Places and peoples: general and pictorial works Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"This beautifully crafted work would grace the coffee table of anyone who has a passion for the loveliness of the prairie."--Kansas History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Marsha Williamson Mohr's wonderful Parke County beckons one to get acquainted with a quieter time.When you pick it up, you'll probably find yourself settling back in a comfortable chair to soak up each page which softly implores 'relax and ponder awhile.' Picturesque roads, barns and wooden covered bridges are interspersed with the natural beauty of this jewel of rural Indiana. See what peacefulness is!" -Gary Moore, author of Brown County Mornings "Photographer Marsha Williamson Mohr encourages us to take our foot off the gas pedal through tree-tunneled country lanes and notice rural Indiana's changing seasons. Her arrested waterfalls and wide horizontal shots, like views from a car windshield, fulfill nostalgic longing for a slower, quieter time when rattling cicadas were the dominant sound. Parke County native Mike Lunsford's history of the region and folklorist Jon Kay's descriptions of local artisans bring humanity to Mohr's blissfully un-crowded landscapes." -Rachel Berenson Perry, author of William J. Forsyth: The Life and Work of an Indiana Artist

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA beautiful photographic study of the city, a reminder of its unique architecture, museums, landmarks and natural areas like Eagle Creek Park. * Courier-Journal *Table of ContentsForeword by Matthew TullyAcknowledgmentsGallery Photography TalkIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTwo decades ago I discovered Scott Sanders' writing and since then I've known true envy. Like all his works, [this book] is that rarest of gifts for a reader—a book that listens to and learns from every form of life around us, a hymn to our humanity writ in stone. -- Charles JohnsonIn Limestone Country is a thoughtful and fine local geography. Scott Sanders, judging little and setting forth much, gives us texture and depth in southern Indiana, a place that's dressed a phenomenal number of the nation's enduring buildings. -- Barry LopezSanders describes a rugged country full of history, hardship and natural wonders. Read this wonderful book for a glimpse of the past and of an industry that clothes our buildings and monuments. * Ohioana Quarterly *Sanders' perceptive and moving writing and Wolin's haunting and majestic photographs remain as powerful as ever . . . This new edition should endure. * Bloom *Two decades ago I discovered Scott Sanders' writing and since then I've known true envy. Like all his works, [this book] is that rarest of gifts for a reader—a book that listens to and learns from every form of life around us, a hymn to our humanity writ in stone. -- Charles JohnsonPhotos contrast the current world of the limestone industry with what the authors found in the 1980s. A worthwhile read! * Limestone Symposium Newsletter *In Limestone Country is a thoughtful and fine local geography. Scott Sanders, judging little and setting forth much, gives us texture and depth in southern Indiana, a place that's dressed a phenomenal number of the nation's enduring buildings. -- Barry LopezSanders describes a rugged country full of history, hardship and natural wonders. Read this wonderful book for a glimpse of the past and of an industry that clothes our buildings and monuments. * Ohioana Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsRevisiting Stone Country1. Hunting for What Endures2. Bones and Shells3. DiggingFirst Update4. Doorways into the Depths5. A Veteran6. PoisonSecond Update7. The Men in the Trenches8. Cutting9. Three CarversThird Update10. Truth on the Back Roads11. Stone Towns and the Country Between12. The Shape of Things to ComeFourth UpdateEpilogue: In Praise of Limestone

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Book SynopsisA beautiful tribute to the legacy of the Bluegrass State, Kentucky Barns features nearly 400 full-color photos of both the interior and exterior of these beautiful and functional icons of American culture and industry.Trade Review"Kentucky Barns is unique in the world of photographic barn books, curiously reexamining this seemingly familiar building type and the ways in which it has sheltered the agricultural practices of our ancestors and the cultural identity of the Bluegrass State. Carol Peachee's book artfully embraces a wide array of historic barns—their construction, use, location, and history—presenting the reader with the opportunity to explore all the ways in barns have contributed to Kentuckians' sense of place. As we watch the slow demise of these buildings across the country, this book reminds us exactly what it is that we're losing. "—Danae Peckler, former president of the National Barns AllianceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Mary BerryIntroduction by Janie-Rice BrotherArtist Statement: Photographing Kentucky's Agricultural HeritagePhotography

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Book SynopsisWith 120 high-quality color photos and an appreciation of the finer details in life, Starved Rock State Park will transport you to a land rich with history and wonder.Table of ContentsForeword by Lisa SonsAcknowledgementsGalleryPhotography TalkIndex

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Book SynopsisHighlights the best of Missouri's small-town offerings Features guides to galleries, hiking trails, wineries, and shopping in the Show-Me State Builds on the popularity of Little Indiana (IUP 2016), and volumes on Ohio and Michigan are plannedTrade ReviewMcCandless's unabashed love for small-townAmerica is evident in this guide to Missouri's less-populated cities and towns. * Missouri Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionNorthern Plain1. Chillicothe2. Clarksville3. Defiance4. Excelsior Springs5. Florida6. Fulton7. Hamilton8. Hannibal9. Jamesport10. Louisiana11. Marshall12. Mexico13. Parkville14. Plattsburg15. Rocheport16. Sturgeon17. Sumner18. Weston19. Wright CitySouthwest Osage Plain20. Bolivar21. Carthage22. Clinton23. Diamond24. El Dorado Springs25. Grain Valley26. Higginsville27. Hornet28. Lamar29. Lexington30. Nevada31. Peculiar32. Sibley33. Tightwad34. Warrensburg35. Weaubleau36. Webb CityOzarks37. Arrow Rock38. Blackwater39. Bonne Terre40. Boonville41. Branson42. Burfordville43. Camdenton44. Centerville45. Crystal City46. Cuba47. Davisville48. Eminence49. Exeter50. Hermann51. High Ridge52. Imperial53. Ironton54. Jadwin55. Kimberling City56. Kimmiswick57. Lake Ozark58. Lesterville59. Mansfield60. Marionville61. Monett62. Neosho63. New Haven64. Noel65. Osage Beach66. Osceola67. Pacific68. Park Hills69. Phillipsburg70. Pineville71. Roaring River72. Rockaway Beach73. St. James74. St. Robert75. Stanton76. Ste. Genevieve77. Strafford78. Warsaw79. Washington80. Wheatland81. Van BurenBootheel Lowlands82. Bloomfield83. Charleston84. Dexter85. Doniphan86. Hayti87. Kenneth88. Malden89. New Madrid90. SikestonGo!SourcesIllustration CreditsIndex

