to DC and AC to AC. AC to DC

Award-winning author and charismatic motivational speak Ty Allan Jackson created the young fictional character Danny Dollar, who has inspired countless children around the world to make, save, and spend money wisely, and to dream big. Now the \"King of Cha-Ching\" returns to take kids on a how-to journey toward financial literacy, with tips and guidance for making money and minding their own businesses.

When Jesus commissioned his followers, he was not just inaugurating the historical church, he was founding a missionary movement.Originally released by Missional Press and now revised and expanded to include a multi-session discussion guide, Steve Addison\'s Movements That Change the World draws from biblical, historical and contemporary case studies to isolate the essential elements of a dynamic missionary

The Toy Spaniel - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a comprehensive range of books, many of them now rare and much sought-after works, all of them written by renowned breed experts of

The Zero Quality Control System (ZQC) is a mistake-proofing approach that prevents defects by monitoring processing conditions at the source and correcting errors that cause defects. Since it is human nature to make mistakes, ZQC does not blame people for errors, but instead finds ways to keep errors from becoming defects. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are

Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) is based on reading source material to recreate the lost martial arts of Europe. While reading the treatises and performing depicted techniques helps understand HEMA, there is more to it. The sources were not written and illustrated in a vacuum, but rather in a rich and complicated world. Historical European Martial Arts in its Context places the sources in a

An authoritative insider\'s view of today\'s Russia - a Russian \'BARBARIANS AT THE

Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual

The unvarnished and complete story of the life of one of America\'s greatest ever

A new selection for the NEA\'s Big Read program A compact selection of Poe\'s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller\'s art as \"The Tell-tale Heart,\" \"The Fall of the House of Usher,\" \"The Cask of Amontillado,\" and \"The

&b>Opal Gravely has spent her life obsessed with the mysterious Starling House &/b>– &b>but when its reclusive heir offers her a job, she discovers there may be monsters lurking within. This is a sweeping, Gothic fairytale from Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award-shortlisted Alix E. Harrow, author of &i>The Ten Thousand Doors of

*Includes an exclusive story featuring the Fourteenth Doctor!* I Have To Live On. Alone. That\'s The Curse Of The Timelords. The Doctor\'s tenth incarnation was: hilarious, furious, fun and vengeful. (He also had great hair.) He also saved the world, and the universe, more times than anyone can remember. But from the Christmas Invasion to the Runaway Bride, things always seemed to need saving around

Solve some more puzzling mysteries with super sleuth Encyclopedia Brown Leroy Brown is back in the Encyclopedia Brown series. As Idaville\'s ten-year-old star detective, Encyclopedia has an uncanny knack for trivia. With his unconventional knowledge, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department,