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America Off Track"I decided to take my camera for weeks at a time, over the course of two years, aboard Amtrak, the US passenger rail system. I wanted to show the rich, the poor, and other dynamically integrated opposites, paradoxes, which are the visual embodiments of the US." Traveling continuously from one American train station to another, Jarret Schecter photographed the views from his cabin window. The monotony of his travel was constant but his view was as varied as each of his destinations... |
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America on My MindAmerica is a giant land and a land of giants. She dangles her toes in the warm Pacific and sips from the wild Atlantic. She wears a dress of flaxen-gold, steel-glue, and forest-green. And she holds in her arms a big-hearted people who have built a colossal civilization from a wilderness. She is diverse, she is complex, and she is well worth knowing. In America on my Mind, you will meet America at her best in a tribute written especially for the book by former President Jimmy Ca... |
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America on My Mind: The Best of America in Words and PhotographsAmerica On My Mind is a tribute to the nation celebrating all that is unique about America with awe-inspiring photos and memorable quotes from the people and places that make this country special. This book includes over 200 full color photographs and an introduction by Jimmy Carter. (10 x 13, 160 pages, color photos)... |
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America The Beautiful (Courage Inspirations)Offered for the first time in our brand-new Courage line of high-quality gift books at an unbelievable $9.98 price point, this gorgeous gift edition inspired by the beloved classic song "America the Beautiful" is perfect for anyone with a proud patriotic spirit. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 50 color photographs, it's a grand visual and literary celebration of the stirring tune penned by Katharine Lee Bates in 1893, with quotations from some of America's most revered citizens, including Th... |
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America Wide: In God We TrustAmerica Wide: In God We Trust is a celebration of the diversity and natural splendor of a uniquely blessed land. Here- for the first timeever- is a selection of images from all fifty states in panoramic format: deserts and mountains, rivers and canyons, thundering waterfalls, ancient forests, rolling pastures and idyllic homesteads. For award-winning Australian photographer Ken Duncan, the collection represents a three-year journey of discovery to many of America's most beautiful and a... |
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America's Children: Picturing Childhood from Early America to the PresentA stunning collection of photographs that reveals the diverse and powerful impact that children have had on America. Illuminating a vital but all-too-often neglected part of our nation's past, America's Children is the first comprehensive visual history of its kind. Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin have assembled a remarkable collection of images from museums and archives all over the country. The book includes over 300 duotone photographs—from renowned photographers such as Lewis Hine... |
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America's Wetland: Louisiana's Vanishing CoastWith America’s WETLAND, award-winning photographer Bevil Knapp and veteran reporter Mike Dunne sound the clarion call of the catastrophic effects of Louisiana’s vanishing coastline—not just for Louisiana but for the nation and the world. This vital landscape known as America’s Wetland is currently disappearing at a rate of twenty-four square miles per year and could lose another five to seven hundred square miles in the next fifty years if no action is taken. New Orleans could become "... |
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America's Wilderness: The Photographs of Ansel AdamsThe Photographs of Ansel Adams with the Writings of John Muir This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ansel Adams whose landmark early photographs of wild America, originally taken for the Works Progress Administration, fill the pages of this splendid volume. Adams' breathtaking images are accompanied by excerpts from the writings of Sierra Club founder John Muir, the renowned conservationist who devoted his life to celebrating and preserving the American wilderness.... |
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