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Book SynopsisPoems of wayfaring and wayfinding, recovery and discovery, from “one of the best poets of his generation” (Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post).Trade Review"With Someday the Plan of a Town, Todd Boss is part adventurer, part commentator, and total poet. The clarity and chiseled shapeliness of his poems operate in artful irony with Boss’s daring to risk ‘not one but all [his] lives.’ Boss maps the internal discoveries and day-to-day devotions of a great adventure, where renunciation leads not to piety but affirmation, and roving not to avoidance but engagement. In this fine and distinctive book, we learn from experience that ‘noplace is / like home.’" -- David Baker, author of Swift"Before we could go nearly nowhere, Todd Boss went everywhere. If you are not dazzled by this introduction alone, something is missing. His poems always seem like a backbone that holds other language up. They seem sturdy as metal. But fluidly elastic, at once. What a gift! What a luminous voice." -- Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Everything Comes Next"Todd Boss is a walking violin—his ear so tuned to the hidden rhythms of speech that he could make any sorrow sing. And here, in Someday the Plan of a Town, we’re invited to follow that music around the globe as Boss housesits for strangers and falls in love with each new place, each new life. Yet despite this rich worldliness, Todd Boss’s poems turn resolutely inward, searching tenderly for the contours of the human heart." -- Anders Carlson-Wee, author of The Low Passions"The deepest pleasure in reading these poems is to find oneself at the crossroads where joy and grief meet, as if by surprise, and yet didn’t they know all along that this day of reckoning and recognition would come? Todd Boss broke all the rules, set sail across the globe, and came back with many tales, a few new rules, and a book of poems that honors those crossroads where challenge and delight collide. What a beautiful collision of a book this is!" -- Jim Moore, author of Prognosis

