Migraine headaches are familiar and generally treatableailments. Less understood are migraine auras or scotoma, visualdistortions—sometimes accompanied by headache and sometimesnot—that make it difficult, sometimes impossible, to see clearly.Migraine auras can be frightening, disorienting, evenincapacitating. Richard Grossinger, who has suffered from themhimself, here presents a helpful guide to the subject that maps theterrain, describes the various forms migraine auras can take,charts his personal experiences with them, and offers informedsuggestions for homeopathic and other treatments.
How to set a scene? What's the best camera angle? How does thenew technology interact with scenes? And how does one even get thefinancing to make a movie? These basic questions and much more are all covered in thisexquisite packaged book on the film industry and making movies as aprofession. Written by Neil Landau, an experienced screenwriter and* consultant to the major movie studios, this is the perfectbook for anyone who wants to know about the inner-workings of thisindustry. Whether it's someone who wants to make movies as afull-timecareer, or just someone who is interested in film, thisbook covers it all.
Before the historic presidential election of 2008, LIFE Books published a best-selling volume entitled The American Journey of Barack Obama. In researching that book, the editors came to be deeply impressed not only by the exotic story of the candidate himself but also by the life and personality of the woman who would, if Obama were to prevail, enter the White House at his side. Michelle Robinson, the daughter of a Chicago municipal worker-and, in fact, a woman with slavery represented in her family tree-had risen to be educated in the Ivy League and was already embarked upon a successful legal career back in theWindy City before she ever met Barack Obama.Once she did, these two bright, charismatic young people influenced each other and rose together in Chicago politics. The rest, as they say, is history. As the nation came to know Michelle Obama, the nation fell for her-and for Malia and Sasha as well (plus now, of course, Bo). The same has happened on the world stage, where it has been observed that Mic
Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by aMatisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof womangazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In BlueArabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman,immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era.Hampls meditation takes us to the Cote dAzur and to North Africa,from cloister to harem, pondering figures as diverse as EugeneDelacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Katherine Mansfield. Returningalways to Matisses portraits of languid women, she discovers theywere not decorative indulgences but something much more. Movingwith the life force that Matisse sought in his work, Blue Arabesqueis Hampls dazzling and critically acclaimed tour de force.
Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographerembedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Herpictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, thedamned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirtyyears later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when anold acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famouslyreclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When shearrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery thatis still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot atredemption. Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith in thismesmerizing literary thriller.
In 1941 Ansel Adams was hired by the United States Departmentof the Interior to photograph America's national parks for a seriesof murals that would celebrate the country's natural heritage.Because of the escalation of World War II, the project was sus
