Places and peoples: general and pictorial works Books
Steidl Publishers David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion and
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£36.00
Spector Books Arwed Messmer: Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27,
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£36.10
teNeues Verlag GmbH Morocco
£262.50
Kehrer Verlag Shadows Of Emmett Till
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£51.20
Kehrer Verlag Roadside Meditations
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£30.40
Meta4Books vzw Venezia: An evocative and atmospheric photo book,
Book SynopsisThis love letter in photographs to the unique beauty and mystery of Venice is an evocative compilation of vintage photographs, prints, and ephemera. It is a tactile ode to the sensuality of the city, filled to the brim with all manner of Venetian memorabilia: 19th century photographs, engravings, hand-coloured magic lantern slides, vintage postcards, old luggage labels, keys from long-lost luxury hotels, golden ducats from the 18th century, Carnival ball invitations. With gilt-edged pages and antique Venetian lettering, it is not a travel or walking guide, but an atmospheric pilgrimage that pays homage to this ever-fascinating city. Serge Simonart’s engaging commentary on Venetian history and culture introduces each subject with affection and insight. "Every day, a nervous traveller visiting the City of Doges for the first time asks the best way to get to their hotel. ‘The shortest or the most beautiful?’, I once heard the concierge at Hotel Des Bains ask. The tourist who opted for the most beautiful route is still wandering around the city. This is a unique photobook in which to wander and lose oneself.” - Serge Simonart
£31.20
Zeitouna A Face in Time: Egypt Photo Studios, 1865–1939
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£75.00
Talisman Publishing This is Singapore
Book SynopsisAs Singapore is constantly reinventing itself, this book is a timely publication. After all, anything on contemporary Singapore that doesn't include the Marina Bay Sands' iconic towers, Gardens by the Bay and the new Business District extension is hopelessly out of date. Yet, this book is much more than a round-up of Singapore's new urban cityscapes. Rather, it traces the development of the city-state, showing how so much of the old has been retained and celebrated alongside the new. In addition to an assessment of the downtown core, chapters include an analysis of Singapore's eco credentials as it strives to become a truly green City within a Garden; how its varied population contributes to its success (and how the various peoples came to its shores); a sober reflection on World War II and Occupation, and reminders thereof; a showcase of all things stylishly Singaporean; and finally, a short look back in time with a selection of evocative black-and-white photographs to Singapore's early days as a colonial city.Beautifully photographed by Danish photographer, Jacob Termansen, with insightful texts by Kim Inglis, this is a must-have for anybody interested in the history and culture of Singapore.Table of Contents1) The Making of a Modern Nation2) The Garden City3) East Meets West4) War and Peace5) Singapore Style6) This was Singapore
£14.24
Mal Og Menning,Iceland Lost in Iceland
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£51.96
Franco Maria Ricci Editore Grand Tour of Europe
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£76.80
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Fodors New York City 20242025
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£24.10
The University of Chicago Press You Were Never in Chicago Chicago Visions and
Book SynopsisIn 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A J Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the Second City. From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. This book weaves the story of author's coming-of-age as a young outsider who made his way into the inner circles and upper levels of Chicago journalism.Trade Review"A rollicking newspaperman's memoir... and a strong case for Second City exceptionalism." (New York Times) "A triumph." (Toronto Star) "Like Studs Terkel before him, Neil Steinberg mixes memoir, history, and travelogue in You Were Never in Chicago as he takes readers along on an engaging tour of the characters-and character-of his adopted city, past and present." (American Way)"
£15.00
Columbia University Press From Abyssinian to Zion
Book SynopsisPublished in conjunction with a New-York Historical Society exhibition, this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook by a New York Times senior writer covers 1,079 houses of worship in New York City.Trade ReviewWith 899 photographs and 24 maps, this encyclopedia of congregations and religious buildings in Manhattan is an indispensable resource for anyone who is interested in religion and architecture in the city... [A]n outstanding handbook on religion in Manhattan. Publishers Weekly The simple, poignant images in From Abyssinian to Zion... reveal a Gotham rife with sacred tradition. Time Out New York well-researched and profusely illustrated Black and White MagazineTable of ContentsForeword, by Paul Goldberger Preface Acknowledgments Neighborhood Maps Introduction A-Z Bibliography Credits and Permissions Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Lhasa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBarnett's book is a wonderful read... This is a book that will transfix readers. Booklist [A] brilliant rumination on Tibet's capital. Tricycle Most readers of this fascinating book will finish reading it feeling that they truly know the Tibetan City. -- Lucian Pye Foreign Affairs [Barnett] emerges in these pages as a perceptive and sympathetic observer of a city that has often been described, but rarely understood. -- Isabel Hilton London Review of Books An imaginative and atmospheric book... which will appeal to all those interested in Tibet. -- Wendy Palace Asian Affairs An eloquent account of the changes in the city's geography -- Pankaj Mishra New York Review of Books [This] rumination on the capital of Tibet is the rare book that can draw tears just with its assemblage of neutral, entirely unpolemical facts. -- Pico Iyer TIME Asia "Barnett's ruminations on Lhasa in this slim text are eloquently written, captivating reading, and highly recommended. -- Tom Grunfeld China Review International [A] remarkable book. -- Elidor Mehilli Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism A fascinating account of Lhasa. -- Ben Hillman The China JournalTable of ContentsPreface A Note on History A Note on Terminology Acknowledgments Preamble 1. The Unitary View 2. Foreign Visitors, Oscillations, and Extremes 3. The Square View and the Outstretched Demoness 4. The City, the Circle 5. Monumental Statements and Street Plans 6. From Concrete to Blue Glass 7. The New Flamboyance and the Tibetan Palm Tree 8. Mestizo 9. The Multilayered Streets Notes Glossary Index
