Author : Edgar Martins
Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Abandoned buildings--Pictorial works
ISBN : 9781907893025
The US mortgage crisis exposed weaknesses in the regulation of the financial industry and the global financial system. At the end of 2008, as the fall-out from the crisis became increasingly widely felt, Edgar Martins was commissioned by New York Times Magazine to photograph its impact across the US in eight separate states and across 16 different locations. These carefully researched sites exposed the extent and impact of the credit crunch on the construction industry.
Author : Edgar Martins
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN :
Text by John Beardsley. Interview by David Campany.
Author : Edgar Martins
Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Airports
ISBN : 9781904587811
A fascinating document of aviation history and a mesmerising study of image and light. Edgar Martins was granted special airside access to airports in Europe which retained great importance in aviation history, such as the Azores. Almost all his images were produced at night, using the aprons' floodlights, moonlight or long exposures. The result is incredibly abstract and arresting. In some, sky and ground merge in darkness - in others, the landscape of lights and signs read by pilots remains perplexing.
Author : Kurt Tong
Publisher : DEWI LEWIS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Hong Kong (China)
ISBN : 9781911306498
The Queen, The Chairman and I is a saga of love, hope, and tragedy: a storybook that both uncovers family secrets and reveals the impact of political and economic forces on individuals. It deals with themes of multiculturalism and migration, heritage and empire. Kurt Tong's paternal grandfather was a deckhand who arrived in Hong Kong from Shanghai after the fall of the last imperial Chinese dynasty in 1911. His mother's family were landlords in Southern China. By coming to Hong Kong, they almost certainly escaped death at the hands of Mao's advancing Communist armies. Kurt Tong himself grew up in Hong Kong, singing the British National Anthem throughout his school years. At the age of 13, he moved to the UK to continue his education, before finally returning to Hong Kong in 2012. Tong has traced the history of his family in a bid to find out how two of the most influential people in history, Queen Victoria and Chairman Mao, had affected them. Giving equal importance to new photographs, found photographs and writing, the work reconnects him with the Hong Kong of the past, through the recollections of his extended family, humanising the political and social upheaval that took his family to Hong Kong and eventually to the United Kingdom.
Author : Diane Fanning
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1429929480
By the age of twenty-four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous... In the winter of 2005, Mike's wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported him missing. Wendi told police that Mike had been acting erratically—visiting local clubs, staying out late, sometimes not coming home at all. She filed for divorce the very next day. Eventually Mike's body turned up in a stock pond on a private ranch. Investigators described a corpse that was weighted down with two cinder blocks, a rock, a boat anchor, and other equipment. It had also been stabbed forty-one times with a knife. But an autopsy report told a different story: That the cause of death was exposure to pentobarbital and phenobarbital, drugs commonly used in veterinary medicine. All the evidence pointed to Wendi...and soon she would be found guilty of murder in the first degree. Diane Fanning's A Poisioned Passion is the true, shocking story of a war hero and a marriage that ended in cold-blooded murder.
Author : Mary Ellen Carter
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1466860871
Cayce shines his intuitive light on the new millennium. Carter looks at the unprecedented changes taking place around the planet which were not envisioned by futurists, social planners, even as recently as a few years ago, and were foreseen by Cayce. This is Cayce's "New World Order", and how to survive in it.
Author :
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0128211342
Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 62, the latest release in this ongoing series, covers a long list of topics, including Monitoring tropical insects in the 21st Century, The distribution and structure of long-term and large-scale fire manipulation experiments, The Agua Salud Project: Basic and applied research informing management of tropical landscapes for the 21st century, Conservation strategies and principles for tropical forests, Assessing forest quality using satellite remote sensing data: A test case using the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, eDNA approaches to understand the current state and future of biodiversity of the Amazonian biome: pitfalls, improvements and challenges, and much more.
Author : Carlton Stowers
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312977047
When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended the case indefinitely. Patrol Sergeant Truman Simons, who had been called to the scene that night, saw the carnage first-hand -- and vowed to find the ferocious killer or killers. He soon became a man with a mission, risking his career and his family's safety in search of evidence. Plunging himself into a netherworld of violence and evil, Simons finally got close enough to a murderous ringleader to hear his careless whispers--and ultimately, put him and his three accomplices behind bars for the brutal slayings. Now, in his Edgar Award-winning account of the Lake Waco killings, acclaimed true crime writer Carlton Stowers lays bare the facts behind the tragic crimes, the twisted predators, and the heroic man who broke the investigation--with important updated information based on new developments in the case.
Author : Dotan Saguy
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2020-07
Category :
ISBN : 9783868289756
In-depth heartfelt documentary of a family who lives in an old converted school bus parked in Los Angeles
Author : Peter D. Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1317817273
In this book, Osborne demonstrates why and how photography as photography has survived and flourished since the rise of digital processes, when many anticipated its dissolution into a generalised system of audio-visual representations or its collapse under the relentless overload of digital imagery. He examines how photography embodies, contributes to, and even in effect critiques how the contemporary social world is now imagined, how it is made present and how the concept and the experience of the Present itself is produced. Osborne bases his discussions primarily in cultural studies and visual cultural studies. Through an analysis of different kinds of photographic work in distinct contexts, he demonstrates how aspects of photography that once appeared to make it vulnerable to redundancy turn out to be the basis of its survival and have been utilised by much important photographic work of the last three decades.
