Product Description: Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.From the Hardcover edition.

David Levi Strauss is a writer whose visual and intellectual sensibilities are both acute and expansive. His trenchant writings on photography and photographers have been collected for this volume from a broad range of magazines, including Aperture, Artforum and The Nation. In Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, Strauss tackles subjects as diverse as "Photography and Propaganda," the imagery of dreams, Sebastiao Salgado's epic social documents and the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. The timely issue of photographic legitimacy is addressed in the essay "Photography and Belief," and in "The Highest Degree of Illusion," Strauss discusses the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11. As our world is shaped more and more by images and their slipperiness, what he calls a media "pandemonium" in its root meaning of "the place of all howling demons," we need a mind and voice like Levi Strauss' to bring clarity to our vision.

Product Description: A powerful and moving portrait of the hard lives of French family farmers living and working in the Forez region of France—a subject matter reminiscent of the work of the Farm Security Administration.Born and brought up in the area, Christophe Agou was inspired and moved by the authenticity and charisma of the people he encountered...read more

Product Description: John Berger introduces a new edition of his seminal exploration of migrant workers, illuminated by photographer Jean Mohr.Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker—the material circumstances and the inner experience—and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it...read more

Product Description: "In essence, Afnan's work is about memory, and her images of eroding traces, faces and places linger long in the memory."—Rose Issa, from the prefaceMaliheh Afnan's work appears "as a relic of an older civilization or an archaeological excavation into the collective psyche...read more

Product Description: This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com)...read more

Product Description: From I to J is an international tribute to John Berger by filmmaker Isabel Coixet. A woman writes letters to a man who is in prison. Coixet has created an installation based on Berger s book From a to X, with the collaboration of architect Benedetta Tagliabue and some of the most acclaimed actresses working in film today...read more

Product Description: A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008. In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned...read more

Product Description: “Boullata takes the reader close to the struggle of those visionary, obstinate Palestinian artists who create so that their anonymous heroic land with its ancestral olive trees may survive.”—John Berger“It is rare and exciting to find an art book full of persuasive, urgent visual imagery whose language and strategies are ultimately unfamiliar, whatever their surface appearance, to the complacent western eye...read more

Product Description: From one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist...read more

Product Description: A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008.In the dusty, ramshackle town of lives A’ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned...read more

Product Description: A New York Review Books OriginalThe Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever more clear...read more

Draws on the perspectives of leading writers to explore the impact of the War on Terror throughout the world, in an anthology published in conjunction with the Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice that includes contributions by such figures as John Berger, Naomi Klein, and Joe Sacco. Original.

Product Description: From January to July of 2005, photographer Ahlam Shibli, born in Palestine in 1970, followed the young Palestinians of the Israeli army, soldiers of Bedouin descent deployed in tracking units at borders and in the occupied territories...read more

An encounter with the ghost of his late mother, dead for fifteen years, draws the narrator into a remarkable odyssey during which he explores the lives of the dead, from a woman at the time of the London Blitz to a Paleolithic cave, introducing such characters as a female English aristocrat, a pedophile schoolmaster, a Spanish sculptor, and Rosa Luxemburg. Reprint.

Product Description: Animals are everywhere in rock art and they are represented without limits, with no borders. They merge with the earth and the sky. In the photography of Liberto Macarro we find the same worldview, the same sensations. One nature: landscape, animals, men closely linked, intertwined...read more

Living the high-life in occupied Paris, Wehrmacht officer Karl Bazinger discovers that his open disdain for the Nazis and friendship with Hans, who may be involved with the Resistance, have made him a target of the SS and requests a transfer to the Eastern front, where he comes face to face with a vastly different experience of war. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: Photographer Jitka Hanzlov's new series, Forest, here accompanied by a John Berger essay, continues her work in and around the village where she grew up, leaving the town and its inhabitants for the forest. Her stark prints explore the Moravian woods of her youth--and all the naturally-occurring corridors, courtyards, haunted houses and gilded ponds there--as a kind of visible, perceptible "unknown" in herself and the viewer, as a dark spring, as the unfathomed depths from which we emerge...read more

Product Description: When the Japanese Empire went to war with the Allies in December 1941, it had already been fighting in China for 10 years. During that time it had conquered huge areas of China, and subjugated millions of people. The Japanese needed to control the Chinese population in these occupied territories, and for this reason they set up governments from amongst the leaders of the Chinese who were willing to co-operate with them...read more

Product Description: September 11 was a departure point that will define our future. Consequently, we have all been forced to rethink, an act that requires introspection and reinterpretation of standard thinking.Rethink, a de.MO project, is a book about history and politics, a book about our lives and about our world and what we are trying to accomplish in it...read more

Spanning more than forty years of work, this collection of essays, gathered from the author's previous collections--including Toward Reality, The Look of Things, and The Sense of Sight, among others--reflects on such topics as Jackson Pollock, museums, mass demonstratons, ideologies, philosophy, and more. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

In a new collection of essays and criticism, the Booker Prize-winning author of G. reflects on the nature of the pocket as a small pocket of resistance in which two or more people come together to protest the inhumanity of the new world order. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: World Bank literature is more than a concept-it is a provocation, a call to arms. It is intended to prompt questions about each word, to probe globalization, political economy, and the role of literary and cultural studies. As asserted in this major work, it signals a radical rewriting of academic debates, a rigorous analysis of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a consideration of literature that deals with new global realities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)