£79.80
University of Illinois Press A Prairie State of Mind
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
£25.19
University of Illinois Press Light Through the Trees
Book SynopsisI don't compose pictures, I find them in the colors, patterns, and shadows of the trees in front of me. While I walk, I let my feelings well up in my consciousness. My feelings guide me to find what I'm seeing and feeling and distill it into a picture.A beloved and popular Illinois institution, The Morton Arboretum welcomes one million annual visitors to walk its trails and view the 4,200 tree species on the grounds. Peter Vagt has photographed the Arboretum for over twenty years. This collection showcases eighty-five of his favorite works, each one in full color. Vagt's close attention to place and time reflects both his profound connection to the Arboretum and its preeminence as a sanctuary for anyone in search of transcendence in nature. A celebration of The Morton Arboretum in its centenary year, Light Through the Trees is the perfect keepsake or gift for anyone who admires trees and believes in their restorative power.Trade Review"Within its more than 100 pages, Vagt takes readers through the seasons within the 1,700 acre public garden with pictures of vivid color, and tranquil scenes of nature that look as if you're peering at something fairytale-like. " --Chicago Tribune “Wonderful and interesting. This book challenges the stereotype of the Midwest as flyover country. The photographs are strong but what makes them unique is their association with the specific place.”--Justin Hamm, author of Midwestern“The photographs are both technically and compositionally great and give a beautiful overview of what you’ll find at the Arboretum. A coffee table book for anyone visiting The Morton Arboretum or anyone who loves nature.”--Tytia Habing, national photographer
£22.79
University of Illinois Press A Prairie State of Mind
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
£17.99
Indiana University Press Parke County
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
£22.79
Indiana University Press Indianapolis
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
£15.19
Indiana University Press Stone Country Then and Now
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
£28.80
Indiana University Press Kentucky Barns
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
£28.80
Indiana University Press Kentucky Across the Land
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionGalleryPhotography Talk Index
£30.40
Indiana University Press Starved Rock State Park
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
£26.59
Indiana University Press Show Me SmallTown Missouri
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
£18.99
Indiana University Press Indiana University
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WW Norton & Co Someday the Plan of a Town
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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University of California Press A Peoples Guide to Los Angeles
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
£18.90
Princeton University Press The Arab Imago
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
£37.80
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Do not Feed the Bears
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.
£19.90
The Crowood Press Ltd Isle of Man Portrait of a Nation
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.
£51.00
Ohio University Press Alone in the House of My Heart
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
£13.99
University of Oklahoma Press Portrait of Route 66
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.
£26.96
Louisiana State University Press Ungrafted
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Louisiana State University Press Ungrafted
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£44.20
LSU Press Still on Earth
£19.36
University of Pennsylvania Press Liquid Landscape Geography and Settlement at the
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 *
£45.00
The University of Alabama Press Heart of a Small Town Photographs of Alabama
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£23.36
Ohio University Press A Taste of the Hocking Hills
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.”
£18.99
Fordham University Press Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker The Miracle
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
£33.25
Texas Christian University Press El Paso 120
£26.96
Getty Trust Publications The Etruscans Outside Etruria
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£42.75
University of Texas Press Antebellum
Book SynopsisThese impressionistic, rarely seen images by prominent French photographer and critic Gilles Mora evoke the disappearing culture of the Deep South.
£35.10
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Discovering Cat Island Photographs and History
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.
£31.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Cuba hasta siempre
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.
£37.46
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Rowdy Boundaries True Mississippi Tales from
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.
£26.06
University of South Carolina Press The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography
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.
£23.36
University of North Texas Press,U.S. Zen of the Plains: Experiencing Wild Western
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?
£16.96
WW Norton & Co Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.
£999.99
