Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: photography, reflections, lucida, camera
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 1982-05-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374521344
ISBN-13: 9780374521349

This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.

Author: William Poundstone
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: fair, aren, elections, vote, gaming
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0809048930
ISBN-13: 9780809048939

Our Electoral System is Fundamentally Flawed, But There’s a Simple and Fair Solution At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate. The reason was a “spoiler”—a minor candidate who takes enough votes away from the most popular candidate to tip the election to someone else. The spoiler effect is more than a glitch. It is a consequence of one of the most surprising intellectual discoveries of the twentieth century: the “impossibility theorem” of Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow. The impossibility theorem ass

Author: Rick Perlstei
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: american, consensus, unmaking, goldwater, barry, storm
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2002-04-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0809028581
ISBN-13: 9780809028580

Not every presidential election is worth a book more than a quarter-century after the last ballot has been counted. The 1964 race was different, though, and author Rick Perlstein knows exactly why. That year, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, trounced his opponent, Barry Goldwater, a Republican senator from Arizona, in a blowout of historic proportions. The conservative wing of the GOP, which had toiled for so long as the minority partner in a coalition dominated by more liberal brethren, finally had risen to power and nominated one of its own, only to see him crash in terrible sple

Author: Jessica Snyder Sach
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: germs, world, bacterial, survival, health
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0809016427
ISBN-13: 9780809016426

Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times. Good Germs, Bad Germs tells the story of what went terribly wrong in our war on germs. It also offers a hopeful look into a future in which antibiotics will be designed and used more wisely, and beyond that to a day w

Authors:Sid Jacobson, Ernie Colo,
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: adaptation, graphic, report
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-08-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0809057395
ISBN-13: 9780809057399

Book DescriptionThe 9/11 Report for Every American On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government?s fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve Bs, nine Cs, twelve Ds, three Fs, and four incompletes. Here is stunning evidence that Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, with more than sixty years of experience in the comic-book industry between them, were right: far, far too few Americans have read, grasped, and demanded action on the Commission’s investigation into the events of that tragic day and the lessons America must learn.

Author: Emily Rosenberg
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: american, expansion, century, cultural, economic, dream, spreading
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1982-02-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0809001462
ISBN-13: 9780809001460

In examining the economic and cultural trends that expressed America’s expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global. Bibliography, index.

Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: diary, mourning
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-10-12
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 080906233X
ISBN-13: 9780809062331

A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of griefThe day after his mother’s death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society’s dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, “the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful literary critic to