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Caxton Press Owyhee Canyonlands
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£19.99
Orion Publishing Co What Will Be William FoxPitt Autobiography The
Book SynopsisThe candid autobiography of one of the world's leading and most popular three-day eventersTrade ReviewFrank and amusing...with a wealth of anecdotes and more than a dash of humility, What Will Be is an essential read for anyone interested int he world of eventing. * SOUTH WALES ARGUS *
£9.99
University of Toronto Press The Bruce Beckons
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1952, The Bruce Beckons was immediately acclaimed as a delightful guide to a uniquely beautiful and fascinating part of Ontario. Separating Georgian Bay from Lake Huron, the Bruce Peninsula's remarkable natural history and richly varied wildlife today continue to draw thousands of visitors every year. W. Sherwood Fox, a distinguished scholar who was for twenty years president of the University of Western Ontario, knew and loved the Bruce’s history and its folklore throughout his life. During his retirement he served several years as honorary president of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists.Trade Review'An ardent and sympathetic treatment of an interesting and unusual region. Those who know and love the Bruce will enjoy comparing notes with the author, and those who have not yet had that privilege will surely be driven to explorations in that district.' -- John K. Elliott London Free Press 'It is told as such a tale should be told, through the remembered things of those who lived there, through the things of the land and the waters ... a well-loved land seen through understanding eyes.' -- William Sclater Saturday Night 'Fox is an excellent guide through "hard land and moody waters"... He describes the fascinating natural wonders of the Bruce Peninsula, the folklore and the facts. There are pages about adventure and murder and mayhem, about rattlesnakes and shipwrecks, about winds and fogs on the inland seas, about brave parsons and the bad rascals like the moonshining Bradley boys, about the delights of success and the heartbreaks of failure among the people in the land below Tobermory, the rocks on the cold hills, and the lilacs by the doors of the houses that were not abandoned.' Michigan History
£23.39
Trinity University Press,U.S. Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest
Book SynopsisHow does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way humans make sense of space. In Terra Antarctica, Fox continues this line of inquiry as he travels to the Antarctic, the largest and most extreme desert on earth.” This contemporary travel narrative interweaves artistic, cartographic, and scientific images with anecdotes from the author's three-month journey in the Antarctic to create an absorbing and readable narrative of the remote continent. Through its images, history, and firsthand experiencessnowmobile trips through whiteouts and his icy solo hikes past the edge of the mapped worldFox brings to life a place that few have seen and offers us a look into both the nature of landscape and ourselves.Trade Review“The environment of Antarctica, ‘the largest and most extreme desert on Earth,” is so foreign to our visual expectations that we are almost unable to perceive it. For Fox, who studies the ways in which humans respond to such vast, empty spaces, it’s the ideal location for examining the connection between cognition and extreme landscapes.”— Publisher’s Weekly “Thoughtful and enjoyable on many fronts, Fox’s uniquely fashioned chronicle of Antarctica brings into sharper focus the crucial symbiosis between art and science.” — Donna Seaman, Booklist“Through his own experiences on the world’s most extreme continent, as well as through historical, cartographic, scientific, and artistic inquiry, Fox explores how we define Antarctica and in turn learn something about ourselves.”— Orion “For once the adspeak cliché is appropriate: if you read only one book about Antarctica, you won’t go wrong choosing this one.” — Books in Heat “Exploring Antarctica--an otherworldly experience--is like exploring another planet. Fox captures this essence in his writing.” — Jerald Winakur, San Antonio Express-News
£17.99
Kluwer Law International International Commercial Agreements and Electronic Commerce
£999.99
Radius Books Mark Klett: The Half-Life of History
Book SynopsisThere is a twisted steel dome in Hiroshima that stands as a grim reminder of the city's destruction by the first atomic bomb. Halfway around the globe, on the border of Utah and Nevada, stands another ruin. The site that housed the bomber that carried “Little Boy,” Wendover Army Air Base, now crumbles from neglect. The stories and relics of Wendover describe more than just the past; they point to a historic cycle, a present increasingly filled with new threats of devastating nuclear and chemical warfare. For this book, American photographer Mark Klett (born 1952) has teamed up with William L. Fox, a celebrated science and art writer whose work focuses on human cognition and memory. Together, the two have created a fascinating visual and textual portrait of Wendover Army Air Base, examining the experience of memory in relation to the great tragedy of America's atomic age.Trade ReviewMr. Klett’s artful and striking photographs often parse the most minute details: a broken windowpane, a bent nail, .50-caliber bullets found at the machine-gun range. These fragments stand in for Wendover, just as the base stands in for the birth of nuclear destruction. -- Dana Jennings * The New York Times *
£40.00
Juta Academic The Quest for Sustainable Development
Book SynopsisSustainable development currently dominates the agenda of government programmes and projects in Africa.Table of ContentsGlobalisation, African unity and a new partnership for Africa's development - working towards the creation of an environment for sustainable development; economic growth and development constraints in Africa; From the Rio to Johannesburg world summits - on the road to policy implementation; incorporation indigenous knowledge systems into the field of development; ethics and sustainable development; facilitating sustainable rural development; the importance of intergovernmental relations and co-operative government for sustainable development in South Africa; sustainable development - community participation; the inroads of sustainability into municipal integrated development plans; the role of women in sustainable development; entrepreneurship and development in South Africa; HIV/Aids and development in South Africa.
