Manual of Urgent and Emergent Dermatology

This book traces the roots of local government in Bangladesh and examines the contemporary issues and challenges which have limited the role and effectiveness of the concerned institutions.

Three book boxed set of The Mandalorian Art & Imagery Vol. 1 & 2 and The Guide to Season One.

Traditionally, the in-fighting within the communist party during the Russian Civil War has been interpreted by historians as a struggle between good and evil, between Trotsky's democratically inclined party versus the later bureaucratic Stalinist version. This the view that Trotsky himself took, the line that R. V. Daniels supported in the 1960s, and which has remained in orthodoxy ever since. This book, in its analysis of the communist party from 1917 to 1922, challenges the simplicity of such dualistic historical arguments. What emerges from Lonergan's meticulous research is a party in constant flux, where conflict and compromise was prioritised ahead of calculation and strategy and where the desperate need to survive drove decisions forward. Indeed, the resultant autocratic structures and draconian resolutions were not merely the result of blind devotion to Lenin; as this book reveals, the unsettled and turbulent party membership in many ways actually pushed the leadership into an increasingly authoritarian stance. Examining the six party congresses that took place during the civil war and drawing from the political and personal archives of various party members, The Communist Party in the Russian Civil War is an exciting, novel, and much-needed re-assessment of the Soviet Union's formative political years.

Showcasing a host of bold and new talents who are breathing new life into the scene with their unique styles and creativity, the 2nd edition of Victionary's book on tattoo art is one to add to the collection.

This book presents a rich selection of paintings, sculptures, films, photographs and fashion of time, and showcases the extraordinary creativity in Paris from the mid-19th century to mid-20th century. The catalogue traces the development of artistic modernity and its repercussions on society over the course of a century, highlighting the crucial role played by international cross influences and the phenomenal cultural melting pot. Bringing together approximately 150 masterpieces, the book presents an exceptional moment, portrayed through the work around 100 artists including Renoir, Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Giacommetti, Delaunay, Brassaî, Chagall, Mirò, and Duchamp. In addition to significant works from Qatar Museums collections, which have not been published before.

An exclusive illustrated view of Plan B's life in the spotlight, including photographs from Gavin Watson.

The chilling new novel from Jason Arnopp, author of the critically acclaimed The Last Days of Jack Sparks.

When an erupting Icelandic volcano grounds all flights in and out of Europe, four vacationing Americans are forced to reckon with the problems they'd hoped to leave behind in Barcelona.

Following Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain (Steidl, 2017), which documents the seared landscapes of the Namib Desert and was shortlisted for the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 18|19, Margaret Courtney-Clarke now turns her lens to the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. The inspiration for When Tears Don't Matter comes, in part, from her grandfather's photographs of almost a century earlier during his mandate as Secretary for South West Africa (now Namibia), some of which are reproduced in this book. 10,000 kilometers of formidable terrain takes Courtney-Clarke across remote bushveld, sand and salt pans to drought-stricken conservancies, tenuous farming communities that function as holding tanks for "inconvenient indigenes," "cultural villages" and peri-urban squatments, as far east as she could travel through the Namibian Kalahari Desert.Largely invisible to the outside world, the bushmen today are dispossessed of their land: a "shadow people" sidelined by officialdom, economic inequity and outdated mythologies which present them as living in an "uncontaminated" state. In this complex country where notions of truth and objectivity (and whiteness) are constantly explored, the battle against disenfranchisement is largely unsuccessful. Courtney-Clarke's photographs lie at the crossroads between documentary and activism, and their basis is an unfailing empathy with her subjects-in her words: "What is crucial in this work is to give place to a voice in search of a listener."

Cocktail books are perfect for seasonal and gifting, here combined with the party theme of rock and pop music

Popular music is rich in imaginative storytelling, from the songs of music hall, and street narratives of hip-hop to the 1970s heyday of the concept album. As an even broader audiovisual practice, including music video, sleeve art and star-texts of performers themselves, the possibilities for unique ways of telling stories multiply - capturing the public imagination more recently are examples like Beyoncé's recent visual album Lemonade and experiments in popular music transmedia like Gorillaz. While music's role as soundtrack for other narrative media has been extensively theorised, relatively little attention has been paid to how narrativity works within popular music itself. By building on writing around narrativity from popular music scholars, applying concepts from the storyworlds literature to music and vice versa, this book connects these two disciplines. It provides fresh takes on well-known case studies from David Bowie and The Beatles to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds, while introducing the reader to lesser known examples from global popular music culture. Providing a long overdue overview of narrativity in popular music culture, this book connects the dots between innovative and exciting examples across its history.