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History of Beauty

by Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today. While closely examining the development of the visual arts and drawing on works of... (more)

The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

by Hillel Schwartz

"If God is in the details, then this book is surely divine or, at least, demonic. Siamese twins and doppelgängers, parrots and apes, decoys and mannequins, robots and clones, impostors and pretenders are but a few of the stops on this dizzying and dazzling tour de force of every conceivable trompe l'oeil ." -- Francis Kane, New York Times Book Review The Culture of the Copy is an unprecedented... (more)

Zone 3: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1

Zone 3: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1

The 48 essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk a mirror image of the world or a... (more)

Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3

Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3

by Ramona Naddaff, Nadia Tazi, Michel Feher

The 48 essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk a mirror image of the world or a... (more)

Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood

Whether you're making the switch from a traditional centralized version control system or are a new programmer just getting started, this book prepares you to start using Git in your everyday programming. Pragmatic Version Control Using Git starts with an overview of version control systems, and shows how being distributed enables you to work more efficiently in our increasingly mobile society. It then... (more)

Eboys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

Eboys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

by Randall E. Stross

Randall Stross looks at how Silicon Valley creates wealth through the eyes of leading venture capitalist firm Benchmark Capital. In offices along six blocks of Sand Hill Road in Melo Park, California, these venture capitalists will provide most of the $50 billion likely to be invested this year alone in the new technologies of the information age. This fly-on-the-wall book follows Benchmark's five partners in... (more)

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