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Book SynopsisA guide to Los Angeles that offers an assortment of alternatives to LA's usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. It shows how power operates in the shaping of places, and how it remains embedded in the landscape.Trade Review"Imagine Howard Zinn, the late renegade professor who gave us 'A People's History of the United States,' kidnapping Huell Howser and rewriting your Auto Club TourBook... But you don't have to agree with the authors' politics to be intrigued by their work. Even though I've been working on an L.A. guidebook myself for the last 18 months, this 'People's Guide' taught me plenty." -- Christopher Reynolds Los Angeles Times "High Gas Prices make staycations more inviting, so start planning with 'A People's Guide to Los Angeles." The focus here is on the people, places, struggles and triumphs that make our area unique." Pasadena Star-News "A beautiful collection of short essays, maps, stories, photographs, directions and secret histories." -- Andrew Tonkovich Oc Weekly: Orange County News, Arts & Ent "An intriguing and important book of alternative tourism." -- June Sawyers Chicago Tribune "A rare and refreshingly new take on the tourist guidebook... O?ers a more balanced and accurate picture of Los Angeles." -- Sean Smith Southern California Quarterly "F**k Rodeo Drive: A People's Guide to Los Angeles is an L.A. Guidebook for the 99 Percent." -- Whitney Friedlander LA Weekly "It should become a permanent feature on bookshelves and course syllabi across the region." -- Stefano Bloch Social & Cultural Geography "A rich, full, and fascinating alternative tour of Los Angeles that is sure to hold something of interest for just about anyone who is curious about the subterranean history and hidden current life of the city ... a groundbreaking and important project." -- Jim Miller Journal of San Diego History "The masterfully executed book subverts the typical Los Angeles guidebook... It's an invaluable source of little known or forgotten but very necessary L.A. history." -- Mike Sonksen KCET.org "An indispensable guide for those seeking to understand Los Angeles beyond its well-hyped glitz and glamour." -- Randy Shaw Beyondchron "We've found a great summer read that's giving us a new perspective on the city we love. It's got intrigue, action-and enough shocking stories for a miniseries. Plus, it's all true... Its thoroughly researched, intelligent text is edifying no matter where you stand. And like any good guidebook, there are dining recommendations along the way." Purewow "Offering an interesting alternative to the usual tourist guides, A People's Guide to Los Angeles is a socio-political look at the West Coast's occasionally explosive cultural melting pot that ... illuminates a few corners that don't turn up in the usual tourist guides." Wanderlust "This is not your usual roundup of traditional tourist sites in L.A. but, instead, a unique and vastly informative guide to places of interest and importance in the struggles of race, labor, gender, and the environment." -- Brad Hooper Booklist "A People's Guide is much more than a guidebook, it is a unique and much-needed people's history of Los Angeles; an historical document to resist the erasures, and to capture stories, struggles (both historical and ongoing), successes and defeats, that may otherwise be lost or remain inaccessible to those not intimately familiar with and embedded in the region." Human Geography: A New Radical JournalTable of ContentsList of Maps An Introduction to A People's Guide to Los Angeles Los Angeles County Map Chapter One: North Los Angeles An Introduction to North Los Angeles Map of North Los Angeles North Los Angeles Sites 1.1 Biddy Mason Park * 1.2 Black Cat Bar * 1.3 Bus Riders Union and Labor/Community Strategy Center * 1.4 Caballeros de Dimas-Alang and Philippines Review * 1.5 California Club * 1.6 Calle de Los Negros * 1.7 Chavez Ravine * 1.8 Chinatowns * 1.9 ChoSun Galbee Restaurant * 1.10 Downey Block * 1.11 El Congreso del Pueblo de Habla Espanola * 1.12 Embassy Hotel and Auditorium * 1.13 Fernando's Hideaway and Sisters of GABRIELA, Awaken! * 1.14 Gay Liberation Front (1969--1972)/Former Home of Morris Kight * 1.15 Gay Women's Service Center * 1.16 If Cafe and Open Door * 1.17 Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA) and Villa Park * 1.18 Kyoto Grand Hotel * 1.19 L.A. Live * 1.20 La Placita and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels * 1.21 League of Southern California Japanese Gardeners * 1.22 Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters and Parker Center * 1.23 Los Angeles River Center and Gardens * 1.24 Los Angeles Times Building (Former) * 1.25 Musicians Union Hall (Local 47) * 1.26 Orpheum Theatre, Sleepy Lagoon Murder, and Ventura School for Girls * 1.27 Partido Liberal Mexicano * 1.28 Pershing Square * 1.29 Roosevelt Hotel--the Cinegrill * 1.30 Tropical America Mural * 1.31 Yang-Na Chapter Two: The Greater Eastside and San Gabriel Valley An Introduction to the Greater Eastside and San Gabriel Valley Map of the Greater Eastside and San Gabriel Valley Greater Eastside and San Gabriel Valley Sites 2.1 Alma Avenue--Residential Discrimination Site * 2.2 Altadena Open Housing Covenant * 2.3 AMVAC Chemical Corporation * 2.4 Atlantic Square * 2.5 Cathay Bank * 2.6 East Los Angeles Prison (Proposed) and Vernon Incinerator (Proposed) * 2.7 El Espectador * 2.8 El Monte Sweatshop * 2.9 Haramokngna American Indian Cultural Center * 2.10 Hicks Camp/Rio Vista Park * 2.11 Lacy Park * 2.12 Llano del Rio * 2.13 Mariachi Plaza * 2.14 Mount Sinai Home Care Agency * 2.15 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Richard Chambers Courthouse) * 2.16 Owen Brown's Gravesite * 2.17 Quemetco, Incorporated * 2.18 Ruben Salazar Park and Silver Dollar Cafe * 2.19 San Gabriel Mission * 2.20 Santa Anita Park and Pomona Fairgrounds * 2.21 Self-Help Graphics and Art * 2.22 Upton Sinclair's House * 2.23 Whittier State School Chapter Three: South Los Angeles An Introduction to South Los Angeles Map of South Los Angeles South Los Angeles Sites 3.1 Alameda Boulevard * 3.2 Alondra Park * 3.3 American Indian Movement, Los Angeles Chapter * 3.4 Bicycle Club Casino * 3.5 Black Panther Party Headquarters * 3.6 California Eagle * 3.7 Chuco's Justice Center and FREE L.A. High School * 3.8 Compton Communicative Arts Academy * 3.9 Dorothy Ray Healey's House * 3.10 Duke Brothers' Automotive Shop * 3.11 Dunbar Hotel * 3.12 Eso Won Bookstore and Leimert Park * 3.13 Firestone Tire and Rubber * 3.14 Holiday Bowl * 3.15 Holman United Methodist Church * 3.16 Indian Revival Center * 3.17 Kashu Realty and Thirty-sixth Street Residential Discrimination Site * 3.18 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum * 3.19 Maywood City Hall * 3.20 Mercado La Paloma * 3.21 Peace and Freedom Party, Los Angeles Chapter * 3.22 Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research * 3.23 Trianon Ballroom * 3.24 USC McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium Chapter Four: The Harbor and South Bay An Introduction to the Harbor and South Bay Map of the Harbor and South Bay Harbor and South Bay Sites 4.1 Baypoint Avenue Residential Discrimination Site * 4.2 Bixby Park * 4.3 Lakewood City Hall * 4.4 Mark Twain Library and Cambodia Town * 4.5 Miramar Park * 4.6 Port of Los Angeles and Liberty Hill * 4.7 Puvungna * 4.8 Terminal Island * 4.9 White Point Preserve and Education Center * 4.10 Ziba Beauty Center Chapter Five: The Westside An Introduction to the Westside Map of the Westside Westside Sites 5.1 Ballona Wetlands * 5.2 Campbell Hall, UCLA * 5.3 Century City * 5.4 Federal Buildings * 5.5 Highways Performance Space * 5.6 The Ink Well * 5.7 Los Angeles International Airport * 5.8 Malibu Public Beaches * 5.9 Midnight Special and Sisterhood Bookstores * 5.10 West Hollywood City Hall * 5.11 Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Chapter Six: The San Fernando Valley and North Los Angeles County An Introduction to the San Fernando Valley and North Los Angeles County Map of the San Fernando Valley and North Los Angeles County San Fernando Valley and North Los Angeles County Sites 6.1 BUSTOP * 6.2 Chicana and Chicano Studies and Pan African Studies Departments, California State University, Northridge * 6.3 Everywoman's Village * 6.4 General Motors Van Nuys * 6.5 The Great Wall and Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) * 6.6 KPFK Radio Station and Pacifica Archives * 6.7 Lang Station * 6.8 Saint Francis Dam * 6.9 Santa Susana Field Laboratory * 6.10 Simi Valley Courthouse and Site of Rodney King Beating * 6.11 Siutcanga/Village of Los Encinos * 6.12 Tarzana * 6.13 Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants * 6.14 Val Verde Park * 6.15 Wat Thai of Los Angeles Chapter Seven: Thematic Tours First Peoples Tour * Radical People-of-Color Movements of the 1960s and '70s Tour * Queer Politics and Culture Tour * Independent and Alternative Media Tour * Economic Restructuring and Globalization Tour * New Organizing Tour * Environmental Justice Tour Recommended Reading Acknowledgments Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThe birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of itTrade Review"Sheehi's text is a deep scholarly investigation of portrait photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that lays out a new methodology for examining historical photographs from indigenous photographers of the Ottoman World and potentially other regions of the global South, thereby adding an important, missing element to the field of photo-history."--Tina Barouti, H-Net ReviewTable of ContentsContents ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Translations and Transliterations xv INTRODUCTION Proem to Indigenista Photography xvii PART ONE HISTORIES AND PRACTICE 1 An Empire of Photographs: Abdullah Freres and the Osmanlilik Ideology 1 2 The Arab Imago: Jurji Saboungi and the Nahdah Image-Screen 27 3 The Carte de Visite: The Sociability of New Men and Women 53 4 Writing Photography: Technomateriality and the Verum Factum 75 PART TWO CASE STUDIES AND THEORY 5 Portrait Paths: The Sociability of the Photographic Portrait 103 6 Stabilizing Portraits, Stabilizing Modernity 121 7 The Latent and the Afterimage 141 8 The Mirror of Two Sanctuaries and Three Photographers 163 EPILOGUE On the Cusp of Arab Ottoman Photography 193 Notes 204 Index 218 Illustration Credits 221

