The Language of Visual Art: Perception As a Basis for Design

Red or Dead: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Cutting Edge)

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Red or Dead: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Cutting Edge)
Tamsin Kingswell
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
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ASIN: 0823012042

Bone vol. 2: La gran carrera de vacas: Bone vol. 2: The Great Cow Race (Bone (Spanish))

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Bone vol. 2: La gran carrera de vacas: Bone vol. 2: The Great Cow Race (Bone (Spanish))
Jeff Smith
Manufacturer: Public Square Books
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Doctors: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes: 2006 Day-to-Day Calendar

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This Calendar Sucks
A must for those required to endure a doctor's humor

Doctors: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes: 2006 Day-to-Day Calendar
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0740751573

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Better Off As Girls?
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Solidly beautiful pictures

At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

Manufacturer: Aperture
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ASIN: 0893813303
Release Date: 2005-06-15

At Twelve is Sally Mann's revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood. As Ann Beattie writes in her perceptive introduction, "These girls still exist in an innocent world in which a pose is only a pose-- what adults make of that pose may be the issue." The consequences of this misunderstanding can be real: destitution, abuse, unwanted pregnancy. Mann does not deny this reality, but records it, both in the faces of her subjects and in written stories that accompany thirteen of the portraits, adding another dimension to our understanding of "childhood."

The young women in Mann's unflinching, large-format photographs, however, are not victims. They return the viewer's gaze with a disturbing equanimity. Poet Jonathan Williams writes, "Sally Mann's girls are the ones who do the hard looking in At Twelve-- be up to it!" Partly this is a result of the remarkable rapport that Mann is able to establish with her subjects.

Herself the mother of three, Mann has lived most of her life in Lexington, Virginia, where all of these pictures were taken. In fact, many of the families of the young women were cared for by her father, who was the town doctor for over forty years. So while At Twelve is an intensely personal vision of what it means, now, to be twelve and female, each of Mann's subjects is allowed the opportunity to frankly return our wondering, reminiscent gaze and to have a history of her own, rooted in a specific place at a particular moment-- at twelve.

Aperture Masters of Photography Twelve-Copy Collector's Set

Includes Berenice Abbott, Eugène Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Man Ray, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Weegee, and Edward Weston

Aperture's newly expanded Masters of Photography series presents an engrossing introduction to the photographers whose work has incalculably affected the way we regard the world. Each volume begins with an essay by a leading critic or historian, offering an incisive look at the photographer's career and importance in the history of photography. Essayists include Dorothy Norman on Alfred Stieglitz, Mark Haworth-Booth on Paul Strand, and A. D. Coleman on Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Each hardcover, clothbound volume features approximately forty duotone images.

White Wolf seems to not go so much "adult" in terms of pornography as it does on a "lets see how gross we can make it." The entry comic is enough to turn a weak stomach, so definitely keep it out of children's hands -- just as the company suggests. It had a healthy spattering of profanity which wasn't necessary at all times in this reader's opinion, tossing it in possibly to put the "adult" rating on it instead of for emphasis. In today's era, however, that's easily overlooked. Once you get past the general disgusting aspects, or if they don't bother you, the book itself is an excellent resource. It develops the Formori by leaps and bounds over the Book of the Wyrm First or Second Editions. In Freak Legion, you not only learn the in depth history of various Fomori types and breeds, but you also have a full list of how to create and build them with the special powers (and the taints it costs them to be in servitude to the Wyrm.) It was very informative, and excellent fodder for even the Vampire Storyteller who might want to introduce a new element into their game to throw of players who have already "been there, seen that, done that" with V:tM. Pentex certainly doesn't have to be Werewolf specific with a Malkavian antribu on its board of directors, and the company itself is outlined in some ways which are "political" similar to Vampire, although that isn't the focus of the book. All told, I would recommend this book to any serious White Wolf Storyteller. There is a small chapter with ST Guidelines to go from splatter horror, to possible politics, to a good old fashioned "blaze of glory" situation. There's something for almost everyone. A great companion to Book for the Wyrm Second Edition.