One of our most influential commentators on photography investigates the future of visual media as the digital revolution transforms images, changing the way we conceptualize the world. From photos of news events taken on cell phones to the widespread use of image surveillance, digital media has fundamentally altered the way we receive visual information. Simultaneously, the increased manipulation

Engaging and entertaining in equal measure, Human Resource Management is a book about work, the people who do it and the way they are managed (and mismanaged). Raising issues that are often neglected in typical HRM texts, such as work intensification and unemployment; it explores the realities of work, workers, and the communities that are affected by HRM policy and practice. Grugulis draws on current

While the world keeps its eyes riveted on Iran\'s nuclear programme, the Islamic Republic has gone through a crisis of its own. This book shows how soaring unemployment and poverty has given way to social protest. A new labour movement has come to the fore. Although strikes are banned, workers are beginning to organise and underground networks are challenging the rule of the mullahs from within. The

\"City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria--and the curiously hysterical response to it commonly exhibited by medical men. It is a novel of powerful originality, riveting historical interest, and haunting lyrical beauty.\" --Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through\"I would follow Maud

The Hard Part is Living are collections of poems and pieces about being in love with everything that exhausts you, being at peace with being afraid of the dark, and learning to fall in love with life all over

You need an adult activity book that\'s filled with mega mazes. Grab a copy of this activity book and keep it in the most stressing areas in your house and/or office. Whenever you want to break away from your usual routine, just grab the book and enjoy being lost in the lines and curves. To increase the challenge of the game, play it against the clock. Play

Laugh while looking ahead with astrology Kim Rogers-Gallagher takes you on a unique tour of the planets-with a kit for each one. For example, your Mars kit includes a sword, a copy of Rambo, a Swiss army knife, a chip for your shoulder and health insurance for yourself and your victims. With this book you\'ll learn to understand the future by understanding each of the planets and how their current

How do you research materiality and material culture? How do you use material \'things\' to research social life? Exploring a range of tools and approaches, Material Methods: Researching and Thinking with Things is a practical and inspiring guide to researching the material world. Covering the full research process, from planning your project to analysing your data, this book: Explores a range

Midwife Sarah Brandt and private detective Frank Malloy return to investigate a death in the field of higher learning in this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue... After spending his first few weeks as a private detective by investigating infidelities of the wealthy, Frank has a more serious case at hand. Abigail Northrup of Tarrytown, New York,

The multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and open-ended questions in this book offer information, encourage critical thinking, and provide an opportunity for students to not only test their knowledge of everything from geography to fine arts to science and classic literature, but to learn something new along the

How did sexual relationships work before, in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era? What problems did contraception and sexually transmitted diseases pose? How did people deal with prostitution and pornography back then? What were the possibilities for same-sex and queer desire and practice? Using numerous examples and sources from across the continent, Sexuality in Premodern Europe shows that

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger comes a stunning retrospective of essays and writings from the last decade covering politics, race and identity, feminism, popular culture, and

On a still summer\'s evening in June 1974, Maurice Burton rode away from an elite field, on the broad concrete loop of Leicester\'s Saffron Lane Velodrome, to become Britain\'s first ever Black cycling champion. The event was televised; his parents were watching at home. For his Dad, it was a moment of intense pride; Rennal arrived in 1948 from Jamaica and made his home in South London, a member of

Take your web development skills from browser to server with Node--and learn how to write fast, highly scalable network applications on this JavaScript-based platform. Updated for the latest Node Long Term Support (LTS) and Node Current (6.0) releases, this hands-on edition helps you master Node\'s core fundamentals and gain experience with several built-in and contributed modules. Get up to speed

With same-sex marriage now a national right, this timely volume insists on the continuation of the struggle for LGBT