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Book SynopsisDraws on the history of recorded interactions with bears and provides telling photographs, which depict the evolving bear-human relationship. This book traces the reaction of Yellowstone National Park visitors to the NPS's efforts - from warnings by Yogi Bear to the increasing promotion of key ecological issues and concerns.

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Book SynopsisThe Isle of Man is best known as a holiday destination and as the venue of the TT motorcycle races. This book tells the story of the island's evolution, from its geological birth pangs in the Cambrian Period of pre-history, some 500 million years ago, to the Viking raids and settlements of the eighth to thirteenth centuries.

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Book SynopsisWith poems that are as complicated, breathtaking, and ravaged as Ohio’s southeastern foothills, state poet laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour shares an insider’s appreciation for Appalachia’s hard-worked land and hardworking people, who persevere with honor, humility, and courage through multigenerational struggles.Trade Review“A breathtaking, artful set of poems on loss, family, place, and memory.” * Kirkus (Starred review) *“We reckon that nine generations in Appalachia is long enough for a place to get in the bones of a family, and that kinheritance has marked Kari Gunter-Seymour with an intuitive feel for one of America’s most isolated and peculiar regions.” -- Matt Sutherland * Foreword Reviews *“Kari Gunter-Seymour’s talent shines like a diamond in this collection: solid, clear, sparkling.” -- Donna Meredith * Southern Literary Review *“These poems are delicately nuanced and so hard-edged, so unique, they can make you catch your breath.” -- Hephzibah Roskelly * World Literature Today *“The poems of Kari Gunter-Seymour’s Alone in the House of My Heart are ragged with loss, yet sustained by all they take in through the senses, from Mother’s ‘cat-eye glasses, Pentecostal bun,’ whispering ‘loud enough / for the soprano section to hear,’ to ‘collards and heirloom tomatoes / strapped to stakes like sinners / begging the lash.’ As the details accrue, they generate a place conjured by memory, the Appalachia of the speaker’s upbringing, where she nested in the loft of the barn in the hay, ‘spicy sweet,’ and where canned fruit cocktail is the ultimate delicacy. Still, it is a place sowed with the seeds of its own undoing—fracking, coal dust, addiction. Language itself is somehow larger even than the consciousness that creates it, more expansive than right and wrong, and ‘free of the splintery / cold of our foolish selves,’ poetry, which here is synonymous with hard-won love.” -- Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry“Kari Gunter-Seymour’s poems are full of passion: passion for people, passion for place, passion for imagination. Her images are ‘pinpricks grey and blue’ that inhabit us as readers, feed us strength, and give us history—the good, the bad, and the triumphant. In poem after poem, [she] gives us a map to the unsayable and the courage to say it. She knows the pleasures of daily living, the dignity of grieving, and the terror of loss. She knows that when ‘the alcohol has stopped working,’ all we have are words to get us by, get us through, and get us over.” -- Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman“Kari Gunter-Seymour weaves memory, place, love, and pain into a vibrant, complex tapestry of her native southeastern Ohio Appalachia. ‘So much here depends upon / a green corn stalk, a patched barn roof, / weather, the Lord, community,’ she writes. The images in these poems are striking, the language fresh. We smell ‘the tang of weeping cherry,’ see up close the devastation of ‘fracking waste, red clay dust, the bitter soot / of coal’s see ya later sucka!’ Her people are flesh and blood: a great-grandfather ‘at seventy, / firm of belly, back plumb as a disc blade,’ her mother ‘bronzed and shapely’ in a field of daffodils. Alone in the House of My Heart is a deeply moving portrayal of family and home, inheritance and loss, written by a poet whose gift is to insist ‘ordinary things be somehow more.’” -- Ellen Bass, author of Indigo“‘Everything has a dream of itself,’ writes Kari Gunter-Seymour in this splendid new collection. These poems sing of apples and alcoholism, families that pass along wounding and wonder and hard-earned laughter. ‘Promise the garden will thrive, / the thirsty Ohio will hold its drink and the Zoloft / prescribed by the clinic will banish the spirits,’ ends another poem, and it is just this combination of hard truth and humor, love, and the ache of loss right below it that draws me in. These poems stubbornly celebrate the people and landscape of Appalachia; they are American, melancholy, life loving. I wish I could quote every word of ‘An Appalachian Woman’s Guide to Beer Drinking’ here, but you’ll just have to read it for yourself.” -- Alison Luterman, author of In the Time of Great Fires“A strong collection, evocative of James Wright in its images of land and pathos and Gerard Manley Hopkins in its music and the power of its language.” -- Michael Henson, author of Maggie Boylan and Secure the Shadow: A Novel

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Book SynopsisFor its mining of an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of high-quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.

