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The Intertidal Wilderness: A Photographic Journey through Pacific Coast Tidepools, Revised EditionThe Intertidal Wilderness is a stunning photographic exploration of the tidepools of the Pacific coast, from Baja California to as far north as southeast Alaska. These lush photographs capture in striking color the enormous variety of life and biological detail in the intertidal zone along one of the world's most spectacular coastlines. The interpretative text and captions describe telltale signs of ecological relationships and processes, helping the seashore explorer to appreciate ecological in... |
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The Biker Code: Wisdom for the RideRIDE OR DIE BABYFREEDOM FOREVER... |
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Pueblo ImaginationEvocative photographs celebrating the rich culture and dramatic landscapes of the Laguna Pueblo, the native people of the U.S. Southwest. Lee Marmon is America's most renowned Native American photographer and yet this is the first book to showcase his breathtaking photography. This book combined Mr. Marmon's award-winning photographs celebrating the Laguna Pueblo - their distinctive landscapes, their traditions and history - with equally gorgeous prose and poetry by three of our most celebrate... |
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Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China, and Mongolia 1921-1925A Testament to the Great Spirit and Success of a Remarkable Woman ExplorerIn the early 1920s, the last great age of world explorers, a remarkable young woman, Janet Elliott Wulsin, set out with her husband, Frederick Wulsin, for the far reaches of China, Tibet, and Outer Mongolia to study the people, flora, and fauna of the region. Janet’s strenuous, eventful exploration is detailed by a text enriched with excerpts from her candid personal letters. The journey proved to be a test of the Wulsin... |
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Love Me TurkmenistanSaparmurat Niyazov, President of the Turkmen Soviet SocialistRepublic of Turkmenistan, died early on 21st December 2006 in astrange new world of his own creation. His official title, bestowed on himself, was Turkmenbashi , or leader of Turkmen . Coming from a humble orphaned background, he soon workedhis way up through the Communist party, and was eventuallymade President of a newly independent Turkmenistan from thecollapsing Soviet Union. The surreal reality that followed was a twenty-year long... |
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Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum (Great Lakes Books)In the nineteenth century, perhaps no approach to mental illness was more compassionate than that of hospital administrator Thomas Story Kirkbride, whose asylum designs integrated beauty and nature as a method to treat patients. The Northern Michigan Asylum in Traverse City, Michigan, was one of the last of nearly tow hundred such architecturally intriguing asylums. Founded in 1885 under the principle "beauty is therapy," the Northern Michigan Asylum closed in 1989 and today stands as a haunting... |
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Polar BearsEvery once in a while a book comes along that combines both art and research so completely, so intuitively, that it becomes a classic, offering the reader not only a wealth of information, but an escape into the life of the subject covered. Polar Bears is such a book.Here, you will learn from one of the world's leading polar bear experts, Ian Stirling, how the polar bear evolved and adapted to its world of snow and ice. You will follow the life of the polar bear from its birth in a snowy den in ... |
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Red-Color News SoldierFollowing World War II, China found itself struggling with a conversion to communism that had wreaked havoc on the nation's economy, causing a devastating famine and extreme economic depression. In 1966 China's leader, Mao Zedong, gave his support to radicals within the communist party who envisioned a revolutionary social upheaval that would destroy all traces of the reactionary past. This was the beginning of a ten-year period of violence and chaos known as the Cultural Revolution. Many top of... |
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TransylvaniaA vanishing world captured in wonderful photographs by one of Romania's best-loved photographers.... |
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