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"One can see the author discussing the monument competition in Berlin in this PBS Frontline program: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/germans/view/"
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"I will look forward to reading this. Not many are aware that in the Western Hemisphere, Alexander von Humboldt was the first to suggest that humans are involved in inducing climate change. One of my all time favorite quotations has been attribut..."
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To understand modern India, one must look at the business of cricket within the country. When Lalit Modi--an Indian businessman with a criminal record, a history of failed business ventures, and a reputation for audacious deal making--created a...
From the invention of the camera obscura to the birth of digital photography, this history of photography's greatest advances focuses on individual artists, works, and moments that decisively shaped the evolution of a genre. Chronologically...
The photography of Walker Evans (1903-75) is introduced in a new, redesigned and expanded edition of Aperture's classic book from its Masters of Photography series. Evans helped define documentary photography and is considered one of the most...
