A collection of writings that span the author's career and trace her intellectual history.

A collection of over 360 photographic images of the human body. As well as bodies celebrated by photographers of sport, dance and fashion, the are bodies scrutinized by medical and anatomical photographers. The artists featured include Nadar, Alfred Stieglitz and Robert Mapplethorpe.

A sequel to The Body , this volume contains over 300 images from a century and a half of photography. They represent love and desire in all its many forms, including the love between parents and children, between man and woman, love as a saleable commodity and love of the divine.

Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. It relates three issues: information as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the construction of the Cyborg; and the dismantling of the humanist subject in cybernetic discourse.

The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably, vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins. For once they have identified the body the police are determined to charge her with murder.

Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley is an internationally acclaimed artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture, and whose public sculpture projects, such as the Angel of the North , have grown in ambition, and popularity. This revised book documents his work.

From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, this work reflects and challenges the times in which we live. It offers original views on subjects such as diverse as the films of Peter Greenaway, the paintings of Goya, the writings of Marquis de Sade and copyright in the age of the Internet.

Wet foot. Dry foot. Low foot. High foot. Early readers will enjoy marching in time to the beat of many, many feet with Dr. Seuss' fun exploration of opposites.

To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both comfort and stress - 14-year-old Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace driver. Soon he is known to the nation as The Great Mahlke but remains a target to his enemies. He is different, and doomed.

Fat History explores the meaning of fat in contemporary Western society and illustrates how progressive changes, such as growth in consumer culture, increasing equality for women, and the refocusing of women's sexual and maternal roles have influenced today's obsession with fat.

Fat is beautiful, sexy, and strong. Politicians cultivate it, singers require it, gourmets appreciate it, and lovers play with it. This book argues against dieting and against our culture's obsession with weight.

Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.

In the classic bedtime fantasy, there are fat piggies, smart piggies, silly piggies and even wee piggies who romp from fingers to toes before it's finally time for bed and a goodnight kiss. This work is accompanied by a CD with a reading of the story and seven original songs that explore the antics of these lively piggies.

As well as her eight novels, the author published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. This work presents a collection of her stories.

The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation.

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. ...

This book has set the agenda for contemporary Continental philosophy, arguing for a new theory of radical democracy in politics and art. A Thousand Plateaus completes the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which Deleuze and Guattari began with Anti-Oedipus.