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4 Gardens in One: The Royal Botanic Garden EdinburghThis volume tells the story of Scotland's national Botanic Garden, from its founding in 1670 as a small Physic Garden in the shadow of Holyrood Palace to its status today as one of the world's greatest botanical institutions. In addition to providing a glimpse of the vital scientific research undertaken there, Deni Bown guides the reader season by season around each of the four gardens that comprise the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Over 300 colour illustrations depict the exotic gardens in th... |
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44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World (National Geographic)At a time when most Westerners fled the carnage in Iran, David Burnett was one of the few to stay and document the breathtakingly sudden fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in December 1978, and the chaotic political maneuvering that would culminate in the triumph of the Ayatollahs and the birth of the Islamic Republic.44 Days re-creates a coup that led to our long hostage crisis, President Jimmy Carter’s political demise, and an enmity still blazing after thirty years. Burnett’s vivid images... |
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50 Years in Pictures: Federal Republic of Germany... |
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7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's StudioOne of the most powerful painters of our age, Francis Bacon lived and worked for the last thirty years of his life in a modest building in London's South Kensington. After he died in 1992, access was granted to award-winning photographer Perry Ogden to work undisturbed for days on end to produce this riveting record of the house and its contents. In the studio itself, thirty years of inspired artistic endeavor had accumulated unchecked: the slashed and discarded canvases scattered across the flo... |
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80 Days That Changed the WorldIME looks back at its 80 years of publishing, with a fascinating collection of changing events, breathtaking progress and memorable people, heroes and villains, dictators and martyrs, movie stars and athletes. Here are Mohandas Gandhi and Pope John Paul II, Winston Churchill and Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali and Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Henry Ford. Also, revisit the great events that shaped our lives today: Pearl Harbor and D-Day, the landing on the moon, the turmoil of the 1960s and the dawn ... |
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911: After Words; AfterwardsPhotojournalist Curtis Builbeaux takes you through a visual journey in New York on September 11, 2001 and the days following. Here, you will find no photos of the attack. You will see, instead, how the attack impacted so very many. A visual companion to "911: Tell Me a Story." ... |
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Abayudaya: The Jews of UgandaTold with captivating images, an evocative text, and haunting music on a CD, here is the remarkable story of a courageous group of rural African people who converted to Judaism eighty years ago and, despite ensuing hardships, have stuck by their faith. The six hundred members of the Abayudaya (Children of Judah) community living in a remote area of eastern Uganda lead a life devoted to traditional Jewish practices. They observe the Sabbath and holidays, attend services, follow dietary laws, a... |
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Abbas Kiarostami... |
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Aberfan: The Days After: A Jouney in PicturesA collection of photographs taken in Aberfan, Wales in 1966 in the months following the coal slide that destroyed a primary school killing 144 people, 116 of which were children.... |
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