Offering an overview of contemporary painting, this work enquires how we experience its images, what they mean and why the practice remains vital. It presents the work of painters organized by themes that have long been central in the genre - ranging from still life and landscape to abstraction and [...]

Global expansion and growing local economies have allowed the obsession with photography to sweep throughout the Asian continent. Japan was the first in the region to fall in love with photography and most western readers are already familiar with names such as Araki, and Rinko Kawauchi's recent nom[...]

Tony Gaddis’s accessible, step-by-step presentation helps beginning students understand the important details necessary to become skilled programmers at an introductory level. Gaddis motivates the study of both programming skills and the C++ programming language by presenting all the details ne[...]