£15.15
Radius Books Michael Light - Lake Lahontan, Lake Bonneville
Book SynopsisSan Francisco–based photographer Michael Light's (born 1963) fourth Radius book in his aerial series Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West journeys into the vast geological space and time of the Great Basin—the heart of a storied national "void" that is both actual and psychological, treasured as much for its tabula rasa possibilities as it is hated for its utter hostility to human needs. Twelve thousand years ago most of the Great Basin was 900 feet underwater, covered by two vast and now largely evaporated Pleistocene lakes: the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the remnants comprising Pyramid Lake, Honey Lake, the Carson Sink and Walker Lake. The most famous portion of the former Lake Lahontan is the Black Rock Desert, the site of the fastest land speed record and the annual counterculture festival Burning Man. The topography now exposed by both Pleistocene lakes forms a mythic core to American Western concepts of space.
£47.70
University of Ottawa Press Petun to Wyandot
Book SynopsisCharles Garrad's unique work resurrects the memory of the Petun and traces their route from their creation myth to their living descendants scattered from southwestern Ontario to Kansas and Oklahoma.Trade Review"It's been a long long journey to bring this book into being, said Garrad joking that archaeological talks and archaeological books are exceedingly boring before launching into a story that began in France in the mid-1500s. It was Champlain who found a series of well-built villages belonging to an agricultural and trading people in 1616 .He named them Nation de Petun Tobacco Nation a people who had broken away from the Huron Nation and moved into the area around Craigleith to participate in the fur trade." - Sun Times, 2014, p. A03 "What he has achieved is really very extraordinary," he said. "He has published and written extensively on the Petun...This 628-page book is a distillation of that. It is a lifetime of work. It is his attempt to put what is between his two ears into a book. In archaeology it is rare for people to do that." - Erika Engel, Blue Mountains Courier Herald, 2014Table of ContentsForeword Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Locating the Petun Country Chapter 3 - The Origins of the Petun Chapter 4 - French Sources Chapter 5 - The Mission of the Apostles to the Petun, 1639-1650 Chapter 6 - Using Native Artifacts to Interpret Petun Sites Chapter 7 - Using European Artifacts to Interpret Petun Sites Chapter 8 - Petun Subsistence and Economy Chapter 9 - Petun Village and Camp Sites Interpreted Chapter 10 - The Petun and their Neighbours Chapter 11 - After the Dispersal Appendix A - Summaries of Petun Village Site Faunal Reports Appendix B - Linguistic Data Appendix C - Petun Wampum Belts
£71.65
Radius Books David Maisel: Proving Ground
Book SynopsisAerial and on-site photographs made at a classified military site in the Great Salt Lake Desert by David Maisel, author of Black Maps David Maisel’s (born 1961) Proving Ground comprises aerial and on-site photographs made at Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military site covering nearly 800,000 acres in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert. A primary mission of Dugway is to develop, test and implement chemical and biological weaponry and defense programs. After more than a decade of inquiry, Maisel was granted access to this facility in order to photograph the terrain, the testing facilities and other aspects of the site. Maisel began by photographing at ground level, focusing on structures related to the testing of chemical warfare dispersal patterns. He then moved to an aerial perspective to create images that resemble large-scale minimalist drawings inscribed on the land. Maisel’s work at Dugway also includes photographs of the newly minted WSLAT (Whole System Live Agent Test) facility, which is devoted to identification and neutralization of chemical and biological toxins that can be weaponized by terrorists or rogue nations.Trade Review[Maisel's] black-and-white aerial images are decidedly abstract; each occupies a full page and shows a geometric landscape of roads and grid markers. Interspersed among these maplike images are equally clinical color photos of gleaming laboratory equipment used for biological and toxic-gas experiments. ... [Reveals] the disaster the military has wreaked on the American West. -- Albert Mobilio * Bookforum *[A]n extended meditation on land use in the American West, secrecy, and the dangers present in that which we can and cannot see. -- Tyler Green * Modern Art Notes Podcast *
£42.75
Radius Books Land/Art: New Mexico
Book SynopsisLand Art emerged in the 1970s when a handful of New York's more adventurous artists departed the gallery scene to make work in the open landscapes of the American West--Robert Smithson, James Turrell and Walter De Maria among them. Today, the genre has been renamed "environmental art," and encompasses the global community, the microscopic world, cyber space, suburban sprawl and the urban environment. Land/Art documents a series of events presented by 18 New Mexico arts organizations which explore the relationship between land, art and community through exhibitions, site-specific works and lectures. Featuring works by more than 40 artists, including the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Laurie Anderson, Erika Blumenfeld, Basia Irland, Patrick Dougherty, Catalina Delgado Trunk and Shelley Niro, this volume includes an introduction by critic Lucy Lippard, one of Land Art's best-known exponents.
£30.00
