Vogue magazine investigates the role of beauty in our culture through the most significant images of the past seventy-five years. This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title (Milan, Spring 2009), is produced in collaboration with Dolce & Gabbana. Always audacious, sometimes outrageous, Vogue’s images distinguish themselves by their willingness to e...(展开全部)

Received Second place in the Popular Culture category given by ForeWord Magazine Over time and across cultures, shifting concepts of beauty have given rise to extraordinary fashions that constrict, enhance, minimize, or exaggerate various zones of the human body. This stimulating book displays and discusses an array of such extreme fashion practices, from the bound feet of aris...(展开全部)

Push the limits of what C - and you - can do, with this high-intensity guide to the most advanced capabilities of CKey Features* Make the most of C’s low-level control, flexibility, and high performance* A comprehensive guide to C’s most powerful and challenging features* A thought-provoking guide packed with hands-on exercises and examplesBook DescriptionThere’s a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C’s advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer.Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications.C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing.In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level.What you will learn* Build advanced C knowledge on strong foundations, rooted in first principles* Understand memory structures and compilation pipeline and how they work, and how to make most out of them* Apply object-oriented design principles to your procedural C code* Write low-level code that’s close to the hardware and squeezes maximum performance out of a computer system* Master concurrency, multithreading, multi-processing, and integration with other languages* Unit Testing and debugging, build systems, and inter-process communication for C programmingWho this book is forExtreme C is for C programmers who want to dig deep into the language and its capabilities. It will help you make the most of the low-level control C gives you.

Push the limits of what C - and you - can do, with this high-intensity guide to the most advanced capabilities of CKey Features* Make the most of C’s low-level control, flexibility, and high performance* A comprehensive guide to C’s most powerful and challenging features* A thought-provoking guide packed with hands-on exercises and examplesBook DescriptionThere’s a lot more to C than knowing the language syntax. The industry looks for developers with a rigorous, scientific understanding of the principles and practices. Extreme C will teach you to use C’s advanced low-level power to write effective, efficient systems. This intensive, practical guide will help you become an expert C programmer.Building on your existing C knowledge, you will master preprocessor directives, macros, conditional compilation, pointers, and much more. You will gain new insight into algorithm design, functions, and structures. You will discover how C helps you squeeze maximum performance out of critical, resource-constrained applications.C still plays a critical role in 21st-century programming, remaining the core language for precision engineering, aviations, space research, and more. This book shows how C works with Unix, how to implement OO principles in C, and fully covers multi-processing.In Extreme C, Amini encourages you to think, question, apply, and experiment for yourself. The book is essential for anybody who wants to take their C to the next level.What you will learn* Build advanced C knowledge on strong foundations, rooted in first principles* Understand memory structures and compilation pipeline and how they work, and how to make most out of them* Apply object-oriented design principles to your procedural C code* Write low-level code that’s close to the hardware and squeezes maximum performance out of a computer system* Master concurrency, multithreading, multi-processing, and integration with other languages* Unit Testing and debugging, build systems, and inter-process communication for C programmingWho this book is forExtreme C is for C programmers who want to dig deep into the language and its capabilities. It will help you make the most of the low-level control C gives you.

Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain "beauty capital" to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building on rich ethnographic data, this book presents the perspectives of women who hav...(展开全部)

When the repulsively ugly Coddie unintentionally saves a fairy from a spell, she does not understand the poisonous nature of the wish granted her by the fairy. The village folk no longer see her as repulsive and stinking of fish—they now perceive her as magnetically beautiful—which does not help her in her village. A young local lord saves her, but it soon becomes apparent that...(展开全部)

"For Adams, art is not some timid diversion or self indulgent entertainment, but goes to the heart of who we are as civilized, compassionate human beings."--Jacob Stockinger, The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin "Eight eloquent and thought-provoking essays."--Chris Keledjian, Artweek "The sort of collection of essays to which one can return repeatedly."--Michael Edelson, Camer...(展开全部)

The only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, "What would be the perfect meal?," Tony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail, and in the process turns the notion of "perfection" inside out. From California to Cambodia, A Cooks' Tour chronicles the unpredictabl...(展开全部)