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Coping with Terrorism
Coping with Terrorism
Drawing on research, which includes interviews with London bomb victims and others, this work explains what is known about our reaction to terror attacks. It also shows how we can survive the unthinkable and tells us why we should understand our enemies, warning us that terrorism is the ultimate copycat crime.
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The Longest War
The Longest War
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Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945
Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945
In a disturbing behind-the-scenes history of the early achievements of Margaret Sanger's American birth control movement, Carole R. McCann scrutinizes the movement's compromises as well as its successes.
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Talking Pictures
Talking Pictures
Images flash across the screen. Photographs appear on walls, on cans, on the sides of buses, in magazines, books, newspapers, computers. We are bombarded with thousands of photographs each day: they are perhaps our major source of information, inspiration, and irritation. But what if you had to choose a single image out of that avalanche - one photograph that you couldn't stop thinking about, that changed your ideas, your aesthetics, your perception of reality? Seventy of the most interesting people of our era - both famous and unknown - were asked to choose that one image for Talking Pictures. The results are startling, profound, funny, and deeply revealing about our psychology and our times. From glossy fashion photography to devastating portraits of the Holocaust, from family snapshots to the shimmering artwork of master photographers such as Irving Penn, Andre Kertesz, and Imogen Cunningham, from Life magazine photo essays to a five-hundred-times magnification of the adhesive on a Post-it, the range of images in Talking Pictures reveals not only the strength of individual obsession and the power of history and imagination, but, more importantly, the peculiar truths about ourselves and our times that can be seen only in photographs.
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Local History in Victoria
Local History in Victoria
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Quotable Politicians
Quotable Politicians
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Weekend Adventures in Northern California
Weekend Adventures in Northern California
The guide to getting away, from Morro Bay to the Oregon border, newly revised and updated. With new sections on San Francisco, Berkeley, and Martin County, this thorough guide is easy to use as it covers everything the region has to offer: city and wilderness, beaches and mountains, gold country, wine country, and recreation. Photos. Maps.
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Female Impersonation
Female Impersonation
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Since her earliest photographs in the 1970s, Cindy Sherman has built a name as one of the most respected photographers of our day. Famous for posing as the subject of her own photos, Sherman's work addresses the role of the artist, the impact of the media upon the art world and the position of women in society. Organized in a roughly chronological path by theme, Cindy Sherman provides a comprehensive review of the artist's complete works, including her Bus Riders, Murder Mystery, and Untitled Film Stills series, and photographs on topics ranging from surrealist pictures, fairy tales, rear screen projections, the Old Masters, centerfolds, pink robes, clowns, dolls, and Hollywood. Fascinating archival material includes a notebook of personal snapshots that Sherman kept from an early age, on which she would circle herself and label each one: "That's Me." This monograph is the catalogue for an international exhibition that will be held in Paris, Denmark, Austria, and Berlin from 2006 through 2007.
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