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|  The Nearly Happy Family by Catherine McKinnon
'My point is: who needs enemies when you have a family?'
Claire Delaney is an obstreperous fifteen-year-old, and her mother, Jackie, is a bit of a flake. They both have a lot on their plates, try keep to keep the younger children in their family together after the tragic death of their father. They're driving each other crazy.
When Jackie, a forty-something comedian, announces she's going to marry a younger man she's only just met, Claire is outraged. In retaliation she apprentices herself to a volatile Italian chef, who teacher her the secrets of his kitchen. In time, both Jackie and Claire discover that life - like the best recipes - is at once mysterious and mysteriously simple.
A wonderfully original story that celebrates the triumphs and disasters of family life.
|  The Australian Popular Songbook by Alan Wearne
This new collection from award-winning poet Alan Wearne reveals a deft lyrical touch in combination with an unequalled mastery of the vernacular.
The Australian Popular Songbook is a collection where Wearne has tapped deep into our musical culture, crafting pure magic from the back catalogue. These poems are testament to a fierce imagination, where the visual and the aural are dovetailed into a stunning, original whole.
|  Diagnosing Disorderly Children by Valerie Harwood
Diagnosing children and young people as disorderly troublesome or emotionally disturbed is becoming increasingly commonplace. Once diagnosed these children are then seen as a problem for schools and the education system. Furthermore, the diagnosis often leads to damaging predictions of mental disorders or even criminality and violence in adulthood. Diagnosing Disorderly Children explores the effects of this growing tendency to diagnose children as disorderly, and questions whether what is being done is right for the child and for society. Based on the author's extensive research with children diagnosed with behavioral difficulties, this book provides a thorough critique of today's practices, and examines: - The traditional analysis of behavioral disorders and the making of disorderly children - The influence of expert knowledge on behavioral disorders and its influence on schools, communities and a new generation of teachers - The effect of discourses of mental disorder on children and young people - The increasing medicalization of children by prescribing drugs such as Ritalin Diagnosing Disorderly Children offers an innovative, accessible and timely analysis of a critical issue facing schools and society today. The book uses Foucaultian notions to pose critical questions of the practices that make children disorderly. Rich in case studies and interviews with children and young people, this will make fascinating reading for students, academics and researchers working in the fields of education, inclusion, educational psychology and youth studies.
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Photography |
|  Black and White Photography in the Digital Age by Tony Worobiec & Ray Spence
Far from spelling the end of black-and-white photography, digital techniques have made many creative processes easier - this is the book that helps devotees of black-and-white photography move into the digital age.The digital revolution has made the experience of producing prints quicker and cleaner, but tends to assume that you are always dealing with colour photographs. This book explains how black-and-white photography is not only possible using digital technology but actually allows greater flexibility and creativity than ever before. It covers the basics of scanning, manipulation and printing, as well as demonstrating some of the more advanced techniques that can be achieved in the digital darkroom.
|  Never Give Up: Imogen Cunningham by Ann M. Hershey
|  Defining Eye by Lucy R. Lippard & Olivia Lahs-Gonzales
This book celebrates an international array of both historic and contemporary women photographers, whose important contributions to art and photography have provided a collective perspective on life, the self, the world, and each other. From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Diane Arbus, Margaret Bourke-White, Nan Goldin, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Cindy Sherman, Tina Barney, and Annie Leibovitz, to far lesser-known figures, this book is not so much comprehensive as an ideal cross-section of those women whose images have shaped the way we view the world.
|  Vinyl Nudes by Gene Geter
Is it 1908 or 2008? Before music CDs, vinyl records were the standard for sound and before digital photography, film photography reigned supreme for pictures (and depending on who you chat with, it still does). Gene Geter is an analog artist in a digital world VINYL NUDES is a powerful collection of black and white experiences (or photos) displaying the diverse artistry of Black, British, Spanish and Asian women, featuring nudes with models Katy C, Ms. Niagrafalls, Quanita Rose, Dawn Craig, Nataliz Salcedo, Luka and winner of Miss Philippine Fiesta 2007 Debbieanne Pascual. Geter's black and white work has been compared to Helmut Newton, Albert Watson and Herb Ritts.
|  Quizzical Eye by Elizabeth Partridge & Sally Stein
The work of eighty-five-year-old photographer Rondal Partridge will be celebrated by the California Historical Society and the Oakland Museum of California this year in two simultaneous exhibitions. Son of the renowned photographer Imogen Cunningham, Rondal began helping his mother with her work at the age of five. At seventeen he became Dorothea Lange's apprentice, driving her up and down the back roads of California as she created her now-famous images of migrant farm laborers. Partridge also worked for Ansel Adams in the 1940s, and it was his photograph of Adams that advertised the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Ansel Adams at 100 exhibition. Partridge's work has appeared in Audubon, Life, Fortune, and Scientific American for some sixty years. Intimately associated with the great photographers of his time, Partridge has absorbed all the techniques his famous teachers could give him, yet he wears this professional lineage lightly, dedicating himself to following the paths down which his own strange genius leads him. Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge is filled with breathtakingly intimate portraits, devastating environmental statements, compositional wonders, and telling moments from six decades of American history -- the essential works of a man who has dedicated his long life to capturing single moments on film.
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