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Book SynopsisIn Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas analyzes the history of Florida's incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood, possession, and political identity within American letters, from early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to settlers' guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys.Trade Review"Liquid Landscape is a masterful study of adaptability that will appeal to scholars of literature, cartography, the environment, and early American history, regardless of region. Indeed, Navakas's approaches and conclusions extend well beyond Florida. Through sharp literary analysis, depth, and breadth, Navakas elucidates how diverse populations thrived in places where others struggled to survive . . . Just as Navakas succeeds in integrating Florida-a region so distinct that it is often overlooked in historical and cultural accounts of early America-back into the national narrative, so too did American officials succeed in incorporating Florida into the nation" * Environmental History *"Navakas's excellent study . . . simultaneously recuperates Florida's singular status in America's founding stories and points out the fallacy of figuring Florida as exceptional. This ability to hold up Florida as exemplary while rejecting the idea that it is anomalous or otherwise unextrapolatable is perhaps Navakas's most remarkable achievement in this text.." * Eighteenth Century Fiction *"Liquid Landscape is an outstanding interdisciplinary study of Florida's historical geographies that raises the bar for scholars in a variety of fields of both history and literature . . . a rich and sophisticated historical study of the relationships between colonialism and geographical ambiguity in early America. Anyone interested in the interstitial places where land and water meet will find this book fascinating." * Journal of American History *"In Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas demonstrates with brilliant originality how the topographical distinctiveness of Florida's 'unstable ground' generated counter-conceptions of roots and boundaries, historical exceptionality, ideals of possession and property, and much else during the formation of national identity over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A remarkable, fascinating achievement." * John Matthews, Boston University *"The insightful and compelling readings in Liquid Landscape make an important intervention in the field of early American studies, one that changes the map of early nationalism in significant ways." * Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern University *"Liquid Landscape is an imaginative and intelligent work, offering significant new contributions to geographies in American studies. Michele Currie Navakas ranges to excellent effect among a variety of genres and media, and her historical purview from the late colonial era through Reconstruction is similarly impressive and useful." * Jennifer Greeson, University of Virginia *

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Book SynopsisA Taste of the Hocking Hills intermingles delicious recipes with striking photographs of the Appalachian region. Chef Matt Rapposelli presents dishes by the season, noting the specialties appearing on his menus that time of year.Trade Review“A Taste of the Hocking Hills is a collection of authentic culinary delights from the Hocking Hills of Appalachia. The seasonal delights of our local bounty creatively combined with Chef Rapposelli’s masterful approach resulting in exceptionally prepared family dishes.”

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Book SynopsisA portrait of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement in New York City through photographs taken in 1955 by Vivian Cherry, a documentary photographer, accompanied by excerpts of Dorothy Day’s writings selected and edited by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy.Trade Review"Dorothy Day had a keen sense of the power of the image, and of the power of her image, and this means that Vivian Cherry's photographs are part of an extensive collection of photographs of Day and the Catholic Worker. But the strongest of these photographs show her as she isn't seen often enough: sitting with guests around a table, passing time with grandchildren, paying bills, taking out the mail, selling the paper alongside a Sabrett's hot-dog vendor. The photograph of her smiling-beaming, really-shows that delight was not a duty for her: It was a strong, natural, everyday feeling." -- -Paul Elie author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own and Reinventing Bach "This book is a magic lantern that brings Dorothy Day to life in all her miraculous humanity. Vivian Cherry's photographs and Kate Hennessy's moving text capture Day, with striking intimacy, in all the roles that defined her: as a woman of prayer and protest, companion of the poor, doting grandmother, and leader of the Catholic Worker family. Together with selections from Day's own writings, they transport us into a world in which seemingly ordinary people have tried, with extraordinary faith, to live as if the gospel were true." -- -Robert Ellsberg editor of Dorothy Day: Selected WritingsTable of ContentsIntroduction House of Hospitality The Line Chrystie Street Poverty The Paper The Paper The Street Protest and Prison The Farm Peter Maurin Farm Father Duffy Hans Tunnesen John Fillger Happiness Music Stanley Vishnewski Tamar and the Grandchildren Work of the Hands Prayer Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThese impressionistic, rarely seen images by prominent French photographer and critic Gilles Mora evoke the disappearing culture of the Deep South.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing over 160 black-and-white photographs by Jason Taylor and a foreword by Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, John Cuevas's Discovering Cat Island guides readers through Cat Island with stories and histories of twenty-nine sites - both real and imagined - of the legendary barrier island.

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Book SynopsisMagdalena Solé first visited Cuba in 2011 and has returned every year since, enchanted by the place and the people who live in this slender stretch of land. Her photographs reveal the stirrings of transformation, however subtle and hard to see, and reflect a Cuba that is both tough and vulnerable.

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Book SynopsisDwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are a trove of characters with fascinating lives and histories. James Robertson weaves these stories to reveal a tapestry of Mississippi's border counties and the towns and people that occupy them.

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Book SynopsisThis pictorial autobiography of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald documents two lives that have become legendary. The book draws almost entirely from the scrapbooks and photograph albums that the Fitzgeralds scrupulously kept as their personal record and provides a wealth of illustrative material not previously available. The book offers: Fitzgerald's thoughts about his early loves in St Paul, Minnesota; a photograph of the country club in Montgomery, Alabama, where the two met; reviews of ""This Side of Paradise""; poems to the couple from Ring Lardner; snapshots of their trips abroad; Fitzgerald's careful accounting of his earnings; a photograph of the house on Long Island where ""The Great Gatsby"" was conceived; postcards with Fitzgerald's drawings for his daughter. These rare photographs and memorabilia combine into a narrative augmented by selections from Scott's and Zelda's own writings, conveying the spirit of particuular moments in their lives.

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Book SynopsisAlthough spare, sweeping landscapes may appear "empty," plains and prairies afford a rich, unique aesthetic experience—one of quiet sunrises and dramatic storms, hidden treasures and abundant wildlife, infinite horizons and omnipresent wind, all worthy of contemplation and celebration. In this series of narratives, photographs, and hand-drawn maps, Tyra Olstad blends scholarly research with first-hand observation to explore topics such as wildness and wilderness, travel and tourism, preservation and conservation, expectations and acceptance, and even dreams and reality in the context of parks, prairies, and wild, open places. In so doing, she invites readers to reconsider the meaning of "emptiness" and ask larger, deeper questions such as: how do people experience the world? How do we shape places and how do places shape us? Above all, what does it mean to experience that exhilarating effect known as Zen of the plains?

