[p2p-research] Fwd: Leonardo Reviews New Materials Available May 2009

Wed May 6 04:07:02 CEST 2009

books available for review, there are some items of concern to this
community included,

Michel

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From: Bryony Dalefield <ldr at uk2.net>
Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:49 AM
Subject: Leonardo Reviews New Materials Available May 2009
To:

*Dear Panel
below are this month's materials available for review. It is a special
pleasure this month  to see Roy Behren's new book in the list. As many of
you will know he has been a friend and regular of Leonardo Reviews from the
very start and  its always a pleasure to see reviewer's books in the new
stack but especially welcome when it is such an insightful, useful and
charming book as his.

Please send your requests to Bryony at ldr at leonardo.org and we will dispatch
them as soon as possible.

All good wishes
Michael

-- Newly available materials --

**Newly available Books (in title order):

**Art and the End of Apartheid.
**By John Peffer.
*University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 339, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5002-6
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980.
**By Rebecca M. Brown.
*Duke University Press, Durham, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 196, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4375-2
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity.
**By Ben-Ami Scharfstein.
*The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 543, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-226-73609-9
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections with Trees.
**By Nalini M. Nadkarni.
*University of California Press, Berkeley, USA, 2008.
pp. 322, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-520-24856-4
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Bioethics in the Age of New Media.
**By Joanna Zylinska.
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 230.
ISBN: 978-0-262-24056-7
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage.
**By Roy R. Behrens.
*Bobolink Books, Dysart, USA, 2009.
pp. 463, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-09713244-6-8
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments.
**By Eric Ames.
*University of Washington Press, Seattle, London, USA, UK, 2008.
pp. 336, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-295-98833-7
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Cyberculture and New Media.
**By Francisco J. Ricardo (ed.).
*Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, The Netherlands, USA, 2009.
pp. 312,  illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-90-420-2518-9
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Family Village.
**By Dini Li.
*Text+work, Bournemouth, UK, 2009.
pp. 29, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-901196-34-7
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Fourth Door Review – Number 8: The Hall of Risk Issue.
**By Fourth Door Research.
*Hyacinth House, Lewes, UK, 2009.
pp. 173, illus. col., b/w.
ISSN: 1364-5110
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library.
**By Christian Vandendorpe (Trans. By Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott).
*University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago, USA, 2009.
pp. 191, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-252-07625-1
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Ghostlife of Third Cinema.
**By Glen M. Mimura.
*University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 192, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4831-3
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture.
**By Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus (eds.).
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 319, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-01300-0
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals.
**By Hiroki Azuma (Trans. By Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono).
*University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 144, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5352-2
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Nanoscale: Visualizing an Invisible World.
**By Kenneth S. Deffeyes and Stephen E. Deffeyes.
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 133, illus. col.
ISBN: 978-0-262-01283-6
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Photo-Editing and Presentation: A Guide to Image Editing and Presentation
to* *Photographers and Visual Artists.
**By Douglas Holleley.
*RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, USA, 2009.
pp. 140, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-9707138-5-8
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness.
**By James H. Austin.
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 342, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-01259-1
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*State, Space, World: Selected Essays of Henri Lefebvre.
**By Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden (eds.).
*University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 330.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5317-1
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture.
**By Georges Bataille (Ed. by Stuart Kendall).
*Zone Books, New York, USA, 2009.
pp. 210, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-1-890951-56-6
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American
Art, 1890-1915.
**By Elizabeth Hutchinson.
*Duke University Press, Durham, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp.277, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4408-7
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*The Mosque: Political, Architectural and Social Transformations.
**By Ergün Erkoçu and Cihan Bugdaci.
*NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2009.
pp. 192, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-90-5662-691-4
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction.
**By Gerhard Schweppenhauser (Trans. By James Rolleston).
*Duke University Press, Durham, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 182.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4471-1
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia.
**By Richard E. Cytowic and David M Eagleman.
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 309, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-01279-9
(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Newly available DVDs (in title order):

**A Road to Mecca: The Journey of Muhammad Asad.
**By Georg Misch.
*92 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Battleship Antarctica.
**By Morgan Matthews.
*50 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Lucanamarca.
**By Carlos Cárdenas and Héctor Gálvez.
*69 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Malls R Us.
**By Helene Klodawsky.
*78 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Mechanical Love.
**By Phie Ambo.
*52 mins., col., 2007.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Mind in Motion.
**By Philippe Baylaucq, Francoise Lindeman and Veronique Maison.
*52 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*north-south.com
**By François Ducat.
*53 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Oblivion.
**By Heddy Honigmann.
*93 mins, col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Rapayan.
**By Francis Delfour.
*52 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Sacred Soil.
**By Olivia Lucia Carrescia.
*22 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Svetlana About Svetlana.
**By Lana Parshina.
*44 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*The Hidden Dace of Fear.
**By Enrico Cerasuolo and Sergio Fergnachino.
*52 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*The Moroccan Labyrinth.
**By Julio Sánchez Veiga.
*90 mins., col., 2007.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis.
**By Kevin Stocklin.
*66 mins., col., 2009.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Young Freud in Gaza.
**By PeÅ Homlquist and Suzanne Khardalian.
*58 mins., col., 2008.
Icarus Films, New York, USA, 2009.
*www.icarusfilms.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Newly available CDs (in title order):

