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To the Wedding by John Berger
Category: Fiction
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from ...Show more
To the Wedding by John Berger
Category: Fiction
A mother and father are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. They meet for the first time in many years near the estuary of the river Po. Many people cross the pages of their story, from their future son-in-law to an Italian scrap merchant and a band of computer hackers.
Tricky Video: The Complete Guide to Making Movie Magic (Klutz) by John Cassidy & Nicholas Berger
Category: Activity Books | Series: Klutz
In this era of YouTube, funny viral videos are the creative outlet of zillions of kids around the world. Everyone wants to get in on the act -- but how, without spending beaucoup bucks on fancy computer editing programs or courting disaster with dangerous stunts? Enter Klutz. Tricky Video is a clever co ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
War with No End by John Berger
Category: History
This title is published on the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of the 'War on Terror', John Berger, Naomi Klein, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco and others examine the consequences. On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony B ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Category: Art and Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Category: Art
Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists. John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series a ...Show more
What Time Is It? by John Berger
Category: Culture and Ideas
"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously published for the first ti ...Show more
Why Look at Animals? by John Berger
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized an ...Show more
Womans Decision A Breast Care Treatment Reconstruction by BERGER KAREN & BOSTWICK JOHN
Category: Other Health
Year Is '42 by Nella Bielski (tr John Berger & Lisa Appignanesi)
Category: Fiction
A haunting novel set in war-torn Europe in 1942 The year is 1942 and Europe is besieged by war. Germany has defeated most of Europe, is ruling France, and approaching Russia.Three lives are bound together by destiny, although by all appearances could not be further apart. In Occupied Paris, Karl, a Germ ...Show more