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Book SynopsisThe San Marcos springs have flowed for around ten million years. In this ode to the river they form, Jim Kimmel brings us a picture of a watercourse brimming with life, past and present. Native, non-native, prehistoric, and modern-day plants, animals, and people have inhabited the river and its banks. Kimmel touches on them all with the affectionate and knowledgeable voice of one whose own life has been closely linked to the San Marcos. As readers journey with Kimmel from the river's headwater springs to its junction with the Guadalupe River, ""The San Marcos: A River's Story"" will capture the imagination and provide valuable information about the river and its crucial role in the ecological health of Texas. Original photographs by Jerry Touchstone Kimmel add a sense of the beauty and complexity of the river.

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Book SynopsisWho are the 'plain people', the men and women who till their fields with horse and plow, travel by horse and buggy, live without electricity and telephones, and practice 'help thy neighbor' in daily life? Linda Egenes visited with her Old Order Amish neighbors in southeast Iowa for thirteen years before writing this informative and companionable introduction to their lifeways. Whether quilting at a weekly sewing circle above the Stringtown Grocery, playing Dutch Blitz and Dare Base with schoolchildren, learning the intricacies of harness making, or mulching strawberries in a huge garden, Egenes was treated with the kindness, respect, and dignity that exemplify the strong community ties of the Amish. Her engaging account of her visits with the Amish, beautifully illustrated with woodcuts by Caldecott Medal winner Mary Azarian, reveals the serene and peaceful ways of a plain people whose lives are anything but plain.

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Book SynopsisThe image that Jane Rule's book both begins and ends on is haunting precisely because it captures the past that's always lurking within the Delta's present. There is something surreal, almost Kafkaesque on display here. A farmer with his back to us drives a tractor straight ahead on a lonely dirt road. Big woods loom on the left. On the right, at the edge of a field of cotton, a grey-clad horseman moves in the opposite direction, a ghost returning to history.""--Steve Yarbrough, from the introduction The Mississippi Delta evokes mystery, beauty, and hardship in equal measures. Its haunted fields, turbulent history, and resilient people have fueled countless songs, tales, and literary works, and its presence resonates strongly in the construction of the American South. In Delta Deep Down, photographer Jane Rule Burdine captures the region with clarity and warmth. Since the early 1970s, Burdine has used the Delta as her muse, traversing and documenting the ever-changing landscape in color photographs. These powerful images reflect how the Delta and its citizens have responded to each other, and how each has in turn been changed. Weatherbeaten shacks, cotton and soybean fields, industrial equipment, people at work and play, and cloud-draped, endless horizons are all seen through Burdine's lens. The Delta's past and present mingle in every photograph of the inhabitants--black and white, young and old, rich and poor--in moments of contemplation, hard work, and joyous revelry. Novelist and Indianola native Steve Yarbrough offers a touching, personal introduction that explores how Burdine's photographs reveal the place he once called home, and how, through her photographs, the hold this fertile ground claims on his heart is reinforced. Delta Deep Down offers an unforgettable portrait of a quintessential Mississippi place and the people who abide in it. Wendy McDaris provides historical context and locates Burdine's work among current trends in fine art photography.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Appalachians to the Atlantic, South Carolina's awe-inspiring beauty is revealed in this visually stirring and heart-warming tribute to one of America's favourite vacation destinations. Rich with more than 250 stunning photographs, this second volume of Reflections of South Carolina uncovers the geological, natural, and cultural grandeur the Palmetto State packs into 32,000 square miles. A foreword by New York Times best-selling author Mary Alice Monroe complements the photographs and text. In a landscape abundant with waterfalls, rivers, lakes, and surf, South Carolina overflows with flora and fauna, as well as astonishing vistas. On their new journey, photographer Robert C. Clark and writer Tom Poland set out on a path of discovery that reveals charming country stores, water-powered gristmills, enchanting meadows, and extraordinary people and places. From angles high and low, this keepsake book illuminates the state's summits, swamps, shores, and islands that brim with life, beauty, and culture. Turn the pages and explore the mountain majesties, fruited plain, and shining sea--South Carolina holds so much of what makes this country ""America the Beautiful."" Reflections of South Carolina, Volume 2 documents the state's surprising variety as well. You can stand atop Sassafras Mountain in August and yet feel fall's chill or walk Charleston's cobblestone streets in shorts in the middle of February. Clark and Poland advise visitors and residents alike to take their time exploring South Carolina and whenever possible to take the road less travelled--for the next turn might reveal an antebellum-era slave chapel, a farmer peddling honey and tomatoes, a mountain's reflection in a sparkling lake, or a peach orchard exploding pink. What could be next? A praise house? An unforgettable character? Art on an abandoned boat? Discovery makes a great companion.

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Book SynopsisThe Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the border of Mexico, west across the Trans-Pecos, and up through Northern New Mexico into Colorado. Photographer Jerod Foster and poet John Poch praise and wonder along these varied waterways and across the landscapes they host. The result is communion—a synergy of imagery in story and story in imagery, finding unexpected form, depths, and meaning much as rivers themselves are honed in the pull of gravity and texture.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book on Iran to combine travelogue with in-depth historical reflection/getting to the heart of the Iranian Islamic mind. This is a reflective look at the cultural heritage and present nuclear crisis in Iran. Iran's cultural and spiritual heritage is now threatened by policies that may trigger international intervention. A source of Western civilization, it may be destroyed by its main beneficiary, Western civilization.This travelogue is a tour of Iran and explores the rich history of this pivotal country: the Achaemenians (Cyrus/Darius/Xerxes), the Sasanians, the Zoroastrian religion of 2,500 years ago; the Islamic period, the Safavids, and the Revolution which dethroned the Shah and made Iran an Islamic Republic. The Islamic idea is caught by observations of the well of the Hidden Imam and of its expression through the architecture, tiles and calligraphy of historical mosques. The Revolution is brought to life by visits to Ayatollah Khomeini's living rooms in Qom and Tehran, and to the Shah's White Palace. And the confrontational policy of contemporary Iran that threatens to engulf Iran's cultural heritage in the same way that Saddam's policy wreaked havoc on Iraq's cultural legacy is caught in a drive past the nuclear site at Natanz, which has many anti-aircraft guns round it.