**A Guide to the Music of the 21st Century.
**By Perfect Vacuum.
*Acidsoxx Musicks, Sante Fe, USA, 2009.
*www.acidsoxx.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Strike a Mortal Terror.
**By Shelter Red.
*SoundVsSilence, Salt Lake City, USA, 2009.
*www.soundvssilence.com
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*Tijdlus.
**By Faces.
*Z6 Records, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2009.
*www.z6records.nl
*(received Plymouth May 2009)

*-- Materials still available from previous months --

**Still available Books (in date received order):

**Chris Marker: La Jetée.
**By Janet Harbord.
*Afterall Books, London, UK, 2009.
pp. 110, illus, b/w.
ISBN: 978-1-84638-048-8
(received Plymouth April 2009)

*Making Strange: Beauty, Sublimity, and the (Post)Modern ‘Third Aesthetic’.
**By Herbert Grabes.
*Rodopi, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.
pp. 172, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-90-420-2433-5
(received Plymouth April 2009)

*Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System.
**By Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 180, illus, b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-01257-7
(received Plymouth April 2009)

*Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers.
**By Paul Steenhuisen.
*The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Canada, 2009.
pp. 314, illus, b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-88864-474-9
(received Plymouth April 2009)

*Spectral World Musics: Proceedings of the Istanbul Music Conference.
**By Robert Reigle and Paul Whitehead (eds.).
*Pan Yay_nc_l_k, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.
pp. 457, illus, b/w.
ISBN: 978-9944-396-27-1
(received Plymouth April 2009)

*Function/Fiction: Utilitarian Images Reconfigured.
**By Vincent Bonin and France Choiniére.
*Les Éditions Dazibao, Montreal, Canada, 2008.
pp. 108, illus. col., b/w.
ISBN: 978-2-922135-32-9
(received Plymouth March 2009)

*Performance, Technology, & Science.
**By Johannes Birringer.
*PAJ Publications, New York, USA, 2008.
pp. 338, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-1-55554-079-1
(received Plymouth March 2009)

*The Grid Book.
**By Hannah B. Higgins.
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 300, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-51240-4
(received Plymouth March 2009)

*White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980.
**By Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert and Catherine Mason (eds.).
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 450, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-02653-6
(received Plymouth March 2009)

*Art, Sex and Eugenics.
**By Fae Brauer and Anthea Callen (eds.).
*Ashgate, Aldershot, Burlington, UK, USA, 2008.
pp. 298, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-7546-5827-6
(received Plymouth February 2009)

*Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path.
**By Terry Harpold.
*University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, USA, UK, 2009.
pp. 351, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5102-3
(received Plymouth February 2009)

*Going Postal.
**By Martha Cooper.
*Mark Batty Publisher, New York, USA, 2009.
pp. 93, illus. col.
ISBN: 978-0-9799666-5-1
(received Plymouth February 2009)0

*Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data.
**By Joel Best.
*University of California Press, Berkeley, London, USA, UK, 2008.
pp. 132, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-520-25746-7
(received Plymouth January 2009)

*Nanovision: Engineering the future.
**By Colin Milburn.
*Duke University Press, Durham, London, USA, UK, 2008.
pp. 280, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4265-6
(received Plymouth December 2008)

*I Am A Monument: On Learning From Las Vegas.
**By Aron Vinegar.
*The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, USA, UK, 2008.
pp. 234, illus. b/w.
ISBN: 978-0-262-22082-8
(received Plymouth November 2008)

*In Vitro, In Vivo, In Silicio. Ensaios sobre a relação entre arte, ciência,
tecnologia e o sagrado.
**By Leila Amaral and Amir Geiger (eds.).
*Attar Editorial, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008.
pp. 397.
ISBN: 978-85-85115-32-6
(received Plymouth November 2008)

*Still available DVDs (in date received order):

**An Island Calling.
**By Annie Goldson.
*75 mins., col., 2008.
The Cinema Guild, New York, USA, 2008.
*www.cinemaguild.com*
(received Plymouth February 2009)

*La Corona.
**By Amanda Micheli & Isabel Vega.
*40 mins., col., 2008.
The Cinema Guild, New York, USA, 2008.
*www.cinemaguild.com*
(received Plymouth February 2009)

*The Betrayal.
**By Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath.
*96 mins., col., 2008.
The Cinema Guild, New York, USA, 2008.
*www.cinemaguild.com*
(received Plymouth February 2009)

*Freeheld.
**By Cynthia Wade.
*140 mins, col., 2007.
Lieutenant Films Inc., New York, USA, 2007.
*www.freeheld.com*
(received Plymouth January 2009)

*Has God Forsaken Africa?
**By Musa Dieng Kala.
*52 mins, col., 2007.
National Film Board of Canada, Montreal, Canada, 2007.
*www.nfb.ca*
(received Plymouth January 2009)

*Still available CDs (in date received order):

**Zurich-Bamberg.
**By Chantale Laplante and Bill Gilonis.
*Ad Hoc Records, Denver, USA, 2009.
*www.chantalelaplante.com
*(received Plymouth March 2009)

*Atmosphere’s Edge: 12 Preludes.
**By Bruce Gremo.
*2008.
*www.suddensite.net
*(received Plymouth February 2009)

*Escapement.
**By Daniel Koppelman.
*Everglade, Homestead, USA, 2008.
*www.everglade.org*
(received Plymouth November 2008)

*Merchant of Death.
**By Ginger Leigh.
**www.gingerleigh.com*
(received Plymouth November 2008)

*Test Pattern.
**By Ryoji ikeda.
*Forced Exposure, Malden, USA, 2008.
*www.ryoiikeda.com*
(received Plymouth November 2008)

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