War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
Author: David Shields
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1576879496

Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.

The Pictorial Press

The Pictorial Press
Author: Mason Jackson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732699323

Reproduction of the original: The Pictorial Press by Mason Jackson

The English Reports: Chancery

The English Reports: Chancery
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1816
Release: 1905
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).

Scenes from Deep Time

Scenes from Deep Time
Author: Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 1995-11-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022614903X

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

Sultan Stork

Sultan Stork
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1887
Genre:
ISBN:

Art in Our Times

Art in Our Times
Author: Peter Selz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A detailed survey of the development of world architecture, sculpture, and painting from the turn of the century to the 1970's.