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Book SynopsisThere is a powerful sense of place at the seaside. You know what to expect. Fishing villages usually have a pier, boats, lobster pots, and masses of seagulls while resort towns have esplanades, piers, grand hotels and gardens. Certain seaside towns have just about everything: Weymouth, for example, has a grand parade of hotels, a wide esplanade and a small fishing village. Blackpool has more of everything – three piers, miles of hotels, the Tower, Winter Gardens, trams, illuminations – but no fishing and no castle! There is something about the seaside that brings out the beating heart of John Bull in the English: doggedly erecting our wind-breaks to capture every vestige of a watery sun; wrestling with deckchairs; wrapping up against the determined wind on the verandas of our beach huts; accepting that ‘sand’ in ‘sandwich’ means just that! But we still love it and nowhere else in the world can match its myriad charms and eccentricities. For too long the English seaside has suffered from bad press, accused of being tatty, cold grey and windswept. Peter Williams’ evocative photographs in this fully revised edition of his acclaimed book will make you want to rediscover what a fantastic place the seaside is – full of character, charm and ‘Englishness’. Trade ReviewIt tells the story almost entirely in photographs after a foreword, and captures well the atmosphere of seaside towns, whether sedate or raucous, their views, amenities and curious quirks.Mark Smulian, Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History SocietyTable of Contents Foreword by John K Walton Introduction by Peter Williams The natural coast Fishing Lighthouses Time and tide Weather Lifeboats War and peace Religion Bathing On the beach Punch and Judy Donkeys Piers Beach huts Cliff lifts Hotels Wooden walls Caravans and chalets Seaside architecture of the 1930s Shelters Telephone Kiosks Something to sit on Contemporary seaside sculpture Public conveniences Seaside gardens Model villages Amusements Helter-skelters Carousels Golf Food Famous people Palmists and clairvoyants Joke shops Pirates, smugglers and wreckers Signage Wind farms Art galleries and museums Contemporary buildings A nice cup of tea Staring out to sea Acknowledgements Index of places

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Book SynopsisDuring the first two decades of the twentieth century, the St. Louis Street Department generated one of the most extensive troves of photographs ever taken of the city. Ostensibly created to document municipal challenges and improvements, the images inadvertently captured richly detailed scenes of everyday life. Largely led by Charles Clement Holt (1866–1925), St. Louis’s photography operation expanded until it produced about six thousand images per year in 1914. Many of these photographs were lost, but a city historian salvaged a collection of three hundred glass plate negatives in the 1950s, which are now in the Missouri Historical Society collections. This small, but superb, group of photographs provides a wealth of information on the visual culture of St. Louis during a period of rapid transformation. Capturing the City is the first book to examine these photographs, placing the people and landscapes depicted within the broader context of a swiftly urbanizing and industrializing metropolis. Collected and analyzed here by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz, the compelling images in Capturing the City reveal the national trend among cities to use the camera as a documentary tool. Reformers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine imagined the camera as a truth-telling instrument and used their photographs to mobilize public consciousness. Across the nation, cities used photographers to document slums, workhouses, and crime scenes, as well as municipal improvements like street lighting, pavement, and model housing. In this vein, Holt and his staff showcased both the challenges and the successes of government action in St. Louis. Consistent with their Progressive-era peers, their efforts contributed to the record of ongoing public works while shaping the narrative of urban progress itself.

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Book SynopsisThis title offers a beautifully produced tribute to the 2000s, featuring images straight from the archives of the "Press Association". This illuminating collection offers fascinating images that depict both major historical events and smaller, but no less significant, occurrences. It presents a beautiful gift idea, either as a stand-alone title or part of this invaluable series. It is part of a series giving an insight into major historical events in Britain from 2000 to 2009, plus smaller occurrences that had equal, if not greater, significance for the people of Britain. Amid a climate of flooding, heat wave, gales and global warming, cannabis is downgraded, cigarettes are banned from public places, and knife crime escalates. An Internet and telecommunications boom spawns social media microblogging and reality TV gives 'fifteen minutes of fame' to ordinary people. From the onset of foot and mouth in the first year of the new millennium to concerns over swine flu towards the end of the decade; from the anti-capitalist riots of 2000 to the collapse of major banks and the credit crunch in 2008. This book contains around 300 photographs, hand-picked by PA Photos' own archivists. Many of these images have lain unseen since they were used as news pictures when first taken.

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Book SynopsisThe Jersey Shore, our most treasured asset, the envy of forty-nine other states, comes alive in this new book by the reporter and writer who knows New Jersey—and the Jersey Shore—best. Every conceivable topic—where to eat, where to stay, landmarks and attractions, what to do with the kids—is covered with the kind of inside information you just won’t find on tourism web sites or Facebook. All one hundred-plus Shore towns are included, from Sandy Hook to Cape May. There are hundreds of restaurant listings and recommendations. The book also contains engaging profiles and vignettes of the people and places that give the Shore its special character and charm. A throwback five-and-dime store on Long Beach Island. Banner pilots. Birders. Baby parades. And more. You want lists and rankings? The book is full of them—twenty best Shore towns, twenty-one secret spots down the Shore, twenty essential Jersey Shore experiences, fifty things we bet you didn’t know about the Shore, and so on. The book is the next best thing to being at the Shore; actually, it may be better than being there (think of those epic traffic jams on the Parkway, and all the money you’ll save on tolls, beach fees, and bad boardwalk pizza).Trade Review"What a feast for fans of the Jersey Shore and for all those others who wonder why there are so many fans! Peter Genovese’s latest trip to the Shore is chock-full of 'Best of' lists, places to visit, tantalizing secret places, and lore that makes returning to the Shore every year an ever-eventful pleasure. My own list of attractions, breweries, eateries, ice cream parlors, and more has now grown considerably." -- Dominick Mazzagetti * author of The Jersey Shore: The Past, Present, and Future of a National Treasure (Rutgers University *"Pete Genovese is the person whose opinions I trust most on all things regarding my home state. And I'm from New Jersey—I trust no one." -- Chris Gethard * comedian and host of New Jersey is the World podcast *"For those of us whose hearts live at the Jersey Shore, finally there is a guidebook for our stomachs. Pete Genovese is the best food writer covering the best beat in the best state." -- Pearl Gabel * creator of the @njgov Twitter account *Table of ContentsIntroduction Town Slogans Raritan Bayshore Get Naked or Get Lost I Walked the Entire Jersey Shore. Sort of. The 20 Best Jersey Shore Towns Sandy Hook to Point Pleasant Beach 50 Shore Facts We Bet You Didn’t Know Keep Your Friends Close and Your Cookies Closer The 22 Best Shore Pizzerias The Shore’s Best Strip Mall for Food Jersey Shore Lighthouse Guide 21 Secret Spots Down the Shore Bay Head to Island Beach State Park Unlocking the Ocean The Big Six Boardwalks The 15 Best Boardwalk Foods Long Beach Island to Atlantic City My 25 Favorite Jersey Shore Bars Ghostwriters in the Sky Farmers markets 20 Essential Jersey Shore Experiences Ocean City to Cape May When Seagulls Attack Why is the Wildwood Beach so Damn Wide? Watch the Tram Car, Please Best Ice Cream Stands/Stores Upper Middle Lower! Top 20 Boardwalk Pizzerias Parting Words Index

