Alex Prager is one of the truly original image makers of our time. Working fluidly between photography & film, she creates large-scale projects that combine elaborately built sets, highly staged, complex performances & a ` Hollywood' aesthetic to produce still & moving images that are familiar yet strange, utterly compelling & unerringly memorable. In her career she has won both popular acclaim & the recognition of the art establishment
- her work can be found in the collections of Mo MA & the Whitney Museum in New York as well as institutions worldwide. This book is the first career retrospective of this rising star. In 120 carefully curated photographs, it summarizes Prager's creative trajectory & offers an ideal introduction for the popular `breakout' audience who may have only recently encountered her work. Structured around her project-orientated approach, Silver Lake Drive presents the very best images from her career to date: from the early Film Stills through her collaborations with the actor Bryce Dallas Howard on Week-end & Despair to the tour de force of Face in the Crowd
- shot on a Hollywood sound stage with over 150 performers
- & her 2015 commission for the Paris opera La Grande Sortie. Supported by an international exhibition schedule, & including an in-depth interview with Alex Prager by Nathalie Herschdorfer & supplementary essays by the curators of renowned museums & galleries, this book will be an essential addition to the collection of anyone who has followed Prager's career & all with an interest in & appreciation of contemporary art.


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Cool, contemporary & brave, bestselling author Anthony Horowitz created a phenomenal character in Alex Rider
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Anthony Horowitz launched a phenomenal action-packed adventure series with Stormbreaker, the first book starring teenage superspy, Alex Rider. His teenage hero is cool, contemporary & brave
- just the right sort of hero to entice reluctant readers aged 9 & over to get reading. As the book begins, Alex discovers that his uncle
- who has looked after him since he was a baby
- has been killed in a car crash. What's more... he was a spy not a banker
- & now Alex is being recruited to help on a MI6 mission. Told at breakneck pace & with tons of suspense, this is an irresistible read.



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A guide to the exciting missions of teenage spy Alex Rider, featuring blueprints, data files, foldout posters & more. Resembling an MI6 secret dossier, it contains documents that reveal the inside story of British Intelligence's secret weapon: 14-year-old Alex Rider. ...

This is an essential guide to the exciting missions of teenage spy Alex Rider, featuring blueprints, data files, foldout posters & more. Resembling an MI6 secret dossier, these classified documents reveal the inside story of British Intelligence's secret weapon: 14-year-old Alex Rider. Packed with information about every aspect of his missions to date, The Mission Files is an unbeatable guide to the teen super-spy's adventures. It

Includes:: five full-size, double-sided posters & two booklets containing everything you need to know about codes & spycraft.

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Alex Sparrow is a super-agent in training. He is also a human lie-detector. Working with Jess
- who can communicate with animals
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From triangles, rotations & power laws, to fractals, cones & curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories & limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating & extremely accessible, & how they have changed our world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, & sifts through over 30, 000 survey submissions to reveal the world's favourite number. In Germany, he meets the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop, whilst in India he joins the world's highly numerate community at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He explores the wonders behind the Game of Life program, & explains mathematical logic, growth & negative numbers. Stateside, he hangs out with a private detective in Oregon & meets the mathematician who looks for universes from his garage in Illinois. Read this captivating book, & you won't realise that you're learning about complex concepts. Alex will get you hooked on maths as he delves deep into humankind's turbulent relationship with numbers, & proves just how much fun we can have with them. ...

Explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, & from logarithms to logical paradoxes, this title explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. It also explains the strategy of how best to gamble in a casino. ...

The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant &, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird & wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe & meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany & a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage & mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck. ...

The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant &, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird & wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe & meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany & a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage & mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck. ...