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  • Formulations

    Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

    de Andrew Witt ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century.In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Lost Days, Endless Nights

    Photography and Film from Los Angeles

    de Andrew Witt ...
    A critical study and artist’s book on the history of photography and film from Los Angeles.Lost Days, Endless Nights tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Black Panthers in the Midwest

    The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966–1977

    de Andrew Witt ...
    Series series Studies in African American History and Culture
    This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the Milwaukee branch, with the aim of dispelling many of the existing stereotypes about the Party. Misconceptions range from the Party being labeled as bent on the violent destruction of the United States to it being an overwhelmingly sexist group. This book challenges stereotypes such as these by examining ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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    de James Gleick ...
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  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Leer más

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  • G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

    de Beverly Gage ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times ... Leer más

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  • When Einstein Walked with Gödel

    Excursions to the Edge of Thought

    de Jim Holt ...
    From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.**Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, ... Leer más

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  • The Race Beat

    The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press—and the journalists responsible for them—profoundly changed the nation’s thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and ‘60s.Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a ... Leer más

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  • Bearing the Cross

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The definitive biography of Martin Luther King Jr.In this monumental account of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., professor and historian David Garrow traces King's evolution from young pastor who spearheaded the 1955–56 bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama, to inspirational leader of America's civil rights movement. Based on extensive research and more than seven ... Leer más

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  • The Math Book

    From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension

    Series series Union Square & Co. Milestones
    Math's infinite mysteries unfold in this updated edition of the award-winning The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers,” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for higher dimensions, prolific polymath Clifford Pickover covers major milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous concepts readers will encounter as they dip into this inviting ... Leer más

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  • Poetics of Cinema

    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Leer más

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  • King: A Life

    de Jonathan Eig ...
    WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYFeatured on Amazon's Al Woolworth's Top 10 Books of the Past 25 YearsA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award | Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and TimeA New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 | One of Barack Obama’s favorite books ... ... Leer más

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