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Book SynopsisThe Jersey Shore, our most treasured asset, the envy of forty-nine other states, comes alive in this new book by the reporter and writer who knows New Jersey—and the Jersey Shore—best. Every conceivable topic—where to eat, where to stay, landmarks and attractions, what to do with the kids—is covered with the kind of inside information you just won’t find on tourism web sites or Facebook. All one hundred-plus Shore towns are included, from Sandy Hook to Cape May. There are hundreds of restaurant listings and recommendations. The book also contains engaging profiles and vignettes of the people and places that give the Shore its special character and charm. A throwback five-and-dime store on Long Beach Island. Banner pilots. Birders. Baby parades. And more. You want lists and rankings? The book is full of them—twenty best Shore towns, twenty-one secret spots down the Shore, twenty essential Jersey Shore experiences, fifty things we bet you didn’t know about the Shore, and so on. The book is the next best thing to being at the Shore; actually, it may be better than being there (think of those epic traffic jams on the Parkway, and all the money you’ll save on tolls, beach fees, and bad boardwalk pizza).Trade Review"What a feast for fans of the Jersey Shore and for all those others who wonder why there are so many fans! Peter Genovese’s latest trip to the Shore is chock-full of 'Best of' lists, places to visit, tantalizing secret places, and lore that makes returning to the Shore every year an ever-eventful pleasure. My own list of attractions, breweries, eateries, ice cream parlors, and more has now grown considerably." -- Dominick Mazzagetti * author of The Jersey Shore: The Past, Present, and Future of a National Treasure (Rutgers University *"Pete Genovese is the person whose opinions I trust most on all things regarding my home state. And I'm from New Jersey—I trust no one." -- Chris Gethard * comedian and host of New Jersey is the World podcast *"For those of us whose hearts live at the Jersey Shore, finally there is a guidebook for our stomachs. Pete Genovese is the best food writer covering the best beat in the best state." -- Pearl Gabel * creator of the @njgov Twitter account *Table of ContentsIntroduction Town Slogans Raritan Bayshore Get Naked or Get Lost I Walked the Entire Jersey Shore. Sort of. The 20 Best Jersey Shore Towns Sandy Hook to Point Pleasant Beach 50 Shore Facts We Bet You Didn’t Know Keep Your Friends Close and Your Cookies Closer The 22 Best Shore Pizzerias The Shore’s Best Strip Mall for Food Jersey Shore Lighthouse Guide 21 Secret Spots Down the Shore Bay Head to Island Beach State Park Unlocking the Ocean The Big Six Boardwalks The 15 Best Boardwalk Foods Long Beach Island to Atlantic City My 25 Favorite Jersey Shore Bars Ghostwriters in the Sky Farmers markets 20 Essential Jersey Shore Experiences Ocean City to Cape May When Seagulls Attack Why is the Wildwood Beach so Damn Wide? Watch the Tram Car, Please Best Ice Cream Stands/Stores Upper Middle Lower! Top 20 Boardwalk Pizzerias Parting Words Index

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Book SynopsisFrom artifacts of ancient pre-Thai civilizations to achievements of the Thai kingdom in the early twentieth century, the enduring vestiges and persistent vitality of Thai heritage continue to entice visitors, residents, and researchers. Photographer and author Jim Wageman traveled to both well-known and little-visited sites throughout Thailand to capture images that convey the breadth and intricacy of the country’s heritage. Wageman presents his images in a gorgeous layout that is matched by solid, well-researched captions and explanations. Beautiful and incisive, The Timeless Heritage of Thailand is an outstanding compendium for anyone fascinated by the treasures of Thailand’s cultural heritage.

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Book SynopsisSince its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom, and, later, the Czech state. In the course of their joint history, the city has gradually tamed the river, and as Prague has changed, so too has its river. This exquisitely illustrated book celebrates both the historical and living bond between Prague and the Vltava. After first exploring the river's major transformations most radically those of the nineteenth century, when the river banks became riverside roads, centers of social life, and elegant promenades all overhung with architecturally imposing grand houses Katerina Beckova takes readers on a stroll, in photographs, through the contemporary city. She tells the stories of its flour mills, bridges, islands, embankments, monuments, and community spaces, linking unique, riverside panoramic views of the town with fascinating insight into the evolution of Prague's everyday life over time. Also including historical and documentary illustrations, maps, and lists of key figures, locations, and landmarks (both today's and yesterday's) with the various names they have had over the centuries, Prague: A City and Its River is both a cultural guide and beautiful work of art an enlightening homage to the river that continues to shape one of the most historic and beautiful capitals of Eastern Europe.

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